"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
-Steve Jobs
St. Patrick's Day:
I really hate St. Patrick's Day. We can really just end this thread right here. I don't like it. If you like it, that's great. I don't really know why I don't like it. I think the main reason is that it has been completely marginalized by drunk high school guys, high school sluts, college kids and college skanks. The sacredness of the Catholic holiday has been abused and infiltrated to the point where nothing good comes of it. Only bad. Like, if you get up get up early on day where you can sleep in, and the only reason you're getting up is to start drinking beer--you are a loser. I eat eggs all the time, but if you get up early on a day that you don't have to, to make eggs and dye them green--you are a loser. If you are a guy and you wear an obnoxious green outfit, hat or beads--you are a loser. I don't really know, it has just never really been a part of me. I think this holiday should be reserved for kids under 10 years old and their parents, people with full time jobs who leave work for awhile for a beer and to see the parade, and for old Irish people who love St. Patrick's Day and the parade. Those are the 4 categories of people that should be able to celebrate this holiday. The high school to college aged kids should be banned from the holiday. For college kids, everyday is St. Patrick's Day. You can do what you do on St. Patty's Day everyday if you want to. So if you want to, be my guest. But any day where the goal is to be wasted by 9am, throwing up, getting in fights, getting cuffed, getting arrested, losing your wallet, losing your cell phone, losing your friends--I don't really wanna be involved in that.
Warren Harding -6.5 v St. Edward +6.5
Big 2008 regional final rematch set to tip tomorrow night at the Wolstein Center on the campus of Cleveland State University. For both teams and coaches, it is a new and exciting game and experience, as many players from last year's epic game have moved on. For a slew of down on their luck, unemployed, morally bankrupt ass clowns from Warren, this is a huge revenge game. Although both teams are somewhat down on talent versus previous years, and battling injury plagued seasons, tomorrow's game is just another great Ohio high school playoff special.
I watched both teams play over the weekend. Harding turned up the defensive heat in the second half and got some clutch play from a guy wearing number 23 to hold off St. Ignatius at Warrensville. I would like to point out that I was wrongfully accused of cheering for St Ignatius several times in that game. And I was further ridiculed when I tongue and cheek said that Ignatius was gonna win the game easily. The truth of the matter is that I would have bet $10 dollars that Ignatius was gonna win. Anything more than that I would have obviously never done. Next, yes, I was cheering my ass off when Desmar Jackson made terrible play after terrible play and yelling at him that he was terrible because I was right by the court (is it normal for a 23 year old guy with nothing going for himself to yell at a clueless 18 year black kid cause he sucks?). Seeing that he makes 10 bad plays for every 1 good play, I was cheering every 9 times for what looked to be St. Ignatius. I have been on the record that Jackson is one of the worst players I have ever seen. I have watched him in pure amazement since he was a freshman in high school. He'll wash in and out of jucos and community colleges for the next couple years. But more than anything, I went to that game to see one of my best friends play his last high school game, just like he came to see my last high school and college games. That's really the bottom line.
St. Edward squeaked by a gritty Parma team to win the Brecksville district. This Parma team seemed like a decent story. I don't know what grades they were in, but a couple of their players were very good. Their main player was a nice driver, and seemed to be a pretty good shooter. St. Eds was lucky he was a touch off with the 3 ball, as well as 4-5 free throws. They got some 3 balls from guys that usually don't step up. Their second main player nearly put down what would have been the best dunk of the last several years, as he launched off one foot from mid key, went up to Raymar Morgan's floor and almost crushed a dunk over Zach Price. Those two guys, coupled with 2 of the best heckler fans I have heard imade the game enjoyable.
Delbert Love kept his playoff form we have become accustom to seeing it with 26 points. And trust me, they needed every one of those 26. He shot the ball beautifully, and made a couple tough driving layups, something I have been critical of when I have watched him closely. It was a great effort by him, after a couple games where he had been a little out of sorts. He's a big time player for St. Edward. Miles Hamilton had a very active second half on defense, causing turnovers, recovering steals, making deflections, and making a huge block that led to a bucket. They were really the lone bright spots for the Eagles, as they just hung tough and stayed patient. The changing defense was the key in the second half and the climax for a St. Edward fan. Those close to the program knew that a switch up was coming. Those kids from Parma had NO CLUE. Part of me felt for them.
