small get my feet wet play

[fletcher]

wake-3 small half unit but not a blind play. Both teams played ok on the road last year and tigers can shoot good from the outside and they will have to because wake should have a major adv. on the inside and they will just work ball around and pound it in . If tigers start to try and pack it in tight in a zone to stop the inside play wake has good enough shooters to hit the 12-15 foot shot, you can bet tigers will play spme good D, but out side shooting teams have trouble at times playing at the garden and wake has a little more experince and has a major inside adv IMO, they also go a little deeper then the tigers should be a very good game but i have to side with the more physical inside team when it is at the garden and a short number.

good luck.

 

[THUNDER]

what advantage on the inside memphis will outrebound these guys - howard was a huge loss and this frosh for memphis is the real deal-jmo gl on your play

 

[fletcher]

well lets see even with 6'9 ellis being out wake has 6'9 center 295 Eric williams, 6'8 Jamaal leavy,6'8 Vytas Danelius as well as to other big guys off the bench who will see game as fresh and make a impact f Todd Hndley and c Kyle Visser. The only way tigers can out rebound them will be speed because they are out maned in the paint and g Chris Paul will do fine running the team guess we will just have to see won't we.

 

[Heyward]

Wake led the nation last year in rebounding margin at 9.6 per game (Kansas a distant second at 7.9). I don't think Howard accounted for all of those. Put Levy and Strickland in Howard's place and I don't see a huge dropoff in the rebounding department.

Memphis has a couple of promising freshmen (Lopez, Banks, etc.), but I don't think they are going to come out in thier first game and make up for the losses of Massie (10.8 reb per game), Barron (5.5 rpg), and Grice (6.2 rpg). If Calipari would stop going after big men who are going to jump to the NBA (Kendrick Perkins, Qyntel Woods, & Amare Stoudamire just in the past couple of years), and had recruited big kids who wanted to go to college the past couple of seasons, he wouldn't have to use so many freshmen up front. Just my opinion, but I don't see freshmen outplaying Danelius and Williams as long as those guys don't foul out before halftime. Good luck.

 

[Nickelback]

fletcher is a smart man for playing these games light for now. . . hope the rest of you do the same. Can't wait to get in full swing with all of you in a couple weeks.

Gl tonight

 

[loophole]

wake's rebounding numbers are even more impressive when you consider that around 18 of those games were against acc opponents, and howard was out hurt several games last year. my feelings are that memphis is just too young to compete with wake right out of the gate.

 

[NySportsfan]

good start to your season eric, continued success buddy

Mike

 

[Lester Diamond]

Ok your feet are wet.. Now don't turn on the hairdryer Sex Ape..
Great pick

 

[fletcher]

i think the st.joes total might be a tad bit low at-137 so taking some baby steps, take a good 2-3 weeks before you can really play much unit wise because teams will be playing lot of players and just need to get into the flow of games. I know teams have played ex games but they tend to be a lot different then the real thing , they are the start of the tun up and the real tune up comes in the first 2-3 weeks and by then tou should know what to expect for the most part.

s.joes ov 137 half unit all of these will be for awhile

st,joes ml1/4 unit.

good luck

Eric

 

[vinnie]

Hope you hit them both on the St Joe's play with you.

 

[fletcher]

well V we got them i would say a nice start to a long season 3-0 is better then 0-3 + had pitt at 8.5 played and gave out yesterday.

so that looks to be it for the week why push it, it's a long season and have a 4-0 to start with will take that, most times early it is the other way around but put lots of time into college hoops the last 3 months.

good luck this season

Eric

 

[ND2002HORNS]

Nice start!

HORNS

 

[fletcher]

cal irv+8 1/4 unit

 

[superbook]

E --

I think you're on the right side of this one.

Lots of sloppy play this early and can't expect for UIC to play great early either even if they have last years starters, Irvine is a decent team and while they can never seem to cover as a fav, they usually can stay close as a dog. Parada is in great shape and if he stays out of foul trouble he could have a monster night.

good luck

 

[He Hate Me]

As someone who attends 10-12 games at the Bren center a year, I know UCI inside and out. They never cover the games back in Chicago last 3 yrs now. They play teams tough in 1st half and then coach Douglass sits Parada too long, and/or uses a 10-12 man rotation and they are only 5 deep at most, I look for another 20 win season from UCI, this was there toughest game of the yr vs Flames. They lost by 12 afterwinning at halftime.

Parada has decent post moves and is a good shot blocker but isnt very physical and is slow and is always in foul trouble.

UCI cant recruit the athletic forward that rebounds and that is why they cant get over the hump.

Anyone know what Jerry Green is up to? it is a disgrace he isnt in the nba.