Upstate Redo

[CoachC]

Kiki Vanderweigh's son will be very disappointed in you!

[Wayne23]

No doubt!

[Wayne23]

5/1: I buy national gold.

6/5: No transfer slots availabul.

6/26: 5 ta fill.

7/11: Some recruits is showin’ int’rist. Kid camps is sold out.

7/25: Kinda scary ta say it but this team looks as good as las’ years, at least at this stage. Great recruits an’ future recruits at the camps.

8/7: Jay Hicks is #28 on the Norton List.

8/21: I offer ta 3 gaurds an’ 2 bigs.

9/11: Home visits. Wish I had 5 er 6.

9/18: Some good responses but no comitmints. We got a schedule. Hopin’ fer a tourney but no luck. Defin’ly a stronger scheduel, 4 ranked teams an’ mostly 3 star an’ beter teams.

9/25: Some int’rist but nobodys sayin’ yes. A couple’a nose.

10/2: 1st day a practiss. No comitmints yet.

[Wayne23]

Picked ta win the confer’nce agin. We’re upta Q.

11/2: 1st exibishun is aginst Wofford. 38-27 at the half.

79-61. Refs was idjits callin’ ever’thin’. +6, -1, 46-35%. Fouls was 18-17.
Hm, my #13 guy is the MOP a the game.

11/7: 2nd exibishun is aginst Wofford. 43-17 at the half. Shootin’ 69%. That ain’t to shaby! Blakes got 11.

81-36 at the end. +9, +12, 54-32%. Fouls was 14-8.

Tuck done good agin. He’s gonna need minits. Brown, Blake an’ Barr played good to but lotsa guys did.

Love my starting 5 but Blake, Tuck, Hawk, Hunt all need more time and there all gaurds. No idea howta solve that one. Up front Shell looks like the best an’ Moslet should git minits, mebbe Arth. Realy I got 13 guys I could play.

[Wayne23]

Coloradas in ta start. There in F conf. Not much ta go by but thay don’t look that good.

11/15: 45-18 at the half. Cross an’ Brown both got 2 quick fouls so I played Tuck. He got 18 in 16 min. He’ll start from now on.

73-45 at the end. 30, 4, 2, 2 fer Tuck, an’ he don’t git tired, 36 minits! 11, 6, 1 fer Hicks, 9 fer Blake, 8 each fer Cross an’ Hunt, 8 RBs fer Herr.

+1, +11, 45-36%.

At 1-0 Mississippi State. Thay shore looked good in there op’ner.

11/18: 45-29 at the half. Hicks got 14 an’ 5.

88-64. 21, 6, 1 fer Tuck, 14, 8 fer Hicks, 11, 8, 2, 1 fer Herr, 5, 6, 7 fer Cross, 8 each fer Blake an’ Shell.

+22, +1, 55-41%. This is one tough team I got hear!

Cross hurt his wrist, out about a weak.

11/20: Ranked #20. That din’t take long!

South Carolina, 1-1, is in. Bin wantin’ ta play these guys fer a long time sense there right nex’ door. There in G conf.

11/22: 44-12 at the half. Kinda scary.

79-40 at the end. This was a team efort, 15 each fer Hicks an’ Tuck, 12 fer Hill, 10 fer Barr, ever’budy done sumthin’.

+20, +7, 50-28%.

“Who’s gonna beat ya, Kimmy?”

“Hey, who’s going to beat you, Frank?”

“Ya no, I ain’t shore anybudy is. This team’s amazin’, kinda like yer team las’ year an’ pro’lly agin this year.”

“We could make a lot more money if we went somewhere else.”

“Yeah, I bin thinkin’ ‘bout that. I still don’t wanna leave Spartansburg but if South Carolina axed us I’d pro’lly go. You?”

“I’d go to a lot of places, but not without you. South Carolina’s a lot bigger, they pay better, their budget’s better. I still say you need to broaden your horizons. Why not NORTH Carolina, or Duke, of Florida? Or lots of other places?”

