Florida guard Nick Calathes announced for the draft today.
Which... gives me the opportunity to post this video of the Florida professor who was stoned out of his mind - more likely tripping, in my professional opinion - and got fired because he filmed his own class and the administration saw it. Really worth the view.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Actual News!
Amazingly UConn was able to land 6-2 SG Darius Smith from Chicago today...without the help of Josh Nochimson! (presumably). Here's his scouts.com link
I don't know what the coaching staff told him because right now I'd be afraid of next years post-season ban. Oyyy. Anyway, I like players from the Bronx and Chicago when it comes to guards. So I'm excited.
I don't know what the coaching staff told him because right now I'd be afraid of next years post-season ban. Oyyy. Anyway, I like players from the Bronx and Chicago when it comes to guards. So I'm excited.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Michigan St. 64, Louisville 52
Thank god that Detroit looks like this now and no locals have money to buy tickets and root for Michigan St. It's gonna be a virtual homegame...
Also, thanks to Rick Pitino for ordering Louisville to tank so that UConn could have a clear road to the championship game. I guess we beat them so thoroughly earlier this year that Pitino couldn't handle the embarrassment that next week would have brought.
Michigan St. is going to be an ideal matchup. I'm giddy. UConn will probably be a 3or4 point favorite even though the game is in Detroit. Unfortunately Gavin Edwards will probably have to play a lot because Thabeet CAN NOT be allowed to run around with Goran Sutan. Other than that I'm feelin...
so - Final Four next week and the Masters the week after. In honor of those two weeks here are some cart girls from MSU.
Also, thanks to Rick Pitino for ordering Louisville to tank so that UConn could have a clear road to the championship game. I guess we beat them so thoroughly earlier this year that Pitino couldn't handle the embarrassment that next week would have brought.
Michigan St. is going to be an ideal matchup. I'm giddy. UConn will probably be a 3or4 point favorite even though the game is in Detroit. Unfortunately Gavin Edwards will probably have to play a lot because Thabeet CAN NOT be allowed to run around with Goran Sutan. Other than that I'm feelin...
so - Final Four next week and the Masters the week after. In honor of those two weeks here are some cart girls from MSU.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Ohhhhh Skeet skeet skeet skeet
UCONN 82, MIZZOU 75
An appropriate tribute to what these kids did this week in the face of amazing adversity. Take that, NCAA
That will be all until I can coherently gather my thoughts...
An appropriate tribute to what these kids did this week in the face of amazing adversity. Take that, NCAA
That will be all until I can coherently gather my thoughts...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Get ya popcorn, er, iPod ready
Tonight is gonna be a music night - I'm muting the TV like Billy Packer is back behind the mic. Cause all you're going to hear about is this Miles/Majok thing. The bright side of things, should you choose to listen to the broadcast, is that Miles/Majok might keep the announcers from telling us that 'aj price's dad tony played at Penn and got to a Final Four' and 'here's gavin edwards, his father earl played in the NFL.' So we got that goin' for us..
Since I've been enrolled at UConn a few crazy things have happened. There was the girl killed in a crosswalk by that drunk dude, the teacher who got shot in the head last year, and a handful of rapes/sexual assaults. There is always a different feeling on campus the day after something like that happens. But yesterday afternoon and today it was like everyone's best friend got raped. It's just a very sad place to be right now...
Also, congratulations to Rocky Mountain College for winning the NAIA Championship last night. To pay homage to their school the players celebrated with these.
Since I've been enrolled at UConn a few crazy things have happened. There was the girl killed in a crosswalk by that drunk dude, the teacher who got shot in the head last year, and a handful of rapes/sexual assaults. There is always a different feeling on campus the day after something like that happens. But yesterday afternoon and today it was like everyone's best friend got raped. It's just a very sad place to be right now...
Also, congratulations to Rocky Mountain College for winning the NAIA Championship last night. To pay homage to their school the players celebrated with these.
I Love AJ Price
The most dynamic scoring point guard in college basketball is a pretty good interview too...
Pedro Gomez: Is it a distraction at all?
AJ: uhh no, not at all.
Gomez: Even having to answer these questions like this that you normally wouldn't have to if this report wasn't out there?
AJ: no not at all. I like it. It gives me more face time. We're here to win games, that's all we care about.
Amen! Yesterday I was quite worried about this indeed being a distraction. Not anymore. If you think that AJ and Jeff Adrien are going to allow this team to lose - you are crazy. If anything I'm more confident in this team now than I was two days ago. Dare I say...
Pedro Gomez: Is it a distraction at all?
AJ: uhh no, not at all.
Gomez: Even having to answer these questions like this that you normally wouldn't have to if this report wasn't out there?
AJ: no not at all. I like it. It gives me more face time. We're here to win games, that's all we care about.
Amen! Yesterday I was quite worried about this indeed being a distraction. Not anymore. If you think that AJ and Jeff Adrien are going to allow this team to lose - you are crazy. If anything I'm more confident in this team now than I was two days ago. Dare I say...
Top Ten Things I Never Thought I'd Say About ESPN Coverage
So I desperately need something to knock this Nate Miles story off the running loop that is all day Sportscenter. Without further delay...
#10 - Ohhh, Spring Training highlights!
#9 - Can Steven A Smith interview someone? i mean COME ON peeeple
#8 - Anyone got a photo of Michael Phelps snorting a line of coke?
#7 - Does Chris Connolly have a tear-jerker piece ready?
#6 - Can Rick Reilly do the Mount Rushmore of Sports again!?
#5 - Can the Yankees overpay someone else?
#4 - how the fuck does Letterman come up with 10 of these things...
#3 - people should really praise Coack K some more
#2 - Bowling should get more air time. That Pete Weber is Dynamic!
#1 - Can we get Brett Favre out of retirement??
ohhhhhh! that's your Top 10. Paul, play me out!
#10 - Ohhh, Spring Training highlights!
#9 - Can Steven A Smith interview someone? i mean COME ON peeeple
#8 - Anyone got a photo of Michael Phelps snorting a line of coke?
#7 - Does Chris Connolly have a tear-jerker piece ready?
#6 - Can Rick Reilly do the Mount Rushmore of Sports again!?
#5 - Can the Yankees overpay someone else?
#4 - how the fuck does Letterman come up with 10 of these things...
#3 - people should really praise Coack K some more
#2 - Bowling should get more air time. That Pete Weber is Dynamic!
#1 - Can we get Brett Favre out of retirement??
ohhhhhh! that's your Top 10. Paul, play me out!
Death by 1000 paper cuts...on my dick
So now Pat Forde reports that Nochimson had his hands all over the Majok deal as well. As much as I hate to hear that, Forde is a really good reporter and does a nice job of putting this issue into context.
I don't get it...Rodney Guillory can somehow charge 10,000 just to get OJ Mayo to visit your school, and multiple coaches pay it - yet USC and the rest of the Pac-10 bagmen don't get in the slightest bit of trouble. But somehow this degenerate wanna be agent is going to blow up the entire UConn program. oyyyy
Over/under: 1.5 days until an active player is linked to Nochimson.
I'll take the under. Nothing gets the media witch hunting faster than blood in the water...
I don't get it...Rodney Guillory can somehow charge 10,000 just to get OJ Mayo to visit your school, and multiple coaches pay it - yet USC and the rest of the Pac-10 bagmen don't get in the slightest bit of trouble. But somehow this degenerate wanna be agent is going to blow up the entire UConn program. oyyyy
Over/under: 1.5 days until an active player is linked to Nochimson.
I'll take the under. Nothing gets the media witch hunting faster than blood in the water...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
On a Lighter Note...
