North Carolina Players Attack/Mock The Wear Twins On Twitter
by Nestor on May 6, 2010 10:43 AM PDT
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PrintThis is pretty amazing. The Wear twins just announced their decision to transfer out of North Carolina. It is not clear yet where they will end up. Instead of wishing them well and good luck few Tar Heels players (not fans, PLAYERS) have launched attacks on David and Travis Wear via Twitter:
First fellow freshman forward John Henson tweeted that "it's all good" because Roy Williams "got room to bring a couple more thoroughbreds to the stable." Then point guard Larry Drew launched the twitter hashtags #gotTwins and #theyleftbecause.
LDrew2: #theyleftbecause I still couldn't tell them apart
JohnHenson31: #theyleftbecause their pickup truck just didn't fit their lifestyle
LDrew2: #theyleftbecause they found out they would have to room with (Tyler) zeller...again
JohnHenson31: #theyleftbecause the surfing at wrightsville beach wasn't up to par
That was from Jeff Eisenberg at the Dagger, Yahoo!'s excellent blog covering college hoops. Jeff gave the Tar Heels mocking the Wear twins a little reality check:
The Tar Heels can joke all they want about the Wear twins leaving Chapel Hill after just one season, but the departure of the two former McDonald's All-Americans does leave a huge void in their bench. Instead of being stocked with big men but light on guards as they were a year ago, the Tar Heels now have just Henson and 7-footer Tyler Zeller down low as a result of the Wears transferring, Ed Davis turning pro early and Deon Thompson graduating.
On that note the situation the Tar Heels are finding themselves in now .... well its kind of eerie:
Although information is still preliminary, it appears that the Wears may very well have taken everyone, including UNC head coach Roy Williams, by surprise on this one.
Their departure leaves the Tar Heels with only 10 scholarship players for the 2010-2011 season at the current time, and it will be very interesting to see what Coach Williams does in terms of trying to add another 2010 player at the 11th hour or if the program tries to facilitate the early enrollment of James McAdoo, as Duke did last year with Andre Dawkins when it became evident that the Blue Devils were losing Elliott Williams to transfer.
Well from our vantage point good luck to the Heels. I have always had nothing but admiration for Dean Smith's program (and I guess I always kind of semi-rooted for them because of my disdain for Duke). Still I would think Carolina players would want to take the same classy route of Dean Smith and wish the Wear Twins. They did take back their comments a bit after getting push back from their own but still those tweets didn't make Roy's program look very good.
I sure hope UCLA players never conduct themselves in the same manner if our program was in similar situation. I don't think Coach Ben Howland or the UCLA administration would tolerate that. Anyway, more I think of it more I am getting intrigued about the Wear twins coming to Westwood. Nothing like Southern California kids coming home (or back to the West Coast). Wish I can find myself in same situation some day.
GO BRUINS.
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I don’t find the comments to be much more than good natured kidding. I doubt the Wear twins would take offense to these jokes. That said, why post the comments for the world to see?
by AllHailMightyBruins on May 6, 2010 11:16 AM PDT reply actions
i would still
rather have larry drew than jerime anderson on my team
wasnt the big reason why howland lost out on...
the Wear twins in h.s. was because he was supposedly a bigger fan of R. Nelson and saw more upside? and now the big rumor is that Howland signs them both as transfers?
i think we got enough semi-athletic tweeners on the team. dont we have other needs here?
Don't know about that...
From what I read on some boards and heard was that it was because coach Howland was really only interested in one of them but they wanted to be a package deal. Don’t know if there is any validity to that rumor though.
sounds like
The players didn’t know the twins were going to transfer and then made innocent jokes giving there friend crap for leaving . I give my friends a hard time all the time. I think they are giving the twins a hard time because they would have helped the team get back to being a great team. If they were indifferent I would be more concerned. They’re kids they say a lot of stupid stuff.
Bruin for life!!!!
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. - John Wooden
well
They were mocking the Twins. Only after getting pushback they backed off. At first blush it did come across as attack and I am betting Roy is not very happy about it. It also hints at clickishness w/in tht program, something we had to deal w/ during the days of certain malcontents who no longer are in Westwood.
by Nestor on May 6, 2010 11:47 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
oh i see
Well they wouldn’t get upset if the twins can’t play, so I hope they end up with us. It’s definitely immature and Roy I’m sure will deal with it.
Bruin for life!!!!
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. - John Wooden
actually thought of it the other way around
seemed like at first they were making childish jokes, but the Deon Thompson tweet calling them out to stop with the “ish” tells you these weren’t “boys will be boys” jokes but probably did have some pejorative undertones.
