Senior 3 on 3

[BillsBeliever!!!]

Looks cool. Doubt Roby will get to play though. Definently not Hines

[Cowboy]

-wow, the NCAA is straying further down a path

[pierrelaclede]

28 minutes ago, Cowboy said:

-wow, the NCAA is straying further down a path

Its unaffiliated with the NCAA.  Since the players are seniors, they will not longer be college athletes since their seasons are over and will be eligible to play for money. This seems pretty cool. I'd watch.

[BillikenBoy10]

Will they play in the same arena as the final four?

[Cowboy]

1 minute ago, pierrelaclede said:

Its unaffiliated with the NCAA.  Since the players are seniors, they will not longer be college athletes since their seasons are over and will be eligible to play for money. This seems pretty cool. I'd watch.

-okay, thanks for the clarification, a flaw  I can see is they could be "recruited" to play while their season is still in progress, they may no longer be college athletes but some would still have the student part of the term

[BillsBeliever!!!]

Roby is playing. You can watch on twitter Friday 

[HoosierPal]

14 minutes ago, BillsBeliever!!! said:

Roby is playing. You can watch on twitter Friday 

Good news.  Who else is on the A10 squad?  Each conference squad gets four, with max of two from one school.

EDIT:  Okay, got a partial answer.  Rene Castro-Cannedy (Duquesne) and Matt Mobley (St. Bonaventure) are two of the three.

 

[Matty Light]

4 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

Good news.  Who else is on the A10 squad?  Each conference squad gets four, with max of two from one school

Oh please let it be Wantanabe.

[billikenfan05]

26 minutes ago, Matty Light said:

Oh please let it be Wantanabe.

Watanabe isn't going to be playing any time soon.

[Matty Light]

3 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:

Watanabe isn't going to be playing any time soon.

He only needs one good ankle for a 3 on 3 game.  He is a warrior.  Two good ankles is for 5 on 5 full court only.

[Box and Won]

12 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:

Watanabe isn't going to be playing any time soon.

Watanagonna play in that tournament.

 

[billikenfan05]

38 minutes ago, Matty Light said:

He only needs one good ankle for a 3 on 3 game.  He is a warrior.  Two good ankles is for 5 on 5 full court only.

Because he’s Japanese that must make him a warrior right? Not very PC bro

[dlarry]

16 hours ago, billikenfan05 said:

Because he’s Japanese that must make him a warrior right? Not very PC bro

Come on, the term is Samurai not warrior. You'll never make level 5 social justice warrior using offensive words like warrior. 

[Old guy]

The Japanese have a very different and in many ways extraordinary historical legacy regarding warriors. For example take the word "Honcho," like in "where is the big honcho?" It is an Americanized word made from the phonetic Japanese sound for the military rank of corporal. Yes, two stripes. The reason the Marines and GIs had to learn the word was to find out who was in command of the few Japanese prisoners (not dead soldiers), they managed to get. This was what they actually captured alive, the rest were generally killed in combat or by their own hand. A number of the suicidal Banzai attacks against american positions led by sword waving officers were caused by a search for an honorable death in combat by the officers in command (samurai descendants most of them). Very few Japanese higher level NCOs or officers were captured during WWII, the majority of which were wounded.

Historically, the Samurais were not nobility but they were right under the nobility, and commanded large numbers of troops (largely non samurai) in combat, particularly after the Shogunate ended in the XIX century. If Watanabe has Samurai blood he is much more than a warrior. This is a real, not a semantic difference.

[Box and Won]

59 minutes ago, Old guy said:

The Japanese have a very different and in many ways extraordinary historical legacy regarding warriors. For example take the word "Honcho," like in "where is the big honcho?" It is an Americanized word made from the phonetic Japanese sound for the military rank of corporal. Yes, two stripes. The reason the Marines and GIs had to learn the word was to find out who was in command of the few Japanese prisoners (not dead soldiers), they managed to get. This was what they actually captured alive, the rest were generally killed in combat or by their own hand. A number of the suicidal Banzai attacks against american positions led by sword waving officers were caused by a search for an honorable death in combat by the officers in command (samurai descendants most of them). Very few Japanese higher level NCOs or officers were captured during WWII, the majority of which were wounded.

