Basketball 20-21

that big white doofus really ate their lunch for a while. its unfortunate josh gray has not earned wade's respect enough yet to get in there and D up a big man.

 

as soon as day got into foul trouble we were in for a long day. have to toughen up interior defense....

 

watford is a weak defender, i dunno why. maybe slightly slow-footed. maybe mentally not into it.

ezewiro would have helped here, had he arrived on schedule. ezewiro is thicc with a big ole charles barkley ass that could push people around down low so they dont keep dropping in baby hooks and layups. need some big meaty fellas down there.

although its possible that wade wants to play so fast that he isnt enthusiastic about playing big fellas.

i am not sure really, i just hope josh gray is not a bust. his skills, if developed are exactly what they might need.

 

i wonder if jordan toles is practicing with the team.

wade says depth is more important in practice than in games.

 

tremont waters started tonight for the celtics and was disatrously bad on defense, threw the ball away and missed shots.

 

That sucks; maybe nervous?

 

Naz had a good game recently

 

will wade said both in his postgame interview, and his coaches show, that he should have played josh gray.

i hope josh practices hard and gets ready, they desperately need a big body

 

listetning to the wade press conference from today, previewing tomorrow:

wade: "gaines has the most defensive leverage on the team"

i dunno what that means exactly.

now wade is claiming that gaines is awesome and that he is learning to fit in on a team where he is not the focal point. he is used to being able to do his thing and be creative and run things. wade says gaines is awesome and a big part of the future.

word on the street is that gaines is a practice court scoring machine.

now wade is talking about gray again. saying he will def play in situations where a big guy is needed.

"he is giving us no reason not to trust him. he is gonna make something happen, for us or them, but something is gonna happen. when you play gray you have to change up your ball screen options blah blah he is huge and physical"

- me real-time paraphrasing wade on gray

 

incoming high 4 star freshman alex fudge will be joining the team in a few days after a quaranting period of some kind. he is an early enrollee and was in high school this year.

not being a legal expert with intimate knowledge of the convoluted morasse of nonsense that is the NCAA eligibility rulebook, i am not sure on the extent to which he can participate. i just saw that he liked a tweet on twitter by some reporter reporting what i just said.

senior campaign: 18.6 points, 11.6 rebounds, 5.3 blocks, 1.3 assists, and 1.5 steals

fudge's instagram has kanji characters on it, so i translated them : go tigers

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