It was a longshot anyway
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Find a tall athletic soccer player in the JUCOS
One that loves the game of basketball, in short wouldn't another Vroman be nice to find? There IS one out there every CYCLONEFANATIC look at your jucos in your part of the world and report your findings.
One that loves the game of basketball, in short wouldn't another Vroman be nice to find? There IS one out there every CYCLONEFANATIC look at your jucos in your part of the world and report your findings.
I'm with you here. Seeing Cato this weekend really made me miss having a complete BA down low.
Because we're looking to add a player to the 2008-2009 team, and Jiri will not be here. Appleton would certainly make us a better team. However, I think we're better off with a crop of Petersen, Garrett, Buckley, Staiger, Haluska, and Lee than we are with Thompson, Brackins, and Cory Johnson. It's just a matter of depth and where we could most use another body.
I don't think you will be saying that next season. We will at least have some experience with Peterson and Garrett. We also already have a point guard coming in.
We will have Thompson and Brackins as our post guys next year. You are telling me you are comfortable with that? Hamilton isn't expected to contribute and Mann is 6'7". Jiri will be missed and many of you are underestimating how important he is.
the other one could be chris babb... as 6'5" guard from oakridge
the big could be maybe Greg Willis, listed 6'10"... really no info one rivals about him, but could be the guy
I agree, but Buckley will be coming in with a better frame than Diante did. Still believe we need another big for next season. We'll be guard deep with Garrett, Staiger, Peterson, Buckley, Eichmeyer, Haluska, Boozer, and Lee. Wish some of the weaker players weren't given scholarships to free them up for more forwards. Team already seems a little light on the bigs side. Does anyone know if Mac plans to remove any scholarships given to the walkons?
We will have six options at PG next year. We only have 2 options at center. That tells me that we need a big worse than a PG.
Since Jiri hasn't been worthless this year, I guess that means we need a big more than a guard.
Very true. How about, we have two guys who CAN play center, and right now really only one guy who can play defense at the center.
This comment gave me a mental image of a game with no guards-just "worthless" bigs standing under the hoop hacking themselves on the arm...then arguing with the Refs about the calls.
Balance is the Key
Winning teams have a stud on the perimeter AND one in the paint. How much better was ISU with the Tinsley/Fizer combo vs. Tinsley/Shirley?
The staff obviously feels there is a bigger need for PG, but I agree with most posters that our front court scares me next season. Brackins has potential- but hasn't proven he can be a quality Big 12 starter. Thompson is a 4th year junior & I'd be surprised if he has another level. C. Johnson works hard, he's just undersized against Big 12 post players.
The only way I'd say we're OK in the post is if Wesley can put on 20lbs. & plays the 4 next year (which I don't see).
We don't need a post player that the guards needs to get the ball to. We need a post player who can rebound, bang and play physical defense. WE NEED A REGGIE EVANS!
Winning teams have a stud on the perimeter AND one in the paint. How much better was ISU with the Tinsley/Fizer combo vs. Tinsley/Shirley?
The staff obviously feels there is a bigger need for PG, but I agree with most posters that our front court scares me next season. Brackins has potential- but hasn't proven he can be a quality Big 12 starter. Thompson is a 4th year junior & I'd be surprised if he has another level. C. Johnson works hard, he's just undersized against Big 12 post players.
The only way I'd say we're OK in the post is if Wesley can put on 20lbs. & plays the 4 next year (which I don't see).
We don't need a post player that the guards needs to get the ball to. We need a post player who can rebound, bang and play physical defense. WE NEED A REGGIE EVANS!
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Ivan's the man!!! He can play all 5 positions!
Good Lord! What a giant ego
By MIKE ULMER -- Toronto Sun
Chiriaev talks a big game
OAKVILLE -- "This," the principal of St. Thomas Aquinas High School reminded the unwashed media, "is a Catholic high school and as such we would expect the appropriate decorum."
Colin McGillicuddy was right. God is everywhere. He was at St. Thomas Aquinas yesterday in the form of a 7-foot-1 basketball player named Ivan Chiriaev. Just ask him.
"The NBA wants Ivan Chiriaev," Ivan Chiriaev said yesterday. "The NBA needs Ivan Chiriaev," added Ivan Chiriaev, who was there to announce Ivan Chiriaev was declaring Ivan Chiriaev eligible for the NBA draft in June.
Just why the NBA needs a 19-year-old-kid who knocked down a measly 16 points a night playing high school ball in Oakville (which no one has yet confused with the scene for Hoosiers II) is anyone's guess but one thing is sure: Ivan Chiriaev is NBA ready. He sounds like a jerk already.
In case you missed it -- perhaps you were mired in the boring details of your inconsequential lives -- a 7-foot-1 basketball player left St. Petersburg in Russia for Oakville in December 2002.
Since then, by virtue of a genetic wild card based in his pituitary, he has become a fashionable, albeit wildly speculative, choice to go in the first two rounds of the NBA draft.
By announcing for the draft, he may have closed the door to any potential scholarship. Ivan, pronounced Eee-van, said he had narrowed his choice of universities to a tidy five: Florida, LSU, Memphis, Syracuse and Iowa State. The winner, he said, would have been Iowa State, because it had the foresight to promise him he could play all five positions. "They were rebuilding for me and I could have made them one of the top 10 in the country," he said.
