By: Big A

Big A — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:38:32 +0000

Excellent report Tim. Thanks for sharing.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:34:33 +0000

I went to the the open practice on Friday, the drills were nothing interesting but the team scrimmaged for over a half hour. It confirmed some things we already knew, like DJ and EJ are awesome. The starting five for crimson was DJ, EJ, Armon, Lance, and JaMarcus so read whatever you want into that. They pulled out to a big lead before they switched the teams up and the DJ led white team made it closer.

I gathered that there is a quite clear first seven with the starting five and DeAndre and Jordan being the first two subs. Eric looked just amazing, his three pointers are frickin beautiful and he had some drives to the basket where he made it look like he was on an empty court. DJ’s play and especially energy was great, since he will probably take his energy level up a notch in real games, he might be unstoppable. In other good news, Lance hit some threes, Armon played well, and JaMarcus made some great plays.

Crawford looked both great and lost at times during the scrimmage and the matchup between him and Armon was outstanding to watch. My biggest complaint aboout Jordan was that he didn’t appear at all interested in running the offense for his team as the point guard. He often just dribbled around until he threw up a bad shot that missed. Eventually, KS snapped at the Crawford led white team yelling, “No more bull shit shots!” That drew a pretty good round of applause from the crowd.

In curious news, AJ Ratliff was nowhere to be seen. Taber had a brace on his wrist and did little more than shag balls.

On the coaching front, Sampson is pretty loud and active. Ray McCallum and Jeff Meyer are very active as well but much less loud. Senderoff was nowhere to be seen, hopefully he wasn’t off violating any rules. Dakich sat in a chair with his legs crossed the entire practice but had a couple long chats with Eli and than Brandon when they were out of the scrimmage for a while. The coaching staff and other personnel looked like glorified cheerleaders at times, contantly clapping and cheering on the players.

Overall, I was glad I went and pleaded at my own personal restraint when I didn’t chuck my cell phone onto the court. I’m now more excited about the start of the season than ever.

By: Newt

Newt — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:51:34 +0000

Atleast Gene can talk clearly….Lou spits in my face through my TV screen….We all should go into coaching. We can lose and embarass programs with NCAA violations and then get a cush TV job. What a life….

By: jaime gongora

jaime gongora — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:46:18 +0000

You gave me crappy internet service. Fine. You are asking too much in monthly costs.. ok, but now you take away my BTN? Sir you have gone too far. Vive le Direct TV.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:43:30 +0000

I think we all missed the best part of the new BTN basketball team: reigning Big Ten Player of the last 30 years, Tim Doyle.

By: PostmanE

PostmanE — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:17:24 +0000

Comcast also openly throttles large bandwidth, limiting their users’ internet abilities.