A few days ago I finally started utilizing Google Analytics. It shows you all kinds of cool stuff like how many people were on your site, from what town, and bunch more I can't even figure out. There is one section that shows the search terms people who got to the site used. One guy today searched " "jim calhoun" + "Asshole" " so, i thought that was awesome. It took the guy to my post a few days ago about jimmy magically re-hydrating, sans IV, by apologist fans licking his asshole. So I hope the guy who searched it got what he was looking for. Or maybe he has a fetish for naked Calhoun pics (none here!), in which case he probably was very disappointed, having thought his white whale had finally been found only to find this non-sense.
Anyway- bad day for the program, but not as bad as I thought it would be. Now all Hathaway has to do is start listening to my spin control...
Anyway- bad day for the program, but not as bad as I thought it would be. Now all Hathaway has to do is start listening to my spin control...
Crisis Management 101
After taking a little while to come out of shock, I have managed to put together what the UConn SID should be distributing to every media outlet. They won't, because they are idiots and prefer the old no comment route. But if Jeff Hathaway had answered my screams from outside his office they could've saved the ship - or at least plugged some holes....
"official" statement: Over his 23 years of service to the University of Connecticut Jim Calhoun has excelled his two main objectives; winning basketball games and forming kids into productive young men. While the notoriety comes from wins, Coach Calhoun's greatest pride comes from taking troubled youth and turning them into men. When at 15 years old Coach lost his father he was basically adopted by his high school basketball coach. When Calhoun left college for manual labor in his hometown, it was that same high school coach who put Calhoun back on the path to higher education and made him a man.
So when Coach sees a person like a Caron Butler, who was arrested 15 times by age 15, he can't help but step in. It's ingrained in Coach because of his own life. After three years at UConn a tearful Caron bid the school adieu and has since set up countless charities and received significant accolades for them, including in 2006 when Sporting News named him to their "Good Guys in Sports" list. Caron would be the first to admit that none of this would have been possible without Jim Calhoun and the UConn family.
Sadly, not every kid that UConn recruits has the family structure and maturity of Emeka Okafor or Craig Austrie. So while there were many calls made to Nate Miles over the course of 2006 and 2007, they were calls to make sure that he was all right. To make sure things were going ok as Nate bounced around from high school to high school, constantly misunderstood and homesick. These were not calls to say - 'hey, come play for UConn.' Not every college coach is ruthless like Lane Kiffin. Some coaches, like Jim Calhoun, are real people. When UConn began recruiting Miles in 2006 they saw a basketball talent - that much is for sure. But they also saw a reclamation project and a kid who needed defending and guidance...because no one else was there to give it to him. If he landed at UConn, awesome. But if he went somewhere else and survived the hand he had been dealt, well, that was what was truly important.
We are all familiar with the Nate Miles saga and how it ended poorly at UConn. What not enough people realize is what Miles has gone through. His mother was an alcoholic and his father was no where to be found. That left Nate to raise his sister by himself. A sister who has cancer. No wonder he went to five different high schools (never kicked out of any, mind you- just homesick, which is tough for a kid who never really had a home.)
Jim Calhoun and UConn were going to provide the home Nate and his little sister needed. The phone calls need to be looked at in the bigger scheme of things. Nate committed to UConn in 2006, so it makes no sense that the program would have been still making "recruiting calls" in 2007. The program cared about him, and now, sadly, they may be punished.
This real issue here is another big time agent wannabe who STOLE A MILLION BUCKS FROM RIP is the crux of this Yahoo story. He went to school here and was on the absolute bottom of the team totem-pole, but that didn't keep him from using this "connection" to deceive others. He tricked Richard Hamilton, and tricking Nate Miles wasn't very difficult. The kid was vulnerable and looking for guidance. Add in a guardian in Sean Patterson who was in it for the money, and Josh Nochimson had an easy target. He is the real criminal here, and the one who should be targeted.
Other thoughts
-ok, so that got a little sloppy, but that would be the gist of my crisis management, not this bullshit UConn put out today. Hathaway - what a clown. The statement only covers their ass because Miles never played, so the NCAA can't take away any of our wins, etc. Just like the Not a Dime Back thing, Hathaway completely fails to come out and say Calhoun is our man and we stand by him. Just terrible. This is the kind of thing that is gonna agitate the old man right out of Storrs. He doesn't need this garbage from a university that owes everything it has to him.
-also, total bullshit hack ass journalism by Yahoo sports. According to the Uconn statement the responded to a yahoo FOI request in the fall, and they waited to pull it out now. This is some CBS Dan Rather/George W 2004 election stuff. If you want to be taken seriously as a journalist you cant do it by publishing ambushes.
"official" statement: Over his 23 years of service to the University of Connecticut Jim Calhoun has excelled his two main objectives; winning basketball games and forming kids into productive young men. While the notoriety comes from wins, Coach Calhoun's greatest pride comes from taking troubled youth and turning them into men. When at 15 years old Coach lost his father he was basically adopted by his high school basketball coach. When Calhoun left college for manual labor in his hometown, it was that same high school coach who put Calhoun back on the path to higher education and made him a man.
So when Coach sees a person like a Caron Butler, who was arrested 15 times by age 15, he can't help but step in. It's ingrained in Coach because of his own life. After three years at UConn a tearful Caron bid the school adieu and has since set up countless charities and received significant accolades for them, including in 2006 when Sporting News named him to their "Good Guys in Sports" list. Caron would be the first to admit that none of this would have been possible without Jim Calhoun and the UConn family.
Sadly, not every kid that UConn recruits has the family structure and maturity of Emeka Okafor or Craig Austrie. So while there were many calls made to Nate Miles over the course of 2006 and 2007, they were calls to make sure that he was all right. To make sure things were going ok as Nate bounced around from high school to high school, constantly misunderstood and homesick. These were not calls to say - 'hey, come play for UConn.' Not every college coach is ruthless like Lane Kiffin. Some coaches, like Jim Calhoun, are real people. When UConn began recruiting Miles in 2006 they saw a basketball talent - that much is for sure. But they also saw a reclamation project and a kid who needed defending and guidance...because no one else was there to give it to him. If he landed at UConn, awesome. But if he went somewhere else and survived the hand he had been dealt, well, that was what was truly important.
We are all familiar with the Nate Miles saga and how it ended poorly at UConn. What not enough people realize is what Miles has gone through. His mother was an alcoholic and his father was no where to be found. That left Nate to raise his sister by himself. A sister who has cancer. No wonder he went to five different high schools (never kicked out of any, mind you- just homesick, which is tough for a kid who never really had a home.)
Jim Calhoun and UConn were going to provide the home Nate and his little sister needed. The phone calls need to be looked at in the bigger scheme of things. Nate committed to UConn in 2006, so it makes no sense that the program would have been still making "recruiting calls" in 2007. The program cared about him, and now, sadly, they may be punished.
This real issue here is another big time agent wannabe who STOLE A MILLION BUCKS FROM RIP is the crux of this Yahoo story. He went to school here and was on the absolute bottom of the team totem-pole, but that didn't keep him from using this "connection" to deceive others. He tricked Richard Hamilton, and tricking Nate Miles wasn't very difficult. The kid was vulnerable and looking for guidance. Add in a guardian in Sean Patterson who was in it for the money, and Josh Nochimson had an easy target. He is the real criminal here, and the one who should be targeted.
Other thoughts
-ok, so that got a little sloppy, but that would be the gist of my crisis management, not this bullshit UConn put out today. Hathaway - what a clown. The statement only covers their ass because Miles never played, so the NCAA can't take away any of our wins, etc. Just like the Not a Dime Back thing, Hathaway completely fails to come out and say Calhoun is our man and we stand by him. Just terrible. This is the kind of thing that is gonna agitate the old man right out of Storrs. He doesn't need this garbage from a university that owes everything it has to him.
