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Ole Skool Interview
Tobacco Road’s Top 5 Duke Carolina games
Ahead of what will be the most epic of UNC vs Duke games with the stakes higher than usual. The basketball Gods have rewarded us with a DUKE v. UNC Semi Final game. This one has star power, and will serve as a defacto reunion game in what is fittingly Coach K’s final UNC game. I’m extremely excited about this game and the cherry on top will be another Kansas title. Gonna be a legendary final four this year. What a perfect ending to the season. BEAT DUKE!
[The following is an excerpt of a chapter from my upcoming book, Tao of the Passing Big Man, and other essays. Due out if ,and when we survive this global pandemic.]
With only 8 miles separating the schools, it is only natural for a rivalry to develop between Duke University (a private school) and University of North Carolina (a state school);especially as both basketball programs continued to develop in their competition for the state (and the nation’s) top basketball talent. Being in such close proximity only lends to more intrigue; much like two neighboring high schools. Teams hop on the bus to go play in the next town, and after the game, win or lose, they got to get on the bus to go back. Anyone who played high school athletics knows that feeling. Only a few miles separate Wake Forest, NC State, Duke, and North Carolina. This is what…
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Seattle Hoopers
Good Ass Game here. Channing Frye and Salim Stoudamire vs. Seattle hoopers Will Conroy, Tre Simmons and Brandon Roy (Garfield High School) and Nate Robinson (Rainier Beach). This was the next wave of Seattle hoopers to get on the map after Jamal Crawford went to Michigan and became a pro. S/O to Seattle hoops.
Hiatus
I love basketball so much and miss playing it more than I miss watching it. Right now we’re in the most contentious period this country has faced since the Civil War and watching or even writing about basketball seems frivolous and gigantic waste of energy. With the spread of COVID and an anti-Black war going on, my brain power is best suited to be focused on more urgent matters. We’ll see what the future holds for us as a society, but unfortunately, the world we knew may no longer exist after this is all said and done. If anyone still cares in five or ten years, maybe this project will be completed. If not, well, we had a lot of fun didn’t we? Stay safe out there.
BM
A Little Pizzazz
Basketball never stops…..it only rotates
I spend my down time daydreaming
of snagging tough rebounds
then immediately throwing full court outlet passes
that lead to fast break points.
I visualize touch passes
to baseline cutters for easy buckets.
No look bounce passes hit my teammates in stride–
right into the hand that’s closest to the basket.
Dump off passes thrown over my shoulder
into the pal of someone curling from
the paint to the rim
and over the top lobs to big men
skillfully sealing off their defender.
I guess you could say that I miss hoopin’.
~Bob E. Freeman
FULLSASS Presents: THIS A GOOD ASS GAME 