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I read numeous reports this morning about some of the top basketball programs and their Midnight Madness events last night.
Here are a couple things I found.
At Kansas, the fans were really pumped, they are expecting a National Championship this year, they are giddy over getting what they think is the best point guard in the nation in Sherron Collins, and they are expecting to blow out every opponent and score over 100 points per game.
Well, so much for expectations.
Most of the reports I saw were really funny.
In a 20 minute intrasquad scrimmage where nobody played any defense, never the less, nobody could make a shot....and the top scorers went 2 for 15 and had 6 and 7 points.
It looked like a brick throwing display, and the news articles barely mention that they actually played basketball, and focused more on the dancing and the crowd, and the dunk contest.
The news articles talked about the players' potential but tread carefully on that fact that the team and players looked absolutely terrible at the open workout.
But the message board posters weren't so kind....
On the Kansas message boards, they actually locked discussions that talked about how bad the players' looked, but and they left up all the posts about how the viewers liked the dancing more than the caliber of basketball, but here are a few comments about how bad the team looked, and how it might have bored and disinterested the top recruit who was present, Kyle Singler.
There were numerous and repeated comments on both of the major KU message boards as to how horrible the players shot, most barely hitting the rim, and it suddenly brought to the posters' realization that they DON'T HAVE ANYONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY SHOOT THE BASKETBALL. Bill Self has recruited all the great athletes, and high flying dunkers and dribblers, but nobody can shoot.
Here are a few representative comments:
"Just seemed to fall flat. I'd be surprised if Singler didn't fall asleep. There'd be reports, anyway, as you could have easily heard him snore"
(Top rated recruit Kyle Singler was in attendance and must have been bored, and less than impressed at how bad they were)
"Apparently the ball they were using was larger than the rim. It simply would not fit."
"You could hear the crowd gasping for air as KU continued to suck"
"Singler may not choose to play in an arena with ball-rejecting goals"
(because nothing they shot went in!!)
"It probably helped that dozens of people were flooding out of the Fieldhouse as they were 5 minutes into the scrimmage"
(were they that bored that they left just 5 minutes into the scrimmage?)
...............You have to love it......Hurray Bill Self...
Then at Cincinnati, there are several articles and comments on the message boards about their Midnight Madness.
Lots of things said about all the new players.........except one
There was virtually no mention in any article nor any mention in any post on their message board about Marcus Sikes.
If Sikes had come to Bradley, he'd be a celebrity already, and he'd start and get all the playing time he wants.
But based on what I have read so far, he is lost in the mass of nearly a dozen new players at Cincinnati, many of whom will be well ahead of Sikes on the playing time charts.
I hope he likes riding the deep bench, since that's what he appears to have chosen over coming to BU where he was really wanted!!
Here are a couple things I found.
At Kansas, the fans were really pumped, they are expecting a National Championship this year, they are giddy over getting what they think is the best point guard in the nation in Sherron Collins, and they are expecting to blow out every opponent and score over 100 points per game.
Well, so much for expectations.
Most of the reports I saw were really funny.
In a 20 minute intrasquad scrimmage where nobody played any defense, never the less, nobody could make a shot....and the top scorers went 2 for 15 and had 6 and 7 points.
It looked like a brick throwing display, and the news articles barely mention that they actually played basketball, and focused more on the dancing and the crowd, and the dunk contest.
The news articles talked about the players' potential but tread carefully on that fact that the team and players looked absolutely terrible at the open workout.
But the message board posters weren't so kind....
On the Kansas message boards, they actually locked discussions that talked about how bad the players' looked, but and they left up all the posts about how the viewers liked the dancing more than the caliber of basketball, but here are a few comments about how bad the team looked, and how it might have bored and disinterested the top recruit who was present, Kyle Singler.
There were numerous and repeated comments on both of the major KU message boards as to how horrible the players shot, most barely hitting the rim, and it suddenly brought to the posters' realization that they DON'T HAVE ANYONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY SHOOT THE BASKETBALL. Bill Self has recruited all the great athletes, and high flying dunkers and dribblers, but nobody can shoot.
Here are a few representative comments:
"Just seemed to fall flat. I'd be surprised if Singler didn't fall asleep. There'd be reports, anyway, as you could have easily heard him snore"
(Top rated recruit Kyle Singler was in attendance and must have been bored, and less than impressed at how bad they were)
"Apparently the ball they were using was larger than the rim. It simply would not fit."
"You could hear the crowd gasping for air as KU continued to suck"
"Singler may not choose to play in an arena with ball-rejecting goals"
(because nothing they shot went in!!)
"It probably helped that dozens of people were flooding out of the Fieldhouse as they were 5 minutes into the scrimmage"
(were they that bored that they left just 5 minutes into the scrimmage?)
...............You have to love it......Hurray Bill Self...
Then at Cincinnati, there are several articles and comments on the message boards about their Midnight Madness.
Lots of things said about all the new players.........except one
There was virtually no mention in any article nor any mention in any post on their message board about Marcus Sikes.
If Sikes had come to Bradley, he'd be a celebrity already, and he'd start and get all the playing time he wants.
But based on what I have read so far, he is lost in the mass of nearly a dozen new players at Cincinnati, many of whom will be well ahead of Sikes on the playing time charts.
I hope he likes riding the deep bench, since that's what he appears to have chosen over coming to BU where he was really wanted!!
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