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Juice Stand wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:47 pm

Fantastic set of games down in the USVI. Obviously not the greatest competition, but they showed very well with a short bench.

It’s not saying much, but I believe the level of competition is much stronger than it was 4 years ago during the European trip.

Sy Chatman's parents and Tre Mitchell's mother went to the USVI, wouldn't be surprised if other player's families did as well.

https://twitter.com/EVCHATM/status/1164998399982219264
https://twitter.com/TortoriceErin/statu ... 8592220160

^ I wouldn't take significance from anything that happened in the last game.

So this little exchange on Twitter, involving Greg Carvel, helped me realize something. https://twitter.com/CoachCarvelUM/status/1164707302068432896 Here you have Greg Carvel, a wildly successful, respected, and liked UMass athletics head coach, basically eschewing adopting something that Walt Bell ...

Maybe we should just put Walt Bell's daily offering on a monitor for several of our coaches to use. Today: "We're close. It's time to get right. Time doesn't go backwards, you squeeze that toothpaste out of the tube, you can't put it back in. Really it was a message that we have to understand that ...

and outside the fact that RB has fired some good people (non-coaches) and performed some nepotism by bringing in his people (well that and the powder blue Rhode Island colors he always seems to wear) I have no issue with him. If you're going to throw that out there you need to offer specifics to su...

The fan-interaction-via-Twitter skill is ranked about 978427892384682347th on my list of what I'm looking for in a coach. It's called marketing the program to generate fan interest. And when the program sucks, that's a key part of the job. I didn't mention Twitter in my post, but whatever. It's jus...

It's amazing how differently the women are treating their trip than the men. I don't get it. Women have had video highlights of both games they played, have had videos of the fun they are having and things they are doing in Portugal, and have had numerous pictures all over social media. I'm not 100...

^ Play to your strengths, use the advantages you have. Through TB, UMass has a great connection at one of the best prep programs in the country. As far as I can tell, UMass has yet to recruit what I think qualifies as a sub-par played from the Woodstock program. The only travesty would be passing on...

If KTM isn't able to get back close to 100% by next year it will force Sy back to playing the 5. MM said KTM was on track to possibly graduate at the end of this year, and then reading between the lines I think he'll probably transfer out. I think there's also the possibility that Keon will grad tr...

Thanks for posting. Okay. Buggs gettin a knee scope was the only injury mentioned, right? What about KTM? This matters. He isn't a big factor himself but it matters as to how many big guys we have and how they rotate. okay, we have games next week. Is anyone else paying attention? Let's chat it up....

DoctorJ wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 10, 2019 3:43 pm

East was playing off the ball a lot at Combine Academy.

I don’t recall seeing him play off the ball in the 5+ games of his at Combine Academy that I watched.

^ Am I missing something?

^ They may be purposely trying to keep further details of the trip under wraps... or perhaps they're waiting until everything is finalized. I believe sometimes on these foreign trips all of the opponents aren't finalized until the last minute.

69MG wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:45 am

I apologize to the board for creating this shitstorm. I forgot how easy it is to do this in the off-season, however unintentional it may be.

You have nothing to apologize for.