Historically, the Samurais were not nobility but they were right under the nobility, and commanded large numbers of troops (largely non samurai) in combat, particularly after the Shogunate ended in the XIX century. If Watanabe has Samurai blood he is much more than a warrior. This is a real, not a semantic difference.

[gobillsgo]

1 hour ago, Old guy said:

The Japanese have a very different and in many ways extraordinary historical legacy regarding warriors. For example take the word "Honcho," like in "where is the big honcho?" It is an Americanized word made from the phonetic Japanese sound for the military rank of corporal. Yes, two stripes. The reason the Marines and GIs had to learn the word was to find out who was in command of the few Japanese prisoners (not dead soldiers), they managed to get. This was what they actually captured alive, the rest were generally killed in combat or by their own hand. A number of the suicidal Banzai attacks against american positions led by sword waving officers were caused by a search for an honorable death in combat by the officers in command (samurai descendants most of them). Very few Japanese higher level NCOs or officers were captured during WWII, the majority of which were wounded.

Historically, the Samurais were not nobility but they were right under the nobility, and commanded large numbers of troops (largely non samurai) in combat, particularly after the Shogunate ended in the XIX century. If Watanabe has Samurai blood he is much more than a warrior. This is a real, not a semantic difference.

Next time my girlfriend asks why I spend so much time reading this damn board, I’m showing her this post. I never know what kind of šhit I’m gonna learn on this website. 

[billikenfan05]

On 2/5/2018 at 1:06 PM, BillsBeliever!!! said:

Looks cool. Doubt Roby will get to play though. Definently not Hines

Never forget

[BillsBeliever!!!]

6 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:

Never forget

I would have thought Mobley, Adams, Aldridge, and the Rhody senior guard

[billikenfan05]

Just now, BillsBeliever!!! said:

I would have thought Mobley, Adams, Aldridge, and the Rhody senior guard

Cool man

[JohnnyJumpUp]

3 hours ago, Old guy said:

The Japanese have a very different and in many ways extraordinary historical legacy regarding warriors. For example take the word "Honcho," like in "where is the big honcho?" It is an Americanized word made from the phonetic Japanese sound for the military rank of corporal. Yes, two stripes. The reason the Marines and GIs had to learn the word was to find out who was in command of the few Japanese prisoners (not dead soldiers), they managed to get. This was what they actually captured alive, the rest were generally killed in combat or by their own hand. A number of the suicidal Banzai attacks against american positions led by sword waving officers were caused by a search for an honorable death in combat by the officers in command (samurai descendants most of them). Very few Japanese higher level NCOs or officers were captured during WWII, the majority of which were wounded.

Historically, the Samurais were not nobility but they were right under the nobility, and commanded large numbers of troops (largely non samurai) in combat, particularly after the Shogunate ended in the XIX century. If Watanabe has Samurai blood he is much more than a warrior. This is a real, not a semantic difference.

There is a real chance Roby has Samurai blood as well, as Sakanouye no Tamuramaro, in the late 700's, was the originator of what was to be known as the Samurai class in Japan, and he was a black man.

[Old guy]

That I did not know Johnny JumpUp. Roby has all he needs to fit the pattern, he is honorable, does his very best everytime he plays, displays leadership, and never complains. I like him very much.

[cgeldmacher]

So, are all these guys just dropping their classwork to go play in this non-NCAA sanctioned event?  That seems to work against what we want for a student who spent four years working toward a degree.

[billikenfan05]

6 minutes ago, cgeldmacher said:

So, are all these guys just dropping their classwork to go play in this non-NCAA sanctioned event?  That seems to work against what we want for a student who spent four years working toward a degree.

Don’t be a square! 

[cgeldmacher]

Ha!  I actually almost typed "Not to be a square, but..."  I should have just to not leave you the opening. 

[slufan13]

Is this on TV?