Sharpshooting Newbies

I know what you're thinking..."Thank the sweet Lord because I couldn't last another day without this hysterical, witty, charming, and surprisingly yummy blog." Ross is finally updating the beyond popular Simple Plays blog, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize to all of my devoted fans who have been in agony since last Thursday just simply waiting for an update to give happiness and hope to their lives. Thing is, my computer became overrun with more viruses than an Atlantic City hooker, so I had to take it to the phenomenal people at DoIt Computer Repairs on Creighton's campus. It took a few days, but I finally got her back tonight, so I can end your agony. Yet again, I apologize for the week long absence.

Anyways, back to basketball. As most of you probably know, we lost at Dayton last Saturday afternoon 90 80. We came out strong and even held a ten point lead at one point in the first half. In the end, we couldn't muster enough stops to stop the high flying Flyers. (Ha! Pun intended. I crack myself up. By the way, how'd you like my coachspeak?) Although we lost the first game on the slate, we redeemed ourselves Tuesday night by beating the Florida A&M Rattlers 78 53 at the Q. (Sorry Cavs fans.) We've had a couple of pleasant surprises to start the season: Ethan Wragge and Darryl Ashford. I'm too lazy to look up the stats, but they've both scored more than ten points in each of our two games, respectively. Ethan has made five of his first seven threes and I want to say Darryl has made at least five threes so far too. Again, too lazy to look up stats, so feel free to correct me. (Because I know how you people like to flood the blog with comments and thoughts.) Let's get to know Darryl and Ethan a little better, shall we?

Ethan Wragge came out of his mother's womb already launching more three's than your average Over-40 men's city league game. The sharpshooter from Eden Prairie, Minnesota has a gift from the big Man above. I don't think I've personally witnessed a better shooter in my life. I also don't think I've ever seen the kid take a dribble, but hey, neither does Dwight Howard and he turned out alright, didn't he? Ethan should have a fantastic career at CU and could challenge Kyle Korver's all-time three's mark, which is pretty impressive.

Darryl Ashford's game is smoother than a Soulja Boy rap song and his hops are even crazier. Which you wouldn't know if you saw the way he runs up and down the floor. It's almost like he already needs a hip replacement. It's painful for me to watch him run; I can't imagine what it's actually like for him to be doing it. However, despite the fact Chaz Bono could probably beat Darryl in a race (0r myself, for that matter), he has sneaky hops and and a sneaky jumpshot. As a matter of fact, he's probably one of the best leapers on the team, and he seems to almost float in mid-air, reaching higher and higher every second before he dunks. Also, if I had a dollar for every time Darryl said, "You fresh," I think I'd have enough money to out-fresh Paris Hilton. So that's Darryl Ashford in a nutshell. Slow, sneaky athletic, and fresh.

Practice has been, for the most part, fairly unentertaining lately. I've been getting an absurd amount of stops during scout team defense, but I always do that, so that's not really news now is it? We had to condition after practice today, and let's just say I can think of 168,987 more things I'd rather be doing than "foot fires." Anyways, hopefully I owned my philosophy test and as always...Simple plays, fellas, simple plays.