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re: Alabama basketball lost to small Canadian college basketball team
Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:14 pm to AU24
Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:14 pm to AU24
Hi folks:
I've been going the Carleton Ravens games for about 20 years.
The program is a miracle.
A couple guys have $2,000 athletic scholarships and they play in a nice modern gym that holds only about $2,000 people.
Their coach Dave Smart is a genius and is assistant coach of the national team.
Almost all good Canadian high school players go to the NCAA on full scholarships.
That leaves Smart with the rest of Canadian players.
In short, Carleton has no business being on the court with some of the great teams in the NCAA let alone beat them ... but they usually beat them ... at least at home.
The team gets by on very little revenue but the players are devoted and train like madmen. And they are bright players who play vicious defence.
I was at the Alabama-Carleton game on Wednesday and the Crimson Tide has great individual talent. But they don't play defence like Carleton does. Nobody does. Carleton played like a team, Alabama played like a group of talented individuals.
Yes Carleton whipped Wisconsin when the Badgers went to the Final Four. They lost the next night to Syracuse in OT when the Orange were No. 1 for almost the whole season.
This team lost a lot of star players last year including the MVP in Canada. It is young. It will get better.
The Ravens face so many disadvantages when they play NCAA teams (scholarships come to mind immediately), they have no business being on the same court. But they win.
The team is a miracle and an inspiration.
These are young men who concentrate on school and play basketball because they love it.
Louisville's coach Rick Patina (sp) said the Ravens are a good Division 1 NCAA team. High praise indeed.
The team is good. There is no shame in losing to Carleton. None at all.
I draw your attention to an article that appear in Grantland three years ago. The article gets it.
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cheers and have a good season.
I've been going the Carleton Ravens games for about 20 years.
The program is a miracle.
A couple guys have $2,000 athletic scholarships and they play in a nice modern gym that holds only about $2,000 people.
Their coach Dave Smart is a genius and is assistant coach of the national team.
Almost all good Canadian high school players go to the NCAA on full scholarships.
That leaves Smart with the rest of Canadian players.
In short, Carleton has no business being on the court with some of the great teams in the NCAA let alone beat them ... but they usually beat them ... at least at home.
The team gets by on very little revenue but the players are devoted and train like madmen. And they are bright players who play vicious defence.
I was at the Alabama-Carleton game on Wednesday and the Crimson Tide has great individual talent. But they don't play defence like Carleton does. Nobody does. Carleton played like a team, Alabama played like a group of talented individuals.
Yes Carleton whipped Wisconsin when the Badgers went to the Final Four. They lost the next night to Syracuse in OT when the Orange were No. 1 for almost the whole season.
This team lost a lot of star players last year including the MVP in Canada. It is young. It will get better.
The Ravens face so many disadvantages when they play NCAA teams (scholarships come to mind immediately), they have no business being on the same court. But they win.
The team is a miracle and an inspiration.
These are young men who concentrate on school and play basketball because they love it.
Louisville's coach Rick Patina (sp) said the Ravens are a good Division 1 NCAA team. High praise indeed.
The team is good. There is no shame in losing to Carleton. None at all.
I draw your attention to an article that appear in Grantland three years ago. The article gets it.
LINK /
cheers and have a good season.
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:16 pm to carleton fan
I thought you were a troll until I saw you spell defense like a Brit. The very best trolls here don't have that attention to detail.....
Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:16 pm to carleton fan
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carleton fan
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I've been going the Carleton Ravens games for about 20 years.
bandwagon...
Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:56 pm to carleton fan
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carleton fan
Good stuff, thanks! We have a roster full of young talented kids who have had about 10 practices together. They don't all know eachother well and are clearly going to be working out some kinks. They are playing in games like this to get some experience against tough, experienced rosters before we come back and get back into practice before our season starts.
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 8/11/17 at 2:55 pm to carleton fan
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the Crimson Tide has great individual talent. But they don't play defence like Carleton does. Nobody does. Carleton played like a team, Alabama played like a group of talented individuals.
This is good to hear. Defense was literally their only strength last year, they were God awful on the offensive end.
They have one guy, Sexton, that's a projected top 5-10 draft pick. They had some other high rated recruits signed this year too. Avery Johnson had problems as a coach with his teams not playing as a team and the stars playing as individuals. I was hoping that would be the case with Bama this year.
Sounds like they'll have a case of Simmons/LSU and Fultz/Washington syndrome this year.
Auburn has the exact opposite going on this year. We had a lot of freshmen and first year guys playing last year and we really struggled with defense and chemistry, but could score as well as anybody. By all accounts this off-season Auburn is really coming together and playing as a team and doing very well on defense. We won our first scrimmage against an Italian squad 87-29 a couple nights ago, and almost half of that teams 29 points came against our walk ons at the very end. That same Italian team scored 59 on Kansas recently...
Sounds like Auburn and Pearl will sweep Bama and Avery once again.
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