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Literally almost every athlete talks about their haters. It’s not that deep.

KingstonLane wrote: ↑2 years ago

ace wrote: ↑2 years ago

Kind of a funny caption. When was he not believed in? I mean maybe much younger as I don’t know his story pre high school.

Played every game as a freshmen, had a viral moment getting a steal off Trae Young in the tournament. Hurley says he’s gonna lead the A-10 in scoring some day. Etc, etc

He wasn’t believed in by the majority of people on this board his sophomore - senior year at Rhody.

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Rhody15 wrote: ↑2 years ago 20+ points five out of the last six games, including a season high 27 today.

Tough day for the “he has one good game then 6 straight bad ones” crowd.

He's not at URI. What he did here is what stays here.

He was first team all-conference here and had some of his biggest games in some of our biggest games. If watching this team this year didn’t prove to people that Fatts wasn’t the problem here last year then it’s not possible to prove that those people.

Wow and 18 points in the one game under 20

Fatts getting it done

Rhody15 wrote: ↑2 years ago

KingstonLane wrote: ↑2 years ago

ace wrote: ↑2 years ago

Kind of a funny caption. When was he not believed in? I mean maybe much younger as I don’t know his story pre high school.

Played every game as a freshmen, had a viral moment getting a steal off Trae Young in the tournament. Hurley says he’s gonna lead the A-10 in scoring some day. Etc, etc

He wasn’t believed in by the majority of people on this board his sophomore - senior year at Rhody.

I wasn’t here to see what the board said his sophomore year, but that wasn’t his fault. Went from being a role player to the guy, a big jump with no help.

Junior year he was one of the best guards in the country. Don’t think people were hating on that.

Senior year was tough, definitely got flack but was playing injured for a large majority of it

Ace is correct. Not that deep. All players hear the noise especially those that are 5 foot nothing and 100 and nothing who just dropped 27 on national TV against a top 25 team. Congrats on 2000 young man!

Five foot nothing...

You tell me this kid never had haters, on THIS board?
Shoot if I was a player hater here I would've been all over him.
Especially after what he said in Cox' first game.
But that's beside the point...
I will never forget his OT game on Hawk Hill.
And I wish him the best.

BTW he did make the shot.

Overall a much better career than I and many others would have predicted. I just wished he would have driven and dished more and shot mid range jumpers when his three pointers weren’t falling. I always felt he had a good, consistent 15-17 foot jumper, but didn’t use it enough. I know the metrics state not to take that shot, but it was a much better shot for Fatts.
I still remember when he entered the game for the first time in that scrimmage versus Buffalo his freshman year. When he came out, I turned to my family and said he’s going to be a fan favorite.
By the way, today’s ESPN game recap indicated he played his first four years at Penn St.

KingstonLane wrote: ↑2 years ago

Rhody15 wrote: ↑2 years ago

KingstonLane wrote: ↑2 years ago

Kind of a funny caption. When was he not believed in? I mean maybe much younger as I don’t know his story pre high school.

Played every game as a freshmen, had a viral moment getting a steal off Trae Young in the tournament. Hurley says he’s gonna lead the A-10 in scoring some day. Etc, etc

He wasn’t believed in by the majority of people on this board his sophomore - senior year at Rhody.

I wasn’t here to see what the board said his sophomore year, but that wasn’t his fault. Went from being a role player to the guy, a big jump with no help.

Junior year he was one of the best guards in the country. Don’t think people were hating on that.

Senior year was tough, definitely got flack but was playing injured for a large majority of it

Do his teammates or former teammates say he was a great teammate? A great leader? Great worker? Great winner?

Good for Fatts. Gave us 4 yrs. Just wish things had worked out better for him at MD. Never could understand why he went there. Turgeon is a jerk.

Rhody15 wrote: ↑2 years ago 20+ points five out of the last six games, including a season high 27 today.

Tough day for the “he has one good game then 6 straight bad ones” crowd.

Legitimately the first time in his 5 year, 150 game career this happened.

Still on brand.

Again no one is saying he sucks. He was a good player. Just overrated and overhyped for the whole body of work. And for some reason everyone loves to point out his extremely good games.

