Speedy

[Fat Bruno]

Sitting at the Carroll game with three former point guards, four coaches, five talent scouts and a partridge in a pear tree, one of them — not the bird -- commented that Taylor Goligoski reminded him so much of Skyla Sisco, and that she has an unusually high capacity for self improvement and of learning all the elements of the game. She is also very quick, which might lessen somewhat LA’s tragicomic distress over the Ladies’ monstrous incapacity to fulfill his much deserved need for vicarious gratification and for the inherent thrill of watching speedy people.

In fact, they have an amazing contingent of relatively quick and promising freshmen ... relative, I say, since it's only a white person kind of quick.

 

[citygriz]

Nice post, and duly noted, at least by me, in another thread. Seems every generation, whether men or women, Montana produces one, two or three exceptional players. The irony is that Shannon, definitely one, surely the greatest, has now inherited yet another in Taylor Golikowski. Plus a couple more, not from Montana, or not quite in Taylor's class. This is all to the good.

But an axiomatic truth understood not only by your partridge friend but all birds of a feather: Two things can be true at the same time. (Maybe even three, four or five.) So why limit our recruiting only to Montana, while excluding a race that has contributed well over half of the fifty greatest NBA players of all time, and probably the greatest?

Why not have it both ways. As we do for men's basketball. As we do for football.

LA asks. So do I.

Fair question.

 

[Fat Bruno]

Nice post, and duly noted, at least by me, in another thread. Seems every generation, whether men or women, Montana produces one, two or three exceptional players. The irony is that Shannon, definitely one, surely the greatest, has now inherited yet another in Taylor Golikowski. Plus a couple more, not from Montana, or not quite in Taylor's class. This is all to the good.

But an axiomatic truth understood not only by your partridge friend but all birds of a feather: Two things can be true at the same time. (Maybe even three, four or five.) So why limit our recruiting only to Montana, while excluding a race that has contributed well over half of the fifty greatest NBA players of all time, and probably the greatest?

Why not have it both ways. As we do for men's basketball. As we do for football.

LA asks. So do I.

Fair question.

Oh, I totally agree; I was hoping SS would hire a minority assistant. And, you don’t really have to go that far to find good AfAm players … Washington and Oregon’s cities have sizable populations, if the recruiting budget is the issue. I just think that alleged slowness is a ridiculous reason to not watch the team. One of the great pleasures of watching Selvig’s teams was in seeing the amazing improvement he would usually instill over the course of a season … emphasizing technique and tactics over sheer atheticism. In one sense, it’s a purer form of basketball … one where the stratagems of the game, both in individual and team play, are emphasized.