Posted by CHS on 11/3/2009, 9:46 am, in reply to "My Talk with Burlison 10-30"
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I pretty much agree with what you've written except for the comments about the road schedule.
First, I don't think that any 30-point blowouts will occur. We have too much returning talent (Anderson, T.J., Ware, Gilling) plus, as you note, at least two substantially-improved returning players (Plater, Phelps).
Second, please explain how a season-ending injury is more likely just because the opposition is Kentucky or Duke instead of a D-2 school. Heck, season-ending injuries - which are inevitably traumatic injuries as opposed to stress injuries - can occur in practice.
--Previous Message--
: Last Friday before the Los Al vs. Edison HS
: Football game I noticed Frank Burlison on
: the sidelines observing the action. I
: immediately went over and complimented him
: on his blog and of course started to ask him
: his opinions of Beach basketball for this
: season. Below is what he told me
: (paraphrased of course)
:
: The Good
: 1. Eugene Phelps is the real deal. He has
: improved 1000% and is so much better than
: last season its crazy. His speed, size, and
: shooting ability will be a great asset
:
: 2. Greg Plater has improved so much he
: wouldn't be surprised to see him in starters
: role. His scoring is that good.
:
: 3. Richardson is the real deal as well...
: big wide body, great hands... will
: contribute this year a little, watch out for
: next season...
:
: 4. Woodard and Gilling.. he didn't talk
: about much except to say that they are role
: players with some pretty severe limitations
: in terms of speed, shot creativity, etc.
: Nice back up's, but that's about all.
:
: The Bad
: 1. The schedule is ridiculasly difficult.
: The press and other coaches came away
: scratching their head with this line-up. No
: high major would EVER attempt something like
: this because there would simply be the risk
: for too many losses. The fact that we are
: playing these schools reaks of old D1
: "body bag" football games to
: simply secure funds to help the program.
:
: 2. The schedule pt. 2. The other fear with
: the schedule is that the team will suffer a
: few too many 30+ pt beat downs and will lose
: confidence in themselves or even worse
: suffer a season ending injury... A
: conference opener AT UCR (a tough place and
: team to play in it's own right) is no cake
: walk either.
:
: 3. All indications are that Montegomery
: will RS. He's 190 and a thin 190... it will
: hard for him to get up to 210... a prospect,
: but pretty rough.
:
: The Ugly
: 1. Don't expect anything from Chang this
: season. He's soft as a cotton ball and is
: super confused on the court. Frank said
: he's the 1980's soft euro player right now
: and will only be good for maybe 10 mins per
: game. A BIG project
:
: 2. If Fleming at 250lbs didn't work, why
: are we now impressed with 290lbs? This guy
: is very nice, but his footwork is still so
: slow he just can't be effective. Again a big
: body that will provide virtually nothing.
:
: 3. No shock here but don't expect Wilson
: this season, he didn't know where the rumors
: were that he could come back, because from
: what he's been told and seen.. "aint no
: way" that's happening
:
: Lastly, just an observation but he didn't
: mention Casper, TJ, Laz or any other player
: as either being worse, better or average. I
: don't know if I just forgot to ask or what,
: but they didn't make a huge new impression
: on him during my 15 min talk.
:
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