Thursday, August 10, 2017

This Week in Wrenball: Cool Gunnings

Connor Burchfield's been in the weight room
There are lots of reasons to believe that the 2017-18 season will be a challenging one for the William & Mary hoops squad. The team's top three scorers and rebounders from last year, Daniel Dixon, Omar Prewitt, and Jack Whitman are all gone - the first two via graduation, and the latter via transfer. Greg Malinowski, who gave W&M 7.7 ppg and was poised to be a team leader, transferred to Georgetown so he could play with George Muresan (who seems to be missing a couple of h's). The cupboard may not be completely bare, but it's down to Cheetos and a couple of potatoes with those root thingies growing out of them. Only senior David Cohn returns from the 2016-17 starting lineup.

So we may not get that much opportunity to celebrate our Wrens this year, which is why you're reading about them on August 10th. W&M might not make much noise in the CAA, but our boys are smacking the crap out of some Jamaican dudes this week.

With one contest remaining in their three-game tour of the Blue Island, the Tribe are 2-0, with an average margin of victory of 44.5 over the Jamaican U-21 National Team and a collection of professional players known as Jamaica Select.

Boston College transfer Matt Milon led all scorers with 22 points in the Tribe's trip opening 103-59 win over the Jamaican U-21s. Frosh Jihar Williams added 16, with both W&M debutants going 4-7 from deep. Returning high scorer Nathan Knight went for 10 points and 9 boards, sophomore Justin Pierce (of whom much will be demanded this year) got 8 and 9, and point guard Cohn added 9 assists to his 10 points.

SPIKEBALL!!!
In W&M's second matchup, a 98-53 win over Jamaica Select, sharpshooter Connor Burchfield scored 16 points on 4-9 three-point shooting, while Williams kept up his production from downtown, scoring all of his 15 points on 5-11 longballs. Pierce scored 11 and grabbed a game-high 13 boards, and Cohn dropped 8 dimes and scored 15 points. In what we hope isn't a bad omen, Milon missed the game with an injury.

The Tribe finishes their tropical slate this evening against the Mingo 79'ers, which is either a Jamaican pro squad or very painful Caribbean sexual position.

If our 2017-18 outlook is any indicator, go with the pain.

18 comments:

  1. What's up with the simultaneous posts? I thought we'd be rationing.

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  2. pretty sure it's dave's fault

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  3. sorry-- that was for sentence of dave, sometimes my posts automatically go to here . . .

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  4. good guys beat the mingo 79'ers, 71-47. missed opportunity. not sure why we made that final bucket.

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  5. no problemo dave...nice to know there's a post in the hopper. that will get us through 'til rob's return, allowing most of us here to continue with non-contributions.

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  6. not so fast, my friend. that was a sentence of dave post that wandered away from home. still nothing in the gtb hopper.

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  7. rob's at the beach. he has internet.

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  8. We have a hopper? I hardly know 'er.

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  9. Hell or High Water and Out of the Furnace are currently both on Various Showtime channels. Not exactly uplifting flicks but both well worth your time.

    Far different from The Emoji Movie. Which is how I spent my Friday evening.

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  10. Survived first camping night w/ my oldest at his sleepaway camp's Dad's w/e. Hard rain the whole night. Shockingly, my limited tent constructing acumen proved sufficient, and everything stayed dry. Dad could use a Bloody Mary.

    My son is covered in scabs, has smelly feet and sandals, and is having the time of his life. That describes most kids here.

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  11. For years I've heard rumors that TR has difficulty pitching a tent.

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  12. man, the days just keep getting darker in trump's america.

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  13. but they keep getting brighter in my head. i swore off beer after the obft, so i'm drinking mezcal tonight-- nuestra soledad. on ice with a spritz of lime. wow.

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  14. trump is in bedminster new jersey and he condemns hatred and bigotry. i used to fly fish in bedminster on the lamington river, until i decided to stop my hatred and bigotry towards trout.

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  15. It seems like the Charlottesville situation deserves more than just a perfunctory "sad!".

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  16. I went to two separate paddle outs today. Paddle outs are a funeral/celebration of life thing that's popular in beach communities. You basically have a large group of people paddle out past the break and some sort of semi informal ceremony happens. Anyway, both were people in their 30s who OD'd on Oxy. A lot of that around here.

    Surprisingly, I had a great day. Wife is out of town and I kicked with my kid all day. She's fun and made today about a million times better.

    Now I'm gonna have some drinks.

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  17. I'm not a big Chance the Rapper fan but "No Problems" is so fucking good.

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