Showing posts with label nit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nit. Show all posts
6.10.2009
Panting from the stands
Kid on Bleacher Report: The announcer is like, you have to get out on him, I looked at my brother and said, “Is this announcer high, I know Steph is a great shooter, but he was like 40 feet from the basket, and the announcer is criticizing the defense, you’ve got to be kidding me.”
6.04.2009
On Matheny’s transition
Dana O’Neil:
The boxes were packed, the house was empty and the car was pointed down the highway. Matt Matheny finally, officially, could get to the business at hand: being Eva’s full-time daddy.
His little girl was born 11 weeks ago -- or two weeks BE (Before Elon) in Matheny family parlance.
March was a busy month for Matheny. He helped Davidson reach the NIT’s second round, welcomed his first daughter and second child into the world, and was named the new head coach at Elon University.
4.23.2009
4.14.2009
3.25.2009
3.24.2009
There’s this
Stephen: “I don’t have a time limit or anything like that, but my heart’s still at Davidson.”
Chronicle insight
Ray Ratto: ... ultimately the difference wasn’t so much that St. Mary’s had Patty Mills. It was that St. Mary’s had Wayne Hunter.
27-8
So the Year After ended on the opposite coast 2,711 miles from the village at not quite 2 in the morning in the East.
Maybe it wasn’t how some folks thought it would end, or where, in terms of geography, tournament or television network, but it’s got to end sometime, and tonight the right team won. St. Mary’s is a team with an NBA guard and two bigs who are pros and those kids did what they had to do in front of a home crowd that made a difference. They made the shots they needed to make and got the stops they needed to get.
This is a simple analysis, too simple, but the story tonight in a way was the story of the season: Stephen … and then what? Will had some terrific moments in the first half, with threes, with drives, with some good, needed work on the glass, but it didn’t last. This year’s team wasn’t a one-man team all the time -- talk about too simple -- but that was too true too much of the time. There’s ample opportunity to ruminate on the anatomy of that dynamic but now is not the time.
Now is also not the time to begin a discussion of some of the questions expected to come up in the offseason -- one in particular of course -- to the extent that an offseason is a thing that really even exists at this point for this program. For now, though, consider: Only four teams in 101 years of Davidson basketball have won 27 or more games in a season -- the 1968-69 team, and the last three.
The Class of 2008 graduated as the winningest class in the history of Davidson basketball.
Come May the Class of 2009 will do the same.
Maybe it wasn’t how some folks thought it would end, or where, in terms of geography, tournament or television network, but it’s got to end sometime, and tonight the right team won. St. Mary’s is a team with an NBA guard and two bigs who are pros and those kids did what they had to do in front of a home crowd that made a difference. They made the shots they needed to make and got the stops they needed to get.
This is a simple analysis, too simple, but the story tonight in a way was the story of the season: Stephen … and then what? Will had some terrific moments in the first half, with threes, with drives, with some good, needed work on the glass, but it didn’t last. This year’s team wasn’t a one-man team all the time -- talk about too simple -- but that was too true too much of the time. There’s ample opportunity to ruminate on the anatomy of that dynamic but now is not the time.
Now is also not the time to begin a discussion of some of the questions expected to come up in the offseason -- one in particular of course -- to the extent that an offseason is a thing that really even exists at this point for this program. For now, though, consider: Only four teams in 101 years of Davidson basketball have won 27 or more games in a season -- the 1968-69 team, and the last three.
The Class of 2008 graduated as the winningest class in the history of Davidson basketball.
Come May the Class of 2009 will do the same.
3.23.2009
Tonight in California
McKillop: “This really is a very, very good moment for us.” Contra Costa Times. San Francisco Chronicle. USA Today.
3.21.2009
Bay Area buzz
San Francisco:
San Jose:
... potentially most entertaining game of the coming week.
San Jose:
NCAA Tournament officials must be jealous.
Something’s missing
Mark Schlabach:
I'm betting the NCAA tournament’s opening round would have been more exciting with guys like Davidson’s Stephen Curry and St. Mary’s Patty Mills.
3.19.2009
Taking it
Kyle:
This boldness is also an attitude we all share on this side, because the only other options are mediocrity and failure. I recall something that Davidson head coach Bob McKillop mentioned during the throes of the Wildcats’ February losing streak that ultimately cost the team its chance to follow up its amazing run to the Elite 8.
After the BracketBusters loss to Butler, McKillop said, “Last year we got to the Elite Eight because there was no sense of entitlement. We went after it, we grabbed it, we took it. At this point, in the last 10 days or two weeks, we’ve kind of let it come to us, rather than take it.”
Davidson took again last night -- beating South Carolina on the Gamecocks’ own floor in the NIT. And with superior game plans, coaching ingenuity, heroic performances, solid systems (and yes, ball control), they’ll take more in the future. Those teams that will excel and win over the next several days will do so because they, like the Wildcats in 2008, take what wasn’t readily offered, and wasn’t for sale anyway.
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