“Don’t move to quick, Kimmy. I’d think on South Carolina. Let me work out all the rest. Ain’t nobody axin’ us ‘til April anyways.”

“Good point! Lots of games to win between now and then.”

“Yep, thay is.”

[Wayne23]

At 2-1 Louisville. There in B. Thay got 3 players.

11/25: 2 on Tuck, 12:06. 35-29 at the half.

Blake fouls out, 5:22, up 9. From then on we do are best ta throw it away.

Thay hit 2 threes in the last minit an’ we’re up 2 with :11 lef’.

It takes’ em 4 seconds ta foul an’ its on’y #5, :07. It takes another 3 an’ its #6 so :04 ta play. We throw it inta the backcourt an’ dribble out the clock.

71-69. We led by 16 in the second afore we started playin’ likle crap. Fouls almos’ got us to.

16, 2, 2, 2, 1 fer Tuck, 10, 6 fer Hicks, 9, 4, 4 fer Cross, 8, 9, 1, 1, 1 fer Herr an’ 8, 3, 5, 1 fer Blake. But we let there startin’ backcourt git 42, most of ‘em late.

+10, +1 but fouls was 18-11, witch is what almos’ done us in. Still it’s a win.

2-2 Fresno State from E is in. Strenth is in backcourt.

11/29: 38-22 at the half. Tuck goin’ crazy, 23 an’ 4.

87-52 at the end. Never seen nuthin’ like it, 45, 6, 2 fer Tuck. Hicks, Barr an’ Shell pl;ayed real good an’ the rest perty much did to. It ain’t easy givin’ minits ta 13 guys but that’s what I’m tryin’ ta do.

+12, +4, 54-32%.

At 4-1 Boston Collige, B conf. Ain’t played nobudy but West VA witch beat ‘em by 22. They got holes.

12/2: 2 on Hicks, 8:39. 25-31 at the half. Not hittin’ shots, 30%-40%.

We came on strong in the 2nd then faded at the end but hung on, 66-63.

21, 6, 1, 1 fer Tuck

+13, +5, 42-43%. Fouls was 12-22, witch saved us.

12/4: #16, RPI #2.

6-0. Kimmy’s 9-0.

[Wayne23]

1-5 Mississippi, Conf. E is in. Played 4 ranked teams. Sloppy.

12/6: Big offense inna 1st half, 45-31. Tuck is hittin’.

We work on ways ta tightin the D in the 2nd.

Perty even but we never let ‘em git close, 78-59 at the end.

+4, +10, 46-40%. We servive 25-11 in fouls. Cross fouled out an’ the resta the starters ‘cept fer Barr all come close.

26, 1, 4, 1 fer Tuck, 11, 9, 2, 2, 3 fer Herr, 9, 8, 4, 1, 2 fer Barr. Bench he’ped with 21, 10, 6.

Biggist challange a the season next, at #4, 7-2 Syracuse, conf. B. Thay ain't realy beat nobody good but on’y lost ta #1 FL, an’ Miami. Miami ain’t that good. Terrific RB, good D, but not goods with the ball witch we’ll try ta exsploit.

12/9: 22-15 at the end of a strange 1st half. Cross got in early foul trouble agin an’ Hicks got in some to. Alla the calls was goin’ aginst us but thay was a litle quicker an’ when that happins ya foul.

I talked about it in the locker, an’ about workin’ harder ta git open.

We battled in the 2nd. Thay evenchuely went up 6, then we realy hadta batle.

At the end we hadta foul an’ thay hit enough shots. We come down the floor with :11 left, down 1.

I wanted Hicks ta take the shot an’ he did. Their PF come out an’ blocked it, an’ that was it, 57-58.

Great D but the fouls done us in, 20-9. Thay shot 23-27, we shot 2-4, an agin, we commited mosta them fouls. The refs wasn’t ‘zackly kind tho.

TOs hurt to, 18-11. RBs was +3. Shootin’ was 39-32%.

20, 6, 2 fer Hicks16, 0, 3 fer Cross but I couldn’t keep him in the game, 4 fouls in 16 minits. 10, 6 fer Tuck witch thay doubled all night an’ it worked.

