Starting Bobo as Point-Guard, and other thoughts on saving this season
by bluebland on Dec 7, 2009 4:34 PM PST
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PrintI think we need a thread to absorb all the brilliant ideas out there on how to fix this sickened basketball season. The more we struggle this season, the more of these ideas we are bound to hear. So I'll get the ball rolling on a few, and maybe some savvy basketball minds can add some of their own, so as not to clog every other thread for the next four months with their ingenuity.
1. Start Bobo at the point. Think, oh think of the matchup problems.
2. Fire Howland, make Bobo player-coach. I don't know about you, but nothing gives me more hope for a player than a cute nickname.
3. Institute a 1-1-1-1-1 zone. Featuring Bobo.
4. Run, run, run. Nothing suits our talent better than a non-stop, 100 mph offense where nobody's two feet can hit the floor at the same time. Bobo would particularly benefit from this, even if he was signaling to the bench on Sunday that he was gassed after two trips around the court. Oxygen tanks at each basket should take care of that.
Step it up, geniuses. Now is not the time to not be stupid.
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New starting lineup
PG: Bobo
SG: Steve Lavin
SF: Bruin Bear
PF: Matt Leinhart’s ballroom dancing teacher
C: Coach Wooden
Coached by: Bobo
Assistant coach: Ralph Nader
Strength and conditioning coach: Mark Mangino
Better resume — and stats — than Charlie Wies.
I think you meant this guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JU7Fri1xfo&NR=1
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I actually know Leinart's dance teacher.
And while he has speed, strength, and excellent footwork, he is only like 5’4"…so maybe PF isn’t the best spot for him. Maybe slide Bobo over to the 2 and let him run the point instead.
And really with his bulk, the Bruin Bear should be in the low post…but it isn’t my team so I will defer judgment.
How about this
PG: Ryan Walcott (the original RW!)
SG: Bob Meyers
SF: Sean Farnham
PF: Bobo
C: Mike Lanier
Off the bench
Rico Hines
Kevin Dempsey
Travis Reed
Richard Petruska
Rodney Zimmerman
Tom Walden
You can’t beat the depth of this team. This team can coach itself!
Brandon Lloyd!
We don’t have an unlimited budget to buy new nets. Need to keep them from getting too loose too quick.
The best line on Lloyd
Remember when he was being recruited out of high school, he was described as – wait for this, wait for this – a “Mark Price” type of “shooter.” (you know they were both white and from OK).
How about that recruiting class after our championship game:
Jelani McCoy
Tommy Prince (Tayshawn’s older brother)
& Brandon Lloyd.
YIKES.
And John Grisham was the next Faulkner
Lloyd scored more blondes than baskets at UCLA. (He was sporting one on each shoulder after a particular game, as I remember seeing.)
Somewhere Ike Nuenko is feeling very offended right now. (sp?)
Let's throw in Omma Givens
Remember he was a McDonalds All American. So James Keefe shouldn’t feel all that special.
Great pics all around...
I’m trying to think of someone else…who was the really short “three point specialist” from Oklahoma that came in around 1995?!?
You had me at Rico Hines!
Starting at C should be omm’A Givens
My starting line up?
BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER.
sjh
by Class of 66 on Dec 7, 2009 6:35 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
LOL
Well done!
Also agree with Nestor, this thread IS awesome.
by truebluebruin on Dec 7, 2009 6:44 PM PST up reply actions
We are twisted
Cross generational warped.
I have an excuse. I’m old.
What has happened to all the young and vibrant minds here?
sjh
You kids and your internet memes
Back in my day, all we had was “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” and we liked it that way.
What's the role of MUSHROOM?
in this lineup?
by Nestor on Dec 7, 2009 6:46 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
providing 'inspiration' off the bench
and convincing the badgers that they can fly; has unfortunate tendency to induce paranoia about snakes, otherwise would be in the starting lineup.
Here, just to make it official
UCLA is stupid. Bruins are merely baby bears. Obscure Battlestar Galactica reference that everyone gets. They stole our song. Skip shower. Just cause they have hotter girls and smarter students and better teams, I hate them. Text from BlackBerry while in a tree. Tedford will definitely get it done next year, but if he doesn’t, then the year after that for sure. Obscure literary reference no one gets. PhotoShop CRN joke. We were here first! The play. Water stealers!
There. Now it’s CGB.
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
by gbruin on Dec 7, 2009 9:31 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
No worries
Shaq just comitted to UCLA for 2010. Wait…what? He’s playing football? Never mind
I agree with the basic premise of this thread, but ...
only if the “Bobo” being mentioned is the great Bobo Brazil rather than Alva Lee “Bobo” Holloman. The former could use his famed “Coco-Butt” to the head to great advantage, whereas the latter is famous only for pitching a no-hitter in his first major league start, only to finish with a 4-7 record, be demoted to the minors never to rise again.
There are disadvantages to using either of these Bobos, because both are dead and as such, have lost a step or two in terms of quickness. I think you would agree that for a point guard, being dead is, in its way, a drawback.
at least
they wouldn’t get anxious that ‘one mistake and I’ll be pulled from the team’, or whatever concern it is that people apparently have with every young player on our squad.
I hear than near-death experiences help put things in perspective; actual-death experiences presumably all the more so.
this post has been hijacked
away from its true purpose as an outlet for ways in which Bobo would improve the team if only CBH would wise up.
I think Bobo as the team’s primary medical expert might work. While lacking the traditional ‘fundamentals’ of the medical profession and still being raw, his great height would allow him to treat corneal abrasions of tall basketball players without requiring them to sit down.
However, I still say that if he wants CBH to give him more time either as starting physician or first doctor off the bench, he needs to bring it every day in practice and earn that time. But I agree that he is taller than James Keefe and has a more endearing name.
I suggest Bobo as
nickname specialist. I like the suggestion in another thread by Meriones of RN potentially being called Superman. Other than that, initials can be dull. Bobo to the rescue!
formerly AZBruin
No, no, no, no...
You’re all forgetting about Kelvin Kim. He definitely needs to be starting at point guard on this team.
by inhowlandwetrust on Dec 8, 2009 11:29 AM PST reply actions
Why play defense at all?
Keep everybody on the offensive side. Once the other team scores, all we really need is one guy to do the inbound pass. I’ll bet we could really open up the offense.
Go Bruins!
now I come to think of it
Why not play a zone with Bobo, protected by four members of the Bruin Bobo Defense Force?
so...
is this attacking a player or the people that are supporting a player? the line seems blurry…
Across The Face
don't worry bb
i can read just fine and did read the original post. my question is more about the effect and motivation of the thread. you can see that by what the comments devolved into and your own comment below. eh, but if the moderators agree with it, it’s their playground after all.
Across The Face
from specific satire
to more general tomfoolery; in any case, it seems to have provided entertainment on a number of levels… though if anyone is offended by anything I personally have said, I would be happy to apologize…
by britishbruin on Dec 10, 2009 9:10 AM PST up reply actions
to paraphrase some other person
“If Bobo is the answer, the question needs rephrasing”
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