P.J. Carlesimo
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first heard Mar 2025
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Guys are tackling guys differently. They're unfazed. They just play that way. It's so physical. The Big Ten, to a slightly lesser degree, incredibly physical. I don't think the SEC is like that. What the SEC is, they're bigger and stronger and quicker. It's not NBA, but it's like, well, there are some matchups. You just look when the teams are on the floor, you go, these guys can't play with them.
These guys have just bigger, stronger, quicker athletes. And I always thought that was kind of a trait of the SEC. I always thought their teams were very athletic, but I didn't know if they were as tough. Like we always felt we could beat them. We always felt that playing in the Big East all year and playing physically, you talked about Houston.
When you used to play John's teams at Georgetown, John Thompson's teams at Georgetown, the absolute first thing was if you didn't lace it up and you didn't match their intensity, Forget everything else. You weren't even in the game. Now, once you did that, it was going to be a hell of a game, but you had to be ready to go at them.
I still think that's a trait of the Big East to a lesser degree than it was. Big Ten, for sure. Big Ten is physical. It's a more physical brand. The SEC this year has been incredible. Everybody's telling me these teams are awesome. Are that good? They're as good as advertised. It's shocking to have 14 teams out of a 16 team league in the NCAA. 14 out of 16 is an incredible number.
But, you know, everybody's got that. They're not sleeping out. People are talking about it now. I'm sure you and I'll get into it. there's six, 16 teams, four from the big 10 and four from the big 12. So you've got three conferences at 15 of the teams. Uh, and, and, you know, Duke's the only team from the ACC, the big East has nobody.
And there's no, uh, you know, Cinderella or even close to a Cinderella, uh, coming in Colorado state was the, was the last one left that, you know, people would say is it was, it was a Cinderella. Um, uh, I do think there's a difference from league to league. I don't know the SEC well enough to typecast what they are right now.
But one thing they are for sure is longer and more athletic than the other leagues. And it's going to be interesting to see whether that plays out now in the tournament.
The meetings were interesting. There was no right answer or wrong answer. We liked it because you had a feeling if you were a good team, you had a feeling your guys were going to be on the floor. You know, they weren't going to get into your bench. Teams that weren't deep liked it, too.
the lesser teams in the league were, come on, like, why don't we just legislate that the better team wins the game before we even start? Like, you're making it impossible. You're making it impossible to win. So it always comes down to, you can talk about basketball philosophy. All it really came down to, what was the best thing for my team in a given year? And that's how guys would vote.
The guys that were down the bottom, and there was certainly a time when we were at the bottom, we'd go, come on, we can't compete now. You're going to let Patrick Ewing and these guys stay in the game? longer than they normally would. Come on, it's not fair. And the other guys were saying, come on, the people are coming. They want to see the good players. Let's keep them on the floor.
Some people were concerned that it was going to, excuse me, hurt us when you got to the tournament. But the tournament's always about adjusting. I mean, you can just get You can get a crew, and your team better be – again, this is going back to the old days. When you had a veteran team with juniors and seniors in a group that had been together and had seen a lot of situations, they could adjust.
Like, you could get to that first time out or the second time out and go, whoa, guys, they're calling everything. We got to be careful. Like, we still got to play defense, but we have to adjust to the way this game is being called. I don't see that as much anymore because you got – You know, kids are just, they're new to college. They really are.
And so many teams, I mean, it's a joke now when I get ready to do a game, like I have a separate column from where they were. It's at a point now where I don't even talk about what other school, I want to know where they were, but it's, The teams aren't as bound together as they were. The coaches got five new guys, three of his starters are transfers. He hasn't had them.
When you compare that to teams in the past where you had a lineup for three or four years, like, you know, Marquette was like that this year. I actually thought it was going to be a big factor for them. and it did not play out.
But I think when you have a group that's been together for a while, and obviously they've got to be good on top of that, they handle the different situations you're going to come across in a tournament so much better.
The NCAA tournament is very much more like the playoffs in the NBA than the regular season. The thing about the NBA that they're able to do so much better is the consistency. I don't even know the number now I should. There's 70 or 80 top officials in the league. It's really, really closely monitored. I mean, every call they make is screwed. Not too much, to be honest with you.
But, I mean, you can control it in the NBA when you've got that one, That one group of officials, when Monty McCutcheon and all the people in New York and New Jersey, they've got evaluators at every game. And, you know, what they want is consistency. Is it perfect? No. I mean, it's the hardest game in the world to referee basketball, especially on the NBA level.
But they can do a great job controlling it. It's just so tough from conference to conference. I was with Chris Rastatter, who's the national rules guy, happened to be at the Big East tournament. He's there with John Cal. Both of them were Final Four officials, great officials. But it's like... It's so hard for them to legislate the way the NBA does.
I mean, it doesn't matter if you're Zach Zabra, if you're one of the best officials in the league, or if you're some new person just up from the G League getting 10 games this year. They get graded and taught the same way. Now, again, everybody knows who the good officials are and they're going to advance, but it's just impossible. You hit on... The physical, the rebounding is the biggest thing.
There's no question. And I didn't see, I'm going to rewatch it before our games on Thursday. I didn't see what was going on in there. St. John's on the boards is like Georgetown, is like Houston, like Georgetown used to be, like Houston is now. You could call a foul every single time on the grass. Cal's guys got to be just as good. They got to be just as physical also.
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