Had to chuckle when coach said Williams scored 50 pts. in a game so he must have the ability to score or something similar to that. It reminded of when Niksa Tarle came here and was touted as scoring 70 or more points in a game. I had high hopes of him lighting it up. I doubt he scored 70 pts. in his Duquesne career and probably had more traveling calls then buckets.

applecorps wrote:

I don't remember anything touted about 70 points a game for Tarle.

I do remember that John Carroll had a knack, long before Ferry did the same, for keeping some apparent talent firmly glued to the bench. You can't score when you're sitting on the pine.

Not 70 points a game, 70 points in a game.
 

As a senior Tarle got some playing time and was effective in some games I saw. He played ackward but was disruptive around the glass and came up with key baskets at times.

Remember, he played for the coach who once told a Duquesne Hall of Fame player he would play a walk on before Playing him again, and he proved it. He later as interim coach of the NBA Boston Celtics, traded away that same former Duquesne player who was his inherited starting point guard, He sent him to Detroit where Mike James won a NBA ring as a member of the NBA Champions.

What a loser that JC was, another BC blunder.

phil95 wrote:

I have only ever known 1 or 2 Dukes players. I was around Mike James a good deal in both undergrad & grad school. By all reports he is now & has been for a long time a fine human being. However, I am here to tell you that at least in his early college years he was exactly the kind of guy most coaches would hate to have on their team.

I always think of JC as slightly above average coach in a terrible situation. BC is a different story.

Phildog wrote:

As a senior Tarle got some playing time and was effective in some games I saw. He played ackward but was disruptive around the glass and came up with key baskets at times.

Remember, he played for the coach who once told a Duquesne Hall of Fame player he would play a walk on before Playing him again, and he proved it. He later as interim coach of the NBA Boston Celtics, traded away that same former Duquesne player who was his inherited starting point guard, He sent him to Detroit where Mike James won a NBA ring as a member of the NBA Champions.

What a loser that JC was, another BC blunder.

 

BC is by far the worst.

president wrote:

Lots of confidence in the coaching staff. Will not finish last. Maybe tied for 11 or 12. Something of that nature.

Gee, nothing like raising the bar. They'll finish last because of new players and no depth.