Post by FLHoya on Jul 1, 2007 20:28:37 GMT -5
MOUTON!!!!!
The newest edition to the Kenner League atmosphere this summer is the medley of old school songs that play during team warmups. Today was a day to get reacquainted with old favorites at McDonough--like Electro-Lite's Screamy McScreamerson of a coach, that dude from Tenacious D who coaches Myers & Alterman, those Mason fans still proudly sporting the 2006 Final Four t-shirts (I should talk, I wore the 2007 version today), those Mason dudes still piling up the points in the paint for M&A, frozen hotdogs, atrocious uniforms, charging violations, at least one NBA player giving all 33% out there on the court...
...and ladies and gentlemen, once again, Mr. Byron Mouton.
Before we get started on this Kenner League season a few standard disclaimers:
1. I tend to keep stats for Georgetown players only.
2. I pay attention to other players but don't normally write anything down...so if you're looking for a lot of good info specifically on the Mason guys or the George Washington guys you're gonna get better stuff from their fans. I can usually back up or disagree with their comments though if anyone has questions.
3. My knowledge of recruits can be described roughly as such: I know who Austin Freeman is, I know what he looks like, what position he plays, etc...but I've never watched a video of him, never seen him play before today, and I don't generally read recap articles on recruiting websites. Just to point out where I'm coming from when I write about the new guys...something of a blank slate.
4. Anything you want to know more about just ask, I throw these things together on the fly and will often miss stuff.
Okay then:
SLAINOLOC (Frost Riptide Rush) 100, MYERS AND ALTERMAN (Frost Glacier Freeze) 95
First off, the uniforms in Kenner League being laughably hideous, I've decided to give everyone who can't make it a visual reference point by putting in parentheses next to each team name the flavor of Gatorade that most closely corresponds to their respective jerseys.
Also, I'm allowed to make the backwards joke because I have an A.M. from WG.
The first game lost most of its interest for the GTown contingent as soon as Dajuan Summers was seen in street clothes a few minutes before the end of the fourth countdown to gametime (it's the Kenner League people.) Tyler Crawford did see action for Riptide Rush, but I didn't even notice him until 5 minutes into the game, as the Colonials suited up 14 different players--if anyone was planning a March on/Invasion of Georgetown over there in Foggy Bottom, this wouldn't be a terrible invasion force.
The one stat that stands out for me from this game is that there were, by my count, 52 fouls called in a 40 minute game with a running clock. That's roughly one foul every 46 seconds. That the game had a final score of 100-95 had virtually nothing to do with quality offensive play, unless free throws count.
A few notes on the rosters from what I caught...
COL: Tyler Crawford, Jabari Edwards (GW), Will Thomas (GMU), Ricky Lucas (Stony Brook), Mike Hall (GW/Wizards), Bo Taylor (Hartford), Xavier Alexander (GW), Mike Beaty (sp? GW), and Gus Gilchrist (almost-but-not-quite VT)
M&A: Sean Singletary (UVA), Jordan Gibson (Yale), Louis Birdsong, Isaiah Tate, Folarin Campbell, Vlad Moldoveanu (all GMU), and a dude from Delaware I think whose name I didn't catch.
A few guys made an impression on me during the game. The two big Mason guys performed very well. Folarin Campell had a boatload of points and was nailing some impressive shots from outside. Will Thomas dominated play in the early second half and probably ended up near 20 points on the day. Sean Singletary is lightning quick but has a tendency to get about three steps ahead of himself and today had a bit of selfish streak. Mike Hall pouts a lot.
The performance I'll take away from this game however was Gus Gilchrist. He showed quite a versatile skill set this afternoon--excellent moves in the post and on the floor (he faked a defender off of his feet on one occasion). Scored in a variety of ways--couple follow dunks, pullup jumpers from the baseline, layup on a fastbreak when he ran the floor well, a face up jumper from about 7-8 feet. He's got a good combination of size and athleticism that's gonna allow him to do a number of things on the court--there's not gonna be a need to fill out like Biggie McLain could use--and I think his offensive repertoire is well on its way. I came away very impressed with the kid.
