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The Game Within The Game

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Just before the season started, I attended a benefit dinner for the Syracuse Boys and Girls Club at Drumlins with the SU basketball team and coaching staff as the featured guests.

Each table was assigned a player, coach or GA to talk SU hoops with during dinner. The people at my table were excited when we found out that we had been assigned to break bread with Dion Waiters.

Dion started out kind of quiet, but opened up when we started talking NFL football. There were a number of NY Giant fans at the table. As you might guess, Dion is an Eagles fan and does not like the Giants at all. Took some glee rubbing in a bad loss the Giants suffered at the hands of the Eagles the season before. He can talk some serious trash.

I asked him with Kemba gone, who the best trash talker was in the Big East. He immediately smiled and asked for clarification. "You mean, other than me, right?". Yes Dion, other than you, who is the best trash talked in the conference.

He rubbed his chin, smiled, thought about it a bit and said, it has to be that
Johnson-Odom
guy from Marquette. He does a pretty good job.

When watching the game, check out the sequences when these two are guarding each other or running down the court with each other. There is sure to be some serious smack being laid down.
 
Just before the season started, I attended a benefit dinner for the Syracuse Boys and Girls Club at Drumlins with the SU basketball team and coaching staff as the featured guests.

Each table was assigned a player, coach or GA to talk SU hoops with during dinner. The people at my table were excited when we found out that we had been assigned to break bread with Dion Waiters.

Dion started out kind of quiet, but opened up when we started talking NFL football. There were a number of NY Giant fans at the table. As you might guess, Dion is an Eagles fan and does not like the Giants at all. Took some glee rubbing in a bad loss the Giants suffered at the hands of the Eagles the season before. He can talk some serious trash.

I asked him with Kemba gone, who the best trash talker was in the Big East. He immediately smiled and asked for clarification. "You mean, other than me, right?". Yes Dion, other than you, who is the best trash talked in the conference.

He rubbed his chin, smiled, thought about it a bit and said, it has to be that
Johnson-Odom
guy from Marquette. He does a pretty good job.

When watching the game, check out the sequences when these two are guarding each other or running down the court with each other. There is sure to be some serious smack being laid down.
I hope Dion gets to do most of it.
LGO!!!
 
Thanks again Tom for inviting me to that shabang. Unfortunatley, I was under-the-weather that night. Those things are always a nice way to get an inside look at the players for the team we all root for.

darius-johnson-odom.jpg

Darius-Odom Johnson

Thanks too for the heads up. I'll have fun in my section letting everyone know to watch that possible trash talking side-show.
 

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