Now this is What I am Talking About
Good work, Allen. I don’t mean on the picks, but on getting crap down on the site. Any outsider reading Allen’s posts may be potentially blown away by the in-depth knowledge Allen has for such a seemingly random team as William and Mary. He refers to them multiple times as “The Tribe.” Did anyone else have to google search “Tribe college basketball” to figure out who the hell he was talking about? Allen throws “Tribe” into the post like it’s the equivalent of “Orangemen,” or “Lady Vols.” For those not in the know I am pretty sure Allen’s father went to William and Mary so keep half a thought on that when reading future posts. Whenever Allen casually drops “Tribe” references into the conversation in the same tone as “Blue Devils,” now you know why.
Judging Allen’s picks. I’m not going to do this often, but I feel like doing this now.
College – The first games were solid. I didnt see the St Johns or VCU games but both teams easily covered his teasers and picking St Johns on the road against an established program like St Marys is impressive. Taking Baylor and s illinois looks like a case of being half awake and being too lazy to look into things and taking a couple of home favorites against seemingly weak programs.
Pros – Passing judgement on these is going to be made super easy by the fact that the games have already happened and Capt Hindsight is the one evaluating the picks. With that said, I really like the OKC pick. I actually went to a site to make sure Allen hadn’t made a typo and it was OKC -6 which would have seemed more accurate to me. And obviously, Capt Hindsight is not a fan of the Clippers pick but I can say what I had said to Van yesterday. The fact that the Clippers lost (in overtime albeit) to the Pistons at home the other night should be a red light indicator that the Clippers are not playing well at all right now. Just throwing that out there.
Hopefully me being judgemental of Allen’s picks will not halt the relative avalanche of posts Allen has been putting up since getting on the site. Please scrutinize the shit out of the picks I’ll be putting up.
