Young Griz basketball season looks good so far.
The Griz basketball season officially started this past Friday night with two and a half hours of practice but what most students saw of the team was Stuart Mayes, Matt Martin, Austin Swift and Bryan Ellis running out with the football team at the homecoming game. Yeah, they were the ones prancing around the outside of the field trying to spell out G-R-I-Z with the flags.
These practices are the reason this blog hasn't been updated too much over the past week; I volunteered as one of the managers (pretty much just waterboys) for the Griz basketball team. I have to say that what I've seen so far are very impressive.
Of the new players, the most impressive I've seen are Gus Chase and Ryan Staudacher. Chase, a top 20 junior college player and top 5 JC forward, has excelled on both ends of the floor in practice on just raw talent alone. Chase is still learning the playbook but has made an effort to speed up the process by making at least one visit to coaches' office.
Staudacher shoots so well I think there may have been a little precipitation in the Western Auxiliary Gym over the weekend. He's like Reggie Miller out at arc. He also has a little Joe Mauer in him having started three years at QB for the Lake Washington High School. For his AAU hoops, Staudacher played for
Friends of Hoops, one of the best AAU teams in Washington state and the nation. The team was started by now Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl and boasts a slew of alum at some of the best college programs in the country and even one in the NBA lottery.
I'm not gonna lie, losing Krystkowiak really blows but I think we'll be just fine.
UPDATE: There was a great quote by Matt Dlouhy on Chase in today's Kaimin.
These practices are the reason this blog hasn't been updated too much over the past week; I volunteered as one of the managers (pretty much just waterboys) for the Griz basketball team. I have to say that what I've seen so far are very impressive.
Of the new players, the most impressive I've seen are Gus Chase and Ryan Staudacher. Chase, a top 20 junior college player and top 5 JC forward, has excelled on both ends of the floor in practice on just raw talent alone. Chase is still learning the playbook but has made an effort to speed up the process by making at least one visit to coaches' office.
Staudacher shoots so well I think there may have been a little precipitation in the Western Auxiliary Gym over the weekend. He's like Reggie Miller out at arc. He also has a little Joe Mauer in him having started three years at QB for the Lake Washington High School. For his AAU hoops, Staudacher played for
Friends of Hoops, one of the best AAU teams in Washington state and the nation. The team was started by now Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl and boasts a slew of alum at some of the best college programs in the country and even one in the NBA lottery.I'm not gonna lie, losing Krystkowiak really blows but I think we'll be just fine.
UPDATE: There was a great quote by Matt Dlouhy on Chase in today's Kaimin.
“Gus is probably the most raw talent I’ve seen in a while,” Dlouhy said. “He’s almost, like, 95 percent unstoppable on offense – pretty much impossible to guard.”Is it just me or could you hear Napolean Dynomite saying something along those lines?
By chance is Ryan Staudachers Grandfather name Raymond Staudacher?
If it is Hi cuz!