Yeah good point
If they were just kidding around, Thompson wouldn’t have cared to tell them to kind of knock it off.
It seemed to me to be ordinary chop-busting
There’s a lot worse than that in my Wednesday afternoon golf foursome. But I may be wrong. I know the guys I play golf with and I don’t know any of the principals here.
I agree.
The problem is that this ‘chop-busting’ was put in a public forum, open for too many interpretations. It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last.
by AllHailMightyBruins on May 6, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Transfers
wear twins are good but not great. They would be a good addition to UCLA but the trouble with twins one is always a little better than the other. brothers is one thing but twins caqn be very hard to handle.
Worked for Stanford
Lopez twins? One was better both were very good.
Worked for Stanford
Yeah just not against us. Heh heh heh…
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
collins twins as well?
one i think still in nba…
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." --John Wooden
Great job BN
regardless of what happen you guys were ahead of everyone else in reporting it. Another reason to read BN!
WEAR TWINS, quick thought
honestly UCLA needs all the help it can get after this past season, and if that means these two than i am all for it…i’d rather have good solid players aboard than any one-and-done’s who might be more flashy…but that’s just me…someone who has followed UCLA BASKETBALL for 40 years…
by bruincheerleader on May 6, 2010 1:07 PM PDT reply actions
C'mon 'Heels
leave the mocking/attacking to the FANS….which, of course, we would never, ever, ever do around here ;-)
"I don't forget very much" Rick Neuheisel, 11/28/09
WEAR BROS, COME ON DOWN!
We need some big bodies- -RN needs someone big to band around – -if they are good citizens and not head cases/problem kids (like Drew Gordon), I say get them on board!
It seems like transferring has become en vogue in recent years.
IMO, it makes no sense to take on 2 scholies of kids that not only turned their back on us originally, but will be entering the program as Juniors after playing very few minutes their Freshman year, and then sitting out their Junior year. Stepheson was different because he played considerable minutes and transferred to a SUC team heading for probation. The Wear twins are good kids, and I hope they find a great school . . . I just don’t think UCLA is the place for them.
Only juniors
academically is my understanding. They would still have 3 years of eligibility remaining.
wear twins
If they transfer at end of Freshman year, sitting out the next year leaves them with 3 years eligibility if I am reading the book correctly. They are good kids but like many are blinded by the lights of Carolina and Duke. Many go but some transfer out of every program unfortunately Drago stayed.
They could be a good get
to WEAR down the opponent. I mean, 10 fouls to work with!
Wear Twins
Kudos for the responsible and ahead-of-the-curve reporting. At this stage of the game, we should welcome them with open arms if they decide on Westwood. I also agree with the sentiment that they would—at a minimum—provide some much-needed stability to the program.
Consider this payback for JR Reid
If the Wear twins are indeed headed to Westwood, I guess it evens the score for Dean Smith pulling JR Reid out from under us during Hazzard’s tenure. Rumors abound about Smith’s recruitment of Reid, and believe me there was NO admiration whatsoever for Smith or Reid when they visited Pauley the following year.
ESPN Classic replayed that game a few weeks ago, and you could still hear the boos everytime Reid touched the ball. Sweet revenge as the Bruins knocked off #1 UNC.
That was easily Hazzard’s best team — a senior-laden roster led by Reggie Miller taking full advantage of the newly instituted three-point shot. Alas, their great run ended with an early NCAA tourney exit (the name Fennis Dembo is still a curse word in this household), and the following year, the bottom fell out and Hazzard was out. But, that game against UNC was a grand moment in an otherwise mediocre era.
Yeah, I saw parts of that replayed game few weeks ago
Was wondering about that strong reaction to Reid. Thanks for the backstory.
I was there for Ried and the year before
Ried made his visit to UCLA and sat in the student section for a game the year before. The crowd (including me) chanted for JR before and during the game. JR lapped it up, waved to the crowd and encouraged it. He was treated like royalty and we were giddy at the prospect of his coming to UCLA.
This made the crowd (especially the students) even more emotional when Ried came back the next year. I was there for that game and was one of those ah making Ried feel less welcomed.
Forgot to add how hard the student's tried regarding Ried
IIRC correctly, Ried was quoted as saying he wanted to go to UCLA because his favorite player David Greenwood went there. A bunch of kids wore Greenwood UCLA jerseys and crossed out Greenwood and taped over Ried the game he visited .
It hurt when he chose NC.
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