As for our guy:
Tyler Crawford: 11 pts, 4-5 from two, 1-3 from three, 6 rebounds, 4 fouls
Tyler entered the game with 8:12 remaining in the first half. It's hard to pin down his role on the team--he seemed to be playing the two guard position, but at the same time not really handling the ball much or shooting from any range beyond putbacks for most of the game.
I'm not sure what to think of Tyler being on a team that has 14 players and gives pretty much all of them minutes. I thought Tyler was in a great situation last season in Kenner that afforded him a lot of opportunites to work on his ballhandling and shooting in game situations. This year, I'm afraid he'll end up buried on a team that ought to by its rightful purpose be giving run to the incoming GW players on the roster.
Probably three of Tyler's fouls were in transition, reaching in to stop a guy from going to the rim or things of that sort.
Most of Tyler's production came of the offensive glass--three putbacks that I counted. His final basket was actually the first to come off of the dribble.
Something of an incomplete today for Tyler.
Other players in attendance at McDonough today included Jeff Green, Vernon Macklin, and Chris Wright.
CLYDES (Extremo Tropical Intenso) 84, ELECTRO LITE (Extremo Citrico Vibrante) 71
What the hell is with Gatorade flavors these days?
The second game promised the potential of six GTown players including two newcomers in action, but ultimately only two suited up--Patrick Ewing Jr. and Austin Freemen for Clyde's (Jeremiah Rivers and Omar Wattad were not there--aren't they counseloring/participating in other camps right now?; Tyler Crawford and Jessie Sapp are listed for Electro-lite but TC played in Game 1 and I didnt see Jessie).
This game was about as sloppy as the previous contest, but mercifully it featured fewer fouls.
Besides the GTown folk, the Clyde's roster includes Greg Peterson from (UDC), Anthony McClain (Cincy), Lorenzo Miles (Niagra) and some guys I didn't catch. Electro-Lite has Adrian Bowie (UMD), Jordan Nichols (AU), Byron Mouton and a BUNCH of guys I didn't catch.
The game was relatively close for the majority of the proceedings, Clyde's consistently holding a 6-8 point lead including a 35-29 halftime edge. The big run came with about 5 minutes to go, as Clyde's ran off about a 12-13 point spurt in 2 minutes or so that must have included at least three consecutive made three pointers.
I think there was decent material from which to make some observations about the Georgetown players.
Patrick Ewing, Jr.: 19 points, 4-7 from two, 2-3 from three, 4-8 FT, 6 RBs, 3A, 3BL, 2TO, 2F
We're not exactly breaking new ground here with Patrick. He was flying all over the court--whether this was necessarily the most advisable move or not--throughout the game. We could've kept stats on how many times he grabbed and held onto the rim on attempted blocks and rebounds. The most electifying moment of the day was when Ewing stormed down the lane on the opening possession of the second half and tried to follow-jam Austin Freeman's lineup attempt, only to have the ball miss and fly about seven feet into the air and almost go in the basket on its return to earth.
He opened his scoring in emphatic fashion, throwing down a sick one-handed jam as the trailer in a 3-on-2 fast break. He displayed a bit of variety, going glass from the baseline and hitting two threes (though in fairness not the type of pullups you'd be likely to see in our offensive system in the regular season)
Interestingly, he got some decent run as a ballhandler, not precisely a point-forward role, rather a "well shucks, you're holding the ball, I guess you're the point guard" summer league sort of thing. His assists didn't really come from this role--rather, he had two nice dump-offs after drawing defenders on the baseline. The second of these was a particularly nice sequence for the Georgetown fan--Austin Freeman knifed down the lane on the dribble, fed Ewing, who up faked his defender then laid off to Anthony McClain, who posterized some poor fellow.
His final basket also provided a near-highlight, as he took a feed of the backboard but encountered too much resistence to jam it home, instead tossing a bank shot in.
Good active game for Pat--one advantage he and Austin have right now is they are getting plenty of run--probably 32-35 minutes today for each--and playing with each other on the floor. Didn't translate into a lot of Hoya-to-Hoya action today, but a good situation for the future.
