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bagelcat wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:48 am

Aside from the post disappearing Jarvis Moss and Jack Gibbs.

Waitress wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:37 am

The drive up to Chicago was uneventful. Lake Shore Drive had little traffic and we parked in a garage less than a 5-minute walk from the Gentile Center. My wife (Jewish) found the arena's name amusing. She looked very smart in the black Davidson sweatshirt Bagel gave me about 15 years ago. Lots more seatbacks since the pre-COVID game that Davidson won. The Chicago/Davidson folks were placed off the corner of the home bench. Connor's Crew (I heard he needed 90 tickets) were behind the Davidson bench. I stood and applauded on Bobby's backdoor cut-and-basket. It was one of the few off-ball highlights. We generate a meager number of looks out of our stagnant motion. Does Matt not see that?

Took a photo with classmate Jim McConkey at halftime. The team could have used him. My wife and I wandered around the arena at halftime, finding ourselves at the Davidson locker room door as the team returned to the court. I urged them on by name ("How do you know all their names?" my wife asked), slapping five with several as they ran by, bumping fists with Jack Gibbs as he and Will Riegel walked by.

I counted four airballs on 3-point attempts. The home crowd must have felt sorry for the visitors as they chanted only half-heartedly on the fourth airball. Des exorted the crowd when he subbed out with about 5 minutes to play. I think Loyola had rambled out to a double digit lead. He played pretty well. The transfer has worked out well for him.

My wife grew up on the Hudson River and loves the water. No trip to Chicago is complete for us without a walk along Lake Michigan. In the summer, amenities abound along the lake, but in the winter, no concessions or bathrooms are open, so desperate for relief, I peed on a tree in a bird sanctuary, about four miles into our walk. Not long after, we stumbled upon a group of birdwatchers (recognizable by their hushed tones and enormous zoom lenses). After walking in the midwinter sun, it took a few minutes to adjust our eyes to the dim light of the thicket, but we spotted the birdwatchers' quarry: a long eared owl, sitting quietly, blinking back at us as we peered at this mysterious creature, whispering so as not to annoy it while we admired it.

Our next quarry was the elusive urban park portapotty, which was proving to be rarer that long eared owls. We set off for the masts of boats we could see in the distance. The boats were in drydock, each wrapped in glossy white plastic, their masts like a collection of church spires, their hulls like a huge pod of beached whales. The marina indeed had a portapotty, which my wife was quite happy I had found. She deferred to a Russian woman who arrived at about the same time. They joked about the state of the toilet and agreed it beat the alternative.

The walk back to the car a bit chilly, with a slight breeze in our face and the sun setting behind the high-rises But I handle most challenges better on an empty bladder. It's easy to imagine that the expanse of water stretching to the horizon is an ocean. For a moment, I'm not in Illinois, but in Pawley's Island, Kitty Hawk, or Cape Cod. Waves undulate and lap the shore. As we walk along the sea wall, water smacks against it, like a Davidson guard vainly hurling himself into the lane, over and over.

MLC67 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:13 pm

Sorry 85Wilcatsky, but the racist post by hodeho did not ask the question you posed. Sure we would have been a better team yesterday had Des played for us. The only reason he didn’t is the fact that he voluntarily chose to transfer. Had this poster simply shared your conviction that Davidson has to do a better job in recruiting African Americans, we would all agree with that undeniable assessment. Nonetheless, you chose to ignore the hodeho’s implicit accusation that our college intentionally does not want to do a better job of such recruitment. Calling us, even supposedly joking, the Davidson Confederates colors that post malicious and not the benign racial observation you characterize it to be.

i77cat wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:30 pm

I was chatting with a Wildcat yesterday, trying to remember Oskar Mikelsen's name. My friend was complaining about the general decline in our roster in terms of athleticism. I pulled up the 2016-17 roster. Those guys would mop the court with the 2023-24 Wildcats. Study this roster for a moment:

https://davidsonwildcats.com/sports/men ... er/2016-17

We must find players.

i77cat wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:30 pm

I was chatting with a Wildcat yesterday, trying to remember Oskar Mikelsen's name. My friend was complaining about the general decline in our roster in terms of athleticism. I pulled up the 2016-17 roster. Those guys would mop the court with the 2023-24 Wildcats. Study this roster for a moment:

https://davidsonwildcats.com/sports/men ... er/2016-17

We must find players.

MLC67 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:39 pm

we all have a responsibility here to be precise and accurate that Camelot is emphaticly not a hostile environment for anyone.

wildforthecats wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:20 pm

i77cat wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:30 pm

I was chatting with a Wildcat yesterday, trying to remember Oskar Mikelsen's name. My friend was complaining about the general decline in our roster in terms of athleticism. I pulled up the 2016-17 roster. Those guys would mop the court with the 2023-24 Wildcats. Study this roster for a moment:

https://davidsonwildcats.com/sports/men ... er/2016-17

We must find players.

Mop the floor is a bit of a ridiculous statement. I seem to recall many on this board were complaining about how the 2016-2017 team was underachieving back when the season was unfolding.