Post by FLHoya on Jul 17, 2006 20:02:19 GMT -5
Wow!
Wowee-wow-wow!
snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02mcontinental.phtml
Was it me or did the Kenner League just have its Duke game?
I'm confident of two things after Sunday's Clyde's-Tombs game:
1. I've found a go-to reason to explain to people who ask why they should go to Kenner League games other than "Eh, it's something to do on a Sunday afternoon when you're bored."
2. The number of people who have to ask that question is far smaller than it's ever been before.
Before...a...CROWD...at McDonough Arena on Sunday afternoon, Clyde's beat the Tombs 102-87. That's right, they cleared 100 points. So everyone who was there, stop by Kim Frank's office this week to pick up your complimentary $10 gift coins to any of the Clyde's group restaurants!
I wrote in the other thread that I've been watching Kenner League games for three summers now, and this was the best played game I've seen in that time. 24 hours later I stand by the statement. Such was the level of play that at halftime the crowd gave the players a standing ovation in the House of the Burnt on the Outside, Frozen on the Inside Hotdogs (that are now ready to pick up, btw). I would have too, but I was worn out from trying to keep track of the scoring...with two people feeding me the play by play when my head was down I was still struggling.
To give you an idea of the quality of play, in the first half the members of the GTown men's basketball team* shot a combined 26-36 (72.2%) from two-point range by my scorecard. [EDIT: I took out the 3-point stat cause I think I messed up the columns on my notepad]
And the teams were playing defense too!
Seriously.
(*Minus Jeremiah Rivers, who I didn't have on my scorecard cause I was "sharing" scorekeeping duties with Steve Alleva, who I'm pretty sure sold 85 YA ticket packages on his way to and from the snack bar.)
Put another way, the teams were scoring 5.18 points a minute with a running clock. You take that over the course of a regulation 40 minute college game, both teams would potentially clear 100 points and Pete Carrill would fly in from Sacramento or wherever he is now just to say "Whaaa Happened?"
With all seven Hoyas on the court to open the game, Jonathan Wallace cleaned the dust out of the nets--we often wonder what Kenner League games would be like if someone just walked over to Rich Chvotkin, handed him a microphone and said "Do your thing, Doc"--with a three pointer from the top of the key.
Thus began 22 intense minutes of basketball. My notes are full of asterisks and exclamation points, let me tell ya. A few highlights of the first half:
--Jeff Green's uber-aggressive play on both ends of the court. Early on he worked some fierce defense against Roy (didn't stop Roy from dunking on him a few times). He handled the ball up court a ton, set picks, took the ball at defenders (once committing a charge), and worked his across the lane drive/mini lean-hook thing (*NOT destined to be the next "throw dribble").
--Roy Hibbert's game high 4 assists in the first half, all conducted from the post position. You marvel at how the kid can improve so vastly over two-plus years of Kenner League games, and then I watched his performance in the first half and was like: "Damn! There's something else he learned how to do!"
We're having this long-ass discussion in another thread about three point shooting and collapsing defenses, etc. Anybody see THIS coming? You think just maybe somebody will get an open shot when teams are forced to double down on Roy next year and he rifles something at Sapp, Wallace, Rivers, Thornton, Crawford, Anthony Perry**?
(**He's due to make one any decade now.)
--Heck, let's devote one to the Green-Hibbert battle. They weren't on each other the entire half (Hibbert covered Macklin a lot on defense), but the notes are filled with items like "JG layup past RH" and "RH dunk over JG" and "JG extremely agg. on RH". The most comical one of the half was when Roy had to push out to the perimeter to guard Jeff on one possession. THEN, he looked kinda like that scared kid from a few summers ago. ;D
---hoyabinx coming up with the phrase "excessive but awesome" to describe Dajuan Summers' play at one point and coining the phrase "air dribble" to describe007's best pickup move something to do with Jon Wallace.
The scoring stabilized a bit in the second half, as both Summers and Macklin got more rest time. Green really explored the studio space in the second stanza, furthering his point guard exploits (I swear he handles the ball more than Rivers and almost Wallace) and executing a turnaround bank shot that was even more impressive than his fallaway from Saturday afternoon. Jessie Sapp stepped it up in the latter minutes with several nice passes (an off the backboard alley oop among them) and a floater in the lane.
In the end, it wasn't a nailbiter like the Bethesda Magic powerplay or whatever from that initial Tombs game. But it was fun as hell to watch and it left everyone in attendance just a little excited about the season to say the least.