-also, total bullshit hack ass journalism by Yahoo sports. According to the Uconn statement the responded to a yahoo FOI request in the fall, and they waited to pull it out now. This is some CBS Dan Rather/George W 2004 election stuff. If you want to be taken seriously as a journalist you cant do it by publishing ambushes.
Kelvin Sampson is Laughing
From ESPN.com
Connecticut potentially committed NCAA rules violations in its recruitment of former guard Nate Miles, Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday.
The Web site reported that according to multiple sources, between 2006 and 2008, Miles was provided with lodging, transportation, restaurant meals and representation by Josh Nochimson, a former UConn student manager who had become a professional sports agent and formerly represented ex-Huskies star Richard Hamilton.
The program may also have exceeded the number of phone calls allowed to Miles under NCAA regulations during its recruiting, Yahoo Sports reported, citing phone records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
The NCAA allows a single phone call per month to a prospect or his family in a player's junior year of high school. Yahoo Sports reported that according to records, UConn coaches exceeded that limit over several months in 2006 and 2007 in the program's recruitment of Miles. In December of 2006 alone, former UConn assistant coach Tom Moore made 27 calls to Miles' guardian and a person Miles referred to as an uncle as well as three calls to Miles.
The Web site also reported that Moore, currently the coach at Quinnipiac, made Nochimson aware that UConn was recruiting Miles and that he knew Nochimson and Miles had talked.
According to records obtained by Yahoo Sports, over a two-year period, five different UConn coaches traded at least 1,565 phone and text messages with Nochimson, including 16 from coach Jim Calhoun.
Nochimson has moved to decertify himself as an agent after Hamilton fired him and accused him of stealing more than $1 million from him, according to the report.
My Quick First Take: I have no problem with them taking care of Nate Miles. He was essentially a homeless kid who went to at least 5 different high schools and had to support the family his parents refused to.
But as a program we are fucked. This is the kind of stuff that gets you serious penalties - look at Indiana this year. Worse it gives fuel for all those Calhoun haters and it's gonna be front page news for some time. At least Tom Moore seems to have been a big part of this and he's gone. So thanks for that, but this looks BAD. even i cant sugarcoat this one. Just when i start feeling great about this team, this happens. Forget this year, we could be in serious trouble for the next 2-3 years if all charge are as true and bad as they sound.
Connecticut potentially committed NCAA rules violations in its recruitment of former guard Nate Miles, Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday.
The Web site reported that according to multiple sources, between 2006 and 2008, Miles was provided with lodging, transportation, restaurant meals and representation by Josh Nochimson, a former UConn student manager who had become a professional sports agent and formerly represented ex-Huskies star Richard Hamilton.
The program may also have exceeded the number of phone calls allowed to Miles under NCAA regulations during its recruiting, Yahoo Sports reported, citing phone records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
The NCAA allows a single phone call per month to a prospect or his family in a player's junior year of high school. Yahoo Sports reported that according to records, UConn coaches exceeded that limit over several months in 2006 and 2007 in the program's recruitment of Miles. In December of 2006 alone, former UConn assistant coach Tom Moore made 27 calls to Miles' guardian and a person Miles referred to as an uncle as well as three calls to Miles.
The Web site also reported that Moore, currently the coach at Quinnipiac, made Nochimson aware that UConn was recruiting Miles and that he knew Nochimson and Miles had talked.
According to records obtained by Yahoo Sports, over a two-year period, five different UConn coaches traded at least 1,565 phone and text messages with Nochimson, including 16 from coach Jim Calhoun.
Nochimson has moved to decertify himself as an agent after Hamilton fired him and accused him of stealing more than $1 million from him, according to the report.
My Quick First Take: I have no problem with them taking care of Nate Miles. He was essentially a homeless kid who went to at least 5 different high schools and had to support the family his parents refused to.
But as a program we are fucked. This is the kind of stuff that gets you serious penalties - look at Indiana this year. Worse it gives fuel for all those Calhoun haters and it's gonna be front page news for some time. At least Tom Moore seems to have been a big part of this and he's gone. So thanks for that, but this looks BAD. even i cant sugarcoat this one. Just when i start feeling great about this team, this happens. Forget this year, we could be in serious trouble for the next 2-3 years if all charge are as true and bad as they sound.
My Apology to the UConn Cheerleaders
I was gonna steal a page from Red's Army and do a little opponent cheerleader advance scouting, but I've been left horrified. While I stand by my statements from earlier that UConn cheerleaders are jacked, at least they have hot faces. The Purdue Boilermaker cheerleaders look like boiler makers. It's really terrible. I looked at each of their pictures and couldn't find anything. But I had to choose one. Make sure you read her ambitious Career Goals while you're there.
Hopefully Missouri or Memphis can bring something better to the table in the Elite "Don't Call Me Great" Eight.
Hopefully Missouri or Memphis can bring something better to the table in the Elite "Don't Call Me Great" Eight.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
What Happened?!?!
One week ago UConn was the team that wasn't even supposed to be a #1 seed. Now that they've annihilated Chattanooga and Texas AM, the epitome of hick schools, everyone has been licking Jim Calhoun's dehydrated asshole (that's how he re-hydrates. who needs an I.V. when you have an entire state full of apologist fans - myself included)
What the pundits are saying...
Jay Bilas: UConn is the #1 seed most likely to win the national championship.
Dick Vitale: "UConn is playing the best basketball right now." ESPN, Mike and Mike
Andy Katz: "I Love Brisket! Hey, waitress, another round of full sour pickles for all my friends!"
Bob Knight: "Is this a turtleneck?? I'm a V-neck guy goddammit (throws folding chair across wardrobe room) everybody knows that"
Coaches Say...
Jim Boeheim: "UConn would be almost unbeatable if Jerome Dyson was healthy." -ESPN, The Herd 3/23
Todd Says...Thanks, Jim. Imagine how good we wouldv'e been if UConn's Board of Trustee's was as flexible on athletes who abuse women as the Syracuse Trustees are. I don't think we'd have seen six overtimes if Nate was here or Devo was gone.
But.....
Some things never change. Digger Phelps on Monday told ESPN Radio that he like Missouri to beat Memphis AND Connecticut. This comes as a shock because usually Digger is soooo pro-UConn...
What the pundits are saying...
Jay Bilas: UConn is the #1 seed most likely to win the national championship.
Dick Vitale: "UConn is playing the best basketball right now." ESPN, Mike and Mike
Andy Katz: "I Love Brisket! Hey, waitress, another round of full sour pickles for all my friends!"
Bob Knight: "Is this a turtleneck?? I'm a V-neck guy goddammit (throws folding chair across wardrobe room) everybody knows that"
Coaches Say...
Jim Boeheim: "UConn would be almost unbeatable if Jerome Dyson was healthy." -ESPN, The Herd 3/23
Todd Says...Thanks, Jim. Imagine how good we wouldv'e been if UConn's Board of Trustee's was as flexible on athletes who abuse women as the Syracuse Trustees are. I don't think we'd have seen six overtimes if Nate was here or Devo was gone.
But.....
Some things never change. Digger Phelps on Monday told ESPN Radio that he like Missouri to beat Memphis AND Connecticut. This comes as a shock because usually Digger is soooo pro-UConn...
We're no UCLA
I figured I needed some entertaining filler now that I'm on a mission to post multiple times a day, so my plan was to post some UConn cheerleader pictures. Oyyyyy...good from far, but far from good. This is the problem you run into at a cold weather school. First, all the football games are played in the freezing cold, and no one wants to see pictures of chicks in windsuits. But the windsuits might be preferable to the pictures I found from basketball games. Good god - these girls are Jacked! I mean, significantly stonger than me - which is more of a reflection on me being a pussy who eschews gyms than it is a statement about them, but still. Just disgusting... Apparently Debbie Clemens wasn't the only woman out there doing HGH to look more muscular. It's like the Chappelle routine about AIDS coming from a monkey. You can't fuck a monkey cause, "as soon as ya got close it'd snap your dick off and throw it in the tall weeds, never to be seen again" I'm pretty sure that's how the guys dating these sasquatchs feel.