I am gonna miss tomorrow's game unfortunately due to a class. I think its going to be an interesting game. St. Edward matches up better with Harding than Ignatius did. They also have different ways to attack you offensively, whereas Ignatius is very set in their offensive ways and values. St. Eds will also use changing defenses to keep Harding off balance. Harding is going to look to keep the game fast and keep heat on guys defensively. They want to put guys who are shaky ballhandlers in shaky positions on the floor. And quite frankly, St. Eds has had a lot of questionable ballhandlers in places where they shouldn't be.
St. Edward has to realize that Warren can only score off a long miss or a turnover. St. Ignatius plays good half court defense, no question. But I think it is more of a function of Harding having no concept of where to go with the ball to get good shots when the game slows down and they are in the half court. Buckling down, making them take and make contested jump shots, and getting the rebound to end the possesion is a key for St. Edward.
Keys For St. Edward:
-Be ready to play fast
-Be ready to be strong with the ball
-Be ready to handle the rock vs. pressure
-Make solid fundamental passes all over the court-- this is Warren Harding length and quickness, not Parma length and quickness
-Make them defend you when they are in man in the half court--move hard, cut hard, don't reverse it just for the sake of reversing it. Be a threat.
-Know where you wanna go with the ball and what shots you want to get vs. their zone
-Play their main guys as slashers, make them prove their gonna make contested 3s
-Make them throw the ball around when you're in your zone looks--these guys panic with pressure and are careless, especially Jackson
-Nothing easy for Desmar early, make him finish contested floaters--DO NOT bail him out if you think you're beat--better FT shooter than finisher
-Be ready to play that high ball screen with 23 or Jackson coming off it--the screener is a good player too, may be their best guy
-Weather their spurts, look to make heady plays to kill their momentum
-Rebound the ball hard on both ends
-Make free throws down the stretch
j.
-Steve Jobs
St. Patrick's Day:
I really hate St. Patrick's Day. We can really just end this thread right here. I don't like it. If you like it, that's great. I don't really know why I don't like it. I think the main reason is that it has been completely marginalized by drunk high school guys, high school sluts, college kids and college skanks. The sacredness of the Catholic holiday has been abused and infiltrated to the point where nothing good comes of it. Only bad. Like, if you get up get up early on day where you can sleep in, and the only reason you're getting up is to start drinking beer--you are a loser. I eat eggs all the time, but if you get up early on a day that you don't have to, to make eggs and dye them green--you are a loser. If you are a guy and you wear an obnoxious green outfit, hat or beads--you are a loser. I don't really know, it has just never really been a part of me. I think this holiday should be reserved for kids under 10 years old and their parents, people with full time jobs who leave work for awhile for a beer and to see the parade, and for old Irish people who love St. Patrick's Day and the parade. Those are the 4 categories of people that should be able to celebrate this holiday. The high school to college aged kids should be banned from the holiday. For college kids, everyday is St. Patrick's Day. You can do what you do on St. Patty's Day everyday if you want to. So if you want to, be my guest. But any day where the goal is to be wasted by 9am, throwing up, getting in fights, getting cuffed, getting arrested, losing your wallet, losing your cell phone, losing your friends--I don't really wanna be involved in that.
Warren Harding -6.5 v St. Edward +6.5
Big 2008 regional final rematch set to tip tomorrow night at the Wolstein Center on the campus of Cleveland State University. For both teams and coaches, it is a new and exciting game and experience, as many players from last year's epic game have moved on. For a slew of down on their luck, unemployed, morally bankrupt ass clowns from Warren, this is a huge revenge game. Although both teams are somewhat down on talent versus previous years, and battling injury plagued seasons, tomorrow's game is just another great Ohio high school playoff special.
