Hotdog & Friends

Fig Jam

So Tom Crean dismissed another Indiana Basketball player today.  That leaves 3 remaining players from a team that at one point was ranked and looked like a Elite 8 candidate.  Wow.   What the hell do they do for practice?  Play 21?  Tips?  At least they can still run the 3 man weave drill… once.  Then they can run it back the other way I suppose. 

Tom Crean is going to get some latitude next season, but seriously, this team is going to get pummeled.  Crean just signed a 7 footer who averaged 4 points in high school last season.  4 points.  “Welcome to Indiana, you’re the starting center (not kidding).  Do you think you could say, quadruple your point production from last season.  I know it was 4A High School and this is the Big Ten, but that’s what I need from ya.  Thanks.”

In the fairly competitive world of Fraternity and Sorority Philanthropy basketball tournaments, there are going to be a couple of Fraternity Basketball teams at Indiana next year that could actually give the Varsity team a run for their money.  From a depth standpoint if nothing else.  I can just see Crean pacing up and down the sidelines of a Bloomington high school as “DChi’s 1″ pushes his team to the limit, while one of his assistants is over scouting “SigEps 2 v. Lambda’s 1″ in case “The Indiana Basketball Team (yeah that one)” prevails against DChi’s and moves on to the Semi-finals of the Kappa Delta Shootout.

Fig Jam

Our weekly game of outdoor basketball was interrupted last night, and I am not happy about it.  It happened at St. Anne’s school on Queen Anne, where we regularly assemble to get some exercise and play a little hoops.  We do this when the weather gets nice enough in the spring until it is terrible in the fall.  Generally it is a delightful experience and everyone has a good time.

Anyhow, as we were playing last night an inordinate number of cars began arriving in the parking lot surrounding the court.  Apparently there was some form of school related activity set on for the evening.  About the time that the lot was about 1/2 full, an older guy, maybe 50ish, walked towards us, actually out onto the court, signalling for a timeout. 

This was unsettling as we are not accustomed to having timeouts during our pickup basketball games, much less by some idiot who fancies himself a little more important than the rest of us and has the balls to walk out onto the court where 6 guys are playing hoops. 

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Constable Echelon

Sick of weighing the merits of Jerryd Bayless and Brook Lopez yet? Me too. But the gaping chasm between the top two picks of the draft and the rest of the field mustn’t dissuade us from baseless pontificating.

I’m talking mock drafts. I’m talking mock draft analysis. And NBADraft.net has the Sonics stocking up rock solid rotation players in the second round. Joey Dorsey much?

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