And so it only took me until 9:30 today for my daily 'punch in the balls because I go to a cold weather school.'
While the UConn Cheerleaders may have let you down, I promise not to do the same. So here is some of the Mansfield areas best talent
And so it only took me until 9:30 today for my daily 'punch in the balls because I go to a cold weather school.'
While the UConn Cheerleaders may have let you down, I promise not to do the same. So here is some of the Mansfield areas best talent
Making Moves
DId you see that!?! Three posts yesterday! I am back on the wagon - at least until this blog becomes irrelevant in three weeks. But until then I am banging posts out like an all day porn shoot. It's finally March Madness and I'm reinvigorated. Quality will not be an issue. Unlike a porn star I promise not to fake it. It's on. Multiple posts every day - enjoy that cubiclers! Let's go. Throw the ball up...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Toolzie 2.0
Remember the Shammon Tooles inbound pass that lost UConn the game at Miami back in the day? Well, this is the worst thing I've seen since..
Fast forward to 1:35 for the money shot, err step.
Fast forward to 1:35 for the money shot, err step.
I wish Washington had beat Purdue...
...Cause I really wanted to post this video. Seeing how I had my heart set on it, and I'm in love with this new Jordan campaign, here goes anyway. Listen for Sean McDonough hitting the high notes like Gus Johnson..."Hammmilllton....HAAAAMMMMILLLLTONNNN!" This was before Jerry Remy sucked the life out of poor Sean...
Take that, Kevin Pittsnogle!
I LOVE these "Where are they now" segments. How else are you going to find out Todd MacCulloch - of Dave Chappelle's Reparations skit fame ("all the black players quit, leaving Todd MacCulloch to play one on one with Travis Knight.") is now on the Pro Pinball Circuit, and ranked #178 in the world. Shocking stuff, right? Not close to as shocking as finding out that TODD MACCULLOCH MADE 35 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE NBA. THIRTY FIVE MILLION. TODD MACCULLOCH. anyways...
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Post post: I just threw that up there before i watched the segment, knowing it would be hilarious. my first thought was, "wow, he looks fat!" then he gets done with his practice session and walks upstairs to his personal 7-11 slurpee machine. i want to say more, but fear detracting from the absurd unintentional comedy that ensues.
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Post post: I just threw that up there before i watched the segment, knowing it would be hilarious. my first thought was, "wow, he looks fat!" then he gets done with his practice session and walks upstairs to his personal 7-11 slurpee machine. i want to say more, but fear detracting from the absurd unintentional comedy that ensues.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Jesus!
I'm a total sucker for these new Jordan commercials...and I won't even hold it against Ray that his tremendous effort tonight against the Spurs kept me from going undefeated today.
As I ruminated earlier, Jimmy is just fine. Out of the hospital and back with the team, even doing a funny press conference this afternoon. I liked our region before, but now that he's gotten sick like in 1999 and 2004 I like our Final Four chances even more. I would like to apologize to Marcus Williams, Rudy Gay, Josh Boone, et al for blaming the outcome in 2006 on them. Turned out the missing link was Jimmy's "dehydration."
As I ruminated earlier, Jimmy is just fine. Out of the hospital and back with the team, even doing a funny press conference this afternoon. I liked our region before, but now that he's gotten sick like in 1999 and 2004 I like our Final Four chances even more. I would like to apologize to Marcus Williams, Rudy Gay, Josh Boone, et al for blaming the outcome in 2006 on them. Turned out the missing link was Jimmy's "dehydration."
Dont worry about Jimmy C
I for one am not worried about Jimmy and his hospital stay. The man has beat cancer three times. He drinks chemo for breakfast, the man is a tour de force. Plus, I really like the way the team plays when Calhoun is sick/ejected. The play is a lot smoother under Blaney because no one is afraid of the short leash. Tremendous win yesterday, unless you had the under, and I'm looking for another solid win tomorrow.
On a personal note, I went 14-2 yesterday, tying my best bracket start ever. Too bad I couldn't translate that to the gambling ledger...
On a personal note, I went 14-2 yesterday, tying my best bracket start ever. Too bad I couldn't translate that to the gambling ledger...
Monday, March 16, 2009
Leit-off
Dave Leitao "resigned" at Virginia today. Virginia AD Craig Littlepage is an Uncle Tom (can Dave Leitao, as a half black, half white guy still call Craig Littlepage an Uncle Tom? I'm thinking yes...).
Calhoun apprentices seem to suffer from what I'm calling The Belicheck Corollary. Karl Hobbs, Tom Moore, and Leitao have pretty much gone the way of Charlie Weiss, Eric Mangina and Romeo Crenell. Too bad.
Leitao has a career record of 63-60, despite going 10-18 in 2008-09 and having a 4-24 year at Northeastern in 1995-96. 10-18 is indefensible, but he should have gotten another year.
Calhoun apprentices seem to suffer from what I'm calling The Belicheck Corollary. Karl Hobbs, Tom Moore, and Leitao have pretty much gone the way of Charlie Weiss, Eric Mangina and Romeo Crenell. Too bad.
Leitao has a career record of 63-60, despite going 10-18 in 2008-09 and having a 4-24 year at Northeastern in 1995-96. 10-18 is indefensible, but he should have gotten another year.
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Epic - Live Blog
Uconn v Syracuse
-A couple quick thoughts before the tip. The video montage ESPN plays before the games reminded me of a couple things. 1-that shot by Brandin Knight came really, really close to going in. 2- Ray's floater in the Allen/Allen game still gives me goosebumps. 3- Stanley must still be embarrassed by the way Joe Alexander (white guy) threw it in his face last year.
-Also, DeJuan Blair is a fat sack of shit. That effort by Pitt was costly. The only solace I take from it is how much easier it just got to win the tournament.
-Also, James Harden is by far the best NBA prospect in college. Anyone who takes Blake "Mini-Boozer" Griffin over Harden is a fool. Griffin's athleticism is what allows him to dominate the weak Big12, but that doesn't translate to the NBA where everyone is a freak. I have absolutely fallen in love with Harden. He's Baron Davis - it's just tremendous.
First Half
20:00 - Bob Donato and John Cahill on the game. Good by me, for now.
-Calhoun had said earlier in the week that Haralson (?!?!?!) might get the start over Austrie, but he opted to go with Kemba and move AJ to the 2. I like that.
19:50 - Raff: "Hey Sean, he's killin me! And Jay, 2-3 zone with some man-to-man principles!"
19:40 - McDonough: "Syracuse in the Digger Phelps orange highlighter uniforms tonight."
13:40 - Does anything kill more possessions at the college level than alley-oop attempts? This annoys me to no end.
12:10 - Haralson checks in. He runs like Greg Oden, which is not a good thing. Add that he's 19 and yet severely balding and Scottie Haralson is the Benjamin Button of college basketball. He is calling for the ball and looks aggressive for the first time all year, so maybe he can contribute. Were going to need it against the zone.
11:46 - And the ball goes flying through Haralson's hands and out of bounds. Nice call, Todd.
11:27 - You cannot make this shit up: McDonough: "Gavin Edwards trots in, His dad Earl Edwards played in the NFL for 11 years." It's like the sun coming up in the morning...
7:43 - Stanley with the breakaway windmill!
Raftery (apoplectic): "There's a lot of neighborhoods in New York, but this is Mr. Robinsons! Send it in!"
-Stanley even got back on D and attempted to draw the charge. His energy has been excellent tonight. Going to need that...
5:43 - Also, did you know that AJ Price's father Tony played for Penn? And that they went to the final four in 1979? Really, you never heard that before?
