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"4700, what were some of your favorite moments from the jumping Johnny Newman days?"
Hardt's Report on The Basketball Program
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"4700, what were some of your favorite moments from the jumping Johnny Newman days?"
Me, Newman was before my time. I started following in '88. How bout you spiderman, what is your starting point?
I had a class with JNew. didn't see him there much, but he was there for the final. spoke to him briefly about his upcoming draft. played one game against him on the carpet. everyone got the heck out of the way when he drove. nobody wanted to be the idiot that got him injured!
Good stuff, I played a few times with Kenny Atkinson - he played to win in the carpet gym too. Funny story is that my buddy had a class with him and he was late turning in a paper or something - it was on a possible career in pro basketball. He told the professor he was waiting to get a call back from Newman - that was his excuse for late. Small world.
4700, what was your starting point?
ok, my favorite Newman memory ...
Alumni event at a crowded bar after a game when he still was on the Cavs I think. Johnny eventually shows up in a big fur coat. A lot of people are around him and I'm like 20+ feet away. It's a little dark in the bar. A few beers in me and I'm about to leave.
There's no rational reason for me to believe this as my entire relationship is listed in the post above, but I swear he looked over, recognized me, gave a little smile and up nodded his recognition. lol. I know. but I believe it. don't take that from me!
Alumni event at a crowded bar after a game when he still was on the Cavs I think. Johnny eventually shows up in a big fur coat. A lot of people are around him and I'm like 20+ feet away. It's a little dark in the bar. A few beers in me and I'm about to leave.
There's no rational reason for me to believe this as my entire relationship is listed in the post above, but I swear he looked over, recognized me, gave a little smile and up nodded his recognition. lol. I know. but I believe it. don't take that from me!
Spidernation the movie would now include a scene of a poster furiously searching the internet, yearbooks, and old people in the Robins Center for what the carpet gym means.
That is so funny you have a fur coat story because I have a trench coat story. 80s, still living in Richmond, and checked out some high school tournament hoops ( Alonzo Mourning) with some friends from out of town at the Robins Center. We were sitting up close and here comes Newman strutting by in a trench coat. They loved it. After the game, and plenty of years later, the topic was Newman in his trench coat and not Alonzo Mourning dominating.
I would like to think that I was instrumental in getting the carpet removed from that gym. Boy did I do a number on my ankle one year during an intramural game. Has given me problems intermittently until today.
Post-carpet, I had an opportunity to be the 5th player on a team once with Carlos, Daryl, Jarod and Eric in our junior year, I think. That was pretty fun - I just kept firing shots up, and they went in enough that we stayed on the floor for quite a while. It was a true test of conditioning.
Post-carpet, I had an opportunity to be the 5th player on a team once with Carlos, Daryl, Jarod and Eric in our junior year, I think. That was pretty fun - I just kept firing shots up, and they went in enough that we stayed on the floor for quite a while. It was a true test of conditioning.
nice. quite a lineup.
I don't know about you, but playing in a game with a guy like Newman was eye opening for me as to how far away from D1 hoops I was! that's a whole different kind of athlete.
the carpet gym just sounded so wrong.
The carpet reminded me of my basement in the late seventies. All purpose, rug burns like crazy. For a game like basketball, needing some give when you make cuts and such, there was none. The worst part of my ankle was that the doctor used about the biggest needle I have ever seen in my life to give painkillers directly, and then he immediatelyto try to draw some liquid out of the ankle. Seemed like a bad idea, and it hurt more than anything.
Millhiser had a wood floor (at least when I was at UR). The auxiliary and RC arena courts were tartan.
There was a shooting/competition area for the rifle team and some old locker rooms/rest rooms in the basement of Millhiser. Registrar's office was in the front.
There was a shooting/competition area for the rifle team and some old locker rooms/rest rooms in the basement of Millhiser. Registrar's office was in the front.
My freshman year during orientation, some of our team showed up for an open gym run. I matched up against Buckner, at a time when I was 18, stupid, and thought having played high school and AAU ball as a 6’4” point guard meant I could hang with them.
First time I caught the ball on the wing, I gave Buckner a jab to the left, and took him right down the lane. Before I knew it he had taken the ball from behind and went the other way for an easy dunk.
He came back down, nice as could be, saying “that was a good move, but you’ve got to tuck the ball in front of you on that drive. If you leave it out wide, I’m going to take it.” Again, I was young and stupid and thought I knew better.
Next chance I got, I drove on him again, and he again took it away, this time ending in an off the backboard alley oop to Courtney Watson.
The rest of the game I just passed...
One of my greatest memories from playing ball in the old gym. And I can’t proclaim enough how nice Buckner was about it. Just matter of fact.
First time I caught the ball on the wing, I gave Buckner a jab to the left, and took him right down the lane. Before I knew it he had taken the ball from behind and went the other way for an easy dunk.
He came back down, nice as could be, saying “that was a good move, but you’ve got to tuck the ball in front of you on that drive. If you leave it out wide, I’m going to take it.” Again, I was young and stupid and thought I knew better.
Next chance I got, I drove on him again, and he again took it away, this time ending in an off the backboard alley oop to Courtney Watson.
The rest of the game I just passed...
One of my greatest memories from playing ball in the old gym. And I can’t proclaim enough how nice Buckner was about it. Just matter of fact.
I heard there were a lot of knees. enough to finally pull it up.
nathan ... awesome story.
With you Wood, I remember what you described. RC would have a couple of lights on usually where enough to see and shoot. We would get in after morning class and have a few 2v2 or 3v3 half court games. Milheiser was locked up a lot of the time
RC was tartan floor and I seemed to easily get blisters from it.
I had the greatest shooting experience of my life in a pickup game in Milhiser. Very memorable. Never saw anything like it from anyone, let alone myself!
Did anyone catch Hardt's interview on Black & Drew today? I got a call after the first segment, which was all about Lacrosse. I heard some talk about the fundraising efforts, but I'm curious if he shed any light on his opinion of the state of the other programs.
does anyone on here really want a guy to come in and a couple of months later, make a statement on all things? that would be silly and any evaluation he makes should be between him and the coaches not a bunch of guys like us on a chat board. he might give us his macro on things but other than that, we are not in the loop nor should we be, at least in my opinion.
No he only mentioned the sports that 75 people attend, not the ones that 7500 attend.
Yes, I distinctly get the impression that he is ducking the issue now. I get what Webspinner and other's are saying, he was not going to come in and make snap decisions. BUT, he can clearly go back and look at the last 5 years and come to some conclusions. And then the attrition on an already young team right in front of his eyes. Just like the interview where Hardt talked about going and seeing the the VCU basketball practice facility. He acted like a) knew nothing about it and b) golllly look at that - how beatiful. A quick 5 second google search and I can see how a video on how nice it is. These arms race facilities have obviously been a big thing forever in hoops. come on, just act like you are in the know.
