Final Four thoughts (after the fact.)

I haven't posted in a long time because I was incredibly depressed about the results of the Final Four. The games that I watched were horrendous- that's right, I said horrendous. I actually fell asleep during the George Mason/Florida game and was only awoken by the sound of my phone ringing, as I had called someone before to watch the second game of the night, the UCLA/LSU game.

I was terrified with what I saw; I saw the reincarnation of Tractor Traylor on the court, as Glen "Big Baby" Davis stunk it up so bad that my Macroeconomics professor Pok-Sang Lam suggested that Glen Davis shouldn't be called Baby Shaq anymore. That's getting served. The only person who misses more easy layups in a game is me. I'm dead serious about that. The frustrating thing about watching that game was knowing that if LSU had made half of the gimme shots they missed, the game would have been watchable and dramatic. As it stood, UCLA and their exceedingly irritating style of basketball made it all the way to the championship game, putting them into the category of "teams that are possibly less fun to watch than Wisconsin." I know I'm representing with that.

In the championship game, UCLA played Florida, a team that would probably be defeated by every single championship team of the last twenty years. Seriously, I think if you put this Florida team in a 64 team bracket of NCAA bracket winners, they would be a 16 seed. I can see this team matching up well with the Duke/Michigan State/UK/North Carolina teams of the past... wait, no I can't. I see double-digit domination by all the true champions. Joakim Noah is a nice player, but if Florida had played UConn, he would have been waxed by Boone and Armstrong. Noah was fortunate throughout the tournament in the fact that he a) didn't have to play Aldridge, Tyrus Thomas, the two UConn guys, Shelden Williams, or at least five other players that would have waxed him and b) was allowed to pretty much dominate smaller teams. You'll note that the only team that gave him trouble was Georgetown, a team with no outside game whatsoever. You can give him props for tearing up Villanova and George Mason, but there were plenty of other big guys that could have done that.

Why I am riding Noah? It's easy... I think he's the next Tyson Chandler, and I think he'll be drafted about as high if he goes this year, which he should... he doesn't need another year of college for teams to figure out how to stop him.