B1G outcomes today - wow
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The last three were hardly upsets, tho. BIG team was likely the underdog in each case...
And Indy beat Butler. Really, only Purdue looked like the need a better team.
Western Michigan and Bucknell were actually playing great basketball. Indys win was a 1/3 court shot for the win. Great game. Butler is decent.
Bucknell often is very competitive. It would have been nice for the league to pull off a win in one of the last three, but none of the results really surprise me. Purdue better get more help for Edwards, or they're going to have some losses in the league. Eastern, the kid from Evanston, has some good aspects to his game, but his free-throw shooting form looks terrible. I don't know how you can play years of competitive basketball and not be able to shoot FTs any better than that.
Totally agree. I noticed last week Ethan Happ, an All American was shooting 42% from the line. No excuse for any player that good to be that bad at the line.
Any Northwestern fan who has followed the program for a while agrees with this 100%!
Except for last year, when NU beat CSU by 65 the first game after finals.....
Probably why they will have that same matchup in the same spot on the schedule this year!
Yeah, Happ was never great at the line, but he's really been bad this year. Looks as if it's gotten into his head. If I were coaching against him, he wouldn't get off a shot against me late in the game. It definitely would be "hack a Happ."
Years ago, Georgetown had a very good player,6'4" Perry McDonald, whose left handed free throws rotated west to east not north to south. His free throws exploded when they touched the rim.
I watched him shoot this way for 4 years-it did not seem anyone attempted to change his hand position on the ball to correct a dreadful stroke
Perry McDonald's best moment was against a brute of a Pittsburgh 6'8" PF (Short ?) who punched him. He leveled Short with a left hook. Short didn't know that McDonald was a Golden Gloves Champion
I watched him shoot this way for 4 years-it did not seem anyone attempted to change his hand position on the ball to correct a dreadful stroke
Perry McDonald's best moment was against a brute of a Pittsburgh 6'8" PF (Short ?) who punched him. He leveled Short with a left hook. Short didn't know that McDonald was a Golden Gloves Champion
I believe it was Jerome Lane, who was himself a great player. Remember him shattering a backboard in a game and he was a rebounding fool too.
That was back in the day of the day when the Big East was the Beast. I was a huge Cuse fan (growing up in Upstate NY) and so I hated both Pitt and Georgetown.
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I suppose Wilt Chamberlain was the classic lousy FT shooter. With all the times he got to the line he probably could have had a couple thousand more points in his career. The funny thing was that he was a decent FT shooter in college. If you see old films of him, you see a thin, very quick kid who was really the first athletic 7-footer to hit basketball. I think he high-jumped something like 6-9 in college. As he got older, he got heavier and more muscular. That made him a brute around the basket, but seemed to take some of the athleticism away. He started missing FTs, and it psyched him out. He eventually started shooting them underhand, but it was always hit and miss. Rick Barry, on the other hand, shot about 90 percent with his underhand FT method. Literally, different strokes for different folks.
There's a lot of "psyche" in free throw shooting. Not a big fan of Eastern who played a lot of pickup ball at NU and then stiffed his home town team.
He has a strange and violent hitch in his stroke. It's not as odd as Shurna's. but not as fluid either... and it certainly isn't as accurate.
he had some extra academic work he needed to do at ETHS junior and senior year, he didn't do that and it made the decision easy for CCC and staff to move on.
My daughter is at ETHS and I'm trying to make NU her top school but she doesn't always listen to dad.
NU is absolutely great with ETHS. They have an office in the building, they run several cooperative academic programs....tons of children of faculty go there. I think admission is generous for ETHS students. Etc., etc.
Evanston really can't have a ***** about NU.
In regards to all possible ETHS recruits for NU, it is exceedingly clear what is required. Separate from NU, ETHS runs programs for the families of athletes starting freshman year so that they can get their ducks in order.
I was excited about the Eastern kid and it's unfortunate that he did not do what was necessary to qualify. Not only for NU, but for his academic experience at Purdue or wherever he ends up. When all the programs are made available and they sell them hard to the families its just unfortunate when they are not accessed and used.
NU is absolutely great with ETHS. They have an office in the building, they run several cooperative academic programs....tons of children of faculty go there. I think admission is generous for ETHS students. Etc., etc.
Evanston really can't have a ***** about NU.
In regards to all possible ETHS recruits for NU, it is exceedingly clear what is required. Separate from NU, ETHS runs programs for the families of athletes starting freshman year so that they can get their ducks in order.
I was excited about the Eastern kid and it's unfortunate that he did not do what was necessary to qualify. Not only for NU, but for his academic experience at Purdue or wherever he ends up. When all the programs are made available and they sell them hard to the families its just unfortunate when they are not accessed and used.