{"id":562,"date":"2009-12-06T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-12-06T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T06:04:09","slug":"cofc-beat-davidson-syracuse-bet-maine-and-greg-oden-hurts-his-knee-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/cofc-beat-davidson-syracuse-bet-maine-and-greg-oden-hurts-his-knee-again\/","title":{"rendered":"CofC beat Davidson, Syracuse bet Maine, and Greg Oden Hurts his knee….again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a pretty nice day.\u00a0 I really didn’t wake up until 1:45.\u00a0 When I woke up, I was hungry so I gave Dan a call.\u00a0 We went to Liberty and chilled there along with Alex for a while.\u00a0 I was able to convince Dan to go to the game with me, but not Alex.\u00a0 We walked down George Street towards the student entrance and waited for Erin to show up and she was accompanied by Caroline.\u00a0 We watched warm ups from the second row of the student section and waited for Will to show up.\u00a0 He showed up a couple minutes into the game.<\/p>\n

After watching last game, I was worried that beating Davidson was going to be tough, but we never looked back.\u00a0 Early on, CofC had an 18-6 lead and never looked back.\u00a0 Once again Jeremy Simmons was tough as nails.\u00a0 He was all over the place\u00a0 grabbing 10 rebounds and blocking 5 shots in 30 minutes of action.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Simmons (left) and Tony White Jr. (Right) headed back down court. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simmons and Donvon Monroe shared a team high 16 points.\u00a0 The only other player in double figures was Casaan Breeden who finished with 11 points to go along with 8 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 2 assists.\u00a0 The biggest concern I hold for this team down the road is related to their rebounding.\u00a0 The Cougars were out-rebounded 47 to 33 overall and 20 to 6 on the offensive boards.\u00a0 Second chance opportunities are big and if we don’t get them, we can’t expect to stay close in games against big teams like UNC later in the year.\u00a0 CofC now has a record of 3-3 and is 2-0 in the Southern Conference.<\/p>\n

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Left Donvon Monroe shoots in three in the second half, he was 2 of 3 from three<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wasn’t able to watch the Syracuse game, but I am pretty sure the box score speaks for itself.\u00a0 Syracuse beat Maine 101-55 at the Carrier Dome.\u00a0 Freshman Point Guard Brandon Triche led the Orange in scoring with 16 points.\u00a0 The Orange were able to play 13 players during the game which had 6 players in double figures.\u00a0 Big man Arnize Onuaku finished with 14 points, 7 rebounds, and three blocks.\u00a0 Not to disappoint, Wes Johnson, the Iowa State transfer put in another productive game as well scoring only 7 points, but bringing down 6 rebounds, and blocking 4 shots.\u00a0\u00a0 Like many others, Wes Johnson played reduced minutes, because the Orange had such a lead.\u00a0 At halftime, the score was 60-12.<\/p>\n

In 1984, the Portland Trailblazers selected Sam Bowie with the Second Overall pick in the Draft.\u00a0 For those of you who are not familiar with the 1984 NBA Draft, a young man named Michael Jordan was drafted with the third pick.\u00a0 Sam Bowie wasn’t a bad player, but he had terrible knees and never panned out.\u00a0 It seems as though the Trailblazers may have made a similar bad decision recently.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2007, the Trailblazers held the first overall pick in the draft and they second pick was held by the Seattle SuperWonics (now the Oklahoma City Thunder).\u00a0 Despite things swirling around about Greg Oden’s health, the Trailblazers selected him with the first overall pick over Kevin Durant.\u00a0 After being drafted, the Trailblazers founded out that Greg Oden would need microfracture surgery on his knee which would force him to sit out his entire first season.\u00a0 Durant that season was named rookie of the year.\u00a0 The 2008-2009 season was considered Oden’s “rookie season” and in his first game, Oden left after a short while with a foot injury.\u00a0 After coming back, he played well until he broke his knee cap in February and missed three weeks.\u00a0 Then today, Oden fractured his left kneecap today and will likely miss the rest of the season.\u00a0 I hate to say it Trailblazers, but when will you learn from your mistakes?<\/p>\n

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Today was a pretty nice day.\u00a0 I really didn’t wake up until 1:45.\u00a0 When I woke up, I was hungry so I gave Dan a call.\u00a0 We went to Liberty and chilled there along with Alex for a while.\u00a0 I was able to convince Dan to go to the game with me, but not Alex.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}