No Mistakes by This Lake!

[lethalweapon3]

We got a minor-league squad, y'all!*

*no Delaney jokes, please! lol

A few familiar names, and some fun-sounding names, too!

~lw3

[GameTime]

Not sure Delaney could make this roster.

[lethalweapon3]

(hey, I tried!)

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

Yes, one of the guards is the late, great Anthony Mason's kid, Antoine!

He had a cup of tea at Auburn after transferring from Niagara. Spent his past two seasons in Cyprus and in Canada.

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/03/11/anthony-mason-tribute-son-antoine-mason-auburn

~lw3

[KB21]

Chicken Sword is on the Erie training camp roster.  #HailState

[lethalweapon3]

Daesung Lee, a point guard, played some college ball for the Seasiders at BYU-Hawaii. He scored 53 points (9-for-17 on threes) over 3 games to guide South Korea to the Finals of the 2017 FIBA AsiaCup Qualifiers.

http://www.fiba.basketball/asiacup/2017/eaba/Daesung-Lee#|tab=stats

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

2 minutes ago, KB21 said:

Chicken Sword is on the Erie training camp roster.  #HailState

The former Alabama Mr. Basketball and 2015 All-SEC second-teamer, Sword has been unsheathing his shots in Poland with King Wilki Morskie Szczecin (bless you).

~lw3

[KB21]

I'd really like to see Chicken make it.  He's a good kid who works very hard.  He went through some tough years at Mississippi State.  

[lethalweapon3]

We got some Jawja guys on here, too!

DeShon Burgess, recently with the Dutchmen of Division III Union College, was born in Scottdale (DeKalb County) and got there by way of Druid Hills High,

https://www.unionathletics.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=8590

Tommy "Young Gifted" Williams comes out of the prestigious Richmond Academy in Augusta (oldest existing HS in the Southeast US), then came back to play for Augusta University after transferring from East Tennessee State. He's spent his time since with the Georgia Kingz (not Kangz, like Sacramento) of the minor-league ABA.

https://www.sims-basketball.com/tommywilliams

Jeremy Hollowell comes out of Indianapolis, but after transferring from Indiana U., he wound up at Georgia State, and is the Panthers' 23rd-leading all-time scorer. All-Sun Belt Second-Teamer.

http://www.georgiastatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=12700&ATCLID=209537979

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

Former North Carolina-Charlotte baller Chris Braswell will probably get to wear #35 with the Bayhawks. He and his former AAU teammate, Kevin Durant, have long worn that particular number.

http://newsok.com/article/3448737

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

If the name Ted Kapita rings a bell, the former recruit out of West Virginia by way of The Congo was an intended head-liner in the ill-conceived, even-iller-fated AmeriLeague (somehow, their Twitter page still survives). The 2015 fiasco nearly messed up his NCAA eligibility, but he wound up at NC State last season.

https://www.sny.tv/college-recruiting/news/the-strange-case-of-ted-kapita-arkansas-and-the-amerileague/157906674

~lw3

[AHF]

Is it bad that when I saw "Draft Round 3" that my first thought was "how old is this guy that he was picked when the draft had more than 2 rounds?"  Pretty bad?

[lethalweapon3]

ICYMI: The G-League. Is It In You?

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

 Come get it, Bay!

~m00s3

[lethalweapon3]

A few roster adds I've neglected to note until now...

* Waived by the BigBoyHawks in the preseason, Jeremy Evans is back in the fold with us! A double-double machine at this level, the 2012 NBA Slam Dunk Contest champ serves as the ticket-selling headliner up in NEPA. Back in mid-November, we traded our 1st Rounder in the 2018 G-League Draft (my heart will go on, somehow) to get him. They waived G-League Expansion Draft first-rounder DeAndre Daniels to make roster room for Evans.

* What exactly do you have to eat to get to 6-foot-10 and 185 pounds? It's the first question I'd ask Raphiael Putney upon meeting him. The former UMass standout was a 2016 D-League All-Star with the RGV Vipers, but a Anti-Drug Program violation ended his season with them a couple months later. He logged time in Venezuela and Italy before returning here for Summer League. Putney did his own version of two-way play in July, playing for Minnesota's summer league team at 2 PM, then ran with the Suns at 5 PM, after Phoenix had acquired his services.

* If I had a name like Roscoe Smith, my goal in life would be to run a chicken-and-waffle joint. Fortunately, Smith has higher aspirations. And he should, especially after starting alongside Kemba Walker on UConn's 2011 National Champ team. Freshman Andre Drummond took his center spot the next season, and after the Huskies were handed a postseason ban (the NCAA's APR guidelines kicked in), Smith transferred to UNLV, where he became a top-5 rebounder in college in the 2013-14 season. A D-League All-Star as a rookie, Smith has dabbled with teams in Israel, Greece, the TBT summer tourney, and D-League outfits in L.A. and Delaware.

* Guard Derrick Marks was the 2015 Mountain West Conference Player of the Year in his senior season at Boise State. He spent the past two seasons playing overseas in Italy.

 

~lw3

[hazer]

Roscoe Smith’s CHICKEN & Waffles 

[High5]

I hope Bembry can figure something out up there. He's been the disappointment of the season for me. 

[lethalweapon3]

Note I missed from last week. Way to go, Yung Bud!

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

Meanwhile, DeAndre' brought everything but a shovel with him to Erie!

~lw3

[Dnice]

They are on the g league  page ,Facebook live about to start the second qtr vs Santa Cruz.