0:33 - Andy Rautins father played at Syracuse and McDonough used to get tea-bagged by him. Now that we've covered all the players with basketball parents we can have a clean second half.
0:15 - Price scores to put UConn up 37-34 at the half. Raftery: "Price, on-the-money-with-that-delivery!"
Second Half:
19:10 - AJ scores on a breakaway and forces up a stupid foul from Paul Harris. CRACKHEAD, CRACKHEAD, CRACKHEAD!
17:28 - Stanley throws down his third alley-oop of the game. That's 13 for him, Uconn leads 44-40. Raftery: "Robinson, the-elevator-man!"
16:05 - Shit. AJ picks up his third. I'd like to see him back between 10:00 and 8:00 depending on the score. It is MSG though, so I've got faith in Kemba. Never bet against a city kid in the Garden.
14:19 - WOW - AJ back already. I mean, Kemba had one bad possession, but I would've let him go some more...but I'm not in the Hall of Fame like Jimmy.
11:30 - For a gang-banging punk, Gerry McNamara sure ended up with a pretty hot white chick.
10:58 - Stanley with another vicious dunk as I do my best Kemba Walker screaming and chest hitting impersonation in my living room.
Raftery: "He brought Adrien with him! Yo, Adrien!"
10:34 - Craig Austrie shouldn't be allowed to shoot anymore. At least Stanley has confidence tonight -let him shoot.
9:52 - Nine blocks for UConn so far - take that Mississippi State! Erick Dampier isn't walking through that door.
8:24 - Onganaut took it hard at Stanley and you could see him have flashbacks to Joe Alexander as Stanley went for the block. Astronaut makes the free throws and its tied.
7:52 - Rautins and his fag-hawk make a three putting the Cuse up 54-51. This is very disconcerting. When it seems like you're killing a team all night and can't get any separation...that's generally not good.
7:34 - Craig with a huge three! what does he think this is - Quinnipiac??
6:01 - Terrible play by Craig, gives up a wide open jumper from the elbow in favor of getting stuck in the air and making a terrible pass that ends up in the front row.
5:46 - Stanley needs to start making some fucking free throws...
3:56 - Syracuse pushes to it's largest lead. My purchase of more bourbon earlier today is starting to look pretty savvy, this is depressing.
2:56 - Stanley continues to play his ass off. Fouled, at line down 5 - what are the chances these go ...Oh! There's one! ...misses the second but Thabeet with board and its to the line as both teams in double bonus - favors Uconn big time.
-makes em both - we got a pulse! down only 2!!
2:25 - AJ airballs a set play from out of bounds, Stanley - who else- with a huge board and put back! It's tied! ohhhhhh Skeet skeet skeet!
-They just put Stanley name on fire, ala 90's NBA Jam, during the timeout.
2:10 - Stupid foul on Kemba - free throws. God dammit thats bad
McDonough - "Devendorf is one of those point guard who keeps both teams in the game" He's like a white Edgar Sosa.
1:42 - AJ FORCED THE SHIT OUT IT! Terrible shot FUCK ME
1:02 - CRAIGGGGGGG hits the three to make it 67-68.
Raftery: "Austrie with the early onions!"
0:49 - AHHH nooooo. Awful tripping call on Price. Devo makes them both for 70-67.
0:29 - Thabeet with spinning bucket in traffic. 70-69. We've done a nice job beating the press with Adrien or Stanley slashing to the top of the key and finding Thabeet in Adrien's case or Stanley taking the elbow jumper. So we got that going for us, which is nice.
0:27 - Edwards intentional foul on Astronaut. He sucks from the line...misses the first! Only one guy on the line for Cuse- wierd...makes the second 71-69
0:01 - TERRIBLE possession but Kemba gets the loose ball put back! 71-71. Never bet against a city kid in the Garden
0:00 - Devo made it. NO NO NO it's gonna be called off. I told you John Cahill was a good ref! 5 more minutes baby and how hard is it if you're Syracuse to rally from that and play. wow
OT
4:27 - Astronaut fouls out. Lots of guys on the verge - Fouls, sadly, will determine the outcome.
4:12 - Thabeet on the floor! way to sell out big fella! channeling my inner Billy Raff
3:19 - Harris draws the And-1 on Stanley. You crack smoking motherfucker. 75-74
2:53 - Jeffrey with the long jumper. my reaction : No no no! (scores) Yes yes yes!
1:56 - Devo hits Adrien on the break like he thought Jeffrey was a woman. AWFUL no -call. He was right in Mike Donato's grill and NOTHING.
1:23 - MR ROBINSON'S NEIGHBORHOOD! 80-76 as Stanley nails a three
1:06 - Raftery: "A lot of intestinal fortitude from-both-clubs!"
0:37- another terrible possession that ends in AJ chucking something a mile in the air. Not good. Very un-Uconn like the way our crunch time plays have run tonight.
-consider me petrified with a one point lead and Cuse ball...
0:15- great look by Cuse with Rautins straight on. Good contest by Stanley, got the board, but got fouled and he cant shoot....not out of the woods yet. Stanley 1of2
0:5 - tied game...
AHHHHHHH awful look by Kemba- use your speed to get to the hole! christ!
Double OT
5:00 - by the way, are you fucking kidding me with this game...?!!?
-Last double OT'er i remember was that Brandin Knight game i mentioned earlier
-Doesnt fatigue have to catch up with the Cuse on the second night.
4:09 - terrible foul by Adrien. Concede the basket and move on. Idiot
-everyone on the floor for UCOnn has 4 fouls except Kemba....Oyyyy
3:33 - Harris misses easy breakaway layup. He must be high on crack...
3:11 - Gavin sucks.
2:40 - AJ makes one, 84-83
1:58 - Donato with what I admit is a bad call on Devo. That's a no call. I heard the whistle and thought it was on Craig...He makes both free throws, 86-83
1:43 - Jeffrey with bitch ass foul on Flynn. 86-86
1:18 - Onauku fouls out - Thabeet makes 1of2 - 87-86
0:57 - stupid reach foul on Austrie. Not thinking. 1of2, 87's
3OT
-are you fucking kidding me???
-that Arby's commercial totally just kicked my munchies into full gear...
4:37 - AJ motherfuckin Price - 90-87
3:49 - Thabeet at the line, makes 1of2 - ya gotta try to win this game in the first two-three minutes - everyone is so tired its possible. 91-87
3:!2 - the Price is Right! 93-87. Thats almost like a three possession game. Legs are so tired at this point that it's gonna be very hard to make long shots.
2:59 - Stanley fouls out. I saw a walk on Rautins, and a turnover, but not a foul. Im not sure about that. Great night for Stanley though. He was the only guy on the floor who outplayed Raftery, who had a great game. 2of2 93-89
2:54 - AHHH my god! Awful job by Kemba. Turnover on the press and foul on Jeffrey (4). So no clock and its 93-91.
2:53 - Instant Karma's gonna get you, its gonna knock you right off your feet. Devo tick tack on AJ. 2of2 -95-91
2:39 - Rautins can have that long three for the rest of the game...
2:03 - Jeffrey on the put back 97-91
1:37 - great body control by Thabeet on the drive by Harris. Ill give those two points. 97-93
1:00 - Jeff chokes the ball away, easy breakaway dunk for Harris. 97-95. Harris walked, but were in MSG so NBA rules apply. Five steps for everybody!
0:53 - Jeffrey at the line - 0of2 but Kemba get the board - he has had some HUGE offensive boards tonight.
0:25 - Craig misses a three, but gets his own board! out to AJ and he's fouled
0:21 - NO NO NO - AJ misses first FT....makes second
-Rautins drains a long three and UCONN decides to run more horrible last second offense. Long three by AJ and OT here we go again
4OT -
Seriously though...what the fuck
4:24 - with four himself Thabeet draws the charge on Jackson, thats five, SEE ya!
