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Self on DeSousa and Preston
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7 years 6 months ago #14871
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
IMG semester ends Thursday, should know DeSousa’s status Friday. Will still need NCAA clearance, but with good grades and SAT score should be good to go, hopefully in time for conference opener at Texas on 12/29. Probably won’t be any semblance of up to speed for “a couple of weeks”.
m.kusports.com/news/2017/dec/19/self-say...silvio-de-sousas-st/
Preston: Self doesn’t expect him to play against Stanford this Thursday, but hopes to know status by then. “it’s at the point now where it’ll be out of our hands and somebody else has got to make a decision.”
Note Stanford will be game 12. I have read that a common NCAA punishment is miss 12 games - ~1/3 of the season - in many cases of unacceptable benefits.
Self expects it will take about 7-10 days for Preston to get to back up to speed.
My one misgiving regarding his comment on Preston: why does he say “it’ll be out of our hands” and not “it is out of our hands”? The latter clearly indicates the NCAA has the case, the former leaves a little wiggle room as to whether they do or don’t. Or am I reading too much into an already frustrating situation?
m.kusports.com/news/2017/dec/19/self-say...silvio-de-sousas-st/
Preston: Self doesn’t expect him to play against Stanford this Thursday, but hopes to know status by then. “it’s at the point now where it’ll be out of our hands and somebody else has got to make a decision.”
Note Stanford will be game 12. I have read that a common NCAA punishment is miss 12 games - ~1/3 of the season - in many cases of unacceptable benefits.
Self expects it will take about 7-10 days for Preston to get to back up to speed.
My one misgiving regarding his comment on Preston: why does he say “it’ll be out of our hands” and not “it is out of our hands”? The latter clearly indicates the NCAA has the case, the former leaves a little wiggle room as to whether they do or don’t. Or am I reading too much into an already frustrating situation?
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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7 years 6 months ago #14874
by NotOstertag
"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot
Posted this elsewhere, but this raised my eyebrows:
From the article:: Self said the team and the players likely would need some type of adjustment period, with Preston needing “seven to 10 days,” to get back up to speed and De Sousa needing “a couple weeks.”
Clearly it will take DeSousa some time to adjust, I get that. But why does Preston need "7-10 days" to be at 100%. If he were practicing with the team all year, wouldn't the expectation be that he's 100% ready to go the minute his number is called? Just wondering if that 7-10 days is more of a "working him into the rotation and having everybody be comfortable" or if there's some reason that Preston might not be as ready as any other kid who's been working at practice every day all season long.
From the article:: Self said the team and the players likely would need some type of adjustment period, with Preston needing “seven to 10 days,” to get back up to speed and De Sousa needing “a couple weeks.”
Clearly it will take DeSousa some time to adjust, I get that. But why does Preston need "7-10 days" to be at 100%. If he were practicing with the team all year, wouldn't the expectation be that he's 100% ready to go the minute his number is called? Just wondering if that 7-10 days is more of a "working him into the rotation and having everybody be comfortable" or if there's some reason that Preston might not be as ready as any other kid who's been working at practice every day all season long.
"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot
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7 years 6 months ago #14876
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He has been there since Italy, but lacks game shape and the ability to react as game speed.
I think two weeks is way optimistic for a kid who was playing high school ball the other day.
With both of them, which I still don't see as better than 50/50, we could be really good turning onto the back 9 of conference play.
If I am right we will need an 8-1 or 9-0 to preserve the streak and end up with the kind of seed we have gotten used to.
I think two weeks is way optimistic for a kid who was playing high school ball the other day.
With both of them, which I still don't see as better than 50/50, we could be really good turning onto the back 9 of conference play.
If I am right we will need an 8-1 or 9-0 to preserve the streak and end up with the kind of seed we have gotten used to.
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