Zone or Man? It’s Up to You
If you’re like me and have a little time on your hands these holidays, I know great way for you to waste it.
Since getting hip to Strat-0-Matic as kid, I’ve been a gamer. I like the strategy games where I can just coach, and don’t have to mess around with all that manual dexterity. I’ve played pretty much all of them, baseball, basketball, football, even hockey. And I know I’m a heck of a manager/coach by all the championships I’ve won.
Just the other day I came across an internet college basketball game called Stellar College Basketball. http://www.stellarcollegebballgame.com/. It’s completely free and you can download it and be up and playing in 10 minutes. It’s not the greatest game I’ve ever played, but it’s not bad. Not bad at all. I played last season’s ACC Tournament and the results were all too familiar. Duke won, beating Maryland 74-63 for the title. Nolan Smith (the Everett Case Award winner) and Kyle Singler scored 18 each. Greivis Vasquez led the Terps with 20.
And in case you’re wondering, Dino Gaudio saved his job by beating Maryland 75-60 in the first round, with Ish Smith scoring 23 and Al-Farouq Aminu contributing 14 points and 14 rebounds. The Deacons got bumped in the next round to Virginia Tech 75-62 when Malcolm Delaney dominated Smith, outscoring him 29 points to 6. Ish had a rough day, making only 1 of 8 shots from the floor.
I just got through with a regular-season tilt. Wake beat N.C. State 57-56, rallying from a 30-26 halftime deficit. Aminu was huge, piling up 17 points and 13 rebounds as the Deacons shot 41 percent from the floor and held the Wolfpack to 38 percent. Wake had to overcome 22 turnovers, and did so, partly, by outrebounding State 38-36.
The game is pretty basic, as you might expect for the price—or lack thereof. But I’ve played a lot worse.
If you check it out, let me know how your games turned out.