Friday, October 20, 2006
CLASS OF 2010: HOLY CROSS
This is part five in an ongoing series
Thanks for waiting. Before we start, I'd like to give a Patriot League Hoops Blog Wag of the Finger to the two Massachusetts elementary schools that recently banned playing tag. Not cool. Many great Holy Cross basketball alumni were born and raised in Massachusetts. If this trend continues, recruiting will dry up in 15 years as the mental toughness that tag gives kids will disappear. This means that I will have fewer HC alumni to argue with on the Internet, and I just can't stand for that. I'm watching you, Massachusetts!
Now, onto better things. I'm going to keep this short, as I have other posts I want to do, but I didn't want to leave you short without saying a couple of things about HC's recruits.
Holy Cross is one of a number of teams that will need its underclassmen to perform if they are to have a shot at the PL title. The Crusaders have a question mark at small forward, which may end up being a rotating door, given the fact that they'll have to rely on Freshman and Sophomores. The most likely candidates are Adam May and Andrew Keister.
May is a 6'7" 200 pounder from outside Cleveland, and may end up being the starting 3 for the Cross. Word has it that his range extends beyond the arc, and while the league has gotten bigger over the last few years as recruiting has improved, being 6'7" and able to shoot from three with accuracy will make May quite valuable to Coach Ralph Willard.
Keister, 6'9", will probably look to get time at the 4, where, barring some significant improvement, Alex Vander Baan is probably not the answer. Unless Tim Clifford has become a sprinter in the off season, there are minutes up for grabs in the post, where Clifford is the only impact player but only averaged 22 minutes a game last year.
Just to confuse me and everyone else, HC also has a guy named Eric Meister coming in. Say it with me, Meister...Keister.....Keister...Meister. We'll just call him Eric so I don't get mixed up. Eric is apparently a local legend from State College, PA, where they set up "Meisterville" during state playoffs. Seriously. To me, he's the question mark here. How many of the three 6'7"-6'9" guys can Willard really find playing time for? Hard to say.
Eric Keister is a project, and HC fans shouldn't expect anything for a while. Fun fact: he missed his junior year with mono. I had mono once, in the 9th grade. From then on, I never kissed girls without a condom on.
Next: pre-season all league team and predictions. @ 8:50 AM
This is part five in an ongoing series
Thanks for waiting. Before we start, I'd like to give a Patriot League Hoops Blog Wag of the Finger to the two Massachusetts elementary schools that recently banned playing tag. Not cool. Many great Holy Cross basketball alumni were born and raised in Massachusetts. If this trend continues, recruiting will dry up in 15 years as the mental toughness that tag gives kids will disappear. This means that I will have fewer HC alumni to argue with on the Internet, and I just can't stand for that. I'm watching you, Massachusetts!
Now, onto better things. I'm going to keep this short, as I have other posts I want to do, but I didn't want to leave you short without saying a couple of things about HC's recruits.
Holy Cross is one of a number of teams that will need its underclassmen to perform if they are to have a shot at the PL title. The Crusaders have a question mark at small forward, which may end up being a rotating door, given the fact that they'll have to rely on Freshman and Sophomores. The most likely candidates are Adam May and Andrew Keister.
May is a 6'7" 200 pounder from outside Cleveland, and may end up being the starting 3 for the Cross. Word has it that his range extends beyond the arc, and while the league has gotten bigger over the last few years as recruiting has improved, being 6'7" and able to shoot from three with accuracy will make May quite valuable to Coach Ralph Willard.
Keister, 6'9", will probably look to get time at the 4, where, barring some significant improvement, Alex Vander Baan is probably not the answer. Unless Tim Clifford has become a sprinter in the off season, there are minutes up for grabs in the post, where Clifford is the only impact player but only averaged 22 minutes a game last year.
Just to confuse me and everyone else, HC also has a guy named Eric Meister coming in. Say it with me, Meister...Keister.....Keister...Meister. We'll just call him Eric so I don't get mixed up. Eric is apparently a local legend from State College, PA, where they set up "Meisterville" during state playoffs. Seriously. To me, he's the question mark here. How many of the three 6'7"-6'9" guys can Willard really find playing time for? Hard to say.
Eric Keister is a project, and HC fans shouldn't expect anything for a while. Fun fact: he missed his junior year with mono. I had mono once, in the 9th grade. From then on, I never kissed girls without a condom on.
Next: pre-season all league team and predictions. @ 8:50 AM