Austin Freeman: 19 points, 6-8 from two, 1-4 from three, 4-6 FT, 1RB, 1TO, 2F
The first thing we gotta talk about is how tall this dude supposedly is. He's listed in his Rivals profile as 6'3'' 185. Patrick Ewing is listed on the Yahoo! roster as 6'8''. Somebody's lying. They stood next to each other several times today and the difference in height seemed to be around two inches unless I'm blind. Also, if I'm 180 (and my bathroom scale tells me so) Austin is NOT 185. He definitely weighs more.
The one thing I'll take away from today regarding Austin was that I was impressed with his assertiveness going to the rim. He took on 3 defenders on a few occasions, alternately making shots or getting fouled, but he went with the same intensity each time. He's nowhere near as fleet of foot as somebody like Sean Singletary for instance, but he's a different kind of force to be reckoned with given his size. And he CAN finish at the rim which is always crucial.
Austin had a killer sequence in the second half that included two of those drives through three defenders (one layup, one trip to the line), a skillfull completion of a tough layup on a fast break, and a teardrop floater that banked home. Good stuff all around.
He ended his afternoon with a pull up 3 pointer, squaring what had been his one weakness up to that point in the game.
Neither Pat or Austin played a big role in the decisive scoring run that gave Clyde's their comfortable cushion at the end of the game, though they were on the court. Sadly we were deprived of much of our entertainment for the end of the afternoon, as Screamy McScreamerson had long since given up and stopped Screamy McScreaming.
EXCEPT...that a new Kenner League tradition was born this afternoon, which explains the 32 point type at the start of this recap. Byron Mouton is a character on the court, and this character includes being overly intense in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way--I'll throw down an and-1 and taunt you, but I can't keep a straight face while doing so.
During the second half, every time Mouton would go in for a layup or dunk people would yell "MOUTON" (or its variant "MOUTON SMASH"). By the end of the game about a dozen people were doing it. Fittingly, with the game well in hand, Mouton got the ball uncontested in the final seconds and went in for the windmill dunk...
MOUTON!!!!!
And lost it going up.
To his credit, he laughed it off and played to the crowd with a smile that seemed to say, in true old-school fashion:
"Thank You (Fallettin Me Be Mice Elf Again)"
Sly and the Family Stone couldn't have said it any better.
The newest edition to the Kenner League atmosphere this summer is the medley of old school songs that play during team warmups. Today was a day to get reacquainted with old favorites at McDonough--like Electro-Lite's Screamy McScreamerson of a coach, that dude from Tenacious D who coaches Myers & Alterman, those Mason fans still proudly sporting the 2006 Final Four t-shirts (I should talk, I wore the 2007 version today), those Mason dudes still piling up the points in the paint for M&A, frozen hotdogs, atrocious uniforms, charging violations, at least one NBA player giving all 33% out there on the court...
...and ladies and gentlemen, once again, Mr. Byron Mouton.
Before we get started on this Kenner League season a few standard disclaimers:
1. I tend to keep stats for Georgetown players only.
2. I pay attention to other players but don't normally write anything down...so if you're looking for a lot of good info specifically on the Mason guys or the George Washington guys you're gonna get better stuff from their fans. I can usually back up or disagree with their comments though if anyone has questions.
3. My knowledge of recruits can be described roughly as such: I know who Austin Freeman is, I know what he looks like, what position he plays, etc...but I've never watched a video of him, never seen him play before today, and I don't generally read recap articles on recruiting websites. Just to point out where I'm coming from when I write about the new guys...something of a blank slate.
4. Anything you want to know more about just ask, I throw these things together on the fly and will often miss stuff.
Okay then:
SLAINOLOC (Frost Riptide Rush) 100, MYERS AND ALTERMAN (Frost Glacier Freeze) 95
First off, the uniforms in Kenner League being laughably hideous, I've decided to give everyone who can't make it a visual reference point by putting in parentheses next to each team name the flavor of Gatorade that most closely corresponds to their respective jerseys.
Also, I'm allowed to make the backwards joke because I have an A.M. from WG.
The first game lost most of its interest for the GTown contingent as soon as Dajuan Summers was seen in street clothes a few minutes before the end of the fourth countdown to gametime (it's the Kenner League people.) Tyler Crawford did see action for Riptide Rush, but I didn't even notice him until 5 minutes into the game, as the Colonials suited up 14 different players--if anyone was planning a March on/Invasion of Georgetown over there in Foggy Bottom, this wouldn't be a terrible invasion force.
