Bad media takes

[LStudfellow]

Nick Wright is your typical opinion-based sports talk show host these days:

They often pontificate about things they pay little attention to, like college basketball pre-March, and they know if they back up their words with false bravado and just enough generalized truth that most watchers/listeners will go along with them because they "sound" authoritative. He is one of those quintessential hot-take talking loud mouths who hit the lottery when Colin Cowherd decided he liked his schtick enough to give him a weekly segment.

He has been on Cowherd's shows at least once a week for years, and he constantly says stupid, uneducated things about sports he does not follow enough but figures he can get away with it by being loud (often even over the top) in his declarations.

The truth is that he is often ignorant and doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. This take here on this UConn team is a perfect example.

 

[Scoe]

He didn’t even know the year that UNLV won it all that tells you all you need to know. He picked Purdue to beat us of course he doesn’t have us as an all time great team.

 

[Tenspro2002]

He picked Purdue to beat us of course he doesn’t have us as an all time great team.

You'd think that game would cause some adjustment of priors!

 

[aburks41]

This team would SLAUGHTER any team from previous eras. Why? Because of our 3 point line efficiency.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I hate these historical compares because they’re nonsense. If you plucked a past great team out to play this UConn squad and gave them each a week to prepare, UConn probably handles them pretty easily. Forget individual talent, offenses from 20+ years ago just didn’t have nearly as good of a grasp on offensive efficiency and what the more valuable looks were.

I’ve said it before but going to rewatch the ‘04 or ‘99 teams is kind of eye opening. The amount of shots they took that we would roll our eyes at in modern basketball is wild. It’s a dumb compare without contextualizing it.