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From: jon breiner
Date: 04 Jan 2005 - 11:49 AM EST

LOL! I'd take Barker. That would be a good, albeit slightly negative poll
for bearcatnews.com: "who is the worst PG during the Huggins era?"

Without thinking through all of them, I think Horton gets my vote.

Of course, I am trying to lighten the mood a bit regarding Jihad. I am
disappointed thus far, but also realize it is early. While I don't expect
jihad to approach NVE type status, NVE was not exactly going crazy at this
point his first year.

jon


----- Original Message ----- From: "Mick Bergman" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Taron Barker


Where would Michael Horton fit in with this years team? :)


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:33:50 -0500, jon breiner wrote:
I thought I would really get some of you going. Do you realize this
would
be the second year in a row since he left, and 3rd or 4th year in a row
overall that Taron Barker would be our best PG? :)

I still support Barker! :)

Jon

ps. Of course, we can now debate what that says about the ability to
recruit
PG's for this system, but regardless, Barker'd still be the best. :)

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:09:59 -0500, jon breiner <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> Jihad is going to have to gel with his teammates the way Tony B did,
>> and
>> it
>> will take some time. As for the players getting on Jihad (and I am
>> not
>> saying they don't have a good beef!) I would ask some of them the
>> following
>> question(s):
>>
>> Armein, Did Jihad's gunning cause you to shoot 2 airballs and take
>> another
>> 3-4 bad shots? Did his gunning cause you to not pay attention to the
>> in
>> bounds pass that bounced off your chest?
>>
>> Eric, did Jihad's gunning make you miss those dunks? What about those
>> passes that hit your hands and bounced off? Did his gunning cause you
>> to
>> revert to last year's FT form?
>>
>> Jason, did Jihad's gunning cause you to miss another dunk? Did it
>> cause
>> you
>> to think Illinois was too physical?
>>
>> James, did Jihad's gunning interfere with your ability to rebound the
>> ball
>> again?
>>
>> Should I stop or go on? My point is before these guys spend too much
>> time
>> worrying about how Jihad is hurting the team, maybe they could worry
>> about
>> themselves first. I think that is likely what Huggins had them talk
>> about
>> after the game.
>>
>> Anyway, it is only the end of the NC season. In other words, still
>> very
>> early. I will get more concerned if there are issues a month or more
>> from
>> now, but I am not going to get bent out of shape by losing to the best
>> team
>> in the country at this point.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:48 AM
>> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Huggins
>>
>> >
>> > In a message dated 1/3/2005 9:27:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> > address@hidden writes:
>> >
>> >
>> > Um, Jihad took more shots than anyone else in the Illinois game
>> > (2-for-12)
>> > and was on the receiving end of some unhappy remarks from
>> > teammates.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I was going to post this before but I do so much negative stuff I
>> > passed.
>> > What it was is I noticed that players wouldn't pass Jihad the ball
>> > unless
>> > they
>> > had to after the first offensive set broke down. This was prior to
>> > the
>> > Illinois game. Kirkland for one wouldn't . I think the worst thing
>> > to
>> > happen for
>> > Jihad was he made those shots to win the NI game and became an
>> > instant
>> > star of
>> > the fans and it went to his head. He wants to score first and pass
>> > to
>> > his
>> > teammates second. Not good. Will it get worked out. I don't know.
>> > Don
>> >
>>
>>



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