(for you topdogggbm) 72 y\o "negro".. from akron ohio..i use 'franklynne' in honor of franklin..the black character in peanuts..like you i play for the love of the game..college grad..worked for a bank 21 yrs..don't drink anymore..used up that privilege 16 yrs ago..

Posted by topdogggbm on 9/24/2019 3:53:00 PM (view original):
As far as learning about one another on here, i feel like I've never met a single person in this game that is anywhere close to my lifestyle/upbringing/culture, and to be honest I'm surprised. I feel like I'm the only coach here that plays this more for my interest in basketball, than numbers crunching. I'm less of a role model citizen than most of you, i don't have a bachelor's or master's and I'm not an engineer. I like hip hop music and some of the language spoken here is out of my league. And the thing i wonder most, and I've been dying to ask this, but I've never found the right time.... are there any black coaches out there besides me????

I play for both basketball interest and number crunching; I am a statistician, but I also still play full court basketball three days a week (although at 56, I do not get up and down the court quite as quickly as I used to). I also like a lot of hip hop music, but most of it from thirty years ago or so (my collection includes Ice T, Public Enemy, Eric B and Rakim, and Jurassic 5, to give you an idea of my taste - Ice T is my favorite by a large margin).

However, I am a white guy. More specifically, a guy with lots of Welsh and almost exclusively British Isles DNA. When I did ancestry.com, the results came back with: dummy, you're so Welsh that we wonder why you are even asking. I had the single most boring map ever.

I play to supplement my love of the game. I played a lot of basketball growing up...all the way through high school. Two knee surgeries in 1990 and 1992 hampered my game, and the decade or so that I had my run-ins with cancer I couldn't play physically. Now that I'm healthy I play as much as my knees will let me. My son is the best point guard I've seen at his age, lol. He gets that from me. I think I'm like 28 years old...never saw myself as "almost 50" .

Favorite player of all time and current:
NFL-Tony Dorsett and Todd Gurley
MLB-Kirby Puckett and Paul Goldschmidt
NBA-Jordan and Colin Sexton (I don't watch NBA...that's my son's favorite)
NHL-Mike Moreno and Vladimir Tarasenko

Posted by topdogggbm on 9/24/2019 3:53:00 PM (view original):
As far as learning about one another on here, i feel like I've never met a single person in this game that is anywhere close to my lifestyle/upbringing/culture, and to be honest I'm surprised. I feel like I'm the only coach here that plays this more for my interest in basketball, than numbers crunching. I'm less of a role model citizen than most of you, i don't have a bachelor's or master's and I'm not an engineer. I like hip hop music and some of the language spoken here is out of my league. And the thing i wonder most, and I've been dying to ask this, but I've never found the right time.... are there any black coaches out there besides me????

I listen to hip hop music ardently. My favorite way to pass my free time. But yeah, I love numbers. Sorry man.

Posted by p6453 on 9/24/2019 4:49:00 PM (view original):
Favorite player of all time and current:
NFL-Tony Dorsett and Todd Gurley
MLB-Kirby Puckett and Paul Goldschmidt
NBA-Jordan and Colin Sexton (I don't watch NBA...that's my son's favorite)
NHL-Mike Moreno and Vladimir Tarasenko

Loved Tony Dorsett. I was very surprised to find out about his CTE because his ability to avoid the hard, direct hit was uncanny. When I watched him I thought he had eyes in the back of his head, he had such a knack for ducking or dodging at the very last second so he only took glancing blows. Definitely an all-time favorite of mine.

I love college hoops! For me it started in 1960 with The Ohio State University NCAA Champions, the Buckeyes! Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek, Larry Siegfried, Mel Nowell, Richie Hoyt, Bobby Knight, Doug McDonald and of course Coach Fred Taylor! I was 9 years old and fell in love with my Bucks! I can still hear announcer Jimmie Crum describing Lucas' hook shot as 'Johnson & Johnson, baby powder soft!' What a way to start out following college basketball! NCAA runners up to Cincinnati Bearcats the next 2 years!

Posted by geneferrell on 9/24/2019 5:28:00 PM (view original):
I love college hoops! For me it started in 1960 with The Ohio State University NCAA Champions, the Buckeyes! Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek, Larry Siegfried, Mel Nowell, Richie Hoyt, Bobby Knight, Doug McDonald and of course Coach Fred Taylor! I was 9 years old and fell in love with my Bucks! I can still hear announcer Jimmie Crum describing Lucas' hook shot as 'Johnson & Johnson, baby powder soft!' What a way to start out following college basketball! NCAA runners up to Cincinnati Bearcats the next 2 years!

For me, it's college hoops or nothing. WVU is my squad, but I'll watch just about any game, from D3 up to the big guys.

Posted by topdogggbm on 9/24/2019 3:53:00 PM (view original):
As far as learning about one another on here, i feel like I've never met a single person in this game that is anywhere close to my lifestyle/upbringing/culture, and to be honest I'm surprised. I feel like I'm the only coach here that plays this more for my interest in basketball, than numbers crunching. I'm less of a role model citizen than most of you, i don't have a bachelor's or master's and I'm not an engineer. I like hip hop music and some of the language spoken here is out of my league. And the thing i wonder most, and I've been dying to ask this, but I've never found the right time.... are there any black coaches out there besides me????

kinda interesting you say that, in my mind there have always been 2 groups on this site, basketball fans and numbers guys, although with some overlap. i am a fan of watching basketball, but was more into leg based sports from a playing perspective, and never played basketball on a team or anything close. i do think the basketball guy camp has dwindled worse than the numbers guy camp, as the game has been neglected (there just aren't as many games made for numbers folks!).

anyway, i always took it as a huge advantage that while i really liked watching college basketball (i guess specifically kentucky basketball), i relatively had no idea how to actually play the game, as a player or a coach. that way when i played this game, i had basically no pre-conceived notions to overcome. or at least, very little conviction in those pre-conceived notions. so, i basically had nothing to overcome as far as how this game deviates from real life. in fact, i now just assume real life basketball works precisely as HD does :) ok not really... but half way!

