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[QUOTE="Ricker, post: 3406076, member: 1245"]
I posted all my observations about players like Jackson & Cliff in the other Hoophall thread, but I thought this anecdote might interest a wider audience.

I sat next to a guy named Frank on Sunday who is 76 years old and had been on a college team but not good enough to get on the court much.  After college he was trying to get into a Springfield industrial league that played good ball and got wind that a player was leaving a team.  The team had been playing for the championship and the game was tied with a few seconds left.  In a time out the coach had called for the ball to be held out, then delivered to the center to make a move and either win or go to overtime.  Instead the player with the ball wanted to be the hero and put up a deep shot with time on the clock.  He missed and a deep rebound started a fast break layup and a win for the other team.  The player he was replacing had been a stalwart at AIC, ....Jim Calhoun!!!   I got a laugh thinking about how a coach Jim Calhoun would react to that result in future years.
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