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Great spark off the bench!

Who picked him in RAP?

Chicat wrote:Who picked him in RAP?

I think Zeus did

Chicat wrote:Who picked him in RAP?

I almost did, then I thought no way he plays at Stanford. Kicking myself.

Cats really pulled away when he came in

Great hustle, good D, great job by Kor

Minutes? Give Matt Korcheck the game ball.

Now that is how you play the post at Arizona. Time for Matty to get in the rotation and apply heat to Zeus.

Great minutes from Matt tonight...and we really needed them too. Good job!!

Proud.

Amazing job in an away game of all things! Seriously needs to get minutes every game.

Chicat wrote:Who picked him in RAP?

not me, unfortunately

Thank you Korcheck.
And PJC with all the drives. He made a big diff too.

Chicat wrote:Who picked him in RAP?

Nobody

Longhorned wrote:Proud.

How I feel! Excited for the kid!

Mattnimal!

Told you guys over a year ago that Matt would help this team win a game or two. Really happy for him tonight. My son played club ball with Matt and it's always great to see a player get his chance and make the most of it. Well done Matt!!

Player Of The Game!!

I know fouls were a huge issue for our bigs tonight, but...

Tarc: 23 minutes, 5 points, 3 rebounds ... would have been 3 points if not for a dunk with less than 15 seconds left on the clock.
Ristic: 11 minutes, 0 points, 2 rebounds
Korcheck: 5 minutes, 4 points, 2 rebounds

PieceOfMeat wrote:I know fouls were a huge issue for our bigs tonight, but...

Tarc: 23 minutes, 5 points, 3 rebounds ... would have been 3 points if not for a dunk with less than 15 seconds left on the clock.
Ristic: 11 minutes, 0 points, 2 rebounds
Korcheck: 5 minutes, 4 points, 2 rebounds

Couple of things at play here from what I saw:

- The guards did not do a great job of getting the ball into the big men in good position to score.
- The game plan on offense seemed to be to have the guards penetrate and then kick out to SJ/Bash/York/Pitts.
- All of our bigs seemed to be busting their ass on the defensive end, so on offense they maybe were resting a bit.
- The fouls really took any flow out of the game and limited how aggressive the bigs were on offense saving their fouls for the other end of the floor.

Matt K looked great in the game. Made things tough for Stan, scored at the right time, grabbed res..awesome job. Deserves more court time. Got to tip my hat to him. Well done kid.

Big minutes, Matt. Could tell he was so much fresher than the rest.

gumby wrote:Big minutes, Matt. Could tell he was so much fresher than the rest.

A nuance lost on most others. Agreed.

Did you see him push Nastic out of the paint one series? I wonder if Ristic and Zeus cover each other in practice, where both tend to be a little soft doing that.

Chicat wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:I know fouls were a huge issue for our bigs tonight, but...

Tarc: 23 minutes, 5 points, 3 rebounds ... would have been 3 points if not for a dunk with less than 15 seconds left on the clock.
Ristic: 11 minutes, 0 points, 2 rebounds
Korcheck: 5 minutes, 4 points, 2 rebounds

Couple of things at play here from what I saw:

- The guards did not do a great job of getting the ball into the big men in good position to score.
- The game plan on offense seemed to be to have the guards penetrate and then kick out to SJ/Bash/York/Pitts.
- All of our bigs seemed to be busting their ass on the defensive end, so on offense they maybe were resting a bit.
- The fouls really took any flow out of the game and limited how aggressive the bigs were on offense saving their fouls for the other end of the floor.

Oh there are definitely other factors. As gumby points out, he was also fresher than either other player by the point of the game which we needed him.

Still, he impressed out there last night.

Wonder if Craig Victor was also impressed?

Korchek showed some hands out there grabbing his couple rebounds real tight in traffic. Was good to see and I'm happy he got some meaningful run. He's a solid depth guy, does exactly what is needed.

Merkin wrote:Wonder if Craig Victor was also impressed?

I think Korcheck should start a Craig Victor appreciation thread

Merkin wrote:Wonder if Craig Victor was also impressed?

He should've gotten more minutes. In fact, we need to add 10 minutes to each half so that every player who should get more minutes gets them.

By the way, Matt Korcheck is perfect from the floor on the year.

Chicat wrote:By the way, Matt Korcheck is perfect from the floor on the year.

PERfect

Merkin wrote:Wonder if Craig Victor was also impressed?

Who?

Extrapolating from Matt's 5 minutes today, his line playing the full 40 shows 16 points on 8-8 shooting, 16 boards, 8 assists with no TOs, 8 blocks. Of course you can't assume what we would have seen had he played serious minutes; now we'll never know.

Thanks Matt for being a true Wildcat and playing great every time we got to see you.

Got the same number of votes as Tarc did for all pac12 team.

Should be starting.

Scheer just tweeted this out:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/sp ... rrer=&_r=0

Good for him if this works out.

azthrillhouse wrote:Scheer just tweeted this out:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/sp ... rrer=&_r=0

Good for him if this works out.

Aussie Football is fucking nuts.

ghostwhitehorse wrote:

azthrillhouse wrote:Scheer just tweeted this out:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/sp ... rrer=&_r=0

Good for him if this works out.

Aussie Football is fucking nuts.

Tangara would have been great at Aussie Rules. His management missed a opportunity - maybe its still not too late, but they need to move quicky and get him into one of the evaluation camps.

http://m.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/car ... 7418717504

EXCLUSIVE: CARLTON has made moves to sign giant US basketballer Matt Korcheck.

The powerhouse big man, who stands 206cm and weighs 105kg, will arrive at Carlton next month after impressing the club’s recruiting staff at a Florida screening camp in April.

Ruck and development coach Matthew Capuano strongly backed the move, saying Korcheck was clearly the most impressive athlete at the April trail.

As well as his power and jump, Korcheck’s endurance impressed at the AFL camp, running 3km in 12 minutes and eight seconds, in his first test over that distance.

Korcheck, 23, played basketball for Arizona Wildcats, but is extremely raw in football terms.


Capuano was extremely encouraged by Korcheck’s athletic profile and his ability to potentially carve a football career.

He will spend a few weeks at Carlton next month in the hope of signing on with the Blues as an international rookie.

He would add to the Blues big man stocks, including Matthew Kreuzer, Cameron Wood and out-of-contract tall Robbie Warnock.

Korcheck would be added to the current list under the category B rookie rules.

Carlton has paid for the costs of Korcheck’s stay next month, meaning they have first rights to sign him.

St Kilda (Jason Holmes), Collingwood (Mason Cox) and North Melbourne (Eric Wallace) have all enlisted American ruckmen under the same AFL allowances.

It was reported Korcheck’s father, Michael, was a special forces Blackhawk helicopter pilot in the US Air Force.

New recruiting boss Stephen Silvagni and football chief Andrew McKay will make the final assessments on Korcheck.

That's awesome for Korcheck. I hope he tears it up down there.

PieceOfMeat wrote:That's awesome for Korcheck. I hope he tears it up down there.

Fuck that.

St. Kilda... great.
Richmond... good.
Just about anybody else, good luck to you Matt.

But Carlton?... LOSER!!!!

Of course if it was Collingwood the response would be "DIE HERETIC" so it could be worse.

RichardCranium wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:That's awesome for Korcheck. I hope he tears it up down there.

Fuck that.

St. Kilda... great.
Richmond... good.
Just about anybody else, good luck to you Matt.

But Carlton?... LOSER!!!!

Of course if it was Collingwood the response would be "DIE HERETIC" so it could be worse.

Well maybe he'll learn the game with Carlton, then get traded to St. Kilda?

One can hope, at least.