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Game MVP
Male Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: nm
Posts: 1,796
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Heisman Winner
Male Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SC
Posts: 25,343
CockyCash: 1233026 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() Just because he is tall? Do you remember Manute Bol (sp)
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Starter
Male Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 1,418
CockyCash: 280 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() aside from manute bol this kid looks like he actually has a spec of athletic ability. even more than the kid that played for UNC Ashville, that couldnt run up the court more than a couple times. hes got good body mass for a man that big. Most are just bean poles
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Future Coaching Legend
Male Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Newberry, SC
Posts: 5,823
CockyCash: 999762 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() He isn't built to be a force down low yet. He needs some muscle or he will get pushed around by most centers in major college basketball regardless of how tall he is. UC Irvine has a 7'6 freshman from Senegal and he isn't a force. Averaged 8 ppg and 6.2 rpg. Tall doesn't equal good.
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Game MVP
Male Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: nm
Posts: 1,796
CockyCash: 1000000 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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2nd Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Lexington
Posts: 2,866
CockyCash: 500 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() I'd take a Manute Bol. He was a 10 year pro, and a pretty good shot blocker.
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#7 |
Starter
Male Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Columbia
Posts: 1,469
CockyCash: 10402 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() Looks all right to have only just started playing. That thing looks like a baseball in his hands. Wow
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Class of 2013
Male Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Charleston
Posts: 18,712
CockyCash: 1061017 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() Yeah I do, he had an NBA career. That's better than any big we've had in the past 30 years. I'd take this guy on our team any day.
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#9 |
Stop slow blinking at me
Male Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 1,434
CockyCash: 50242 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() I told him
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Banned
Male Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Chapin
Posts: 3,562
CockyCash: 500 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() Just texted him.
Hope he reads my text. |
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#11 |
time for a joyride...
Male Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Georgia
Posts: 5,678
CockyCash: 200 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() hahahaha...he looks like me playing nerf basketball against my nephews. The look on those other kids faces actually is similar to my nephews faces when I give them no hope through bullying.
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: St Tammany Parish, La
Posts: 4,981
CockyCash: 3078670 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." Bill Shankly, YNWA! |
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Irmo, SC
Posts: 4,615
CockyCash: 7000 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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George had to quit college basketball because doctors were forced to amputate part of his foot due to a MRSA infection. I think he was able to rehab it though and played professionally overseas for a year or two. Not that anyone really wanted all this information. |
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Irmo, SC
Posts: 4,615
CockyCash: 7000 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() As for the subject of this thread, it's hard to get a good read on him from that video. I realize not many high schoolers out there would be able to adequately defend him, but I would have liked to seen some of this guy's back-to-the-basket post up moves. Don't get a real good indication of all he can do seeing open dunks and put-back dunks. I'd also be interested in seeing this guy's defense, but again, it would be hard to find a high schooler that could even attempt to post up on this guy. At the very least, he looks like he'd be a good anchor in a 2-3 zone.
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#15 |
Banned
Male Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Posts: 9,866
CockyCash: 1220 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() one-and-done, so we won't get him.
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2nd Team All-American
Male Join Date: May 2007
Location: Anderson, SC
Posts: 9,394
CockyCash: 1000000 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() As sad before...tall doesn't equal good...and in today's game, there aren't many true 7-foot postmen anymore...with the permiation of uptempo, spread the floor offenses, you need guys than can run the floor and your post guys have to be physical forces down low.
Just look at Baylor's seven-footer...a bean pole who got pushed around. Or the 7'5 guy out of New Mexico...an out of shape mook who couldn't run up and down the floor. I like that Martin is filling out this class with "shorter" guys that can run the floor (granted, all the players are taller than most fans on the board I imagine). If we can land Josh Cunningham, another 6'6-6'7 wing guy that we need, that will be a good addition with Stroman, Blanton and Sheppard.
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Heisman Winner
Male Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SC
Posts: 25,343
CockyCash: 1233026 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() Yes, Bol was a great shot blocker, but he was no scorer. He averaged about 160 points per season in the NBA. That is not very much over 82 games per season. Just about every year, his production declined. In one season, he was with 3 different teams. His last team, the Bucks, released him and he never played a game for them.
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1st Team All-American
Male Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 12,098
CockyCash: 101850400 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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#19 |
1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Irmo, SC
Posts: 4,615
CockyCash: 7000 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() His first year there was definitely a struggle for him. In addition to being extremely tall and bulky, his conditioning was really poor. Could only go for 3 or 4 minutes at a time if I recall. His second year was much better as he was in much better shape. He was still slow, but he was able to get up and down the court easier and didn't need as many breaks.
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#20 |
Household Name
Male Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Charlotte
Posts: 7,279
CockyCash: 99438613414 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() Really? Imagine how good this years team would have been with Bol on the defensive end of the court. If you watched the film the kid has a shot, has handles and can jump, Bol could do none of this but was in the NBA 10 years.
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