can anybody confirm what dayton coach brian gregory claimed?....

prodigy · Dec 27, 2006

brian gregory is a damn good basketball coach. but i have a hard time believing this. you mean to tell me piles of feces were laying on the court in pittsburgh last saturday? anyone else easily amused when people routinely insert 'literally' for emphasis when they speak?
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Pittsburgh just too tough for UD

The seventh-ranked Panthers grab more than double the rebounds the Flyers gain in a 30-point victory.

By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Sunday, December 24, 2006

PITTSBURGH — The Dayton Flyers went into the home of the Big East preseason favorite wanting a chance to show they could match up with one of the top college basketball teams in the land, but they ended up having about as much fun as a sales clerk on the day after Christmas.
No. 7 Pittsburgh recovered from back-to-back defeats on the road to ranked teams by coasting to an 84-54 victory Saturday before a capacity crowd of 12,508.
"Obviously, physically, they literally beat the crap out of us — in a good way," UD coach Brian Gregory said. "We've got to learn to fight and scrap a little more.
"Their level of competitiveness was so high, it was tough to match."
Junior guard Brian Roberts did his part, tallying a game-high 21 points. But the Flyers (10-2) were brutalized on the boards while getting their eight-game winning streak snapped. Seven-footer Aaron Gray had 15 rebounds, helping the Panthers (10-2) to a whopping 45-22 advantage.
"They were a lot tougher than us," Roberts said. "That's what happens when you play a top-10 team on the road. We needed to match their intensity and we definitely didn't come close."
UD suffered its worst defeat since an 83-52 setback at Cincinnati in 2003-04, Gregory's first season.

prodigy · Dec 27, 2006

nothing wrong with grammar here. just another crazy story i found while browing the dayton daily news. this one is from last week, as i remember hearing about some chicago state off the court stuff when they came to cleveland last week. didn't know what it was for. yikes.

perhaps the following 'smiley' is apropos

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Wood lifts Raiders to victory

The senior guard sinks two free throws with 5.4 seconds left to beat troubled Chicago State, 63-62.

By Marc Katz
Staff Writer

Friday, December 22, 2006

FAIRBORN — What an odd way for Chicago State assistant basketball coach Jason Kent to open his postgame comments Thursday night at the Nutter Center.
"Coming into this ballgame," Kent said of Wright State and head coach Brad Brownell, "I knew it was going to be difficult. Coach Brownell was going to have these guys coming out with the first punch.
"Like I told our guys, we would have to sustain that punch."
Chicago State didn't, because DaShaun Wood was on the floor for the Raiders and he punched in two free throws with 5.4 seconds to play to give WSU a 63-62 victory after CSU's final, long 3-point shot bounded off the rim at the buzzer.
Only last Saturday, Cam-Ron Clay, one of 5-10 Chicago State's double-figure scorers, threatened to punch out head coach Kevin Jones. Police were called in, and when the altercation was over, Chicago State officials asked Jones, Clay and Kevin Jones Jr. — another player and the son of the coach — to stay at home for a while.
None of the three was at CSU's victory at Cleveland State on Tuesday or at Wright State.
Maybe that mattered. Maybe it didn't. For the fourth time this season, Wood scored the winning points in the final 10 seconds of play. The Raiders (5-5), leading by nine with 5:38 to play, squandered the entire lead and trailed 62-61 on 5-foot-7 David Holston's 3-point basket with 16 seconds left.
"We knew it was going to be a close game because this team is very explosive offensively," said Wood, who finished with 25 points. "I wanted that (last) shot. I've got a lot of belief in my teammates, and they got me the ball. I just know I'm going to make something happen, whether it's a pass, whether it's driving to the basket.
"I look forward to those situations. What better way to have it than you in that situation."

prodigy · Dec 27, 2006

Monday Look Back: Now that was a halftime adjustment
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</TD><TD noWrap>Dec. 18, 2006
By Gary Parrish
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer
Tell Gary your opinion!
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</TD><TD width=15> </TD></TR><TR><TD width=150>Cam-Ron Clay takes it hard to the hoop before taking it hard to his coach. (AP) </TD><TD width=15> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>It's predictable.
It's pointless.
It's dumb.
That said, had I been at Michigan State on Saturday I would've probably asked Chicago State coach Kevin Jones what he said to his team at halftime. As a rule, I believe it's OK to unleash that silly question when police have to intervene and escort a player from the locker room.
"I was telling (senior Cam-Ron Clay) what he needed to do to make an adjustment," Jones explained to reporters after his team lost to Michigan State, 69-61. "He got mad and said 'Bleep me' and stood up, took his shirt off and wanted to fight."
Yes!
"If it was a different environment, I'm a former marine, I have no problem fighting," Jones added in an attempt to make sure everybody understood he didn't get punked out. "But this isn't a time, nor place, to be fighting. If he wants to fight, he needs to go back to the Army 'cause we can use a few good men. I don't know what his problem is. We're going to make sure that doesn't happen again because he's no longer a part of our team. We're here to play basketball and to have fun. To have that kind of disruption at halftime is just uncalled for."
The Chicago State meltdown wasn't the biggest development of the weekend, to be sure. But I'm a sucker for stories like this. So any time a player challenges a coach to a fight, has to be escorted away by police and is dismissed from his team at halftime, it's going to lead the Monday Look Back.
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