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Everything’s Good With Texas
Written by Sham Onit   
Saturday, 07 November 2009 08:15

The scrimmage this weekend is great for both Gonzaga and Texas.

For Gonzaga, this weekend’s scrimmage is a unique opportunity to decide which players really can compete against the NCAA’s best talent. Against Alberta and against Team Blue (or Team White) many of the unknowns looked like they deserve the chance to play. However, against the third-ranked Texas Longhorns, this year’s rotation will likely differentiate themselves from the redshirts. Despite being an “informal" match-up, this scrimmage will effectively determine which Zags crack against legitimate collegiate pressure and which Zags can rise to meet the Longhorns' level of play.

For Texas, on the other hand, this weekend’s closed scrimmage is an opportunity to face off against one of the NCAA’s perennial finest, without the media being able to assess any weaknesses. At the same time, this scrimmage gives such a young team (only 3 seniors) a legitimate early season challenge before their game against UNC.

Both Coach Few and Coach Barnes have an chance to see how their teams react against real NCAA talent (as opposed to Alberta, Canada or UC Irvine). It's also an opportunity test out various offenses and defensive schemes that the teams may (or may not) be capable of executing successfully.

Also, we “allegedly” beat the Longhorns last year and it gave our team the confidence to know that they could beat all of the teams in the Old Spice Classic and take University of Connecticut to the wire, so we might as well keep the scrimmage going.

Go Zags!



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Scrimmage Notes
written by Patrick Walsh, November 07, 2009
I want to hear how this thing went/ is going. I wonder how we look?
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written by CDub, November 09, 2009
From his Eurobasket profile...

Elias Harris was facing several tough tasks when starting training camp with the national team. He spent four years developing his game in the German ProB third division with a tremendous 2008-09 season in which he averaged 20.9 points and 9.2 rebounds but had little experience on the international top level. To make his task even more challenging he had to adapt to a new position, since the lack of big bodies in his home club Speyer required him to play under the basket. Coach Bauermann has different plans. He wants the super athletic Harris to play on the wing and sometimes even at shooting guard. But Harris responded well and surprised everybody with several strong outings during preparation. He will be attending Gonzaga University next fall where he hopes to develop his game at the U.S. college level.

http://www.eurobasket2009.org

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