So this year's team is good. Very very good. Better than the Champ team was at this point in the season. And they should be, that team was all frosh/soph, now we are playing soph/juniors. Seems like the right occasion to dust off this blog which was started when I needed to gush about Cuse's last big win over Georgetown.
And because this is when it starts getting real. I have been ripping sticky notes off the wall that count down the hours until tonights tip. The notes say "6", but its 5.5 and counting.....
You can tell this team is dying to start playing the big boys. Flynn has said it himself.
We have played Georgetown tough the past few years, even when their squad was better and ours was worse. No coherent thoughts left.
Lets. Go. Orange.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Saturday, February 16, 2008
2/16 v. G'Town
Another year, another whooping of G'Town in the Dome. And to think, a few free throws and some decent shot selection and we would be 2-0 against the "#1 Team in the Big East". Woulda, shoulda.
Game ball: AO
Honorable mention: Jackson's 4 minutes, and Johnny "Sherm" Flynn, THE ZONE
Good: Flynn's brilliant drawing of fouls against Dr. Hibbert. Double Zero's O boards in the last few minutes. Harris' outside shooting. AO all day, all long. The refs sucking their whistles early. What's that I see, is that, is that?.... Jim Boeheim's Zone Defense! We missed you!
Bad: Dante' Greene. Every game I like him less and less. We know he's gonna be a lottery pick. Now my new question is this: if we replaced him with Preston Shumpert would the team be better? Not even Senior year Shumpert, even Soph-year, "who is this guy, just reading the line scores you probably thought he is a dorky white guy" Shumpert. Didn't get drafted, could barely play in Europe Shumpert. My answer is a definitive yes. If I have to hear any more announcer apologies, or see any more fast breaks end with Flynn passing it off to a streaking Dante' I am going to evoke the name of DeShawn Williams.
He is not a good enough shooter to justify the shots he takes. And when he passed it insidde to AO it actually went well! Pass you horrible reincarnation of DeShawn. [From here on out DeShawn will be known as "The Unofficial 2003 SU Championship MVP"]
Misunderstood: Paul Harris. Take a deep breath Boeheim. You know what you are getting with Harris. Big O-boards, lots of energy, but occasionally that baby starts to red line. And then who knows what will happen. Could be a vs. Villanova YouTube moment, or an O-foul with 30 sec on the shot clock.
Scoop is straight playground... Oganut looked sane.. Jimmy did some coaching... G'Town is overrated... our team is schitzophrenic [sic]
If THE ZONE looks like that, we might salvage a few of the wins coming up against the big boys. More later, still a lot of bugs in the system.
Game ball: AO
Honorable mention: Jackson's 4 minutes, and Johnny "Sherm" Flynn, THE ZONE
Good: Flynn's brilliant drawing of fouls against Dr. Hibbert. Double Zero's O boards in the last few minutes. Harris' outside shooting. AO all day, all long. The refs sucking their whistles early. What's that I see, is that, is that?.... Jim Boeheim's Zone Defense! We missed you!
Bad: Dante' Greene. Every game I like him less and less. We know he's gonna be a lottery pick. Now my new question is this: if we replaced him with Preston Shumpert would the team be better? Not even Senior year Shumpert, even Soph-year, "who is this guy, just reading the line scores you probably thought he is a dorky white guy" Shumpert. Didn't get drafted, could barely play in Europe Shumpert. My answer is a definitive yes. If I have to hear any more announcer apologies, or see any more fast breaks end with Flynn passing it off to a streaking Dante' I am going to evoke the name of DeShawn Williams.
He is not a good enough shooter to justify the shots he takes. And when he passed it insidde to AO it actually went well! Pass you horrible reincarnation of DeShawn. [From here on out DeShawn will be known as "The Unofficial 2003 SU Championship MVP"]
Misunderstood: Paul Harris. Take a deep breath Boeheim. You know what you are getting with Harris. Big O-boards, lots of energy, but occasionally that baby starts to red line. And then who knows what will happen. Could be a vs. Villanova YouTube moment, or an O-foul with 30 sec on the shot clock.
Scoop is straight playground... Oganut looked sane.. Jimmy did some coaching... G'Town is overrated... our team is schitzophrenic [sic]
If THE ZONE looks like that, we might salvage a few of the wins coming up against the big boys. More later, still a lot of bugs in the system.
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