3:51 - Thabeet throws the crackhead out of the way, thats 5 on him. At least we have more depth..???... 17, 14, 6 in 53 minutes
-Harris ties the game at the line, 100's
3:30 - AJ is a killer...102-100
3:12 - No thabeet and the middle is wide open... 102's
2:50 - Kemba's three just looked like one of my shots. lots of glass, no good
0:38 - how did johnny flynn miss that?? 104's, uconn ball. lets see if we can run something other than a last second deep three...
0:00 - hahahahaha ohhh man, lets just call it a tie.
5OT - first of the year in NCAA
-we have big trouble without Thabeet. I thought AJ made the floater. How in the hell did Harris miss those. And great great great no call by the Refs. just tremendous.
3:20 - AJ makes the jumper 106-104 Raftery: "He's got legs, hes got ONIONS!"
2:01 - Devo fouls out reaching on AJ. He walks over to the bench and punches the water girl in the face. Cuse replace him with a walk-on. Watch, He'll proly make the game winner now...
-AJ 2of2 from line , 108-104
1:40 - Craig lays out a red carpet for Flynn. 108-106
-Commercial for Snickers. Never seen it before. Patrick Ewing dunks on a guy, his nickname is "Patrick Chewing" - which i believe was also his nickname in the court documents from the Gold Club case.
0:59 - Gavin fouls out - Flynn at the line with 2 to tie. Scottie Haralson back in.
Flynn 2of2 - 108's - 6OT anyone??
SCOTTIE HARALSON!!!! 110-108
0:20 ahhhhh no he picks up the foul on Flynn. They are still playing Flynn the same way off the high screen, funneling him to the hoop...excpet Thabeet isn't there anymore! gahhhh - 2of2 - 110's
0:15 - Time, Uconn - get to the hole!
noooooooo come on, another horrible shot by AJ from three. you have no legs, youve played like two games, everyone is in foul trouble. drive the fucking ball. again and again and again- im losing my mind watching this.
6 OT
-I hope you had the over....
this game is going to be decided by walk-ons. Jimmy Veronick posting up Justin Thomas, just watch.
4:50 - how does andy rautins do it? 110-113
2:34 - game. fuck. Harris got Singler'ed by the rim, got it back and got fouled. Not good. 118-112
2:!4- George Blaney jsut picked his nose.
0:00 - Im bummed, but i feel terrible for the team. this is gonna be tough to come back from. if we get through the second round ill be pretty pleased. they never stopped playing hard
-cuse was 24of28 from FT in OT crazy
Post-Game
-Next week = San Diego 2.0 anyone? I'm so disgusted right now, particularly because I think we played pretty damn well, and still lost. It ceased to even be a game after the second OT - it just became a war of attrition through fouls.
What's most saddening is the big picture on this year. I mean it's almost worse than 2006 because these kids are so easy to like. Just a great team of great players and this is what we get. And all these North Carolina doppelgangers talk about how good they could be if they had Zoeller and Ginyard all year. They all conveniently forget that we could be trotting out Nate Miles (zone killing shooter we've missed since Rashad), Majok (Jimmy says he'd be playing 20-25minutes), and The Chuckwagon (supposedly playing much better since going academically ineligible). Oh, and Jerome dyson. Just a terribly upsetting game and you get the feeling that it's going to be that kind of postseason.
Oh, and the worst part - now you wont be able to turn on the TV all day tomorrow without seeing clips of this game.
But- at least we padded our block total. so we can still recruit big men with that nice stat.
-A couple quick thoughts before the tip. The video montage ESPN plays before the games reminded me of a couple things. 1-that shot by Brandin Knight came really, really close to going in. 2- Ray's floater in the Allen/Allen game still gives me goosebumps. 3- Stanley must still be embarrassed by the way Joe Alexander (white guy) threw it in his face last year.
-Also, DeJuan Blair is a fat sack of shit. That effort by Pitt was costly. The only solace I take from it is how much easier it just got to win the tournament.
-Also, James Harden is by far the best NBA prospect in college. Anyone who takes Blake "Mini-Boozer" Griffin over Harden is a fool. Griffin's athleticism is what allows him to dominate the weak Big12, but that doesn't translate to the NBA where everyone is a freak. I have absolutely fallen in love with Harden. He's Baron Davis - it's just tremendous.
First Half
20:00 - Bob Donato and John Cahill on the game. Good by me, for now.
-Calhoun had said earlier in the week that Haralson (?!?!?!) might get the start over Austrie, but he opted to go with Kemba and move AJ to the 2. I like that.
19:50 - Raff: "Hey Sean, he's killin me! And Jay, 2-3 zone with some man-to-man principles!"
19:40 - McDonough: "Syracuse in the Digger Phelps orange highlighter uniforms tonight."
13:40 - Does anything kill more possessions at the college level than alley-oop attempts? This annoys me to no end.
12:10 - Haralson checks in. He runs like Greg Oden, which is not a good thing. Add that he's 19 and yet severely balding and Scottie Haralson is the Benjamin Button of college basketball. He is calling for the ball and looks aggressive for the first time all year, so maybe he can contribute. Were going to need it against the zone.
11:46 - And the ball goes flying through Haralson's hands and out of bounds. Nice call, Todd.
11:27 - You cannot make this shit up: McDonough: "Gavin Edwards trots in, His dad Earl Edwards played in the NFL for 11 years." It's like the sun coming up in the morning...
7:43 - Stanley with the breakaway windmill!
Raftery (apoplectic): "There's a lot of neighborhoods in New York, but this is Mr. Robinsons! Send it in!"
-Stanley even got back on D and attempted to draw the charge. His energy has been excellent tonight. Going to need that...
5:43 - Also, did you know that AJ Price's father Tony played for Penn? And that they went to the final four in 1979? Really, you never heard that before?
0:33 - Andy Rautins father played at Syracuse and McDonough used to get tea-bagged by him. Now that we've covered all the players with basketball parents we can have a clean second half.
0:15 - Price scores to put UConn up 37-34 at the half. Raftery: "Price, on-the-money-with-that-delivery!"
Second Half:
19:10 - AJ scores on a breakaway and forces up a stupid foul from Paul Harris. CRACKHEAD, CRACKHEAD, CRACKHEAD!
17:28 - Stanley throws down his third alley-oop of the game. That's 13 for him, Uconn leads 44-40. Raftery: "Robinson, the-elevator-man!"
16:05 - Shit. AJ picks up his third. I'd like to see him back between 10:00 and 8:00 depending on the score. It is MSG though, so I've got faith in Kemba. Never bet against a city kid in the Garden.
14:19 - WOW - AJ back already. I mean, Kemba had one bad possession, but I would've let him go some more...but I'm not in the Hall of Fame like Jimmy.
11:30 - For a gang-banging punk, Gerry McNamara sure ended up with a pretty hot white chick.
10:58 - Stanley with another vicious dunk as I do my best Kemba Walker screaming and chest hitting impersonation in my living room.
Raftery: "He brought Adrien with him! Yo, Adrien!"
10:34 - Craig Austrie shouldn't be allowed to shoot anymore. At least Stanley has confidence tonight -let him shoot.
9:52 - Nine blocks for UConn so far - take that Mississippi State! Erick Dampier isn't walking through that door.
8:24 - Onganaut took it hard at Stanley and you could see him have flashbacks to Joe Alexander as Stanley went for the block. Astronaut makes the free throws and its tied.
7:52 - Rautins and his fag-hawk make a three putting the Cuse up 54-51. This is very disconcerting. When it seems like you're killing a team all night and can't get any separation...that's generally not good.
7:34 - Craig with a huge three! what does he think this is - Quinnipiac??
