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Post by theneumann64 on Sept 3, 2020 8:40:21 GMT -5
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Post by Exploring15 on Sept 3, 2020 8:42:59 GMT -5
So who has an athletic subscription that is going to copy and paste the article here?
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Post by theneumann64 on Sept 3, 2020 8:52:21 GMT -5
Man I really wish the greatest La Salle basketball moment in at least 20 years (and quite possibly the best one that will ever occur in my lifetime) didn't take place at the end of one of the worst days of my life. It's impossible for me to enjoy it fully because of that.
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Sept 3, 2020 17:14:11 GMT -5
So who has an athletic subscription that is going to copy and paste the article here? I could but Neumann and probably he other admins would discourage it. I encourage people to sign up for the Athletic. They been running deals recently and even without the deals, its like $60 or $70 a year. The guy who wrote this story was hired specifically to cover the Big 5 |
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Post by coqui900 on Sept 3, 2020 17:14:45 GMT -5
I am going to renew my Athletic subscription just for this.
I had the exact opposite reaction to the SW Philly Floater. I had maybe the worst six month stretch of my life in the last half of 2012 and start of 2013. It is really insane at all the stuff that happened in that compressed amount of time. And one of the events that happened was the worst thing to ever happen to my family. I suffer from bipolar depression (and I will gladly talk about it because the stigma of mental illness had to end) already. I just hit a big wall and was in a really bad depressive episode.
I cannot tell you how much game days that season meant to me. One way I cope is to make myself look forward to enjoying something that day. If you do not suffer, you have no idea how hard that can be. But having something as trivial as “Dayton is tonight!” really just made me actually get out of bed without a struggle. And then it eventually turned into starting to feel like myself again.
The fog I was in did not lift because of Selection Sunday. But it was lifting by then and it felt like those two awesome weeks were a reward, or at least a reminder that ups come with downs. And if I go back and watch any of those clips I just get hit with the pure joy I felt at the end of that season. The videos the school made -especially the one that was made before the Sweet 16 game that starts with Brother Ed’s prayer - gets me every single time.
The only time I will like sports as much as I did in February and March of 2013’ is if my son ends up loving sports and I get to share what it’s like to have a team like that in your life, and that they serve as a reminder that happiness can come in a lot of different forms, especially when you need it the most.
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Sept 3, 2020 17:49:10 GMT -5
One thing about this article and maybe that team in general, it always felt to me that Sam Mills got the short shrift. Just my opinion.
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Post by calsufan on Sept 3, 2020 18:05:18 GMT -5
So who has an athletic subscription that is going to copy and paste the article here? I could but Neumann and probably he other admins would discourage it. I encourage people to sign up for the Athletic. They been running deals recently and even without the deals, its like $60 or $70 a year. The guy who wrote this story was hired specifically to cover the Big 5 The Big Kahuna (Proboards) specifically disallows it. Here's a link... support.proboards.com/page/rules#gi5 |
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Post by coqui900 on Sept 3, 2020 21:40:03 GMT -5
It’s a great article, BTW. Splurge and get a subscription if you can afford it. I was a reporter/journalist from when I graduated college until five years ago when I moved into PR. I had to make the tough call to leave an industry I really loved because the lack of jobs and security is too much of a risk. Paying for subscriptions keeps good publications alive.
The article also explains a bit of their offense that season. They did not call any sets against zone defenses when they had the four guards out there. They just let Duren captain the ship and people made reads and reacted. The reason: We could have had the four quickest guards sharing the floor at the same time that season. Why bog them down?
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Post by sidclassof69 on Sept 4, 2020 8:14:47 GMT -5
I have a subscription + is well worth it- because of the superior group of writers that make up their staff.
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Post by sidclassof69 on Sept 4, 2020 8:18:10 GMT -5
I consider the 2013 Sweet Sixteen run, to be the most exciting period of La Salle basketball, since the 1968-69 team. I was an undergrad in 68-69+ the entire season was electric. Only cloud that hung over it- was we were ineligible for the NCAA tournament.
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Post by 1801olney on Sept 4, 2020 8:56:14 GMT -5
Yes, the Athletic is great for long form writing, which seems to be dying. It was curious that they hired someone from outside the area with little knowledge of any of the Big 5 teams to cover it though.
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