vcjack
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Post by vcjack on May 6, 2010 15:40:16 GMT -5
Since the HELL NO! chorus seems unanimous, I want to take this discussion in a different path: why do basketball playing twins always seem to stuck together at the hip? Wasn't their some ridiculousness with the Lopez twins a few years ago that they even wanted to be drafted by the same NBA team?
It's obvious that family tend to stick together, but its my experience with twins that many venture out to find their own life experiences by this point in their lives. My grandmother has an identical twin but they have lived drastically different lives and neither of them I think have any regrets about it. I'm good friends with two people who both have identical twins at schools over a thousand miles away from Georgetown and everyone seems happy with the arrangements.
Maybe for society at large twins don't behave like the examples I've encountered but it just seems strange that these high profile athletes behave so differently.
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chep3
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Post by chep3 on May 6, 2010 16:15:49 GMT -5
Especially when they generally play the same position and are likely to eat into each other's playing time.
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Locker
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Post by Locker on May 6, 2010 17:36:14 GMT -5
I think the Ivan Brothers were also a package deal.
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SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on May 6, 2010 19:19:21 GMT -5
Stanford did pretty well with the Lopez twins, and the Collins twins before them.
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Post by matersammich on May 6, 2010 19:20:15 GMT -5
I'd take 'em. Their dad is the only thing that scares me about getting them in Hoya uniforms.
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hoyarooter
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Post by hoyarooter on May 6, 2010 20:09:54 GMT -5
sky, I'll take at your word that you were more impressed by the Wears than by Kevin Love when you saw them play. Certainly you could have caught Love on a bad day and the Wears on a good day. However, I think a season's worth of work is more indicative of their respective skill levels than a single game. The Wears were scrubs this year for the worst UNC team in a number of years. Love was Pac 10 player of the year as a freshman. The Wears may ultimately prove to be decent players, but they have a long way to go. I think/hope we can do a lot better.
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skyhoya
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Post by skyhoya on May 6, 2010 20:23:29 GMT -5
I think it might be a difference in coaching. I saw Love at the PacTen Tourney his freshman year. He was great. Actually got to talk to him a couple of times. He is very focused. Perhaps all the Hamburgers sucked so bad at UNC this year, some of them were left on the outside. That team just couldn't get it together, it looked like an AAU team that couldn't win any games. Sometimes, no matter how good a coach you are you can't make them play as a team, there is no I in the word team.
Of course III had the same problem with 3 hamburgers trying to play as a team, they were a player or two short of making it happen, no PE2 coming off the bench.
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skyhoya
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Post by skyhoya on May 25, 2010 20:14:49 GMT -5
The Twins have signed at UCLA. Let's see how good they really are.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on May 25, 2010 20:19:52 GMT -5
I love how people we're saying they were going to UCLA weeks ago but then they insisited a decision hadn't been made yet only to sign with UCLA a few weeks later. No point in denying something's true just so you can announce it and make a big deal of it. Kids are such premadona's today.
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