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Post by hchoops on Dec 18, 2021 12:35:34 GMT -5
We are in a lull for HC basketball to resume. If you may be jonesing for a basketball game to watch that may be of very slight interest. Former HC players match up on the Big 10 Channel at 1:00 PM, Illinois (Grandison) vs St. Francis of PA (Hargis). Probably most have no desire to watch. So don’t castigate the messenger. Just letting you know if you have nothing better to spend your time this afternoon. “Lull”. ?? tomorrow at 2 vs Harvard Wednesday vs St Joe’s
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 18, 2021 12:39:22 GMT -5
Harvard is tomorrow, right?
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Post by hchoops on Dec 18, 2021 12:54:17 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by Crosser on Dec 19, 2021 23:30:18 GMT -5
He’s listed as a senior on their roster. Referring to Grandison.
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Post by dadominate on Jan 6, 2022 8:06:06 GMT -5
grandison shooting 54.6% from the field and an incredible 52.8% on 3 ptrs for the season.
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 6, 2022 8:20:27 GMT -5
Why can’t we get players like that?
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Post by alum on Jan 6, 2022 21:10:45 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 6, 2022 21:15:00 GMT -5
grandison shooting 54.6% from the field and an incredible 52.8% on 3 ptrs for the season. Carmody couldn't recruit.
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Post by Crosser on Jan 7, 2022 11:44:37 GMT -5
I think the announcer doing last night’s game said he was a 5th year senior, which probably means graduate student.
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 7, 2022 13:48:59 GMT -5
I think the announcer doing last night’s game said he was a 5th year senior, which probably means graduate student. MS. in Management. With his PG year at Exeter, he is playing in his sixth season after HS. Which as I recall his thin, lanky build is probably very helpful. Because he took the standard sit out year after transfer, does he still have his extra Covid year of eligibility for next season? How do his skills compare to the inch taller Malcolm Miller, who played the traditional four years after high school and blossomed as a senior at HC and then matured in the NBA developmental league? Have to be somewhat similar. If he does hook on in the NBA, HC can add him to the list of former players who played in the NBA.
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Post by hchoops on Jan 7, 2022 14:13:01 GMT -5
The NBA loves 3 and Ds
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Post by mm67 on Feb 20, 2022 8:14:12 GMT -5
Grandison drops 24 in Illinois' win over Michigan State. Illinois remains tied for the top spot in the Big Ten.
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 20, 2022 9:45:00 GMT -5
Wait! An ex-Crusader is playing well and on a very good team?!!
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Post by hcnation on Feb 20, 2022 10:08:32 GMT -5
Excerpts from an article a week ago : CHAMPAIGN — Illinois stars Ayo Dosunmu and Kofi Cockburn got most of the attention during the team’s stretch run last season, but Jacob Grandison was a player under the radar earning more playing time. Fresh off a sit-out year as a transfer from Holy Cross, Grandison tried to do everything right as a role player, playing defense, making good cuts and hitting open shots. Those things, done timely and when needed, are what got Grandison on the court more during last-season’s win streak, and got him into the starting lineup as Illinois tore through February and March on its way to a Big Ten Tournament title in 2021. “All of a sudden, he becomes really solid and sound and he kind of kicked the rust off his sit-out year and was back in the flow,” Underwood said. “He was doing a lot of little things. I remember thinking at the time and watching film that he was doing a lot of little things that were really important: cutting, rebounding, passing. Let alone making shots.” Grandison isn’t the flashiest player, but when he’s at his best he’s the one who greases the wheels for the Illinois offense.
He is the team’s best post entry player and one of it’s best spot up shooters. He’s the one who got Cockburn involved early in the second half against Indiana and the one who hit two 3s to start a late run that put the game away for a big road win. Underwood said he feels uncomfortable when Grandison isn’t on the court, and games where he has been saddled with first-half foul trouble, like against Northwestern and Purdue, are games where the offense has been off.
“It feels good to know that your coach likes you out there,” Grandison said. “I try to do everything I can and I understand, not my role, but kind of my job. I understand my presence on the court.”That understanding has come in handy while his role has expanded this season. In addition to increased minutes, he’s had to take more shots with team’s double-teaming Cockburn as well as sticking more to Alfonso Plummer. If the choice is leaving a defender on an island with Cockburn or leaving Grandison, teams will give Grandison an open look. That’s led to his scoring average more than doubling (4.6 points a game in 2020-21 to 10.5 in 2021-22).
“Last year, all I was focused on was guarding and getting the offensive rebound and whatever came after that was great,” Grandison said. “Through that, I just gained the confidence and the experience to play at this level. This year it’s kind of just naturally shifted towards more so just hooping and being free,”That makes Grandison an important piece to the team’s conference title push down the stretch.
Underwood mentioned him hitting 36-straight 3s in practice recently. More importantly, he’s earned Underwood’s trust to continue getting big minutes during this stretch run. “As a coach, there’s tremendous trust with Jake,” Underwood said. “You know what you’re getting. He doesn’t ever get out of character. Very seldom does he get displaced from the moment of the game and get out of character. He’s done it a couple times but everybody does that. For the most part, he’s very much within himself.”
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Post by mm67 on Feb 20, 2022 10:26:44 GMT -5
Obviously with Grandison gone, HC moved on. But, still it is nice to see a player whom HC recruited do well in the big time. No need to obsess.
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Post by Crosser on Feb 20, 2022 11:07:03 GMT -5
Might he have been POY in PL this year? Discuss.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 20, 2022 13:34:43 GMT -5
Might he have been POY in PL this year? Discuss. Not unless he manipulated his major (double?) to stay at HC. He'd be a grad student playing somewhere else, like Faw and Butler. Although, I guess he could have played for BU like SookMail Mathon.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Feb 20, 2022 13:37:49 GMT -5
We're about thirty-two pages beyond that.
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 20, 2022 13:53:27 GMT -5
One carpet bag, thirty-three pages.😂
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Post by DiMarz on Mar 8, 2022 19:44:28 GMT -5
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Post by nhteamer on Mar 11, 2022 13:02:53 GMT -5
not playing today either
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 11, 2022 15:00:29 GMT -5
Five members of the Class that entered Holy Cross in September 2017 played college basketball this season, four in D-1. I wonder if the six recruits from that class scored more college basketball points cumulatively than any other entering class in Holy Cross history? Three might have eligibility left to add to their totals.
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Post by Tom on Mar 11, 2022 16:59:12 GMT -5
Five members of the Class that entered Holy Cross in September 2017 played college basketball this season, four in D-1. I wonder if the six recruits from that class scored more college basketball points cumulatively than any other entering class in Holy Cross history? Three might have eligibility left to add to their totals. Six man class all with 5 years of eligibility makes it likely. . 3 guys from that class had 1000 points and two others came close enough that they're safely over 5000 points with Green and Grandison likely to play another year. Two years later had a 5 man class all eligible for 5 years, but even with potential big scorers in Lowder and Pridgen, I don't think they'll be able to match the numbers of the class you mention
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 11, 2022 17:06:27 GMT -5
When that class came on board I offered odds on the number who would score 1,000 points in their careers. I can't what long-buried thread it was in. Idid not takeinto account the possibility of scoring many of those points for other teams
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 11, 2022 18:55:13 GMT -5
All six were on the team until we had a coaching change. A couple may have been ready to go anyway, but it shows that you can get disruption when you change coaches.
As things stand now, HC may have another losing season next year but the instability of player and staff turnover will not be available as an explanation/excuse so Kit will have known knowns to deal with as opposed to known unknowns as Secretary Rumsfeld would say.
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