6:01 - Terrible play by Craig, gives up a wide open jumper from the elbow in favor of getting stuck in the air and making a terrible pass that ends up in the front row.
5:46 - Stanley needs to start making some fucking free throws...
3:56 - Syracuse pushes to it's largest lead. My purchase of more bourbon earlier today is starting to look pretty savvy, this is depressing.
2:56 - Stanley continues to play his ass off. Fouled, at line down 5 - what are the chances these go ...Oh! There's one! ...misses the second but Thabeet with board and its to the line as both teams in double bonus - favors Uconn big time.
-makes em both - we got a pulse! down only 2!!
2:25 - AJ airballs a set play from out of bounds, Stanley - who else- with a huge board and put back! It's tied! ohhhhhh Skeet skeet skeet!
-They just put Stanley name on fire, ala 90's NBA Jam, during the timeout.
2:10 - Stupid foul on Kemba - free throws. God dammit thats bad
McDonough - "Devendorf is one of those point guard who keeps both teams in the game" He's like a white Edgar Sosa.
1:42 - AJ FORCED THE SHIT OUT IT! Terrible shot FUCK ME
1:02 - CRAIGGGGGGG hits the three to make it 67-68.
Raftery: "Austrie with the early onions!"
0:49 - AHHH nooooo. Awful tripping call on Price. Devo makes them both for 70-67.
0:29 - Thabeet with spinning bucket in traffic. 70-69. We've done a nice job beating the press with Adrien or Stanley slashing to the top of the key and finding Thabeet in Adrien's case or Stanley taking the elbow jumper. So we got that going for us, which is nice.
0:27 - Edwards intentional foul on Astronaut. He sucks from the line...misses the first! Only one guy on the line for Cuse- wierd...makes the second 71-69
0:01 - TERRIBLE possession but Kemba gets the loose ball put back! 71-71. Never bet against a city kid in the Garden
0:00 - Devo made it. NO NO NO it's gonna be called off. I told you John Cahill was a good ref! 5 more minutes baby and how hard is it if you're Syracuse to rally from that and play. wow
OT
4:27 - Astronaut fouls out. Lots of guys on the verge - Fouls, sadly, will determine the outcome.
4:12 - Thabeet on the floor! way to sell out big fella! channeling my inner Billy Raff
3:19 - Harris draws the And-1 on Stanley. You crack smoking motherfucker. 75-74
2:53 - Jeffrey with the long jumper. my reaction : No no no! (scores) Yes yes yes!
1:56 - Devo hits Adrien on the break like he thought Jeffrey was a woman. AWFUL no -call. He was right in Mike Donato's grill and NOTHING.
1:23 - MR ROBINSON'S NEIGHBORHOOD! 80-76 as Stanley nails a three
1:06 - Raftery: "A lot of intestinal fortitude from-both-clubs!"
0:37- another terrible possession that ends in AJ chucking something a mile in the air. Not good. Very un-Uconn like the way our crunch time plays have run tonight.
-consider me petrified with a one point lead and Cuse ball...
0:15- great look by Cuse with Rautins straight on. Good contest by Stanley, got the board, but got fouled and he cant shoot....not out of the woods yet. Stanley 1of2
0:5 - tied game...
AHHHHHHH awful look by Kemba- use your speed to get to the hole! christ!
Double OT
5:00 - by the way, are you fucking kidding me with this game...?!!?
-Last double OT'er i remember was that Brandin Knight game i mentioned earlier
-Doesnt fatigue have to catch up with the Cuse on the second night.
4:09 - terrible foul by Adrien. Concede the basket and move on. Idiot
-everyone on the floor for UCOnn has 4 fouls except Kemba....Oyyyy
3:33 - Harris misses easy breakaway layup. He must be high on crack...
3:11 - Gavin sucks.
2:40 - AJ makes one, 84-83
1:58 - Donato with what I admit is a bad call on Devo. That's a no call. I heard the whistle and thought it was on Craig...He makes both free throws, 86-83
1:43 - Jeffrey with bitch ass foul on Flynn. 86-86
1:18 - Onauku fouls out - Thabeet makes 1of2 - 87-86
0:57 - stupid reach foul on Austrie. Not thinking. 1of2, 87's
3OT
-are you fucking kidding me???
-that Arby's commercial totally just kicked my munchies into full gear...
4:37 - AJ motherfuckin Price - 90-87
3:49 - Thabeet at the line, makes 1of2 - ya gotta try to win this game in the first two-three minutes - everyone is so tired its possible. 91-87
3:!2 - the Price is Right! 93-87. Thats almost like a three possession game. Legs are so tired at this point that it's gonna be very hard to make long shots.
2:59 - Stanley fouls out. I saw a walk on Rautins, and a turnover, but not a foul. Im not sure about that. Great night for Stanley though. He was the only guy on the floor who outplayed Raftery, who had a great game. 2of2 93-89
2:54 - AHHH my god! Awful job by Kemba. Turnover on the press and foul on Jeffrey (4). So no clock and its 93-91.
2:53 - Instant Karma's gonna get you, its gonna knock you right off your feet. Devo tick tack on AJ. 2of2 -95-91
2:39 - Rautins can have that long three for the rest of the game...
2:03 - Jeffrey on the put back 97-91
1:37 - great body control by Thabeet on the drive by Harris. Ill give those two points. 97-93
1:00 - Jeff chokes the ball away, easy breakaway dunk for Harris. 97-95. Harris walked, but were in MSG so NBA rules apply. Five steps for everybody!
0:53 - Jeffrey at the line - 0of2 but Kemba get the board - he has had some HUGE offensive boards tonight.
0:25 - Craig misses a three, but gets his own board! out to AJ and he's fouled
0:21 - NO NO NO - AJ misses first FT....makes second
-Rautins drains a long three and UCONN decides to run more horrible last second offense. Long three by AJ and OT here we go again
4OT -
Seriously though...what the fuck
4:24 - with four himself Thabeet draws the charge on Jackson, thats five, SEE ya!
3:51 - Thabeet throws the crackhead out of the way, thats 5 on him. At least we have more depth..???... 17, 14, 6 in 53 minutes
-Harris ties the game at the line, 100's
3:30 - AJ is a killer...102-100
3:12 - No thabeet and the middle is wide open... 102's
2:50 - Kemba's three just looked like one of my shots. lots of glass, no good
0:38 - how did johnny flynn miss that?? 104's, uconn ball. lets see if we can run something other than a last second deep three...
0:00 - hahahahaha ohhh man, lets just call it a tie.
5OT - first of the year in NCAA
-we have big trouble without Thabeet. I thought AJ made the floater. How in the hell did Harris miss those. And great great great no call by the Refs. just tremendous.
3:20 - AJ makes the jumper 106-104 Raftery: "He's got legs, hes got ONIONS!"
2:01 - Devo fouls out reaching on AJ. He walks over to the bench and punches the water girl in the face. Cuse replace him with a walk-on. Watch, He'll proly make the game winner now...
-AJ 2of2 from line , 108-104
1:40 - Craig lays out a red carpet for Flynn. 108-106
-Commercial for Snickers. Never seen it before. Patrick Ewing dunks on a guy, his nickname is "Patrick Chewing" - which i believe was also his nickname in the court documents from the Gold Club case.
0:59 - Gavin fouls out - Flynn at the line with 2 to tie. Scottie Haralson back in.
Flynn 2of2 - 108's - 6OT anyone??
SCOTTIE HARALSON!!!! 110-108
0:20 ahhhhh no he picks up the foul on Flynn. They are still playing Flynn the same way off the high screen, funneling him to the hoop...excpet Thabeet isn't there anymore! gahhhh - 2of2 - 110's
0:15 - Time, Uconn - get to the hole!
noooooooo come on, another horrible shot by AJ from three. you have no legs, youve played like two games, everyone is in foul trouble. drive the fucking ball. again and again and again- im losing my mind watching this.