The finel thing what kiled us was the bench. Ares got 5, 10, 8, theres got 16, 12, 2. Tough night but we hung inwith the #4 team on the rode.

On’y dropped from #16 ta #17 so the lost din’t hurt us much.

Cross an’ Barr been pissy with each other latley. I brought ‘em in one at the time an’ kicked there buts about it.

5-2 Iowa, F conf., is in. Thay ain’t played nobudy. Thay score outside.
12/13: Back on track, 40-26 at the half.

On’y there 2 is hurtin’ us an’ we daside ta stop ever’budy else an’ let him go.

It works, 78-49 at the end. Thay tried ta double Tuck like Syracuse done but thay din’t have the talent ta do it good. He got 28 an’ 6. 16, 10 fer Hicks, 13, 3, 3 fer Blake.

8-1. Kimmys 12-0, ain't bin challanged even oncet yet.

[Wayne23]

5-4 Missouri, from E is in. Played ranked teams in there last 3, beat 2 of ‘em, barley. There perty lose with the ball.

12/20: Thay took a breaf lead but it din’t last. Up 37-28 at the half. Not reboundin’ good, not turnin’ ‘em over but makin’ are shots an’ movin’ real good on O.

We strech the lead ta 14 but thay kep’ comin’ back. Hicks an’ Barr was in fouls trouble witch hurt us but we never let ‘em closer then 2 an’ we ended up 74-66.

-13, -4 (not happy ‘bout eather one), 44-35%, 16 ta 21 fouls. To many wissles.

16, 4, 5 fer Tuck, 17, 2, 2 fer Cross, 15, 5 fer Hicks.

Last pre-conf. games at 5-5 Duke, in C. Thay ain’t bin the usuel Duke team but there stil danjerus. 3 bad losses tho. Lost there strtin’ PF ta grades 2 days ago. That’s gotta hurt sense there startin’ C was alreddy gone with a broke wrist. Still there Duke an’ the games there.

12/27: A real batle in the first, 30-32 at the end. Ownin’ the boreds an’ takin’ care’a the ball but standin’ around on O, an’ there SF is killin’ us, 19 points, 5 threes.

We’ll double th SF an’ we BETER move on O! I put in some stuff fer that.

We control the SF much beter. The SG hits a couple but not anough ta mater. We start movin’ on O an’ git open looks an’ nock ‘em down. We take the lead by the 1st media TO an’ keep it. 77-62 at the end.

+24, +2, 47-41% (52-33% in the 2nd).

18, 7, 1 fer Hicks but all are starters put up great numbers in the 2nd.

We end the pre-conf season 10-1. Kimmys 14-0.

[Wayne23]

Start the conf season at Arkansaw- Pine Bluff, 5-6. One descent win an’ a buncha bad losses. Score mos’ly outside an’ there sloppy.

1/3: Great 1st half, led by as much as 16, 42-32 at the end. Great reboundin’. On’y problem is we ain’t takin’ care’a the ball, 9 TOs.

We talk about ball handlin’ an’ getting’ out on there 2 an’ 3 witch is both gittin’ to many open looks. Ain’t hittin’ many but still.

We git the lead to 19 at 9:22 an’ then it falls apart. Frank Herr git hurt, we stop makin’ shots an there 2 an’ 3 start hittin’. Allova suden the lead is 5, 2:22.

We git it ta 9 but then thay come rorin’ back agin an’ it 2 with :14 lef’ an’ thay got the ball.

Thay work it ta there 3 an’ he misses but there 2 gits it an’ throws up a 3 that roles aroun’ the rim an’ goes out as the horn gose. 78-76 an’ we’re lucky ta servive.

+33 (So how was this game close?), -10 (Oh).

Startin’ 5, Blake an’ Hunt had good numbers but the D fell apart.

Herrs out fer a week an’ a half, sprained index finger, right hand. Startin’ Shell.

7-5, 1-0 IUPU-Indianapolis is next. Won ther last 3 after losin’ 4. Ain’t beat nobody good.

