Most of those guys on the Wisconsin team looked like they were straight out of the 1986 Hoosiers flick (50s era crew cuts etc.)..which might have been intentional…..never seen the movie though, only clips. They played a very Bobby Knight disclipined style….no point gaurd dominating the ball, moving the ball round, playing strong fundamentals, defensive positioning and rebounding.
Well, I am glad that I am wrong and that the KU 1 and Doners were eliminated by Wisconsin tonight because I really wouldn’t have enjoyed a Duke-Kentucky final.
Watching Wisconsin play, it is apparent that they are the surrogate team for the 1987 champ Indiana Hoosiers. A Big 10 team from a small rural Midwest state led by a college Player of the Year (#44), they play almost identical to the Hoosiers team from the 1986 flick Hoosiers (which I guess served a double purpose as a grand ritual and lesser grand ritual flick—predicting both the following year Indiana NCAA championship as well as the little #87 event). They play a pure fundamental, disciplined style in contrast to the free wheeling One and Doners. Lesser athletes, they held their defensive positions and pulled down defensive rebounds in the face of overwhelming athleticism and moved the ball around on offense keeping the 1 and Doners spaced across the floor where the defensive prowess was neutralized.
This matchup, I guess would be similar to Indiana’s first matchup in the 1987 Final Four against the Running Rebels of UNLV helmed by another coach with questionable ethics/ recruiting methods (although I believe Jerry Tarkanian has been overly maligned over the years) that should have demonstrated superior athleticism.
Wisconsin is a veteran team and I now expect them to handle Duke, another youngish team like Kentucky. Duke playing the role of Syracuse, the 1987 runner up. Syracuse having moved to the ACC recently.
Kentucky coach Calipari thought the operators had his back with the universal praise his team was receiving from the pundits. Their undefeated streak ended, the Indiana team from ’76 remains the last undefeated college basketball team. Of course, Kentucky was bound to lose because too much money was behind them ala the undefeated UNLV team from 1992 that lost to Laettner’s Duke team in the Final Four (after being destroyed by UNLV in the title game the year before) (with reports that a certain star player for UNLV had been bought off).
Well, when you can’t bring 1987 champ Indiana to the Final Four, you bring the Final 4 to Indiana(polis) with an attendant political controversy attached to the site.
It’s been apparent for a while that they’re setting up a Duke-Kentucky final that harkens back to the infamous 1992 matchup between the 2 teams what with the 2 Christian Laettner documentaries and Laettner even appearing in a commercial that has been running non stop through the hoops broadcasts. It looks like they were doing sports pre-rituals even back then with my one time lookalike (I still look like that–he’s faded) Laettner #32 kicking Kentucky’s #25 during that infamous game with Laettner finishing it off later with his game winning shot. (On a side note, I read that Laettner had lost all of his NBA earnings so all this new work should be readily welcomed by him).
Of course, 1987 Final 4 coach Rick Pitino headed that Kentucky team. His current Louisville team nearly made it to the Final 4 this season. There was some blurb on yahoo, which I didn’t read, about Pitino repeating some similar experience back in 1987 with his Providence team.@@@
Bobby Knight, head coach of the ’87 Indiana team, experienced a mini ritual when it was announced that he will be announcing his final game for the 4 letter network (apparently they are not renewing his contract) with the upcoming NIT final game.
Tough call… but I still see a lower low tomorrow at some point. From there I’d expect a rally to squeeze out some bears. How high… don’t know? But if they don’t breakout to a new high next week then we are likely going to break that rising trendline on the weekly chart, and that should lead to a surprise sell off during a very bullish month of April.
everyone bearish because of the blood moon as bad omen. The FED always make fools of us. I won’t be surprised a bit we move higher from Thu and into next week to see 2100. Hell we may see us hit all time high. for that reason i went long the SPX.
Went deeper then I thought they’d allow it to go this week. At this point we should have a bounce sometime today and then one more move lower to the 2020 area before we start a rally back up toward 2100 area. We are at a triple bottom now which “they” say triple tops and bottom rarely hold and almost always get broken.
My big concern now is that weekly rising trendline from 2011, which will be broken if they go down into Thursday and don’t start that up move from say 2020 area toward 2100. I actually think now that’s the plan… to hit that bottom area later today or Thursday morning and then rip higher the rest of the day to save the weekly trendline.
Most of those guys on the Wisconsin team looked like they were straight out of the 1986 Hoosiers flick (50s era crew cuts etc.)..which might have been intentional…..never seen the movie though, only clips. They played a very Bobby Knight disclipined style….no point gaurd dominating the ball, moving the ball round, playing strong fundamentals, defensive positioning and rebounding.