He lost way more games for URI than he won with his selfish play. He still had some of the best plays in URI history.

Funny story I figured people here would appreciate that I saw on another message during a conversation about court storming:

Funny story told to me by Tommy Garrick about when he was playing professionally in Spain one year. They lose a road game at the buzzer on a 3-point shot that was clearly after the buzzer. Home crowd is going berserk as they rush into the safety of the locker room. During the fracas the officials are reviewing the play, or gathering to discuss, I don’t recall specifics. They immediately send one of them to the locker room to tell Garrick’s team to grab their stuff and get on their bus to bolt of town. As they are running onto the bus the team hears the announcement that the shot didn’t count and the home team lost……followed by boos and screams he said that were louder than anything they heard that night.

Konstantynovskyi from Tulsa played 2 minutes against URI in Daytona
Novitskyi from Fordham played 14 minutes against URI

There are seven Ukrainian Division I men's basketball players. Konstantynovskyi at Tulsa, in addition Maryland's Pavlo Dziuba, Utah State's Max Shulga and Fordham's Rostyslav Novitskyi all call Kyiv home. Canisius' George Maslennikov hails from Odessa, a beautiful southwestern port city on the Black Sea. San Francisco's Volodymyr Markovetskyy's family is from the luscious mountainous region and lives in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, a gateway to the best skiing Ukraine has to offer. It's a city of 350,000 and considered one of the nicest places in the country to raise a family. Grand Canyon's Dima Zdor is from Yalta, one of the southernmost cities and technically in Crimea, an area that's been controlled by Russia since 2014.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... and-fears/

Maybe this deserves its own thread - "past day articles that now seem prophetic!" - but in looking up some info on the Harrick and Jerry D. years for another post, this article from old ESPN.com came up. With the ensuing statistical revolution that came to basketball in the 2000s, it's crazy to see the lines of Zach Marbury and (also mentioned in that article) GW's SirValiant Brown. The latter would finish his college career after two seasons, shooting 27.5 percent from 3-point range and average 7.3 attempts a game. Marbury averaged 27.1 from 3, with 4.4 attempts per game.

SGreenwell wrote: ↑2 years ago Maybe this deserves its own thread - "past day articles that now seem prophetic!" - but in looking up some info on the Harrick and Jerry D. years for another post, this article from old ESPN.com came up. With the ensuing statistical revolution that came to basketball in the 2000s, it's crazy to see the lines of Zach Marbury and (also mentioned in that article) GW's SirValiant Brown. The latter would finish his college career after two seasons, shooting 27.5 percent from 3-point range and average 7.3 attempts a game. Marbury averaged 27.1 from 3, with 4.4 attempts per game.

Cool looking at those old articles freshman Jamal Crawford would then have a 20 year NBA career

Dana Tate playing well for Norfolk St. Good for him , I always thought he would be a very solid if not a very good player in this program

DJ Johnson suspended. Injustice!

Seawrightspostgame wrote: ↑2 years ago DJ Johnson suspended. Injustice!

Wow, wonder if Akron smokes them now. Not a good look DJ.

DJ hasn’t played for them since December

How about Dana Tate going to the Dance with Norfolk State? Didn’t realize he was there.

Rammgr wrote: ↑2 years ago How about Dana Tate going to the Dance with Norfolk State? Didn’t realize he was there.

I’m happy Dana appears to have gotten his life in order.

Rhody74 wrote: ↑2 years ago

Rammgr wrote: ↑2 years ago How about Dana Tate going to the Dance with Norfolk State? Didn’t realize he was there.

I’m happy Dana appears to have gotten his life in order.

There’s probably no student cars allowed on campus, definitely benefits him.

(A select few probably know what I’m referring to here.)

Fatts Russell , ALL Big 10 honorable mention as voted by the coaches and media . Think we could have used a point guard like that this year . To the haters , be more cautious the next time you disrespectfully chase a player OFF . GO FATTS !!!!!

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... chat-video

Not Tate but another former URI player in trouble

Tate gets a T on Bational tv. DJ gets suspended . Not a good look for those that left Rhody.

