define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); playground ball – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:17:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court A Serious Analysis of Bob Huggins’ Comments on Playground Basketball http://rushthecourt.net/2016/12/14/a-serious-analysis-of-bob-huggins-comments-on-playground-basketball/ http://rushthecourt.net/2016/12/14/a-serious-analysis-of-bob-huggins-comments-on-playground-basketball/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:21:47 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=124562

For as long as there has been college basketball, we have heard coaches across the country complain about youth sports. The correlation between those complaints and a head coach’s advancing age appears to be scientifically sound, but that doesn’t mean they don’t sometimes have a point. Last week Louisville women’s basketball coach Jeff Walz took time out of his postgame press conference to lament that “everybody gets a damn trophy” in today’s youth sports.

Bob Huggins believes playground basketball produced players who knew how to win. (Ben Queen/USA Today Sports)

CBSSports.com’s Matt Norlander then did us a service by highlighting a series of [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2016/12/14/a-serious-analysis-of-bob-huggins-comments-on-playground-basketball/feed/ 0 Villanova’s Fisher Price Toys With Some Fools http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/10/villanovas-fisher-price-toys-with-some-fools/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/10/villanovas-fisher-price-toys-with-some-fools/#respond Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:11:30 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=23349

Villanova rising senior Corey Fisher put on a summer league shooting exhibition in the Bronx over the weekend that will result in a bright red bullseye on his back among Big East scouting reports this coming season.  The 6’1 guard from the Boogie Down must have eaten his Wheaties on Saturday, because reports from the Watson Gleason playground league are that Fisher blew up for a ridiculous 105 points on that warm summer evening.  Read that again.  One hundred and five points.  His team scored 138 total, and Fisher responded to double- and triple-teams in the second stanza [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/10/villanovas-fisher-price-toys-with-some-fools/feed/ 0 Devin Harris: PWND!!! http://rushthecourt.net/2008/10/14/devin-harris-pwnd/ http://rushthecourt.net/2008/10/14/devin-harris-pwnd/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:28:44 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=1620

Ok, this is going to be all over the place soon enough, if it isn’t already, but you know us – we eat this up.  It’s not college hoops related, but it is effin’ hilarious.  If we were Devin Harris and it was us who just got completely embarrassed by a kid in a v-neck and jeans, we might want to reconsider, like, coming back home.  Ever.  Again. 

(h/t a good buddy via Yahoo!Sports via TrueHoop)

Update (10/15): DH says that he was told that the kid was a Special Olympian of some kind, but he was still surprised [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2008/10/14/devin-harris-pwnd/feed/ 0