Well, I am glad that I am wrong and that the KU 1 and Doners were eliminated by Wisconsin tonight because I really wouldn’t have enjoyed a Duke-Kentucky final.
Watching Wisconsin play, it is apparent that they are the surrogate team for the 1987 champ Indiana Hoosiers. A Big 10 team from a small rural Midwest state led by a college Player of the Year (#44), they play almost identical to the Hoosiers team from the 1986 flick Hoosiers (which I guess served a double purpose as a grand ritual and lesser grand ritual flick—predicting both the following year Indiana NCAA championship as well as the little #87 event). They play a pure fundamental, disciplined style in contrast to the free wheeling One and Doners. Lesser athletes, they held their defensive positions and pulled down defensive rebounds in the face of overwhelming athleticism and moved the ball around on offense keeping the 1 and Doners spaced across the floor where the defensive prowess was neutralized.
This matchup, I guess would be similar to Indiana’s first matchup in the 1987 Final Four against the Running Rebels of UNLV helmed by another coach with questionable ethics/ recruiting methods (although I believe Jerry Tarkanian has been overly maligned over the years) that should have demonstrated superior athleticism.
Wisconsin is a veteran team and I now expect them to handle Duke, another youngish team like Kentucky. Duke playing the role of Syracuse, the 1987 runner up. Syracuse having moved to the ACC recently.
Kentucky coach Calipari thought the operators had his back with the universal praise his team was receiving from the pundits. Their undefeated streak ended, the Indiana team from ’76 remains the last undefeated college basketball team. Of course, Kentucky was bound to lose because too much money was behind them ala the undefeated UNLV team from 1992 that lost to Laettner’s Duke team in the Final Four (after being destroyed by UNLV in the title game the year before) (with reports that a certain star player for UNLV had been bought off).
Well, when you can’t bring 1987 champ Indiana to the Final Four, you bring the Final 4 to Indiana(polis) with an attendant political controversy attached to the site.
It’s been apparent for a while that they’re setting up a Duke-Kentucky final that harkens back to the infamous 1992 matchup between the 2 teams what with the 2 Christian Laettner documentaries and Laettner even appearing in a commercial that has been running non stop through the hoops broadcasts. It looks like they were doing sports pre-rituals even back then with my one time lookalike (I still look like that–he’s faded) Laettner #32 kicking Kentucky’s #25 during that infamous game with Laettner finishing it off later with his game winning shot. (On a side note, I read that Laettner had lost all of his NBA earnings so all this new work should be readily welcomed by him).
Of course, 1987 Final 4 coach Rick Pitino headed that Kentucky team. His current Louisville team nearly made it to the Final 4 this season. There was some blurb on yahoo, which I didn’t read, about Pitino repeating some similar experience back in 1987 with his Providence team.@@@
Bobby Knight, head coach of the ’87 Indiana team, experienced a mini ritual when it was announced that he will be announcing his final game for the 4 letter network (apparently they are not renewing his contract) with the upcoming NIT final game.
ES Chart update: http://niftychartsandpatterns.blogspot.com/2015/04/s-500-futures-chart-analysis.html
If the transportation index leads the market then it’s not very bullish in my opinion: http://stockcharts.com/public/1092905/chartbook/271819703;
I see no clear direction in the market. Bulls should have broken out today, but they haven’t. That’s bearish going into next week.
Tough call… but I still see a lower low tomorrow at some point. From there I’d expect a rally to squeeze out some bears. How high… don’t know? But if they don’t breakout to a new high next week then we are likely going to break that rising trendline on the weekly chart, and that should lead to a surprise sell off during a very bullish month of April.
everyone bearish because of the blood moon as bad omen. The FED always make fools of us. I won’t be surprised a bit we move higher from Thu and into next week to see 2100. Hell we may see us hit all time high. for that reason i went long the SPX.
If I were SkyNet I’d gap up tomorrow, go back down to make a lower low, then rip it back up the rest of the day.
Went deeper then I thought they’d allow it to go this week. At this point we should have a bounce sometime today and then one more move lower to the 2020 area before we start a rally back up toward 2100 area. We are at a triple bottom now which “they” say triple tops and bottom rarely hold and almost always get broken.
My big concern now is that weekly rising trendline from 2011, which will be broken if they go down into Thursday and don’t start that up move from say 2020 area toward 2100. I actually think now that’s the plan… to hit that bottom area later today or Thursday morning and then rip higher the rest of the day to save the weekly trendline.