The one stat that stands out for me from this game is that there were, by my count, 52 fouls called in a 40 minute game with a running clock. That's roughly one foul every 46 seconds. That the game had a final score of 100-95 had virtually nothing to do with quality offensive play, unless free throws count.
A few notes on the rosters from what I caught...
COL: Tyler Crawford, Jabari Edwards (GW), Will Thomas (GMU), Ricky Lucas (Stony Brook), Mike Hall (GW/Wizards), Bo Taylor (Hartford), Xavier Alexander (GW), Mike Beaty (sp? GW), and Gus Gilchrist (almost-but-not-quite VT)
M&A: Sean Singletary (UVA), Jordan Gibson (Yale), Louis Birdsong, Isaiah Tate, Folarin Campbell, Vlad Moldoveanu (all GMU), and a dude from Delaware I think whose name I didn't catch.
A few guys made an impression on me during the game. The two big Mason guys performed very well. Folarin Campell had a boatload of points and was nailing some impressive shots from outside. Will Thomas dominated play in the early second half and probably ended up near 20 points on the day. Sean Singletary is lightning quick but has a tendency to get about three steps ahead of himself and today had a bit of selfish streak. Mike Hall pouts a lot.
The performance I'll take away from this game however was Gus Gilchrist. He showed quite a versatile skill set this afternoon--excellent moves in the post and on the floor (he faked a defender off of his feet on one occasion). Scored in a variety of ways--couple follow dunks, pullup jumpers from the baseline, layup on a fastbreak when he ran the floor well, a face up jumper from about 7-8 feet. He's got a good combination of size and athleticism that's gonna allow him to do a number of things on the court--there's not gonna be a need to fill out like Biggie McLain could use--and I think his offensive repertoire is well on its way. I came away very impressed with the kid.
As for our guy:
Tyler Crawford: 11 pts, 4-5 from two, 1-3 from three, 6 rebounds, 4 fouls
Tyler entered the game with 8:12 remaining in the first half. It's hard to pin down his role on the team--he seemed to be playing the two guard position, but at the same time not really handling the ball much or shooting from any range beyond putbacks for most of the game.
I'm not sure what to think of Tyler being on a team that has 14 players and gives pretty much all of them minutes. I thought Tyler was in a great situation last season in Kenner that afforded him a lot of opportunites to work on his ballhandling and shooting in game situations. This year, I'm afraid he'll end up buried on a team that ought to by its rightful purpose be giving run to the incoming GW players on the roster.
Probably three of Tyler's fouls were in transition, reaching in to stop a guy from going to the rim or things of that sort.
Most of Tyler's production came of the offensive glass--three putbacks that I counted. His final basket was actually the first to come off of the dribble.
Something of an incomplete today for Tyler.
Other players in attendance at McDonough today included Jeff Green, Vernon Macklin, and Chris Wright.
CLYDES (Extremo Tropical Intenso) 84, ELECTRO LITE (Extremo Citrico Vibrante) 71
What the hell is with Gatorade flavors these days?
The second game promised the potential of six GTown players including two newcomers in action, but ultimately only two suited up--Patrick Ewing Jr. and Austin Freemen for Clyde's (Jeremiah Rivers and Omar Wattad were not there--aren't they counseloring/participating in other camps right now?; Tyler Crawford and Jessie Sapp are listed for Electro-lite but TC played in Game 1 and I didnt see Jessie).
This game was about as sloppy as the previous contest, but mercifully it featured fewer fouls.
Besides the GTown folk, the Clyde's roster includes Greg Peterson from (UDC), Anthony McClain (Cincy), Lorenzo Miles (Niagra) and some guys I didn't catch. Electro-Lite has Adrian Bowie (UMD), Jordan Nichols (AU), Byron Mouton and a BUNCH of guys I didn't catch.
The game was relatively close for the majority of the proceedings, Clyde's consistently holding a 6-8 point lead including a 35-29 halftime edge. The big run came with about 5 minutes to go, as Clyde's ran off about a 12-13 point spurt in 2 minutes or so that must have included at least three consecutive made three pointers.
