Workout warrior, right??
Preach fam!! Great memories I rooted like crazy for your teams too!!
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Big time. still is. Dude came in with something to prove. I hope McKneely has thaf mindset this summer
We used to live at George Mason during June and hooped everyday with lotta guys from around your way. Monty Williams was awesome and was there a lot.
LOVE IT my dude
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Ellerbe another DC guy and cool ass dude.
Big Ted from DeMatha was on your squad I think. Man Iām getting old lol.
Ted was a Sr at DeMatha when I was a frosh at McNamara in HS. He played against my middle brother HS and College (Richmond).
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Mannnnn I wonāt get no damn work done today messing with you lol.
Monty was cold blooded in HS and College.
Monty Williams and Walt Williams were like gods in the PG County schools back then and another guy Mike Tate (GTown and later Xferred to JMU) was a HS prodigy as well.
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2024 kid. Teammate of Jamie Kaiser on that New World team (head coach is Bishop Ireton coach) But from North Carolina and that Rick Lewis circle. Had a good weekend and noticed Williford follows and is active. Could be a target
Plays like Tyrell Ward/Ryan Dunn with a mean streak from what little Iāve seen
https://mobile.twitter.com/MasercolaMiles/status/1526569124075298817
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Is he related to Jerod Mustaf?
Iāve heard some old time hoopers there at UMD are the most happy campers with the Coach staff and Administration these days.
Since itās quiet on the Freddie front
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Freddie and Jaime would be a BIG backcourt
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We need to get back to the big guards bullying dudes in the Pack. Joe Malc Justin Devon Ty etc
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biggest issue with tonyās recruiting. Donāt know what he ever diverged from it.
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No diverging. Just again the back to back weak recruiting classes following 2016 + guy and jerome leaving early + Juzang being stolen from us last second + COVID = boom, where we are. 2022 is the reset.
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Agreed. Our system can be pretty lethal when packed with size and length.
A weird part of the most recent few iterations of UVA hoops has been some folks trying to like deny that height and length are important in basketball. And no, I donāt want to restart debates about certain players, but itās always kind of funny to me. You can certainly overcome not having them, but theyāre objectively important in the sport!
Anyway, would be great to have some size and length advantages again. When that team with Malcolm, Joe, Gill, etc rolled on the floor, that was an intimidating team.
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Clark followed by Casey, Reece and mccorkle. I get each offer Iām a vacuum but put together itās not a lot of size
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Reece might be the best guard/point guard defender Tony has ever had/heās got wingspan though. Casey had wingspan, but he was never a sytem fit. McCorkle idk
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I think if you had Reece + Casey up to their expectations (especially with Caseyās nearly 7 foot wingspan) then Carson makes sense. Two guys with the length and physical tools to be all ACC defense + a supposed knockdown shooter. And Carson isnāt tiny, he is taller than guy for example.
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Iād argue issue with Carson wasnāt so much his size (although I donāt think he had a notable wingspan relative to his height) as his speed. We could get away with a Guy out there because he was insanely quick (plus he was surrounded by plus defenders). Carson was smooth and skilled, but never had the speed and bounce that Guy had. Just couldnāt keep ACC level guards in front of him and couldnāt take guys off the dribble.
Although with more playing elsewhere, who knows - could develop it. Or could develop a kind of crafty YMCA-gym game thatās lethal in the right match-ups.
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Yup, gotta play to get crafty.
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The speed could also be somewhat due to the high school foot injury. Although I donāt remember him looking particularly quick in his older clips. I do think if they had panned out, Casey, Reece, JAR, and Shed would have been a group with good physical defensive tools and perhaps could have hidden Carson
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Is that Reeceās HS team?