Peoria Kings lose

[Da Coach]

The Peoria Kings lost 104-80 to the Minnesota Ripknees in their opening home game.

Does anyone know what a Ripknee is?

The Kings are 0-4

[MacabreMob]

Re: Peoria Kings lose

Does anyone know what a Ripknee is?

Non-offensive to anyone and politically correct.

(reminds me of the Cheers episode where Cliff Clavin is on Jeopardy and answers the Final Jeopardy question of 3 people's names as "who are 3 people who have never been in my kitchen?")

[TheHeemyMonster]

i was at the game and this team has zero leadership. its def just a bunch of one on one type basketball. i really do think sergio is a good coach however. he was really intense during the game

ruffin, jj, ray brown, were among the braves at the game

aj guyton, marcello robinson, and marcus griffin were also at the game

[squeaky]

I saw the game,too. Pretty good support for a startup team.
I agree with HeemyMonster, the team has no leader, and is put together poorly. They have little inside presence, and very little point-guard type play. I can only recall a couple assists for the Kings the entire game, but a ton of turnovers, and missed shots. Maybe it will take a while to gel, but they really need a ballhandling/passing type point guard to run things.


I did find this explanation for a Ripknee:

http://www.ripknees.com/bio_ripknee.html

[Da Coach]

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