…while Billy Packer is returned to cryogenic status until next autumn.
(Cory Brewer, oblivious to the fact that someone’s gonna have to sweep up all the confetti)
…and I take back everything I said earlier about how this was going to be interesting. Will Dan Snyder have enough dough left to hire Billy Donovan away?
In all seriousness, Joakim Noah had an outstanding all-around game ; the guy’s a serious inside threat, a shot-blocking machine and a top-flight rebounder. It was a poor shooting night for the Bruins, but Noah, Brewer and Horford were the three biggest reasons why.
As killer tournaments go, this wasn’t close to the most thrilling finale of the week. And we still have the Frozen Four to look forward to / willfully ignore (depending on your cable package)
let’s face it, the tournament simply lacked that certain something CBS brought to its NFL coverage with such total commitment — voiceovers and ads for “Love Monkey”
layoffs at True Vinyl Records have really hit NoHo and the East Village hard — sales of messenger bags are way down. On the bright side, the quality of pickup basketball games has apparently sky rocketed.
Noah played a year of high school basketball at The Lawrenceville School, just down the road from my house. In the eyes of most recruiting services Noah was considered too slight to be much of a college player, drawing mostly Ivy interest initially. People I know were shocked when Florida offered him a spot on their roster. Shows the kind of people I know.