Basketball notes
October 16, 2007
Head coach Don Maestri and senior guard/forward Justin Jonus were on hand Monday at the weekly football media gathering.
I’ll probably have a basketball story at some point this week, but here’s what my gut is telling me about the lineup, etc.
Of course, there’s only been 4 days of practice, but I bet the opening day lineup looks like this. I do reserve the right to be wrong.
PG-Mike Vogler (So.)
SG-O’Darien Bassett (Sr.)
SF-Justin Jonus (Sr.)
PF-Trayce Macon (So.)
C-Tom Jervis (Jr.)
6th-Mario Telfair (Jr.) SF/PF
7th-Jarvis Acker (Sr.) SF/PF
8th-Jerome Odem (Sr.) PG
Of course, Bernard Toombs (So. C), Josh Williams (Jr. PG), Kenny Ware (Jr. SG/SF), Brandon Hazzard (So. SG), all those guys have a chance too. Maestri said he expects to play more guys this year.
The big part of this team is CHEMISTRY. It’s there. Last year, it was not there. None. Whatsoever. It was a great team on paper, and I told a lot of people at the beginning of the year that it would contend for the Sun Belt title.
“We had a 20-win team last year and we won 13 games,“ Maestri said.
So I’m done predicting wins and losses, even though my last post said 7-11 in the Sun Belt. The thing about this team is that I just don’t know. It could be a team that just gets better and better as the season goes along. Bassett and Jonus are the type players that can carry it. They described Vogler and Jervis as tremendously skilled players, especially when it comes to passing. Trayce Macon apparently is a guy with a knack for scoring from anywhere within reason, and Mario Telfair is a guy that can take it to the rack and fininsh (wonder how good he can shoot free throws?)
Plus, I’m a guy that loves to talk hoops, probably because I understand it better than the other sports.
