Devil4Life33

SOme have mentioned Jim Carey movies and I am right there with you guys. There are a few exceptions, mainly Me, Myself and Irene, that is my favorite of his movies. Maybe my least favorite is Bruce Almighty.

The wait is almost over! I cannot wait until Sunday night to get this season underway. Any speculation on which one of the series originals will die? Pretty sure it is someone still alive in the book and someone who filmed their scenes in Ireland. That would include, Castle Black, Winterfell and the Vail (or whatever the place Littlefinger and Sansa are at is called), I believe.

It says you have a much better memory than I do!

Azrael was the one I was thinking of.

I knew he was a significant angel, just not sure on what his role was. It's not good when all of my biblical knowledge comes from the movie Dogma

I find it interesting that the preacher's name is Gabrielle. I'm not an expert on the bible, but isn't that the name of one of the fallen angels that accompanied Lucifer? Or did I just make that up?

I had heard quite a few weeks ago that he got a job on another show getting ready to start up. Don't remember what the show was though

I love this point here. I only saw WVU play a couple games before the tournament, but in 1 game I watched in the Big 12 tournament it didn't look like they had any shooters outside of the guy who made all the free throws at the end last night. Can't remember his name. Just like UC, great defense is awesome and wins games, but if you can't score against this Kentucky team good luck knocking them off.

I felt differently about those comments. I don't see that as a legitimate reason NOT to fight it. There is always a first time for everything and the kids deserve to be fought for. Who knows, they could win and set precedent for future cases like this.

I understand what you are saying, I guess I just took it as that it makes a tremendous difference in the game itself, I didn't draw a connection to CC or their players. Maybe the original poster can elaborate

I didn't see anything in that post that suggested that CC didn't have smart players. I didn't even see CC mentioned in the post.:idunno:

I lost a lot of respect for Bill Walton during the Kemba Walker/Brandon Knight draft coverage. He had nothing but good things to say about Kemba, who admittedly never read a book throughout his entire college career and made remarks about Brandon Knight that suggested he was only as UK for basketball and didn't go to classes the second semester. I thought that was terrible because if I remember correctly, Knight came into college as an above 4.0 student who already had a number of college credits and was almost a sophomore academically before starting classes in the fall of his freshman year. It just seemed like very unfair criticism and backwards thinking. I can't remember exactly what he said, I'll have to go back and check twitter if it will go back that far. Anyone else remember this?

8 games in 1 day?

Passing out of the post & re-posting is a skill not many high school kids do well. I believe the easier alternative is to turn and shoot no matter what the defense dictates. Also, this works both ways, you have to have the guards that are willing to re enter the ball. The post up game in high school and college seems to have diminished as a primary weapon. Its a pick & pop or pick & roll world these days. I completely agree with what you're saying and getting deeper post position may not even have been an option against the zone, but when the ball gets to the free throw line against any zone the players should be looking weakside for the open man IMO. I don't think any of their players outside of #15 even had that thought creep into their minds. Just from what I saw, if the ball hit the paint it was going up no matter what was in front of them.

It seemed like almost every player that was pulled out of the game for them against Dixie on Monday night was "pouting" as well. I thought the same thing, this is a game where you are fighting for your life, there is no time for selfishness. I may catch heat for saying this, but I also thought Holmes "bigs" were very selfish in the last 2 games. With the exception of #15 , every time the ball went into the post it was shot. I thought that several shots were forced up over much bigger defenders when they could've been kicked out for an open shot or to get deeper post position. I understand that when the ball entered the paint it was 5-7 feet from the basket, but at some point I would think that going strong against a defender who is much taller than you and who has stopped you several times before would not be the best option for you.

Maybe that's not the right description, but I saw some posts in the game thread about that call and there were plenty of people in the stands who didn't agree with the call. That call in particular was being talked about long after that game had ended. Being there for all 3 sessions so far, that was the most disputed call of the tournament to this point.

There are 2 out of the 6 that have probably made 75% of all the calls so far in the 6 games that have been played and then one of the other 4 caught some fire for the call he made on Saturday that almost sent Cov Cath home, but other than that I don't think they have been bad. I think they were pretty consistent last night in the late game.

I'm not disagreeing with you on this at all and wasn't trying to talk up Tony B's talent as a basketball player. I am saying his leadership was the key. The next year they brought in a kid that was arguably more talented than him to replace him in the starting lineup but couldn't match their success from the previous season (not at the All-A or the Region). I think back to more recently when Newport won the region beating a stacked Holmes team who was primed for a repeat. The Collins kid was not their best player and was probably 3-4 option at best, but without his leadership and coaching on the floor there was no chance of that team making the run that they did. Everyone can look back and say that undoubtedly Demarco Foster was their best player and engine, if you will, but without Collins that team falls apart IMO. I am just asking the question, did New Cath have that guy the past few years? I don't really know the answer, but from watching them several times I am not sure that they did. Yes, this group of seniors was extremely talented and by all accounts a very hard working group, but when they got down early Friday night I didn't see anyone on the court that pulled them together to regroup them or who had the "refuse to lose" type mentality that I think all teams need to make a deep run in the post season.

Is that 3 seconds or 30 seconds? If 3, then I believe that is exactly what they were trying to do.

I must've been pretty close to you then, because she was a few rows in front of us.

Without question

I know Ronny was a HUGE part of that team that won Region his junior year, but IMO Tony Bagicalupo (however you spell it) was the key to success. The next year they returned 4 of 5 starters and had a nice player transfer in from Grant Co to replace Tony B and couldn't get it done without him. He was a great leader and like another coach on the floor. I don't claim to be an expert on New Cath basketball, but is that what this group of Seniors was missing? Perhaps they just haven't had that guy to rally them when they needed it most these past 3-4 years?

They cut down the nets at 2 separate locations for 2 separate tournaments. I will say that is very much a successful season, although disappointing, it has to be regarded as successful in my opinion.

I saw Ronnie drop 54 in an All A Classic game in Dayton, it was against Beechwood I believe. It was our senior year 2001 and we were getting ready to play after them. He was puling from one step past half court. Most I've ever seen in person.