But the lure of NBA greatness, not to mention millions, was too great.
"I was told I had a great chance to go in the top five," he said, and again, who are we to argue with a deity. "If not the top five, then a lottery pick."
Among the other caveats:
"I will be the leader of the World team at the Hoops Summit," a USA basketball event that pits the world's best against the top U.S. high school players in an under-20 exhibition game. Not a player, mind you, a leader. "America and the world will get to see me play," he said, which will explain why all fighting across the world will cease April 4. Just thought you'd like to know.
If he does say so himself Ivan Chiriaev has a great work ethic. "That's what will make me an NBA all-star," he said.
Chiriaev said he can play point guard, but his chosen NBA position probably will be shooting guard. He stated this in the event some wayward NBA coach did not know which was the proper place to play him.
As a Catholic and, therefore, nuanced to the kind of decorum Colin McGillicuddy values so highly, it falls to me to, gently, point out a couple differences between Jesus, the deity under whose roof this news conference was called, and Ivan Chiriaev, who it appears merely thinks he's God.
THINKS HE'S GOD
First, Jesus was humble. He was a pacifist. He did not, as Chiriaev did, get himself suspended for 10 days for a fight with another student.
Second, Jesus spoke to everyone, tax collectors, prostitutes, assorted rounders. Ivan Chiriaev, through the helpful Colin McGillicuddy, informed one and all he would answer one, and only one question from newspaper reporters. Television guys were granted one-on-one interviews.
I didn't mind. Like many, I have often toyed with the question, if you could ask God only one question, what would it be?
I heard Ivan the Russian was working on a ranch in Texas. Coach Mac is going to get him to try to come and sign with us again.
Can you say Scott Bakula in Necessary Roughness?
Ivan's the man!!! He can play all 5 positions!
Good Lord! What a giant ego
By MIKE ULMER -- Toronto Sun
Chiriaev talks a big game
OAKVILLE -- "This," the principal of St. Thomas Aquinas High School reminded the unwashed media, "is a Catholic high school and as such we would expect the appropriate decorum."
Colin McGillicuddy was right. God is everywhere. He was at St. Thomas Aquinas yesterday in the form of a 7-foot-1 basketball player named Ivan Chiriaev. Just ask him.
"The NBA wants Ivan Chiriaev," Ivan Chiriaev said yesterday. "The NBA needs Ivan Chiriaev," added Ivan Chiriaev, who was there to announce Ivan Chiriaev was declaring Ivan Chiriaev eligible for the NBA draft in June.
Just why the NBA needs a 19-year-old-kid who knocked down a measly 16 points a night playing high school ball in Oakville (which no one has yet confused with the scene for Hoosiers II) is anyone's guess but one thing is sure: Ivan Chiriaev is NBA ready. He sounds like a jerk already.
In case you missed it -- perhaps you were mired in the boring details of your inconsequential lives -- a 7-foot-1 basketball player left St. Petersburg in Russia for Oakville in December 2002.
Since then, by virtue of a genetic wild card based in his pituitary, he has become a fashionable, albeit wildly speculative, choice to go in the first two rounds of the NBA draft.
By announcing for the draft, he may have closed the door to any potential scholarship. Ivan, pronounced Eee-van, said he had narrowed his choice of universities to a tidy five: Florida, LSU, Memphis, Syracuse and Iowa State. The winner, he said, would have been Iowa State, because it had the foresight to promise him he could play all five positions. "They were rebuilding for me and I could have made them one of the top 10 in the country," he said.
But the lure of NBA greatness, not to mention millions, was too great.
"I was told I had a great chance to go in the top five," he said, and again, who are we to argue with a deity. "If not the top five, then a lottery pick."
Among the other caveats:
"I will be the leader of the World team at the Hoops Summit," a USA basketball event that pits the world's best against the top U.S. high school players in an under-20 exhibition game. Not a player, mind you, a leader. "America and the world will get to see me play," he said, which will explain why all fighting across the world will cease April 4. Just thought you'd like to know.
If he does say so himself Ivan Chiriaev has a great work ethic. "That's what will make me an NBA all-star," he said.
Chiriaev said he can play point guard, but his chosen NBA position probably will be shooting guard. He stated this in the event some wayward NBA coach did not know which was the proper place to play him.
As a Catholic and, therefore, nuanced to the kind of decorum Colin McGillicuddy values so highly, it falls to me to, gently, point out a couple differences between Jesus, the deity under whose roof this news conference was called, and Ivan Chiriaev, who it appears merely thinks he's God.
THINKS HE'S GOD
First, Jesus was humble. He was a pacifist. He did not, as Chiriaev did, get himself suspended for 10 days for a fight with another student.
Second, Jesus spoke to everyone, tax collectors, prostitutes, assorted rounders. Ivan Chiriaev, through the helpful Colin McGillicuddy, informed one and all he would answer one, and only one question from newspaper reporters. Television guys were granted one-on-one interviews.
I didn't mind. Like many, I have often toyed with the question, if you could ask God only one question, what would it be?
