Hopefully Bubba will stick around for next year.

The Onion

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Oxnard California’s Advanced Truck Driving School Left Out

Just the other day a question was posed on Yahoo! Answers asking the following,

“Rate the following College Players in terms of their “pro-potential”, you can even compare 2 current NBA plyrs?

*Luke Harangody
*Stephon Curry
*Tyler Hansborough
*Drue Holiday
*Blake Griffin”

Alright I say, fair enough. Sure the dweeb can’t spell T-Rex’s name correctly and has not yet been corrected for referring to Jrue Holiday as ‘Drue’, but he has managed to correctly identify 5 of the best players in college hoops right now.

Let’s check out a particular response,

From Nick C.,

Luke Harangody: Matt Harpering. Both are built tough and like to bang, but because of height both are tweeners… at one point Matt Harpering was 6′9. He sure has shrunk since being in the NBA as he’s now 6′7″. I think 6′8″ Luke will shrink some too. That being said if Luke gets drafted by a team that could utilize his talents namely rebounding and hustle play, he could have a long career. Especially if he continue to develop his outside shot.

How have I not been aware of this shrinking phenomenon Nick C. is talking about?

What shall we call it?

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The players are shrinking the players are shrinking

h/t Storming The Floor

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Jim Boeheim takes out his frustration on a microphone

The Golden Eagles won the tourney but their mascot, well, “got owned”.

And it’s worth mentioning that you gotta give it up to those YouTube commenter types.

You can’t make that stuff up.

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Getting to know the Summit League (I)

And no, I won’t pretend that I knew who *Arinze was prior to coming across this video.

The Cuse and I will have to become pretty familiar this upcoming season since big things are expected out of them in 08/09.

*Actually made the second free throw attempt

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For the sake of the Syracuse free-throw percentage

He’s currently on that 1st round fence.

I routinely get the feeling that a lot of the non west coasters don’t know much about Ryan. They recognize his name, but don’t really know his game.

He’s been called a tweener and unathletic, but many players have escaped that tag and gone on to be great, so there’s no point in putting any effort into those labels.

He averaged 21 ppg his sophomore year at Cal, good for best scoring average in the Pac 10, for what it’s worth.

Rod Benson, the Dakota Wizards star, has his own movement, the Boom Tho movement, and also blogs for Yahoo Sports as well.
The guy entertains his Boom Tho supporters (I’m one) by often posting amusing stories and videos about D-League life in North Dakota.

Benson has put up some quality numbers in the D-League in recent years but has yet to be signed by a NBA team. He compares himself to Kevin Garnett, except he says “I ain’t worth a dollar.”

This clip chronicles some of Ryan Anderson’s draft prep so far, Rod Benson style. Check it out.

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D-League wonder Rod Benson “interviews” Cal’s Ryan Anderson