6 OT
-I hope you had the over....
this game is going to be decided by walk-ons. Jimmy Veronick posting up Justin Thomas, just watch.
4:50 - how does andy rautins do it? 110-113
2:34 - game. fuck. Harris got Singler'ed by the rim, got it back and got fouled. Not good. 118-112
2:!4- George Blaney jsut picked his nose.
0:00 - Im bummed, but i feel terrible for the team. this is gonna be tough to come back from. if we get through the second round ill be pretty pleased. they never stopped playing hard
-cuse was 24of28 from FT in OT crazy
Post-Game
-Next week = San Diego 2.0 anyone? I'm so disgusted right now, particularly because I think we played pretty damn well, and still lost. It ceased to even be a game after the second OT - it just became a war of attrition through fouls.
What's most saddening is the big picture on this year. I mean it's almost worse than 2006 because these kids are so easy to like. Just a great team of great players and this is what we get. And all these North Carolina doppelgangers talk about how good they could be if they had Zoeller and Ginyard all year. They all conveniently forget that we could be trotting out Nate Miles (zone killing shooter we've missed since Rashad), Majok (Jimmy says he'd be playing 20-25minutes), and The Chuckwagon (supposedly playing much better since going academically ineligible). Oh, and Jerome dyson. Just a terribly upsetting game and you get the feeling that it's going to be that kind of postseason.
Oh, and the worst part - now you wont be able to turn on the TV all day tomorrow without seeing clips of this game.
But- at least we padded our block total. so we can still recruit big men with that nice stat.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Providence/DePaul Postgame
The Bob Knight Old Curmudgeon Rant of the Day:
A really closely played game, yet each team blew an easy transition bucket by throwing lousy alley-oops. Put the ball on the floor for christsakes! (scream like Herm Edwrds): Hello, you play to win the game!
-Jerry Wainwright aka The Principal from Breakfast Club aka Droopy Dog
-Liked to see Keno Davis get that T for arguing an out-of-bounds call, that did look a little suspect, with Providence down 59-55. Very Calhoun-esque. He even kept yelling at the ref after DePaul shot their free throws and a timeout was called. Ballsy for a first year Big East coach against veteran refs.
-My thoughts at halftime: Hey Providence, you're not in the Dunkin' Donuts Center anymore. And God Shamgod isn't walking through that door...
-DePaul totally blew it from 4:44 to 4:00. They took three awful three pointers, all of which turned into Providence baskets. Oh yeah, and they didn't score a FG from 11:00 until 2:00.
-Huge comeback, not deficit wise, but Providence totally played like shit for 30 minutes and DePaul was on fire. No word on whether Jeff Xavier's brother ran on the court to celebrate. We have a call in to his parole officer to see if post-game on court celebrations are permitted.
-Worst part of the Providence comeback: I had totally written off any chance of Providence covering (-9.5), and then they got it to 10 points with 22 seconds to play only for Will Walker to make a three from somewhere in the fifth fucking row and Providence makes two free throws to win by 9. I hate it. Emotionally detached, then very alive again, and then dead. it's like losing two bets in the same game.
A really closely played game, yet each team blew an easy transition bucket by throwing lousy alley-oops. Put the ball on the floor for christsakes! (scream like Herm Edwrds): Hello, you play to win the game!
-Jerry Wainwright aka The Principal from Breakfast Club aka Droopy Dog
-Liked to see Keno Davis get that T for arguing an out-of-bounds call, that did look a little suspect, with Providence down 59-55. Very Calhoun-esque. He even kept yelling at the ref after DePaul shot their free throws and a timeout was called. Ballsy for a first year Big East coach against veteran refs.
-My thoughts at halftime: Hey Providence, you're not in the Dunkin' Donuts Center anymore. And God Shamgod isn't walking through that door...
-DePaul totally blew it from 4:44 to 4:00. They took three awful three pointers, all of which turned into Providence baskets. Oh yeah, and they didn't score a FG from 11:00 until 2:00.
-Huge comeback, not deficit wise, but Providence totally played like shit for 30 minutes and DePaul was on fire. No word on whether Jeff Xavier's brother ran on the court to celebrate. We have a call in to his parole officer to see if post-game on court celebrations are permitted.
-Worst part of the Providence comeback: I had totally written off any chance of Providence covering (-9.5), and then they got it to 10 points with 22 seconds to play only for Will Walker to make a three from somewhere in the fifth fucking row and Providence makes two free throws to win by 9. I hate it. Emotionally detached, then very alive again, and then dead. it's like losing two bets in the same game.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Foot and Balls Disease (that's a cloven-foot animal joke)
So, yesterday Ed Davis dunked all over Brian Zoubek, who attempted to take a charge (very white of him) and in doing so fell to the ground. When Davis got done hanging from the rim his foot landed square on the area where Zoubek's balls should be. However, Zoubek's reaction wasn't equal to the pain that should have resulted, confirming my ongoing suspicion that Brian Zoubek has a vagina. It would certainly explain his particularly weak post play and overt showings of emotion. YouTube doesn't have the video of this play posted, because coach k censors it (see: singler getting stuffed by the rim and lance thomas slapping jon scheyer in the head). luckily these kids did a wonderful re-enactment, complete with 1960's Batman type exclamation at the end. Really fantastic stuff
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Well Played
After yesterday's tough loss to Pitt, I figured we could use some good news. Thankfully the Big East complied, releasing the All-Conference Teams.
First Team: Hasheem Thabeet
Second Team: AJ Price
Third Team: Jeff Adrien
All-Freshman Team: Kemba Walker
Too bad that three of those four players will be gone after this season...
First Team: Hasheem Thabeet
Second Team: AJ Price
Third Team: Jeff Adrien
All-Freshman Team: Kemba Walker
Too bad that three of those four players will be gone after this season...
Dunk of the Year
With the college basketball regular season coming to an end today I couldn't resist the chance to post this DeQuan Jones dunk again.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Skip's Beer Pong and Uconn basketball
Skip's Beer Pong, www.skipsbeerpong.com hosted it's first party Wednesday night at Ted's. The giveaway was a Port-O-Pong, which is a floating beer pong device for pool or pond use - pond would be good for you - which everyone could buy $1 raffle tickets for. Seems fair enough, ey? Well, not fair enough for Gavin Edwards. Edwards repeatedly refused to purchase a ticket and instead asked for a free one, saying he didn't have a dollar. This defiance angered a drunken KJ, who demanded that "as a scholarship athlete you get to go to school for free. Now help me pay my goddamn tuition!" This led to a string of expletives directed at Edwards after Jim Nantz popped up out of nowhere and mentioned that, "you know, his father Earl played in the NFL."
Normally we are a little tough on womens basketball here at the dotcom. However, lots of respect to the lady Huskies Meghan Gardler. She bought a whopping 5 tickets, and that karma served her well, as she won the raffle. Conspiracy theorists like myself are positing that the raffle was rigged due to the close relationship between KJ and Geno. Glad to see Meghan win the Port-o-pong, after all - who wouldn't want to get wet with the lovely Gardler?? Furthermore, her profile on the Uconn Website describes her as, "..a great ball-handler." giddy up!
Normally we are a little tough on womens basketball here at the dotcom. However, lots of respect to the lady Huskies Meghan Gardler. She bought a whopping 5 tickets, and that karma served her well, as she won the raffle. Conspiracy theorists like myself are positing that the raffle was rigged due to the close relationship between KJ and Geno. Glad to see Meghan win the Port-o-pong, after all - who wouldn't want to get wet with the lovely Gardler?? Furthermore, her profile on the Uconn Website describes her as, "..a great ball-handler." giddy up!
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