I think there was decent material from which to make some observations about the Georgetown players.
Patrick Ewing, Jr.: 19 points, 4-7 from two, 2-3 from three, 4-8 FT, 6 RBs, 3A, 3BL, 2TO, 2F
We're not exactly breaking new ground here with Patrick. He was flying all over the court--whether this was necessarily the most advisable move or not--throughout the game. We could've kept stats on how many times he grabbed and held onto the rim on attempted blocks and rebounds. The most electifying moment of the day was when Ewing stormed down the lane on the opening possession of the second half and tried to follow-jam Austin Freeman's lineup attempt, only to have the ball miss and fly about seven feet into the air and almost go in the basket on its return to earth.
He opened his scoring in emphatic fashion, throwing down a sick one-handed jam as the trailer in a 3-on-2 fast break. He displayed a bit of variety, going glass from the baseline and hitting two threes (though in fairness not the type of pullups you'd be likely to see in our offensive system in the regular season)
Interestingly, he got some decent run as a ballhandler, not precisely a point-forward role, rather a "well shucks, you're holding the ball, I guess you're the point guard" summer league sort of thing. His assists didn't really come from this role--rather, he had two nice dump-offs after drawing defenders on the baseline. The second of these was a particularly nice sequence for the Georgetown fan--Austin Freeman knifed down the lane on the dribble, fed Ewing, who up faked his defender then laid off to Anthony McClain, who posterized some poor fellow.
His final basket also provided a near-highlight, as he took a feed of the backboard but encountered too much resistence to jam it home, instead tossing a bank shot in.
Good active game for Pat--one advantage he and Austin have right now is they are getting plenty of run--probably 32-35 minutes today for each--and playing with each other on the floor. Didn't translate into a lot of Hoya-to-Hoya action today, but a good situation for the future.
Austin Freeman: 19 points, 6-8 from two, 1-4 from three, 4-6 FT, 1RB, 1TO, 2F
The first thing we gotta talk about is how tall this dude supposedly is. He's listed in his Rivals profile as 6'3'' 185. Patrick Ewing is listed on the Yahoo! roster as 6'8''. Somebody's lying. They stood next to each other several times today and the difference in height seemed to be around two inches unless I'm blind. Also, if I'm 180 (and my bathroom scale tells me so) Austin is NOT 185. He definitely weighs more.
The one thing I'll take away from today regarding Austin was that I was impressed with his assertiveness going to the rim. He took on 3 defenders on a few occasions, alternately making shots or getting fouled, but he went with the same intensity each time. He's nowhere near as fleet of foot as somebody like Sean Singletary for instance, but he's a different kind of force to be reckoned with given his size. And he CAN finish at the rim which is always crucial.
Austin had a killer sequence in the second half that included two of those drives through three defenders (one layup, one trip to the line), a skillfull completion of a tough layup on a fast break, and a teardrop floater that banked home. Good stuff all around.
He ended his afternoon with a pull up 3 pointer, squaring what had been his one weakness up to that point in the game.
Neither Pat or Austin played a big role in the decisive scoring run that gave Clyde's their comfortable cushion at the end of the game, though they were on the court. Sadly we were deprived of much of our entertainment for the end of the afternoon, as Screamy McScreamerson had long since given up and stopped Screamy McScreaming.
EXCEPT...that a new Kenner League tradition was born this afternoon, which explains the 32 point type at the start of this recap. Byron Mouton is a character on the court, and this character includes being overly intense in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way--I'll throw down an and-1 and taunt you, but I can't keep a straight face while doing so.
During the second half, every time Mouton would go in for a layup or dunk people would yell "MOUTON" (or its variant "MOUTON SMASH"). By the end of the game about a dozen people were doing it. Fittingly, with the game well in hand, Mouton got the ball uncontested in the final seconds and went in for the windmill dunk...
MOUTON!!!!!
And lost it going up.
To his credit, he laughed it off and played to the crowd with a smile that seemed to say, in true old-school fashion:
"Thank You (Fallettin Me Be Mice Elf Again)"
Sly and the Family Stone couldn't have said it any better.