Basketball Season’s on deck

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Originally Posted by 60swerethebest

Fun evening. Surprised so many students showed up.
Got to talk to some of the new guys. Fine young men. Hope springs eternal that they are also fine bball players. Our new asst coach seems to love it here. Hosanna had class so he wasn’t there. Players told me he is load inside. Hope he can play defense, fill the inside, rebound or at least not foul out.
Hope is my byword for the year.

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Yeah, Coach Marlin told me that Coach Shumpart is going to be a great addition to the team and he really wants to be here. He is very excited about this opportunity. Someone and I laughed the other day, because Coach Shumpart is a big dude, I mean a really big dude that when he tells the boys to rebound, I bet the listen.

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Originally Posted by des for pres

he is young and never got a chance to prove himself. Marlin recruited him for a reason.

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He is on the team because of his dad.

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Originally Posted by RaginDave

I would never say that. There are tons of players that go to colleges with very low expectations of them, that end up being huge contributors and then there are cases where kids go to schools with high expectations and end up not panning out.

Vinnie is young and will have a chance to work himself into a place on the team. I would never say never with him or anyone on this roster. If he is on the roster, he has a chance to contribute. Will it be hard for him, absolutely, will it be impossible, no way. Just the fact that Chancellor White is probably unavailable for part if not most of this season, has moved him up the food chain already.

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I'm just telling you my opinion on the kid from what I've heard from others around the team.

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Originally Posted by cajuns80

I'm just telling you my opinion on the kid from what I've heard from others around the team.

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I'm not disagreeing with you that his road will be hard, but not impossible. If you can shoot you can shoot and with a small sample size, he has proven he can shoot. In 5 games and 32 minutes last year, this young man was 5-12 shooting and 4-9 in 3 pointers and two of those games were Drake and Texas, granted most of his work was done vs non D1 or mop up duty in blowouts, but he can shoot the ball, he just needs a chance.

But can he shoot the standing J like DaBoot?

Vinny "BUCKETS" is gonna show off against UT-Tyler!

Now why y’all on here talking down about a player on the team. VINNY is my guy and is one of the best shooters i’ve seen come thru UL, if he is given the time the coach thinks he deserves he will be successful. He is also a great teammate and hard worker!!! #BradBoydBasketball