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Not a player but a coach: I'm watching The Last Dance (the jordan doc from ESPN that's now on Netflix) and Brendan Malone is interviewed talking about the Pistons and containing Jordan.

sevegny7 wrote: ↑3 years ago Was playing pickup ball at Gano st in east side of providence and Xavier munford pulled up and played a few games against us. Was cool to see him and his bro in town playing pickup ball in Providence.

Also some good runs on Knight street on Sundays. You might see some familiar faces here

Xavier Munford playing in Turkey next season.

They make my favorite chewing gum

Sad news to report.....Willie Middlebrooks has passed away....he joins his good friend Percy Davis...Allah yerhamoo

Ramulous wrote: ↑3 years ago Sad news to report.....Willie Middlebrooks has passed away....he joins his good friend Percy Davis...Allah yerhamoo

Damn, they were both in my class. RIP.

An interesting interview with Tyson Wheeler talking about assistant coaching. Touches upon time at URI as well.

YouTube Interview Link

I don't know why but it appears that former Ram and Philly native Horace "Pappy" Owens (Class of 83) appears to no longer be on the LaSalle Men's Basketball staff.

Ramulous wrote: ↑3 years ago Sad news to report.....Willie Middlebrooks has passed away....he joins his good friend Percy Davis...Allah yerhamoo

Missed this, I shared classes and was friendly with both of them.

No idea if I am linking this properly, but Jimmy Baron JR posted a free throw shooting breakdown. Since Rhody72 gave him some profound free throw shooting advice, and helped reconstruct Jimmy's form, he has only missed 62 free throws over the last 11 years!

https://www.instagram.com/stories/highl ... 132/?hl=en

Anyone know what Dowtin is up to? I’ve seen posts from LA on Instagram taking about pro ball but with no details.

RhodyRams12 wrote: ↑3 years ago

So happy for him!

Not a lot of better places to be than Sweden!

The nicest and most beautiful people. Gorgeous landscapes and architecture. Great place to start his professional career!

Better enjoy it. Might end up in Turkey where they sacrifice goats in front of you.

His first game is October 20
Scheduled to arrive in Sweden next week.

Cyril is all the way up in Östersund, which is a little over six hours north of Stockholm.

Our boy is in the North pole!

Not gonna be a lot of daylight for him this winter..

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑3 years ago Cyril is all the way up in Östersund, which is a little over six hours north of Stockholm.

Our boy is in the North pole!

Not gonna be a lot of daylight for him this winter..

Most sunny city in Sweden and they get an average of only 21" of precip per year. Avg high and low temps in F monthly from November to March: 34/25.9, 29.8/19.9, 26.2/15.4, 27.5/16.7, 34.5/21.9. Yikes.

rhodyruckus wrote: ↑3 years ago

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑3 years ago Cyril is all the way up in Östersund, which is a little over six hours north of Stockholm.

Our boy is in the North pole!

Not gonna be a lot of daylight for him this winter..

Most sunny city in Sweden and they get an average of only 21" of precip per year. Avg high and low temps in F monthly from November to March: 34/25.9, 29.8/19.9, 26.2/15.4, 27.5/16.7, 34.5/21.9. Yikes.

Most sunny when there's sun maybe. Otherwise he's only getting around 4 hours of sunlight starting in December.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/ostersund

Come the summer there there's no night time!

When I was in Stockholm in the summer of 2017 I could still see the sun at midnight. And then the sun would come up fully around 3am. Veeery disorienting, but cool!

......thank you Jimmy for everything you brought to the floor and beyond......used to love those three point bombs from the former CVS logo on the RC floor.....best for you and family for what is next......coaching......?

Thank you Jimmy! One of my all time favorite Rams forever!

JIMMY

THANK YOU

thank you for all the chills

Thank for for all the thrills

Thank you for giving me pride in Rhody hoops

Thank you for being a man and still loving Rhody despite the hardship of your dad hanging them up as coach

One of the best and most enjoyable players I have ever seen in a Rhody uniform

Come back to Rhody !

The best shooter in my time watching Rhody hoops (35+ years) and it's not even close.
If only he had listened to R72s free throw advice, what could have been.

Jimmy Baron = Rhody Legend

No question he is a LEGEND. It is now time to retire #20!!!!!!!!!

