Milliken

Neither Bully or Timo looked good at the red n white but as we all know that means nothing …… Timo looked good in drills was very bouncy…. Good handles and sweet looking shot. It just didn’t carryover to scrimmage again FWIW.

Looks like Almar is going to be used just like he was last year…. But man he looked good at R n W slimmed down…. Stronger and he was really vocal…. Looked confident. Think he’ll have a great year.

Im excited about seeing first game action but really looking forward to the newer , cleaner , brighter PCC!!!!!!


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Snell is 70 years old and has been doing the same job for over 45 years. Anybody that age, who's been doing the same job since age 24, is bound to get tired, stale, and begin just going through the motions. Not to mention there could be health and/or memory issues developing at that age. I would hope Bradley has a plan in place to transition soon to protect his dignity and legacy.

I was there. Spent a decent amount of time wrangling my two year old at his first game (his highlights were the high five line, dippin dots, and "batman" aka Kaboom, if you want his take), but from what I saw, in no particular order:

1. Other people in my family were impressed with Thomas. I was pretty "meh" on him. He had some flashes, but his offensive post game did not impress me and he passed up a couple post shots just like he did at scrimmage. Needs work.

2. Got exactly what we expected out of Zek and Deen. They will be good.

3. CD just did not have a good game. He (and others) just putting up bricks all over the place. Wardle admitted he didn't have his best game.

4. Almar and Burch look like they spent all summer lifting. Both looked good. Almar looks a lot more confident. Had a nice drive to the basket that I don't think he would have made last year.

5. Meta had a couple good offensive possessions mixed in with the usual. He looked better overall but not some leap that people expect.

6. Johnson will be good eventually, I just don't see it happening this year. He's tough and strong as hell, but I don't think the minutes will be there.

7. Timo looked lost. Definitely needs development.

8. Dillon didn't do much at all. Wardle said he's still recovering from something. Missed a few 3s was all I recall.

9. The rest of the back of the bench got minutes, but nothing too out of the ordinary there (Goanar trying to pump up the crowd when he hit a FT after bricking the first three was something).

Overall, it was an exhibition. We came out hot, then started rotating guys in and slowed down a lot. They got hot from 3 in the second half. Lots of weird lineups I'm sure we won't see again until blowout garbage time. Missed a ton of wide open shos and Wardle was again talking about how they always start off shooting cold because they don't practice enough here.

There have been a lot of thoughts about successors. It comes down to who wants to be the bad guy and tell Dave he’s done?

Carver was freezing cold because the 80 degree weather was causing issues with the floor being moist.

Good ole basketball season threads!
“We don’t shoot well because we don’t practice here enough” and visiting team (who never set foot in the arena before tonight) ”got hot shooting 3’s” in the second half.

Completely unacceptable for this to be the product. Full stop.

I had to listen myself. He had a doozy early on: He got himself so turned around trying to talk about Millikin and their distance to Peoria, he ended up basically saying the Braves were playing on the road.

Boy if he thinks Bradley doesn’t practice there enough to shoot well wait until he sees how much practice time the other teams get at Carver.

I didn’t listen to this game, but yeah you touch on what I would add to the topic….that it is a 2 way street and Chad does jump in and scream in our eardrums without much explanation a lot. 

It’s been a tough listen for a while.  I don’t love harping on it too much, because it’s a bit sad, but it’s been less than it should be.