"His father, Sherman, is currently an assistant basketball coach at the University of Iowa and was formerly a head coach at Indiana State and James Madison."

He certainly ought to have picked up the skills with that kind of a bloodline.

Hard to go wrong with a good coaches kid!

Remember the old Martin and Lewis movie "That's My Boy", where the father was a former all star football player and the kid was a klutz.
Kids don't always get their father's skills. Michael Jordan's son is a good example. Not a great player. Hopefully Ben will fall into the "good bloodline" category.

Don't always get the skills, but they generally are soaking in the knowledge.

Some of your best major league managers, college, and high school coaches were not great or and some were not even good players, and some never played much. Some never played at all. But, somewhere, somehow, they soaked up the knowledge. Lou Holtz is an example. He's been called an "offensive genius." Billy Martin, while a good but not great major league infielder, said he always tried to sit next to Casey Stengel and study what he did in different situations. He was a very good manager. Charles Ripley is local example. Don't think he even played high school ball, but was a very successful coach.

You can probably count the great players on two hands that became great coaches and managers.

My family have been musicians for several generations, and I know that just being around it all your life makes a difference. I assume it is the same in basketball. It gets woven into the fabric.

He shows high bb iq.

I think he'll be a good player. How good remains to be seen. But we need some great players, especially at the two guard spot. That seems to be a position in the Sun Belt where players excel. Of course we're in an unusual position this year, and possibly the foreseeable future, where our best players might be inside players, and that's never been the case in the modern history of program, going back as far as Jim Platt, and maybe even Newell. I think the kid from Canada might give Dillard some competition at that spot. If he can't win the starting job, maybe he'll at least be a very good backup.

(06-20-2012 09:02 AM)outsideualr Wrote:  that's never been the case in the modern history of program, going back as far as Jim Platt, and maybe even Newell. .

I assume that Muntrelle was the hoss of the team during his years?

(06-20-2012 09:29 AM)MICHAELSPAPPY Wrote:  I assume that Muntrelle was the hoss of the team during his years?

I don't know about that. Fish and Malik Dixon played with Muntrell. Muntrell was definitely the hoss inside. Malik could sure shoot it.

(06-20-2012 09:29 AM)MICHAELSPAPPY Wrote:  

(06-20-2012 09:02 AM)outsideualr Wrote:  that's never been the case in the modern history of program, going back as far as Jim Platt, and maybe even Newell. .

I assume that Muntrelle was the hoss of the team during his years?

Problem was that he was our only good inside player. When he fouled out or got in foul trouble, we were toast. That's what happened to us in the NIT against Vanderbilt. They had about four guys in the 6'10" range who could play, against Muntrelle, who was about 6'6". But he was definitely a good inside player. But Fish and Malik were the real stars, and could both score the ball.

I wonder whatever happened to Malik Dixon? He was a great one.

You can Google Malik. He's played overseas, and was a big star in Turkey. There's a great video of him on UTube bouncing the ball off an opposing players head and the catching in and slashing to the basket. Lot of stuff on Malik. I think he last played in Israel. I don't really know if he's still playing or not, but there's a lot about him on Google.