Miami Fan Board Nuggets

[MugNight]

Took a peek at Canes Insight to see what they think of us.

Miami v. Iowa State - Sweet 16

So they’re the next to lowest seed left. What’s the scoop on them? First year coach. They were something like 2-22 in ‘21. Two respectable tournament wins so far though.

www.canesinsight.com

In a nutshell, they seem to respect us but expect to win. They think we are slow, poor on O, and are basically poor man’s Texas Tech. Maybe that’s true.

What scares me is their breakout, transition offense. They blew up Auburn yesterday with counterpunch after counterpunch. KU crushed us in similar fashion at Hilton. Gotta make our shots count and avoid telegraphing passes.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Took a peek at Canes Insight to see what they think of us.

Miami v. Iowa State - Sweet 16

So they’re the next to lowest seed left. What’s the scoop on them? First year coach. They were something like 2-22 in ‘21. Two respectable tournament wins so far though.

www.canesinsight.com

In a nutshell, they seem to respect us but expect to win. They think we are slow, poor on O, and are basically poor man’s Texas Tech. Maybe that’s true.

What scares me is their breakout, transition offense. They blew up Auburn yesterday with counterpunch after counterpunch. KU crushed us in similar fashion at Hilton. Gotta make our shots count and avoid telegraphing passes.

Miami hasn't handled pressure defense well so IMO that should be a huge swing in our direction. Offensively, I think both Brock and Hunter are going to have a lot more room to operate too. Miami is not a good defensive team.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Their transition offense was very impressive. Was it just me, or did Auburn send 3 and 4 guys to the offensive glass consistently? Iowa State will only send one or two.

 

[Mr Janny]

Took a peek at Canes Insight to see what they think of us.

Miami v. Iowa State - Sweet 16

So they’re the next to lowest seed left. What’s the scoop on them? First year coach. They were something like 2-22 in ‘21. Two respectable tournament wins so far though.

www.canesinsight.com

In a nutshell, they seem to respect us but expect to win. They think we are slow, poor on O, and are basically poor man’s Texas Tech. Maybe that’s true.

What scares me is their breakout, transition offense. They blew up Auburn yesterday with counterpunch after counterpunch. KU crushed us in similar fashion at Hilton. Gotta make our shots count and avoid telegraphing passes.

They have plenty of reasons to be confident. We do too. It's going to be a great game.

 

[carvers4math]

I didn’t think our in bounding the ball with desperation press looked like it had improved much since K-State, the refs just didn’t screw that part up by calling five seconds after 2.5 seconds. Really don’t want to see that situation again but I guess it’s better than being behind late in the game. Just give us a 20 point lead, only Hawks keep their press on under a minute in that situation.

 

[trevn]

At the 12 minute mark in the first half when all these Miami fans recognize they're in a rock fight, they'll understand.

 

[KennyPratt42]

Miami does two things well on defense, get steals and avoid fouls. Beside that they are one of the poorer defensive teams we will see all year. Offensively they're a very solid team.

 

[Beyerball]

It is going to be interesting...Teams come out hot and make a run that first weekend and then that 2nd weekend reality sets in.

Can go either way with either of these teams.

Miami is not a big team...height wise. Boston College bigs in ACC tourney (Miami won in OT btw vs 13-19 Boston College team) gave them problems.

We must win rebounding battle given Miami lack size and we must get back in transition..

Moore and Wong are very quick no doubt...and they also will have to beat us from 3 and pull ups bc getting to the rim ISU just doesn't allow much.

 

[Al_4_State]

I think we're both thinking that we caught a break in playing each other, and that's completely rational.

 

[Pope]

Preparing to play ISU's basketball team for the first time is like preparing to play Oklahoma's football team for the first time back in the Barry Switzer era. You could scout Oklahoma's triple option and have your scout team run it all you like, but you can't begin to simulate it in practice. Miami is going to feel like Wisconsin felt last night - extremely frustrated. There's a reason why we're 15 - 0 against teams outside our conference.

 

[Marcelason78]

The key will be if the refs let them play. Our pressure and traps are hard to deal with.
Just ask Bucky-- their highest TO game in three years.

 

[KnappShack]

Preparing to play ISU's basketball team for the first time is like preparing to play Oklahoma's football team for the first time back in the Barry Switzer era. You could scout Oklahoma's triple option and have your scout team run it all you like, but you can't begin to simulate it in practice. Miami is going to feel like Wisconsin felt last night - extremely frustrated. There's a reason why we're 15 - 0 against teams outside our conference.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth?

 

[CoachHines3]

Im sure they were just as excited to see us beat wisconsin as we were excited seeing them beat auburn.

 

[bawbie]

I didn't realize that there are 2 BigXII connections on the Miami team - McGusty played at OU in the '16-'17 and '17-'18 seasons before transferring to Miami, and Charlie Moore played for KU in the '18-'19 season, after starting at Depaul, then transferring to Miami.

Their leading rebounder is a 6'6" guard who is a transfer from George Mason.

EDIT: I had this wrong. Moore went from Cal -> KU -> DePaul -> Miami

 

[JM4CY]

At the 12 minute mark in the first half when all these Miami fans recognize they're in a rock fight, they'll understand.

This.

 

[bawbie]

Miami does two things well on defense, get steals and avoid fouls. Beside that they are one of the poorer defensive teams we will see all year. Offensively they're a very solid team.

I'm curious - having watched zero seconds of their games this year until garbage time last night - whether they get steals / force turnovers by jumping passing lanes (which we can be quite vulnerable to) or whether it more of a pressure/physicality (like TTU). I'm guessing it's the former, in which case we need to be very clean running that high post action.

Given their lack of size, I'd expect this to be a game where we go small with Kunc/Enaruna running that high ball handoff action, which is very good.

 

[KennyPratt42]

Miami's path to victory would probably go one of two ways:

1. They are able to turn us over and get their transition game going so they can get enough easy points outside of the half court.

2. We have one of our terrible jump shooting games and we miss open shot after open shot.

 

[NorthCyd]

I forgot what it was like seeing other teams that weren't use to such a physical brand of basketball deal with ISUs intensity. Wiskys body language through most of that game was terrible. We'll see how Miami deals.

 

[Stewo]

Good offense teams concern me. However, as long as our defense travels to Chicago, we'll take them out of their rhythm. The hope (obviously) is that we frustrate them into making mistakes. Something worth noting and the same goes for us, is that they're a low seed for a reason. They played well this weekend, but to play against an unrelenting defense is a different story.

 

[CYCLNST8]

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth?