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(12-06-2018 06:09 PM)BcatMatt13 Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 05:26 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 05:13 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  It's one thing for us fans to point out how X seems to ALWAYS have a player go off who normally doesn't. But Mick????



UC Bearcats' Mick Cronin disrespects former Xavier player Kerem Kanter
Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 4:41 p.m. ET Dec. 6, 2018

As Saturday's Crosstown Shootout gets closer, the back and forth between the two sides is heating up as it does every year.

Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Mick Cronin didn't disrespect any current Xavier Musketeers when asked about anything "strange" happening during the Crosstown Shootout, but did suggest that Kerem Kanter, who scored 17 points a year ago in his only Crosstown Shootout, is a guy who "never makes shots" and refused to refer to him by his name - only as Enes Kanter's brother - per FOX 19's Jeremy Rauch.


@FOX19Jeremy
Mick Cronin asked how he prevents "something strange" from happening on OR off court in Crosstown Shootout:

[i]"Strange things that bother me are guys making shots that never make shots. Enes Kanter's brother getting 17." @fox19 #Bearcats (Courtesy @GoBEARCATS)


Kanter was the Musketeers' third-leading scorer (behind current NBA two-way players Trevon Bluiett and J.P. Macura) during the 2017-18 season, averaging 10.9 points per game.

Kanter plays for JL Bourg Basket of the LNB Pro A in France.[/i]

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/...231361002/

Typical Mick.

Here's an idea... Answer the damn question for once. Instead of pushing the blame off on fans for having unrealistic expectations, instead of pushing the blame off on to "guys who don't make shots who suddenly make shots," front up and own the fact that every year someone on Xavier seems to find the seams and weakspots in YOUR defensive scheme and make easy buckets.

Oh, and why don't you (Coach Mick Cronin) NOT give Xavier "bulletin board" material ahead of the game? But really this is proof that, while Chris Mack may be gone, he still lives rent-free inside Cronin's head.

Watch the video. What Mick says and how he says it aren't even close to what the trash reporter from the Enquirer is making it out to be.

I am not a Mick guy by any means. Mick says some pretty condescending disrespectful stuff.

However, this this not one of them. Weak of the Enquirer to drum up phony controversy.