1/6: I daside ta start Blake fer Cross. Mixed results. 35-25 at the half, turnin’ them over big time but 4 TOs fer Blake.

We hol’ on in the 2nd but we’re missin’ Herr. 66-52.

-3, +10 (but 15 TOs), 12 ta 18 fouls.

17, 4, 5, 1 fer Blake but 7 TOs. 7 other guys do a litle but not much. I’ll give Blake one more game.

1/8: #12, RPI #2.

At 7-6, 1-1 Mercer. Beat Ohio State early but lost ta some awful teams. There 2 kin play the hole game. He don’t git much help.

1/10: We lead for the hole half practic’ly but barley. 28-25 at the break an’ both Cross an’ Arth is hurt.

We talk about takin’ care’a the ball witch we ain’t.

We lead fer the hole half but not by much agin, 62-55 at the end. We weren’t to good taday.

+7, -3 (21 TOs).

18, 3, 5 fer Blake but 6 TOs. I’d start Cross but he got hurt.

Arth is out fer mebbe 10-12 days with abomdinabuls, Cross hurt his knee but not serious, 4-7 days. Herr might be reddy fer are next.

Herrs back.

[Wayne23]

4-10, 1-2 UMBC is in. Perty week team.

1/13: 43-25 at the half. Doin’ ev’rything ‘cept reboundin’.

66-42. Nice ta have a easy one fer oncet.


-1, +5 (on’y 8 TOs, none fer Blake), 47-29%.
17, 3 fer Tuck, 12, 6, 4 fer Hicks, 8, 5, 3, 1 fer Blake, 10, 2, 3 fer Brown.

1/15: #10, RPI #2, 14-1, 4-0. Kimmys #1, #1, 18-0.

At 5-10, 0-4 Chicago State. Ain’t beat nobudy closeta good.

1/17: We come out slugish agin, leadin’ mosta the way but not takin’ control. 38-31 at the half.

Reboundin’ is the diff so far.

Never did take control, 73-65. Thay give us more trouble then thay shoulda.

+12, -1 (9 TOs, on’y 2 fer Blake).

17, 4 fer Tuck, 14, 0, 3 fer Blake, 10, 3 fer Shell. Not that good tanight.
We’re alone in 1st.

7-9, 3-2 Towson is in. Thay ain’t played nobudy.

1/20: I geuss we’re back, 42-22 at the half. Tuck an’ Cross was makin’ all kindsa shots an’ we played great D.

2nd half was perty even, 76-54 at the end.

+10, +6 (but 15 TOs), 48-42%. Don’t like givin’ up that high a %.

21, 2, 2, 1 fer Tuck, 18, 4, 1 fer Cross.

“Whattaya mean I gotta cut the numbera people I take ta rode games, Tank?”

“We’re trying’ ta cut down on exspensis. Ever’thing’s goin’ up.”

“I ain’t exsackly givin’ free rides. I take the people I NEED!”

“Thays gotta be a few ya kin cut.”

“This is crazy. Yer bealovid football team got more freeloders then I kin even imagin goin’ ta there games. Ya wanna cut, cut there!”

“That’s dif’rint. Football got lotsa people ya gotta shmooz an’ play upta.”

“Whattay think I gotta do? I GOTTA git recruits I’m chasin’ an’ there famblies int’rested. Ta do that thay gotta see us play an’ we gotta pay fer it. It costs the same where we bring ‘em ta home games er bring ‘em to rode games.”

“Well ya gotta cut back. I was gonna say 10% but lets say 6 er 7%. Yer wifes team to.”

“You talk ta my wife about her team, I ain’t yer danged mesinger boy!”

I love ever’thin’ ‘bout this school except that horses but Tank Hopkins. That guys jist a totle idjit. Why anybudy thinks he ain’t to stupid ta be the A. D. is jest compleatley beyond me. This fight ain’t over.

#9, RPI down ta #4 witch makes since. 16-1, 6-0. Kimmy’s still #1 an’ undefeeted.