I watched both teams play over the weekend. Harding turned up the defensive heat in the second half and got some clutch play from a guy wearing number 23 to hold off St. Ignatius at Warrensville. I would like to point out that I was wrongfully accused of cheering for St Ignatius several times in that game. And I was further ridiculed when I tongue and cheek said that Ignatius was gonna win the game easily. The truth of the matter is that I would have bet $10 dollars that Ignatius was gonna win. Anything more than that I would have obviously never done. Next, yes, I was cheering my ass off when Desmar Jackson made terrible play after terrible play and yelling at him that he was terrible because I was right by the court (is it normal for a 23 year old guy with nothing going for himself to yell at a clueless 18 year black kid cause he sucks?). Seeing that he makes 10 bad plays for every 1 good play, I was cheering every 9 times for what looked to be St. Ignatius. I have been on the record that Jackson is one of the worst players I have ever seen. I have watched him in pure amazement since he was a freshman in high school. He'll wash in and out of jucos and community colleges for the next couple years. But more than anything, I went to that game to see one of my best friends play his last high school game, just like he came to see my last high school and college games. That's really the bottom line.
St. Edward squeaked by a gritty Parma team to win the Brecksville district. This Parma team seemed like a decent story. I don't know what grades they were in, but a couple of their players were very good. Their main player was a nice driver, and seemed to be a pretty good shooter. St. Eds was lucky he was a touch off with the 3 ball, as well as 4-5 free throws. They got some 3 balls from guys that usually don't step up. Their second main player nearly put down what would have been the best dunk of the last several years, as he launched off one foot from mid key, went up to Raymar Morgan's floor and almost crushed a dunk over Zach Price. Those two guys, coupled with 2 of the best heckler fans I have heard imade the game enjoyable.
Delbert Love kept his playoff form we have become accustom to seeing it with 26 points. And trust me, they needed every one of those 26. He shot the ball beautifully, and made a couple tough driving layups, something I have been critical of when I have watched him closely. It was a great effort by him, after a couple games where he had been a little out of sorts. He's a big time player for St. Edward. Miles Hamilton had a very active second half on defense, causing turnovers, recovering steals, making deflections, and making a huge block that led to a bucket. They were really the lone bright spots for the Eagles, as they just hung tough and stayed patient. The changing defense was the key in the second half and the climax for a St. Edward fan. Those close to the program knew that a switch up was coming. Those kids from Parma had NO CLUE. Part of me felt for them.
I am gonna miss tomorrow's game unfortunately due to a class. I think its going to be an interesting game. St. Edward matches up better with Harding than Ignatius did. They also have different ways to attack you offensively, whereas Ignatius is very set in their offensive ways and values. St. Eds will also use changing defenses to keep Harding off balance. Harding is going to look to keep the game fast and keep heat on guys defensively. They want to put guys who are shaky ballhandlers in shaky positions on the floor. And quite frankly, St. Eds has had a lot of questionable ballhandlers in places where they shouldn't be.
St. Edward has to realize that Warren can only score off a long miss or a turnover. St. Ignatius plays good half court defense, no question. But I think it is more of a function of Harding having no concept of where to go with the ball to get good shots when the game slows down and they are in the half court. Buckling down, making them take and make contested jump shots, and getting the rebound to end the possesion is a key for St. Edward.
Keys For St. Edward:
-Be ready to play fast
-Be ready to be strong with the ball
-Be ready to handle the rock vs. pressure
-Make solid fundamental passes all over the court-- this is Warren Harding length and quickness, not Parma length and quickness
-Make them defend you when they are in man in the half court--move hard, cut hard, don't reverse it just for the sake of reversing it. Be a threat.
-Know where you wanna go with the ball and what shots you want to get vs. their zone
-Play their main guys as slashers, make them prove their gonna make contested 3s
-Make them throw the ball around when you're in your zone looks--these guys panic with pressure and are careless, especially Jackson
-Nothing easy for Desmar early, make him finish contested floaters--DO NOT bail him out if you think you're beat--better FT shooter than finisher
-Be ready to play that high ball screen with 23 or Jackson coming off it--the screener is a good player too, may be their best guy
-Weather their spurts, look to make heady plays to kill their momentum
-Rebound the ball hard on both ends
-Make free throws down the stretch
j.
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