Bigs in the Valley

[Khan4Cats]

Funny that the jilted UNI fan thinks McDermott is "dirty".

No more dirty than O'Rear, Durley or Creekmore.

[MoValley John]

Tattoos? Who has tattoos in basketball? Whomever it is, he must be dirty.

Only Thugs.

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MVJ went over the top and edited himself.

[Khan4Cats]

Tattoos? Who has tattoos in basketball? Whomever it is, he must be dirty.

Only Thugs.

I edited the quote that MVJ edited rather than preserve it since he didn't wish to keep it.

He actually has tattoos on both shoulders, it's just that on his right shoulder is the portrait of his mother who passed away. On his left is a heart with a cross and the years of her life. On the side of his torso is the text of the letter she wrote to him from her death bed.

[MoValley John]

Only Thugs.

I don't know??? Blah blah blah, bla blah blah blah. Danika Patrick. Blah, blah, blah blah blah blah, blah, balh, blah blah blah. Shamwow.

He actually has tattoos on both shoulders, it's just that on his right shoulder is the portrait of his mother who passed away. On his left is a heart with a cross and the years of her life. On the side of his torso is the text of the letter she wrote to him from her death bed.

My post was only up for like a second and I pulled it. You must have hit the reply button REALLY FAST! Anyway, while the comment may be seen by some as funny and by others as inflamitory, it still went over the top and I pulled it. How you got your reply in that quick, I don't know.

Crap, now you edited what I edited!!!! Slow down!!!!

I'll edit this and then we will be done.....

[Khan4Cats]

I'm fast.





Like marsupials!

[glm38]

As far as my Bears - the 5 is definitely our weakest spot. We do have size and some experience. But to date neither of our 2 bigs have come through consistently. Caleb Patterson has loads of potential. Great size, long arms, decent athleticism, good post moves (jump hook) and a sweet outside shot. But he really struggles on defense and rebounding the ball. Over the last 2 years he's had a few good games but also a bunch of horrible games. Rhine is a big strong post player. But he lacks offense and is fairly slow and foul prone. We Bears fans are all hoping this is Caleb's year.

I respectfully disagree with the 5 being our weakest spot because we have 2 6'10" guys who have 6 years combined experience in the program. Patterson averaged 6pts per game while playing around 14 minutes per game and Rhine didn't score much but did play 8 minutes per game. Both need to rebound and defend better but Patterson will score especially if he plays 25 minutes. Just for comparison with Patterson...Stutz averaged 7pts per game while playing around 15 minutes per game.

I see what you are saying. And I hope you end up being right and we get good production from our two 5's this year. If we do it could make a big difference in the year we have. I think I've read it somewhere before but Patterson and Stutz are fairly similar. Both have a lot of skills and great potential but have thus far not lived up to that potential.

[TNMSUFAN]

I see what you are saying. And I hope you end up being right and we get good production from our two 5's this year. If we do it could make a big difference in the year we have. I think I've read it somewhere before but Patterson and Stutz are fairly similar. Both have a lot of skills and great potential but have thus far not lived up to that potential.

Honestly, we don't need that much production from the 5...Creek averaged 11pts 7rbs so if Patterson and Rhine can get around 20 and 10 combined that would be similar to last year. Also, juco Corbin Thomas and frosh Christian Kirk will get some minutes there if those 2 aren't producing.