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BouncyBall 2013/2014

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Classy move by UConn last night. Before the start of the women's game, they honored all the male practice squad players for their contributions this year. Most of the time, competition in practice is harder than competition in games. Not only do they have the women scrimmage against men, many times it is 4 on 6 or 5 on 7 as well. If the women win 2 games out of 10 in practice they are happy with that result.
 
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FreshFish said:
Classy move by UConn last night. Before the start of the women's game, they honored all the male practice squad players for their contributions this year. Most of the time, competition in practice is harder than competition in games. Not only do they have the women scrimmage against men, many times it is 4 on 6 or 5 on 7 as well. If the women win 2 games out of 10 in practice they are happy with that result.
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This is probably a bit about the larger issue that some feminists are raising cane because they believe women should be practicing against women and most of the basketball establishment has said "stuff it, it makes our players better".

Some of these guys are players that could have played DIII or just wanted to keep on playing in school.

That being said, I've always liked Geno.
 
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Patman said:
This is probably a bit about the larger issue that some feminists are raising cane because they believe women should be practicing against women and most of the basketball establishment has said "stuff it, it makes our players better".

Some of these guys are players that could have played DIII or just wanted to keep on playing in school.

That being said, I've always liked Geno.
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Actually, it's about ethics in basketball practice.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Woosh ;)
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ah, thanks. :o


I'm more of the generation for which a "meme" is regarded as a cultural analogue to a gene in that it can self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures, as described by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.

and I still find it difficult to split an infinitive...though I am happy to welcome the neighborhood kids to play on our lawn, at least. ;)
 
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The updated 0-fer for Okafor Sweepstakes:

Knicks 10-43
T-Wolves 11-42
Sixers 12-41
LA Lakers 13-40

And the only team on that list going all in on the tank job is the Sixers.
 
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Patman said:
I've always liked Geno.
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It's been real interesting living in CT the past 14 years. When we first moved here, I was flipping through the channels (a lot fewer back then!) and thought I'd check out CT Public Television. There was a women's college basketball on. Unusual, why is CPTV airing UConn women's basketball? I started to watch and noticed that (a) they were really good, (b) it was a very visually pleasing, aesthetic style of play (if you like back door cuts, open layups, steals and breakaways, etc.), and (c) no matter what the score or who the opponent, they always tried their hardest to play their best (diving for loose balls with a 35-point lead, etc.). So I started watching more.

Geno had a regular television show, even back then (still does) and he offers a very interesting perspective on basketball and on life. he is nothing at all like the puffed-up braggadocio blowhard he is portrayed to be in the national media, he is thoughtful, articulate, a great student of history, he really knows his x and o on a technical level and he is a master at creating coordinated team play (quick multiple passes, successive series of screens, open looks on offense, a great stifling help defense, usually man-to-man, sometimes zone). You can see that when his team is way ahead against an inferior opponent, he'll put in all his substitutes, milk the clock, play zone defense, etc. as ways to keep the score down, yet you still want to see everyone on the team try their hardest all the time so even the subs might outscore the other team's starters. A game with a 35-point win could easily have been a 75-point win if he really had wanted to run up the score.

Several years ago, there actually was a bidding war (!!) over broadcast rights between CPTV and SNY, which was won by the latter. Now they have an even broader audience, and Geno has two shows, one sort of a magazine (a series of shorts, many of them "puff pieces"), the other a very interesting, thoughtful series of interviews with former players ("Geno's Legacy", surprisingly informative).
 
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Speaking of the Timberwolves, Ricky Rubio got burned pretty badly on a James Harden crossover last night.
 
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God the Wolves are atrocious. At home for KG's return and they come out and miss 9 straight FG and have 5 turnovers. Sold out house might as well start leaving now. Intros were the best part of the game apparently.
 
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