AHEAD: Player Evaluations
Wowee-wow-wow!
snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02mcontinental.phtml
Was it me or did the Kenner League just have its Duke game?
I'm confident of two things after Sunday's Clyde's-Tombs game:
1. I've found a go-to reason to explain to people who ask why they should go to Kenner League games other than "Eh, it's something to do on a Sunday afternoon when you're bored."
2. The number of people who have to ask that question is far smaller than it's ever been before.
Before...a...CROWD...at McDonough Arena on Sunday afternoon, Clyde's beat the Tombs 102-87. That's right, they cleared 100 points. So everyone who was there, stop by Kim Frank's office this week to pick up your complimentary $10 gift coins to any of the Clyde's group restaurants!
I wrote in the other thread that I've been watching Kenner League games for three summers now, and this was the best played game I've seen in that time. 24 hours later I stand by the statement. Such was the level of play that at halftime the crowd gave the players a standing ovation in the House of the Burnt on the Outside, Frozen on the Inside Hotdogs (that are now ready to pick up, btw). I would have too, but I was worn out from trying to keep track of the scoring...with two people feeding me the play by play when my head was down I was still struggling.
To give you an idea of the quality of play, in the first half the members of the GTown men's basketball team* shot a combined 26-36 (72.2%) from two-point range by my scorecard. [EDIT: I took out the 3-point stat cause I think I messed up the columns on my notepad]
And the teams were playing defense too!
Seriously.
(*Minus Jeremiah Rivers, who I didn't have on my scorecard cause I was "sharing" scorekeeping duties with Steve Alleva, who I'm pretty sure sold 85 YA ticket packages on his way to and from the snack bar.)
Put another way, the teams were scoring 5.18 points a minute with a running clock. You take that over the course of a regulation 40 minute college game, both teams would potentially clear 100 points and Pete Carrill would fly in from Sacramento or wherever he is now just to say "Whaaa Happened?"
With all seven Hoyas on the court to open the game, Jonathan Wallace cleaned the dust out of the nets--we often wonder what Kenner League games would be like if someone just walked over to Rich Chvotkin, handed him a microphone and said "Do your thing, Doc"--with a three pointer from the top of the key.
Thus began 22 intense minutes of basketball. My notes are full of asterisks and exclamation points, let me tell ya. A few highlights of the first half:
--Jeff Green's uber-aggressive play on both ends of the court. Early on he worked some fierce defense against Roy (didn't stop Roy from dunking on him a few times). He handled the ball up court a ton, set picks, took the ball at defenders (once committing a charge), and worked his across the lane drive/mini lean-hook thing (*NOT destined to be the next "throw dribble").
--Roy Hibbert's game high 4 assists in the first half, all conducted from the post position. You marvel at how the kid can improve so vastly over two-plus years of Kenner League games, and then I watched his performance in the first half and was like: "Damn! There's something else he learned how to do!"
We're having this long-ass discussion in another thread about three point shooting and collapsing defenses, etc. Anybody see THIS coming? You think just maybe somebody will get an open shot when teams are forced to double down on Roy next year and he rifles something at Sapp, Wallace, Rivers, Thornton, Crawford, Anthony Perry**?
(**He's due to make one any decade now.)
--Heck, let's devote one to the Green-Hibbert battle. They weren't on each other the entire half (Hibbert covered Macklin a lot on defense), but the notes are filled with items like "JG layup past RH" and "RH dunk over JG" and "JG extremely agg. on RH". The most comical one of the half was when Roy had to push out to the perimeter to guard Jeff on one possession. THEN, he looked kinda like that scared kid from a few summers ago. ;D
---hoyabinx coming up with the phrase "excessive but awesome" to describe Dajuan Summers' play at one point and coining the phrase "air dribble" to describe
The scoring stabilized a bit in the second half, as both Summers and Macklin got more rest time. Green really explored the studio space in the second stanza, furthering his point guard exploits (I swear he handles the ball more than Rivers and almost Wallace) and executing a turnaround bank shot that was even more impressive than his fallaway from Saturday afternoon. Jessie Sapp stepped it up in the latter minutes with several nice passes (an off the backboard alley oop among them) and a floater in the lane.
In the end, it wasn't a nailbiter like the Bethesda Magic powerplay or whatever from that initial Tombs game. But it was fun as hell to watch and it left everyone in attendance just a little excited about the season to say the least.
AHEAD: Player Evaluations
;D
