OT - Paul Pierce on Ray Allen

[bmo22]

Again, not saying Pierce is better than Lebron. Lebron is a top 5 player all time. Just saying that in no way does a first ballot hall of famer, NBA finals MVP and all time leading scorer for the winningest franchise in NBA history carry Lebron's jock (or not even according to super john).

 

[Rocktheworld]

Just seeing his interviews and relatively generally emotionless demeanor, and read about his OCD-like need for perfection, I always got a sense that Ray might have some aspie in him.

I know LeBron loves Ray, at least as a player. Wonder how he feels about him as a person.

 

[Huskies4ever]

As always, this deserves pictures.

Fox's babe:



Jeter's babe:

Jeter's babe in a landslide.

I'm not picky. Both please!

 

[Dogdeacon]

Sorry: TRUE.

Oh, I'm pretty sure the guy was his roommate at some point their freshman year - dude was definitely on the level. I lived in McMahon 5th floor two years afterwards and folks were still swapping war stories about it.



Yes, they didn't make it through the academic year. Maybe he was in a triple with Cliff and Spider and he just left, I dunno.

By the way, the guy's name is Eric and he's a major bigwig in the Kappa Kappa Psi fraternity these days. Seek him out and get the story direct from him if you like. I don't think he'd have any reason to lie about it at all...

I think there were two triples on the floor, but I don't think Cliffy was in either. I recall there were two rooms of hoop players at least initially, they were on the opposite side of the floor from me. It was a co-ed floor (one triple was guys, one girls).
It is possible that Eric is telling the truth or exaggerating, I don't know & don't remember him. Good fact check is there was a girl on the floor named Bridget (short blond-ish hair, very petite) that secretly dated one of the other bball players. Name him.

 

[3rdbass]

I went to school with Ray Allen at UCONN and he has always been a little self absorbed and conceited guy from all accounts of people that knew him well on campus. He thinks a little too highly of himself. I saw him again after we won the Championship in Dallas and came off rude the way he said "no" when I asked him to take a pic with him. None if the other UCONN guys including Richard Hamilton, Scott Burrell, Natambu W., Khalid El Amin and even Donny Marshall(who seems a little stuck up) were rude like him. I mean he could at least said "sorry" first and his body language was so negative.
I'm not surprise with PP's remarks about Ray only being about himself. No matter how he is as a person he is still a UCONN great. Just not my favorite guy.

 

[Huskies4ever]

Who in their right mind would be "offended" by that, in the context of what he said? Wipe the sand out of your v a gi na.

We censor the nomenclature of the female reproduction organ? Geez

 

[BoatShow]

Everyone likes to make Rondo the jerk in their relationship. Hmm

 

[Inyatkin]

Everyone likes to make Rondo the jerk in their relationship. Hmm

Hasn't Rondo been considered the jerk in every relationship he's had in the league?

 

[superjohn]

Everyone likes to make Rondo the jerk in their relationship. Hmm

Everybody in the league hates Rondo, took him about two seconds to piss everyone off in Dallas.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

I'm not picky. Both please!

Have to agree there. Let me take them both home for a weekend and I get back to you which one is better

 

[mauconnfan]

Have to agree there. Let me take them both home for a weekend and I get back to you which one is better

A weekend. I can answer that in 15-20 minutes, both of them.

What are you 16 years old like an energizer bunny Conehead?

 

[DarthGrumpy]

A weekend. I can answer that in 15-20 minutes, both of them.

What are you 16 years old like an energizer bunny Conehead?

For those two, I think I would give it my old college best or die trying with a smile on my face. Feeling young again anyway after yesterday seeing Harrison Ford dressed-up as Han Solo in the Millennium Falcon.

 

[epark88]

I think there were two triples on the floor, but I don't think Cliffy was in either. I recall there were two rooms of hoop players at least initially, they were on the opposite side of the floor from me. It was a co-ed floor (one triple was guys, one girls).
It is possible that Eric is telling the truth or exaggerating, I don't know & don't remember him. Good fact check is there was a girl on the floor named Bridget (short blond-ish hair, very petite) that secretly dated one of the other bball players. Name him.

Hmm, no clue who Bridget was. (Just guessing, but was she the girl that caused the hissy-fit between Tate and PC's Eric Murdock?)

But understand, I moved to McMahon 5th two years after all this went down and everything I know I heard second-hand from either Eric or the other guys still on the floor who remembered it. And of course, that crazy UCMB chant...

 

[CallMeBruce]

Yes, Eric Morson.

His reputation precedes him, apparently. You know him?...

I'm a UCMB vet myself.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Hmm, no clue who Bridget was. (Just guessing, but was she the girl that caused the hissy-fit between Tate and PC's Eric Murdock?)

But understand, I moved to McMahon 5th two years after all this went down and everything I know I heard second-hand from either Eric or the other guys still on the floor who remembered it. And of course, that crazy UCMB chant...

No, Tate wasn't the player I was thinking of. I didn't mean that you'd know, just next time you run into Eric my question would be a litmus test if he lived with Cliff & knew what was going on or if he was embellishing stories. I only lived there a semester and didn't get too involved in floor dramas (so if I knew of Bridget's 'secret' relationship EVERYONE knew), only other names I remember are two girls that roomed together, Eileen and Maureen, the latter worked in the athletic dept for awhile and handled family tickets for men's bball.