Marcus is two years gone now, learning his trade as an offensively talented but still raw professional point guard. He's averaging 11.3 points and 1.6 assists (with 1.9 turnovers/game) for Consultinvest Pesaro in Italy's top league. But just his week, something else happened in a William & Mary game that made me sit up and take notice, if not exactly jump.Early in the second half of the Tribe's eventual (and brutal) road loss to Towson, freshman center Nathan Knight grabbed three boards (two offensive), scored a basket, made two free throws, and ran the floor to make an acrobatic block on Tigers veteran forward John Davis. Knight's efforts helped the Tribe extend their lead to 15, and though they ultimately blew that lead, it was a bit of a coming out party for the exuberant 6'10", 250-pound newcomer.
Knight scored a career-high 15 points in 19 minutes against Towson, making 4 of 6 from the field and 7 of 8 from the line, adding 5 rebounds and 5 blocks in his best collegiate performance. He tied that career-best scoring mark yesterday against Charleston, going 5-7 from the floor and making all 5 of his free throws to go along with 6 boards in a tidy 19 minutes. In his last four games, the Syracuse native is averaging 12.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 2 blocks, despite never playing more than 19 minutes in any of those games.
The big lefty served notice of his talent early in the season when he dropped 14 on Louisville despite missing 7 of 9 free throws. He took 12 shots in that game, refusing to back down against the Cards' big, athletic frontcourt. After his recent upswing, he averages 7.9 points and 4.4 boards per game, making 54.0% of his shots, and leads the CAA in blocks/game, averaging 1.5. His 37 blocks are already the 8th best single-season tally in school history. All of this in an average of only 17 minutes.
After yesterday's win over Charleston in Williamsburg (where W&M has yet to lose this season), the Tribe are 14-10, 8-6 in the CAA. They're tied for fourth in the league with Elon, and appear assured of a top six finish, which is all that matters at this point. The league's six best teams avoid Pillow Fight Friday, where the 7-10 seeds square off to see who advances to the CAA Tournament quarterfinals. Just like every year in the past decade or so, W&M has enough talent to win the title. And just like each of those years, they're one inexplicable hairball puke away from losing to someone with inferior talent.
But whatever happens this year, Nathan Knight's big smile and bigger game portends good things for the next three seasons.
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Teej, Amelia / Fernandina Beach is great. The wife and I head up every few anniversaries for a quick getaway. We take the kids up there too, beautiful drive and a quaint little town to walk about (Fernandina). If we weren't heading to Gainesville next wkd for a swim meet we might impose.
That said, lots of good spots. We like Ciao Bistro but not as much as we did when it was located in a strip mall. I know that sounds counterintuitive but used to be a tiny little place that sat no more than 16 people. Anyway, it's good Italian with an attentive owner. There are a lot of great seafood options obviously. The cool thing about Fernandina is you can walk the whole town and assess your candidates before deciding.
If you can get about, head south 10-20 miles on 105/Hecksher....beautiful drive....pristine. There are spots to get out and walk trails and the beach.
Danimal- try and hit The Salty Dog for a beer when in Gainesville. If you're looking for a place to take the kids for a bite, go to Satchels. Great pizza.
You beat me to the punch. Will do, thanks. Will be there all day Sat and Sun.
clarence, carbon leaf is coming to leesburg in late april. plan accordingly.
Nowadays even the hosts of Grammys Red Carpet go a little too far with the threads. Nancy O'Dell...bad bad bad. And the other one....whoa.
Now get off of my lawn.
not feeling james corden as grammy host, at all.
does anyone else feel old watching the grammys?
just me?
anyone ever seen chance the rapper and kent bazemore in the same room?
Oh, the Grammys.
Shlara....yes. Old. As. Dirt. And that's because.....I am.
Lady Gaga's "dress" was pleasing to me.
I haven'n't given crap about the Grammys in about 15 years. I think John Stewart or Chris Rock hosted the last time I cared. Is Jethro Tull up for another heavy metal award?
Seacrest, in!
The Beyoncé song was turrible. Her breastesses were smushed beyond belief in that dress.
Bruno Mars is funny looking but he gets it done.
bruno's my kind of people
I live in such a musical bubble that I only watch the Grammys for the jokes on Twitter.
Bey's boobs
and, this country music chick looks like JoJo from the Bachelorette
Tribe and Anderson.paak I'm down for though.
president agent orange
busta just got on the enemies list. tribe's gotta be the best performance thus far, no?
So Busta didn't vote for Trump?
How did Bey not win album of the year?
that's bananas
Yuge day here at G:TB
we're all still in shock over last night. by which i mean the fact that agent orange conducted a classified discussion in front of his tacky mar a lago crowd.
I'm not at all surprised. This is one of the inherent problems with putting a croupier/hotelier with no political experience in charge of the free world. I have no idea where the President should be to discuss North Korea launching a test missile, let alone what the proper response is, and no one expects me to because I have no experience in security matters of any form. I don't even lock my front door! What do I know about international security?
Sorry, that wasn't a fully formed thought.
Of course Trump didn't do the right thing in that situation. He has no relevant experience for that situation so we can't expect him to do the right thing. And he can't even do the right thing in common day-to-day interactions so why expect him to handle an international crisis with the proper discretion?
Also in the news, Jerry Sandusky Jr. facing multiple charges of sexual offenses involving children. Go figure.
At some point every day I say to myself "how did we end up with a John Hughes movie villain as our President"
One of my coping mechanisms is smart comedy about the Cheeto in Chief: Desus + Mero, Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, and now John Oliver is back. This week's This Week is really good.
The shocking thing thing for me is not that the neophytes in White House keep stepping on their collective dicks, but that the rest of the Republicans seem more than willing to go along with it. With the possible exception of Graham and McCain, the rest of the elected republicans are entirely complicit.
preach, brother marls. the institutional gop's choice of power over principle is the story here. bunch of ratfucking opportunists.
There's a special place in hell for Ryan, McConnell and the rest of them for putting party before country
And I promise I'll stop with the political commentary and stick to comments about Desus + Mero
Oh shit, they sendin' the wolf!
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18679332/adam-silver-michael-jordan-trying-mediate-james-dolan-charles-oakley-truce
The list of people who cold mediate this dispute:
Michael Jordan
Pat Reilly
Patrick Ewing
Also Anthony Mason and Robert Jackson, if you're willing to include the deceased.
And maybe Bill Bradley if the meeting was in Secaucus.
Not Starks?
Have you ever heard Starks talk?
Turns out Bizarro Rob is a pretty bad dude:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sebastian-gorka-inauguration-medal-order-vitez-horthy
He related to you, Zman?
No, we aren't that kind of Honky.
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