.......that would be a great start going forward with retiring high value numbers......

section(105) wrote: ↑3 years ago .......that would be a great start going forward with retiring high value numbers......

I agree but if you do that you have to retire Cat’s and Tyson’s #s.

I have always said you don’t retire numbers you put up banners of the players name,number,years, maybe nit or ncaa logos, and a couple stats.

That’s how u build a program. By names you dont have to retire numbers so they can never be used again.

Let people come into the Ryan and see history of the program.

Rhody83 wrote: ↑3 years ago

section(105) wrote: ↑3 years ago .......that would be a great start going forward with retiring high value numbers......

I agree but if you do that you have to retire Cat’s and Tyson’s #s.

And Sly and Silk and Tommy G.

Have like a ring of honor don’t retire numbers

We have that bare wall below the main scoreboard that usually has a temporary banner on it, but why not post "ring of honor" plaques there? Seems like the best place since we are short on other wall space that isn't way up even with the rafters.

rhodyruckus wrote: ↑3 years ago We have that bare wall below the main scoreboard that usually has a temporary banner on it, but why not post "ring of honor" plaques there? Seems like the best place since we are short on other wall space that isn't way up even with the rafters.

Agree. Nobody looks up at the rafters.

Rhody74 wrote: ↑3 years ago

rhodyruckus wrote: ↑3 years ago We have that bare wall below the main scoreboard that usually has a temporary banner on it, but why not post "ring of honor" plaques there? Seems like the best place since we are short on other wall space that isn't way up even with the rafters.

Agree. Nobody looks up at the rafters.

There's rafters?

Jim Harrick and URI heavily recruited 7’ Jabari Smith but then Harrick went to Georgia. Smith went to LSU and then the NBA.

His son, Jabari Jr, is Nationally Ranked #5 on ESPN, #4 On 247. Declares tomorrow, Friday.

Just saw on Twitter that Tyson Wheeler just had his 45th birthday. Damn that makes me feel old.

Rhody74 wrote: ↑3 years ago Just saw on Twitter that Tyson Wheeler just had his 45th birthday. Damn that makes me feel old.

ramster wrote: ↑3 years ago Jim Harrick and URI heavily recruited 7’ Jabari Smith but then Harrick went to Georgia. Smith went to LSU and then the NBA.

His son, Jabari Jr, is Nationally Ranked #5 on ESPN, #4 On 247. Declares tomorrow, Friday.

Who Dylan play for ??

reef wrote: ↑3 years ago Who Dylan play for ??

Our Savior Lutheran in Brooklyn
He is committed to St Johns

Huge logjam at Kentucky right now. It will be interesting to see how many minutes Jacob gets this year.

Wow. 34 points in 33 minutes coming off the bench.
EC was the game's top scorer
He hit 6-8 on 3PG's and 4-4 FT's
Amazing shooting performance

ace wrote: ↑3 years ago

Heck of a highlight film of Cox dunking and blocking shots at VCU. Several of the highlights were against our Rhody Rams.

In Week 2 of the 2020 season, Alie-Cox caught five passes for 111 yards against the Vikings. He thought to himself in the locker room afterward, "Did I really just have a 100-yard game in the NFL? I honestly never thought that would happen."
Since Week 2, Alie-Cox's role has fluctuated depending on the health of other tight ends Jack Doyle and Trey Burton. But Alie-Cox has grabbed a couple touchdowns in 2020, and he continues to be a dangerous target in the red zone. After all, a great college basketball shot-blocker ought to be able to time a leap and get his hands on a ball, whether on a court or the gridiron.

Nice job by Mo, but he has a long way to duplicate the efforts of Kent State BB forward turned tight end, Antonio Gates, who was selected an All Pro five times in his 14 year NFL career. Besides Mo never turned in a performance against URI like Antonio Gate had against the Rams in the first season in Ryan in 2002. In that game Gates poured in 25 points, 23 of them in the second half. I witnessed that game and was mesmerized by Gates who handled the ball with the grace of a point guard in a 6' 4" frame.

Oliveirense Lists it’s first game of the season. EC Mathews has 18!points and 10 rebounds in his 3rd game playing with Oliveirense.

I was thinking about Jeff yesterday and can't wait for him to get his shot at the league.