Random Thoughts – March 26th
Still Waiting For Roy Williams To Call Timeout...
Ahh, it's good to see that the Roy Williams we all grew to love as he was
squandering unbelievable talent at Kansas is back.
I may not have coached four future NBA first round draft picks to a National Championship but I'm savvy enough to know that when your team is 0-for-overtime, you may want to burn a quick TO. But that's just me. I'm crazy like that.
Honestly, I'm surprised Tyler Hansbrough's father didn't come out of the stands and tackle Roy. I guess what passes for setting up the offense and getting a good shot in Chapel Hill is the frantic swinging of your arms and a look of utter disinterest in what's unfolding on the court. At least, Will Blythe, the author of To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry, an utterly unreadable, overindulgent sports dork lit fiasco (and I'm a Red Sox fan so I know all about unreadable, overindulgent sports dork lit fiascoes) will probably commit suicide today. Which will spare me the aggravation of muttering under my breath when his next book, To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: Fucking Call A Timeout, Roy, You Fucking Hack!, comes out.
But you have to give it to Georgetown. JTIII is completely unflappable on the
sidelines. He just seems like a guy who knows what needs to be done. Doesn't panic. Runs his stuff. Always has a plan. And I love the fact that Georgetown is back, as Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese predicted when we interviewed him in 2005:
Georgetown has a chance to be very good. They're still a very young team but I think John [Thompson III, head coach] is a really good coach. They're also beginning to recruit the kind of kids back when John [Thompson, former head coach] Sr. was there
Hoya Paranoia. What's not to love?