Posted by p6453 on 9/24/2019 5:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by geneferrell on 9/24/2019 5:28:00 PM (view original):
I love college hoops! For me it started in 1960 with The Ohio State University NCAA Champions, the Buckeyes! Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek, Larry Siegfried, Mel Nowell, Richie Hoyt, Bobby Knight, Doug McDonald and of course Coach Fred Taylor! I was 9 years old and fell in love with my Bucks! I can still hear announcer Jimmie Crum describing Lucas' hook shot as 'Johnson & Johnson, baby powder soft!' What a way to start out following college basketball! NCAA runners up to Cincinnati Bearcats the next 2 years!

For me, it's college hoops or nothing. WVU is my squad, but I'll watch just about any game, from D3 up to the big guys.

the first NT games i went to where i was able to be buying the tickets myself, it was up in syracuse, watching UK play a really lousy game against cornell before getting their rear ends handed to them by the huskies and that one fast little dude who i swear played at least 6 or 7 seasons. might have even hit double digits :) this was when UK had wall, cousins, patterson & co and started the WVU game on an 0-20 3pt streak. not my finest memory...

but after the cornell game, i hung over the railings like the little kids trying to slap the hands of the players (im not above it), and got all the seniors and all the starters. it was sweet. when patterson came off after the post game interview we had been waiting like 10 minutes to get him and he was like the greatest fan-hand-slapper of all time. super pumped. then cal was like, so... unamused, i suppose... at us calling to him. the polar opposite of patterson who was like cheering and jumping around and stuff. i suppose as the coach, he was more concerned about how bad the team just played and the fact they won was little consolation. but it came across as cal murdering us (mostly kids under 12) with his eyes.

anyway, the important thing in all of this, what is up with that dude who was at WVU for 7 or 8 seasons? not to make this a math thread like so many others, but isn't that too many?

Posted by topdogggbm on 9/24/2019 3:53:00 PM (view original):
As far as learning about one another on here, i feel like I've never met a single person in this game that is anywhere close to my lifestyle/upbringing/culture, and to be honest I'm surprised. I feel like I'm the only coach here that plays this more for my interest in basketball, than numbers crunching. I'm less of a role model citizen than most of you, i don't have a bachelor's or master's and I'm not an engineer. I like hip hop music and some of the language spoken here is out of my league. And the thing i wonder most, and I've been dying to ask this, but I've never found the right time.... are there any black coaches out there besides me????

My interest is purely in basketball. While I like looking at statistics, I couldn't generate advanced stats to save my life anymore and I have never been a math guy. I'm white but we probably have more in common than you think. Skin color aside, we both love the game. That gives us more in common than I have with the entire neighborhood I live in today.

I'm purely here for basketball as well. College basketball has always been my favorite sport. In fact, I'm still playing College Hoops 2k8 on PS3 because of the non-existence of college basketball video games anymore. I've never been a math guy. I took College Algebra my first semester of college and got a C-, which was frankly probably pretty generous. I'm all about words and language. Like Miami, I like looking at and analyzing the stats, but that's not why I came here.

As an aside, this thread has turned into something I wasn't expecting. It's been great getting to know every one of you. I'm excited to come to the forums every day now to see what people are talking about. Thanks for being cool.

Sorry, I'm not that cool.

I mean, within the crowd of chemistry Ph.D.s I'm not so bad...

Posted by franklynne on 9/24/2019 4:09:00 PM (view original):
(for you topdogggbm) 72 y\o "negro".. from akron ohio..i use 'franklynne' in honor of franklin..the black character in peanuts..like you i play for the love of the game..college grad..worked for a bank 21 yrs..don't drink anymore..used up that privilege 16 yrs ago..

Alright!!! I'm not alone! Haha. 38, Cincinnati. Transportation Coordinator. Not looking for anything serious, just fun time playing basketball..... oh wait, wrong site.....

To a previous post (present, past)
NBA - Damien Lillard, Chris Webber
NFL - Cam Newton, Barry Sanders
MLB - None specific, Darryl Strawberry

But if there's anything needed to be known about me, it's my love for boxing. I used to box. I know everything about every fighter in the game now. I go to big events. And lame or not, i NEVER miss fight nights on Saturday night. I'll sit on this couch every single Saturday until i die. Everything for me must work around it. I watch fights when on vacation. Nothing gets scheduled for Saturday night's in my household.

Errol Spence by KO10 vs Shawn Porter this weekend! You heard it here first.

@dahsdebater- I literally Christmas-treed by P Chem final and got a C-. Lucky me because I didn't have a clue.

@pallas - The last class I took was College Algebra. I was hoping the University would forget the requirement but I got a form letter informing me (politely) that I would be allowed to walk across the stage but would never get my degree until I took the class. I am also a language guy...if effect, a semanticist. I taught myself how to read French. That's how much I dig language.

@topdogggbm - I also love boxing and have never been able to get into MMA. I don't watch much these days but boxing is old school...and so am I.