Jimmy Chitwood
Hall of Famer
Drew Timme is putting on an absolute clinic tonight for #1 Gonzaga against #5 Texas.
that’s fair, but unless Timme has dramatically improved his outside shot from a year ago, then he’s MUCH better with both feet in the lane (from the high post to the block) than outside it, while Dickinson can reliably stretch/make the defense guard him out to the 3-point line. besides, Timme is such an excellent passer, he’d be deadly dealing the ball to cutters from the high post. and while Timme is a below-average rebounder, allowing Dickinson and Holmgren (both FAR superior rebounders) to cut/dive from the outside to hit the offensive glass would be damn near impossible to stop.
i'd love to see that offense, but i’d hate to have to defend it.
Syracuse starts four whites this season. Buddy Boeheim's older brother Jimmy has joined the starting lineup after finishing his degree at Cornell. Jimmy seems like he was pretty legit in the Ivy League. Cole Swider also found a new home here by way of Villanova. Joe Girard III is 8-8 from deep after two games. All bets are off next year, but for now, this is probably my favorite basketball team (although Gonzaga is really fun!)
Syracuse starts four whites this season. Buddy Boeheim's older brother Jimmy has joined the starting lineup after finishing his degree at Cornell. Jimmy seems like he was pretty legit in the Ivy League. Cole Swider also found a new home here by way of Villanova. Joe Girard III is 8-8 from deep after two games. All bets are off next year, but for now, this is probably my favorite basketball team (although Gonzaga is really fun!)
Wisconsin is currently playing on national tv against Providence. the Badgers started 4 White athletes and will likely bring several more off the bench. Providence, conversely, only have one (starting power forward Noah Horchler) ... it’s a no-brainer who i’ll be cheering for.
speaking of teams with only one White player, Marquette features Tyler Kolek (plus a walk-on ... does he count?) a 6-foot-3 redshirt freshman guard who transferred in (for some reason?). Kolek from the look i had appears to be a lockdown defender, and in fact hit the game-winning layup after stealing the ball and taking it the distance. i wonder what the rest of the story is with him.
Purdue’s front court looks strong. bouncy freshman four, Caleb Furst (14 points on 5-7 shooting and 11 boards), and giant 7-foot-4 center, Zach Edey (18 points on 8-12 shooting and 12 boards) are playing well enough to keep preseason all-American Trevion Williams coming off the bench.
Juwan Howard is going to be a complete nightmare and a failure for Michigan. Hopefully Wisconsin and Iowa kick the crap out of them. I have also noticed an uptick in friendly black males driving 4x4 pickups helping out old white guys by fixing their porches etc in a lot of commercials. Oreo also now features a black Santa in the North Pole. Not a big deal it’s fine!Embarrassing loss for #4 Michigan at home against unranked, all-black Seton Hall. Dickinson had 18-9-4 on the night but could have asserted himself more. Between their transfer point guard and their one-and-done "superstar" freshmen, they play lousy team basketball and don't shoot well as individuals. The last possession with ten seconds left out of a timeout was cringeworthy playground ball, reminiscent of five black Tarzans swinging through jungle branches on invisible vines.
Juwan Howard just signed a five year contract extension. It seems like he wouldn't choose to return to the NBA ranks until his youngest son, a recruit for 2022, finishes his college career, and now he won't be asked to leave. Howard just took the team to Washington DC for the inaugural "Coaches vs Racism" game against an HCBU, where they toured the various black monuments and met the black power sprinter who demonstrated on the Olympics podium in the sixties. The team all posed for a picture with that guy with their fists raised. The bench warmers wear obnoxious warmups during games with BLM slogans on their backs.
Dickinson is the only white player in the rotation. Even affirmative action extraordinaire Tommy Amaker kept a couple white players in his bench rotations on his Michigan teams 15-20 years ago. Howard has run off two white scholarship athletes (Colin Castleton and Cole Bajema) and recruited Dickinson and current freshman PF Will Tschetter in his three seasons at the helm. Tschetter appears to be redshirting and is not really projected into the rotation next year, either. Technically, Howard signed Franz Wagner, although that was mostly a John Beilein/Moe Wagner legacy recruitment. This Dickinson-only team is a decades-low water mark for white athletes at Michigan, and it will get even worse next year.
Wisconsin starts four whites (apparently?) and Iowa and Purdue each start three. These are the only three remaining "white-friendly" teams in what used to be by far the whitest power conference in the country. The commercial breaks provide an unwelcome barrage of advertisements feautring black men driving luxury cars, black men buying jewelry for their white girlfriends, black insurance agents helping hapless white men, race-neutral covid vaccine ads for kids, and sassy young Asian ladies upending stodgy old white men to provide proper financial investment advice. I do not feel compelled to consume this product!!
Noticed Colgate upset Syracuse today as well!
That sucks as Syracuse is probably the best team to watch as far as the starters go and they have talent.
I've mentioned the U of A Wildcats and they are off to a 4-0 start. Very young but talented.