Q&A: On Redick's tainted legacy and Morrison's future

	Is J.J. Redick's legacy tainted by his performances in the tournament? Seth Davis says that's the reality. AP
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We caught up with SI.com's Seth Davis -- who is serving as a studio analyst for CBS during the NCAA tournament -- to talk about the NCAA tournament after Thursday's wild night.

SI.com: What exactly did LSU's Garrett Temple do so well in completely shutting out J.J. Redick?

Seth Davis: First of all, he's exactly the kind of player who can defend a guy like Redick, because he's 6-foot-5 and he's long and he's very athletic, and J.J. Redick is none of those things. So, in that sense, I'm not surprised that he did that. The fact that he is a freshman, in that situation, is truly impressive. But really, they had a great scheme. Temple did a great job individually on him, but everybody jumped into the passing lanes every time Redick came off a curl, and of course Redick had Tyrus Thomas erasing any thoughts of success once Redick put it on the floor. They frustrated Redick. He was making bad decisions trying to drive the ball himself. I thought it was interesting, after the game, John Brady said that they had basically decided to leave Duke's other guys alone and make those guys beat them. You've got to give John Brady a lot of credit for putting that scheme together, and it worked.

SI.com: Will J.J. Redick's legend be permanently tainted by his inability to perform in the tournament?

Davis: Yes, that's the reality. It's an unfortunate reality, but it's the reality. If you line up his shooting percentages from the Sweet 16 and on, it's going to be lower than the shooting percentages for the rest of his career. Whether it's fair or not, that's the reality. When it's all said and done, no one is going to remember that Kansas had a great year; people will just remember that they lost in the first round. And that's the nature of the tournament. People remember what happened in the tournament, and people are going to remember that he did not take Duke to the Final Four this year, he did not win a title there and he didn't shoot the ball well in the later rounds of the tournament.

SI.com: How impressed were you with Tyrus Thomas?

Davis: The fact that he only had five blocks surprised me, because watching the game I would have thought he had eight or nine. The dimension that he gives LSU in terms of offensive rebounding, defensive rebounding and shot blocking ... they just don't make guys like that in college basketball. The kid is a legitimate freak.

SI.com: How did Gonzaga blow a 17-point lead?

Davis: Badly. They started slowing it up and working the shot clock with about 3½ minutes to play. And having worked this job, where I get to watch every second of every game in the tournament, that would be the one lesson that I would try to impart on any coach. It might work during the regular season, it might even work in your conference tournament, but it is the kiss of death in the NCAA tournament. You must always be attacking. And it's not even necessarily an orchestrated strategy -- I don't know if that was Mark Few's strategy -- it's just human nature. Clark Kellogg, the master wordsmith, calls it "driving with the parking brake on." It's exactly the same thing that happened to Arizona last year in the regional final. And it is very unique to the NCAA tournament. You have to take bad shots because you're being overly aggressive and you're not milking the clock -- you have to overdo that part of it. But also, you've got to give credit to [Jordan] Farmar for his poise after he made that steal. It kind of reminded me of Larry Bird making the steal against Detroit. And instead of hoisting up a shot the second he turned around, he found Luc Richard Mbah a Moute cutting. That's the kind of poise that Jordan Farmar showed.