Congrats to Tyrese on making the All-Tournament Team.

steviep123 wrote: ↑2 years ago

This was the final box score:

Jeff had 33 points on 13-14 FG and 7-8 on 3FG with 5 rebounds and 6 assists

Wow JD blowing up in the G league get that guy an NBA contract !!

giovanni wrote: ↑2 years ago

That's a cool video, but no mention of Sly Williams, the greatest to ever wear the Keaney Blue. I'm very happy that Thorr is on board with this idea.

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 years ago

giovanni wrote: ↑2 years ago

That's a cool video, but no mention of Sly Williams, the greatest to ever wear the Keaney Blue. I'm very happy that Thorr is on board with this idea.

There are guys who were legends at URI. They should be honored. If not, why do we play this game. Also, get that Carothers banner out of the Ryan Center.

I agree with the guys mentioned in the video, but you have to go back further than '88. Sly Williams, Pappy Owens, Art Stephenson, Steve Chubin, Steve Rowell, John Fultz, guys like that. Check out the URI record books. These guys are all over it.

They gotta be planning to honor and showcase players in the new practice facility, probably in a hall, with plaques, jerseys, trophies etc lining the walls.

Great video indeed and hopefully we start getting these guys into the rafters

This should be done in the Ryan Center…not the practice facility

Ramulous wrote: ↑2 years ago This should be done in the Ryan Center…not the practice facility

You can do both, but at minimum it's got to be inside the arena (and NOT in the concourses) where everyone can see. Then create an app so people can get stories, stats, video etc. for each legend.

Falcon wrote: ↑2 years ago Fatts Russell , ALL Big 10 honorable mention as voted by the coaches and media . Think we could have used a point guard like that this year . To the haters , be more cautious the next time you disrespectfully chase a player OFF . GO FATTS !!!!!

I forget. What was UMD's record with Fatts running the point this year? Good to see he piled up meaningless stats at the tail end of a disastrous season.

PlayMikeMotenMore wrote: ↑2 years ago

Falcon wrote: ↑2 years ago Fatts Russell , ALL Big 10 honorable mention as voted by the coaches and media . Think we could have used a point guard like that this year . To the haters , be more cautious the next time you disrespectfully chase a player OFF . GO FATTS !!!!!

I forget. What was UMD's record with Fatts running the point this year? Good to see he piled up meaningless stats at the tail end of a disastrous season.

lol yea, Fatts was definitely the number one reason why Maryland stunk this year.

The head coach quitting a handful of games in definitely didn’t factor into it at all.

Fatts was dominant late. I loved it!

Didn't really have much around him, but he was looking like junior year Fatts, but better at setting up his teammates.

That twitter account is fairly new, but I love the old videos clips and the interviews. Top notch.

I’d love to see Tyson back at Rhody but only if the new head coach believes he’s the best fit.

Rhody74 wrote: ↑2 years ago I’d love to see Tyson back at Rhody but only if the new head coach believes he’s the best fit.

Yeah like I love all our ex players - but I don't view having played here as a requirement for coaching.

Give me the right head coach and let him make the calls on who he brings in as assistants.

Would love to see him back as an assistant, 13 years experience should qualify him

Rhodyvault.com looks like a good site full interviews with Garrick and Kenny Green can’t wait to check it out

Here's a great interview with Silk, in my opinion, the 2nd best player to ever wear Keaney Blue.

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 years ago Here's a great interview with Silk, in my opinion, the 2nd best player to ever wear Keaney Blue.

BTW, at the end of the video there is a pic with a player wearing #23. That's Jiggy Williamson, my all-time favorite Ram.

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 years ago Here's a great interview with Silk, in my opinion, the 2nd best player to ever wear Keaney Blue.

BTW, at the end of the video there is a pic with a player wearing #23. That's Jiggy Williamson, my all-time favorite Ram.

Lots of great content on that site , kudos for who created it

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 years ago Here's a great interview with Silk, in my opinion, the 2nd best player to ever wear Keaney Blue.

Rhody’s first-ever NCAA tourney win!

Tyrese won't be using the extra year at UConn. Not sure what his NBA chances are, but with how well he played this season I could definitely see him catching on to a G-League team at least if he doesn't want to head overseas.