RamZone72 wrote:I was fortunate enough to catch the Regional Finals late March and the BENRUS Pro Championship this past weekend as the Sky Chiefs were very active in the community handing out free tickets to a lot of youth groups and teams across Rhode Island. (My son's included). This was a very exciting fast pace of basketball. Jamal, Orion, Ryan, & Jason were a huge part of success and it was great to see them back playing within the state boarder. The obvious connection to bringing them in was Cory Macchioni who I saw on the teams website worked for Baron at URI & Canisius and also an intern for Rob McClanghan in Los Angeles. As mentioned in the article, hopefully they can get a game or two down at Keaney or the RC next year. Happy to see former player's have continued success regardless if they were under the CFL regime! You have to think something is in the works especially seeing how much Giovanni Feroce advertised his new company Benrus at the RC this year!
Here's an idea- an old time doubleheader----
- old Rams in the first game, new Rams in the nightcap. do it on a mediocre draw team (eg Fordham) and maybe drive a 4K crowd up to 6K???
and give the Sky Chiefs some exposure and great publicity!!!
And now I think of it, why not an old timers game similar to the way we do it in baseball.??
Pls don't use the word great in describing Howie Smith - URI has had 3 great PGs, Jiggy, Silk and Tyson. All the rest are in the good or worse category.
Seawrightspostgame wrote:I would like to watch when players come back and play against our guys in the offseason.
Although when I play pick up basketball I don't mind watching others play.
I was back last summer with Kahiem, Marquis, and Parfait, among others. We played with the team minus Gil and JT, it was a great time. It was alums vs. current players and pretty competitive.
We're hopefully going to organize something this summer, Coach Hurley wants former players coming back, especially established pros like Kahiem, Jimmy, and Delroy. The staff has been great in welcoming us back.
Seawrightspostgame wrote:I would like to watch when players come back and play against our guys in the offseason.
Although when I play pick up basketball I don't mind watching others play.
I was back last summer with Kahiem, Marquis, and Parfait, among others. We played with the team minus Gil and JT, it was a great time. It was alums vs. current players and pretty competitive.
We're hopefully going to organize something this summer, Coach Hurley wants former players coming back, especially established pros like Kahiem, Jimmy, and Delroy. The staff has been great in welcoming us back.
Yea I would be all about watching this. I don't live remotely close enough to see it. I guess I could settle for an article about it or a Coxhub special.
That's really cool Keaney Blue!
Who do you think won between the old players and current?
I'd hope Jimmy would like to come back. I feel like he's been a bit anti Rhody since we fired his pappy.
Seawrightspostgame wrote:I would like to watch when players come back and play against our guys in the offseason.
Although when I play pick up basketball I don't mind watching others play.
I was back last summer with Kahiem, Marquis, and Parfait, among others. We played with the team minus Gil and JT, it was a great time. It was alums vs. current players and pretty competitive.
We're hopefully going to organize something this summer, Coach Hurley wants former players coming back, especially established pros like Kahiem, Jimmy, and Delroy. The staff has been great in welcoming us back.
Yea I would be all about watching this. I don't live remotely close enough to see it. I guess I could settle for an article about it or a Coxhub special.
I think it could make for a cool charity event - I think Kentucky and/or Duke does something similar each year. But I also admit that I'm completely ignorant of how to do it with NCAA rules on practicing in the off-season and blah blah blah.
SGreenwell wrote:
I think it could make for a cool charity event - I think Kentucky and/or Duke does something similar each year. But I also admit that I'm completely ignorant of how to do it with NCAA rules on practicing in the off-season and blah blah blah.
Definitely would be a fun game to watch. College players play in summer leagues. Why would this be any different, as long as they meet the NCAA no-compensation rules?
He seems like the type of guy that you love if he is with you and you hate if he is on the other side. I was at the Celtics game yesterday and the crowd definitely wanted blood from Smith and old friend Perk. But, if I'm a Cleveland fan I am taking the chippiness of yesterday's game as a good sign that we have guys who will get their hands dirty.
"If you build it, they will come." --Us, circa 2011
TruePoint wrote:He seems like the type of guy that you love if he is with you and you hate if he is on the other side. I was at the Celtics game yesterday and the crowd definitely wanted blood from Smith and old friend Perk. But, if I'm a Cleveland fan I am taking the chippiness of yesterday's game as a good sign that we have guys who will get their hands dirty.
JR Smith's move wasn't chippy, it was downright filthy.
JR Smith's swing at Crowder was pretty weak, but overall I'm not bothered by a little more violence in the NBA. The league used to have awesome fights, but that has been taken out of the game with overly harsh discipline for some reason. I am for more fighting in all sports. I don't really see the downside, aside from your rare Kermit Washington type incident.
"If you build it, they will come." --Us, circa 2011
I used to love watch the Charles Oakley and Patrick Ewing gauntlet that opposing guys driving to the hoop against the Knicks used to face....they used to club guys going down the lane. Barkley was no slouch laying a hit on a guy as well.
rodfromcranston wrote:McFilthy and McNasty Mahorn and Laimbeer, for the Pistons, were pretty good
at laying out people going to the hoop.
I ran into Laimbeer on the street outside Grand Central in NYC one day, he's an inch or two shorter than me but he must've gained some weight since his playing days, he was gigantic. 50 years old and I wouldn't lay a finger on the guy.
God Bless X for keeping up the good fight but he was D-League all last year, right? He's probably got about 10 good years as a guard left in him. Might want to head overseas and start making real money. Save a bunch then come back and coach college ball.
Gonebarongone wrote:God Bless X for keeping up the good fight but he was D-League all last year, right? He's probably got about 10 good years as a guard left in him. Might want to head overseas and start making real money. Save a bunch then come back and coach college ball.
My guess would be that if he doesn't make an NBA squad out of summer league, that he would strongly consider Europe. Or at least, he'd more strongly consider it now than the previous year. At this point, there is a D-League season worth of game footage on him, so teams have to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of his game.
Yeah, X was in the D-League most (if not all) of last year with the Bakersfield Jam, so seeing him in the Summer League this year was pretty much a given.
adam914 wrote:Didn't he play on that weird team that shot like 60 three pointers a game or something?
You're thinking of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers: http://grantland.com/features/nba-dleag ... asketball/ - Same conference, so they did play against one another. Both teams had winning records, although Rio Grande came in third and didn't make the playoffs, and Bakersfield (Munford's team) lost in the playoffs. The next NBA union contract is expected to have 1-to-1 development league affiliations - meaning each NBA team would have its own D-League team - which could lead to the NBA draft going back to three rounds.
Ah, thanks guys. I guess I must have been confusing who Akeem played for and who X player for. I just remembered there being some discussion about that team around here and thought it was because of X.
Hopefully they can at least get on the court. Billy will and has already. But Jimmy has already played in two summer leagues and never really got to see the floor. Delroy didn't as well as will.
I wanna see our guys kill it!
PeterRamTime wrote:Hopefully they can at least get on the court. Billy will and has already. But Jimmy has already played in two summer leagues and never really got to see the floor. Delroy didn't as well as will.
I wanna see our guys kill it!
Yea, I was disappointed to see Delroy not do too well. If he had a more consistent jump shot, I think he'd be in the league right now.
