MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[mattgrubb]

The killer has just moved to a number one pick in the rocky top league

[KnoxCounty22]

I will be back in town on Thursday. When will you guys be playing pickup again? We can use the gym at Webb. I just got an application from Andre. We need to form a team with some GSAC players, go out, and represent. It also wouldnt hurt to have Scotty Hopson or Tyler Smith. 8)

[KnoxCounty22]

Now that I have taken the time to finally getting around to making an account on here, Im going to give the board my opinion on Piedmont Basketball, during my time on the team from 2004-2007.

First of all I think Piedmont has great facilities. There wasnt another team that we played, other than Christopher Newport, which by the way we knocked off the #25 ranked team in the country that night, that had better facilities.

Peyton Capper and Lee Glenn brought in a lot of talent in for the 2004-2005 season. In my opinion I don't think that talent was ever fully developed. There was a great deal of under achievement. There were an abundance of young talented players on that team. Kyle Kemmerer, Brent Walker, Wesley Parker, Jake Green, Jake Baldwin, Mike Adams, myself, Jeff Belflower, Trey Hightower, and Kent Edwards. I really wished that Kent, Kyle, Trey, and Jeff would have finished their playing careers. I believe that they could have developed into solid players. They would have helped out a lot during the 2006-2007 season.

The most talented team that I played on at Piedmont was the 2005-2006 season. Mike Adams improved a great deal during that summer and came back as a new and improved player. Jake Baldwin, Miles Kendall, Kyle Kemmerer, and Brent Walker, were our big guys. We got Tyler Whitlock to join the squad. He was a very solid, all around player. He had a great work ethic and he always played as hard as he could. I look back at that team and just shake my head at times. I was apart of that team so I take part of the blame. We never really could put it all together. One of the biggest mistakes I think that we made was bringing on Pete Manos during the middle of the season. I believe that it disrupted team chemistry. Not to mention he quit the team right before the conference tourney. Im sure he was a great guy, but it was a bad move by the coaching staff to add him on during the middle of the season. I look back at the picture of that team and Im just amazed by all the talent we had. Our practices were intense and always competitive. I just wish the talent would have been managed and developed better.


Piedmont is a great school with great academics and great athletic facilities. I hope Coach Glenn can bring in some bodies to replace Parker, Green, Baldwin, and Mayweather. I think Mayweather never got enough playing time. He deserved more. I dont think he will be fully appreciated until he isnt on the court next year. Parker was a good basketball player. Very smart, solid defense, and one of those guys who you wanted on your team. Piedmont is going to hurt next year without Jake Green and Jake Baldwin. Those two guys were the best players to ever come through Piedmont. There should have been more pick and rolls for those two guys. Just my opinion.

Lastly, I think Coach Glenn would be a great SID or General Manager of a college or pro team. He is a very good planner and organizer. He is a great X's and O's guy. I hope that he would work on developing player relationships and family relationships. He isnt a very good communicator with his players. During my time at Piedmont he always took care off us, as far as material things were concerned. However, he was a hard guy to just strike up a conversation with. You never knew what you were going to get. I can talk to anybody, but even I found it hard to talk to him, and often times dreaded the end of the year talks. If he can learn to establish connections with players, be more approachable, and still be able to draw the line between player and coach, I believe Piedmont will be very successful. I support Coach Glenn and Piedmont. I hope they do well next year. I will always support the Lions. Im just offering my two cents and giving the board an inside view of what the Piedmont experience is like.

[Spencer Beaty]

Grubby, when does the RTL start up? if you needed a waterMAN I would be there for you.

[mattgrubb]

June 16th and you and Steve Hamer are my assisstants Beaty so be there, the draft is June 11th at 7 at Ray's ESG, it will be on the radio so come by if you want

[GSAC Killer]

Since I did not have the opportunity to play with the Grubby One college I hope I can lad on his team for the Rocky Top League.
The Grubby One and The Killa put on a show at the Webb Gym yesterday, and we owe it all to the tutelage and great coaching of Mr. Don Lamberto!!

[mattgrubb]

Murvul has a cool new court design that will be added in the off season as they name the court after their coach
the floor will be named
Don Magic Juan Lamberto

[KnoxCounty22]

MattGrubb,

Thanks for the call about playing at Webb. I really appreciate it.

[GSAC Killer]

All eyes on the Grubby One!! Rocky Top draft at 7pm at Rays.. Will The Grubby One finish in last and out of the playoffs this year or will he step up to the challenge and get it done like his DADDY Don Lamberto

[mattgrubb]

Matt "Daddeigh" Grubb will make his Daddy Don Magic Juan Lamberto proud

[GSAC Killer]

Incoming Freshman Class + Rex "BabyDaddy" Wallace + Don Magic Juan Randall Lamberto = Final Four

[scottiedoug]

Killer:

I am sure you will do your part over the year to keep the players from reading all this praise and believing any of it until after the NCAA tournament???

[GSAC Killer]

They have the pieces to do it but the only thing they must find is the fire!!

Coach will get them there. I am fully confident that if they approach it like our Sweet 16 team did in 03-04 they will reach Salem.

[mattgrubb]

The Grubby One got Watson

Watch out Rocky Top League

[GSAC Killer]

Did Knoxcounty 22 get picked up?