SWC75
Bored Historian
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 33,958
- Like
- 65,485
- Chris McCullough’s fall looked exactly like Arinze Onuaku in 2010 and Eric Devendorf in 2008. See ya next year, Chris. Really lousy for him – and for us. C–Mac looked on his way to a good game, playing more aggressively and confidently. He had 4 points, a rebound and a block in his 8 minutes. With all the attention Rakeem Christmas was getting, Chris was open for medium jump-shots long the baseline and made on. He also made his two free throws. And then….
- This leaves us razor thing up front. Chinoso Obokoh fans might have been happy that he finally got a chance to play but they couldn’t have been happy with his getting 4 fouls in 5 minutes. We’ll get to see more of BJ Johnson, too. But basically, any time Rakeem Christmas, Tyler Roberson and Michael Gbinije aren’t in there, we are in deep trouble.
- This was a game for the “Twilight Zone” – the area between the paint and the arc. Florida State guarded the basket with their three 7 footers and their other defenders expanded the perimeter, leaving some wide-open spaces, perfect for pull=up jumpers. We got several open ones. Unfortunately we missed nearly all of them. Fortunately, Trevor Cooney went off from outside, even with guys in his face and bailed us out. How many times is that going to happen?
- Ron Patterson hit a three pointer. It might have been the worst thing that could have happened. He decided he was Seth Curry, (he shoots more like Ann Curry) and kept jacking them up until JB benched him.
- On the opposite end of the scale neither Kaleb Joseph nor Tyler Roberson seemed to want to shoot the ball. When they did, it showed, (they were a combined 2 for 9). Joseph used to have a pretty good medium-range jumper but it seems to be in mothballs.
- Rakeem Christmas is clearly banged up. He winced whenever he had contact with his bandaged hand and went down heavily in the second half. We got a turnover and passed the ball to Rak, who had just gotten up under the basket. He jumped just high enough to get the ball over the basket. He seemed to shake it off after that but the sequence underscored how close we are to disaster- being unable to even compete, which is where we would be without Rak.
- Despite the good start in the ACC, this is looking more and more like 2007-08, when we had so many injuries we were down to 6 scholarship players at one point, (and Scoop Jardine wasn’t telling the coach about his injury that caused him to sit out a year). How soon is until the board gets taken over by the guys who insist that this is “no excuse” and that all the guys on the roster are supposed to be just as good as all the other guys on the roster and blame Boeheim for everything? (Blue Curtain is lurking.)
- On the way home I was listening to the post-game shows and I head a conversation between Mike Lindlsey and a caller named “Gus” who calls a lot of these shows. Nobody in history deserves to be called “Gus“ more than Gus, for whom the glass is always empty and has a hole in it. In the wake of probably our best performance of the season in the face of such adversity, Gus chose to say that, after 40 years of Jim Boeheim, he’s had it. He said that Boeheim has “gotten lazy” and ought to quit. Lindsay never challenged him on this. He never asked what Gus thought Boeheim was being “lazy” about. Instead he used it as an occasion to complain about Boeheim’s “arrogance”, about how he “recruits too many zone players” and that “Mike Hopkins should be head coach by now”. It was the single stupidest conversation I’d ever heard broadcast over the radio. They made Beavis and Butthead seem like Newton and Einstein.
- I don’t like Sunday evening games. For me, Sunday evening is a time to relax after watching exciting, loud sporting events all weekend. I like to tune into 60 Minutes and Masterpiece Theater. I just want to hear people talking in a normal tone for a while. What happened back at Downton Abbey? Did we find out if Mr. Bates killed that guy?
- This leaves us razor thing up front. Chinoso Obokoh fans might have been happy that he finally got a chance to play but they couldn’t have been happy with his getting 4 fouls in 5 minutes. We’ll get to see more of BJ Johnson, too. But basically, any time Rakeem Christmas, Tyler Roberson and Michael Gbinije aren’t in there, we are in deep trouble.
- This was a game for the “Twilight Zone” – the area between the paint and the arc. Florida State guarded the basket with their three 7 footers and their other defenders expanded the perimeter, leaving some wide-open spaces, perfect for pull=up jumpers. We got several open ones. Unfortunately we missed nearly all of them. Fortunately, Trevor Cooney went off from outside, even with guys in his face and bailed us out. How many times is that going to happen?
- Ron Patterson hit a three pointer. It might have been the worst thing that could have happened. He decided he was Seth Curry, (he shoots more like Ann Curry) and kept jacking them up until JB benched him.
- On the opposite end of the scale neither Kaleb Joseph nor Tyler Roberson seemed to want to shoot the ball. When they did, it showed, (they were a combined 2 for 9). Joseph used to have a pretty good medium-range jumper but it seems to be in mothballs.
- Rakeem Christmas is clearly banged up. He winced whenever he had contact with his bandaged hand and went down heavily in the second half. We got a turnover and passed the ball to Rak, who had just gotten up under the basket. He jumped just high enough to get the ball over the basket. He seemed to shake it off after that but the sequence underscored how close we are to disaster- being unable to even compete, which is where we would be without Rak.
- Despite the good start in the ACC, this is looking more and more like 2007-08, when we had so many injuries we were down to 6 scholarship players at one point, (and Scoop Jardine wasn’t telling the coach about his injury that caused him to sit out a year). How soon is until the board gets taken over by the guys who insist that this is “no excuse” and that all the guys on the roster are supposed to be just as good as all the other guys on the roster and blame Boeheim for everything? (Blue Curtain is lurking.)
- On the way home I was listening to the post-game shows and I head a conversation between Mike Lindlsey and a caller named “Gus” who calls a lot of these shows. Nobody in history deserves to be called “Gus“ more than Gus, for whom the glass is always empty and has a hole in it. In the wake of probably our best performance of the season in the face of such adversity, Gus chose to say that, after 40 years of Jim Boeheim, he’s had it. He said that Boeheim has “gotten lazy” and ought to quit. Lindsay never challenged him on this. He never asked what Gus thought Boeheim was being “lazy” about. Instead he used it as an occasion to complain about Boeheim’s “arrogance”, about how he “recruits too many zone players” and that “Mike Hopkins should be head coach by now”. It was the single stupidest conversation I’d ever heard broadcast over the radio. They made Beavis and Butthead seem like Newton and Einstein.
- I don’t like Sunday evening games. For me, Sunday evening is a time to relax after watching exciting, loud sporting events all weekend. I like to tune into 60 Minutes and Masterpiece Theater. I just want to hear people talking in a normal tone for a while. What happened back at Downton Abbey? Did we find out if Mr. Bates killed that guy?
Last edited:
