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https://uconnhuskies.com/news/2024/1/30/mens-basketball-huskies-to-retire-rip-hamiltons-no-32-on-feb-24.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0yNzcyz6Ak5lpGpWd2k8d13y-QhZw_bONxTaSQc3For6Z2CVMEmVTgPUA STORRS – The UConn men's basketball team has announced that the No. 32 will hang forever in the rafters at Gampel Pavilion . The Huskies are retiring the number of the legendary Richard "Rip" Hamilton at halftime of the game against Villanova on Feb. 24. He joins Ray Allen (No. 34) as the only men's basketball players to have their numbers living in the Gampel rafters. Richard "Rip" Hamilton had one of the most decorated careers in UConn basketball history. Despite playing only three seasons before heading for the NBA, Hamilton scored 2,036 career points, second only to Chris Smith (2,145) on the all-time UConn scoring list as the only two players in UConn history with more than 2,000 points . Hamilton led the Huskies in scoring in each of his three seasons and his career scoring av...

https://pistonpowered.com/2020/04/30/detroit-pistons-michael-jordan-motivated-rip-hamilton-star/ by Josh Wilson 2 years ago Follow @J_wilsonsports TWEET Michael Jordan dangled a shoe sponsor out in front of Richard Hamilton , contingent on him becoming an All-Star. He would do that with the Detroit Pistons Playing for Michael Jordan late in his storied career had to be challenging. Detroit Pistons champion Richard Hamilton had to endure that early on in his own career when playing with the Washington Wizards. Jordan, past his prime and having already been a part-owner of the Wizards (he had to surrender ownership to play again) prior to suiting up for the team, was known to be testy in D.C., likely frustrated with the lack of talent on those Wizards teams and with the fact that his own skill level just wasn’t what it used to be. Starting your career off with Jordan in D.C. might be enough to run you straight out of the NBA. For Rip Hamilton, though, some of the discussions with Jord...

https://masterx.iulm.it/news/sport/come-il-tiro-da-tre-punti-ha-cambiato-la-pallacanestro/ FEBBRAIO 29, 2020 by   MAURO MANCA In NBA sono sette metri e 25, al di qua dell’Atlantico si scende a sei e 75. È la distanza minima da cui viene eseguito un tiro da tre punti, la conclusione che ha progressivamente polarizzato lo sviluppo tecnico della pallacanestro negli ultimi vent’anni. Qualche tempo fa Kirk Goldsberry , uno dei teorici più noti del basket americano, ha pubblicato un tweet ricondiviso da quasi 10.000 utenti. “The game has changed”, una mappa che mostra le 200 zone di campo da cui si tirava di più nell’annata 2001-2002 messe a confronto con la stagione in corso (2019-2020). La differenza è lapalissiana: oggi i midrange shots , i tiri dalla media distanza, sono spariti dai radar, almeno per quanto riguarda le prime 200 posizioni. Le scelte predominanti nella NBA del 2020 sono la conclusione ravvicinata e, appunto, quella dalla distanza, il tiro che vale tre punti. La ...

https://sites.google.com/site/coatesvillehalloffame/page-1/2006 Coach Smith is good and what he does. For 28 years, from 1975 to 2003 he has coached a basketball team at the high school level. His long and illustrious career includes any milestones. James "Scooggy" graduated from Coatesville high school in 1964 . He attended Maryland state college, now the University of Maryland, Eastern shore, and in 1968 earned a BS degree in health, physical education and recreation. After college, "Scooggy" became an educator and from 1975 to 1982 he coached the freshman, junior varsity and varsity basketball teams at Devon Preparatory School. In 1982, He returned this high school, alma mater to coach the Coatesville High girls’ varsity basketball team. Scooggy assisted Coach Jerry Quedenfeld with the Coatesville High boys’ team from 1985 to 1993. As interim head coach for the 1989 – 1990 season, he led the team to a Ches-Mont championship with an 18 – 8 record. Scooggy also as...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1997/02/17/the-unkindest-cut-for-basketballers-in-coatesville-pa-as-for-teenage-athletes-all-across-america-high-school-team-tryouts-are-wrenching-tests-of-heart-and-ego FEBRUARY 17, 1997 THE UNKINDEST CUT FOR BASKETBALLERS IN COATESVILLE, PA., AS FOR TEENAGE ATHLETES ALL ACROSS AMERICA, HIGH SCHOOL TEAM TRYOUTS ARE WRENCHING TESTS OF HEART AND EGO MARK BOWDEN TABLE OF CONTENTS ORIGINAL LAYOUT It starts with the boys who cut themselves . They are a blessing. Take the freshman who trips in the first set of suicide sprints. Coach Jim (Scoogy) Smith whistles the start, and in a crisp volley of chirping sneakers the kid goes down. He promptly rights himself, but soon he is a full court behind the pack, his skinny arms and legs chugging, his buzz cut tucked deep in his shoulders, as if the gym were about to collapse on his head. Scoogy (rhymes with boogie) loudly counts off the long seconds of the boy's humiliation. He never recovers from the fall. Within da...

https://www.espn.com/fantasy/basketball/fba/story?page=karabell090317 Tuesday, March 17, 2009 By Eric Karabell ESPN.com If you've been reading my fantasy basketball column with any regularity this season, you know how I feel about the role a head coach can play. Whether it's wacky Don Nelson in Oakland or the personnel changes made in Oklahoma City or Phoenix, we've seen how one man can affect the fantasy game greatly. What doesn't often occur is when a coach makes a creative lineup choice that takes a marginal fantasy option, and because of one added stat category, he comes much more valuable. In general, it comes down to playing time, right? Give a guy more minutes, you'll see better production, and vice versa. How often can an established player suddenly provide us a totally new skill? Rip has been zipping more passes to his teammates of late. Maybe you haven't been watching, but one of the top point guards in fantasy this month has been Richard Hamilton of ...

https://www.nba.com/pistons/features/big-deal-late-summer-stunner-swapped-out-stackhouse-hamilton Keith Langlois●@keith_langlois Web Editor July 7, 20209:33 AM EDT (EDITOR’S NOTE: Pistons.com continues its periodic look at some of the most significant personnel moves – trades, free-agent signings, draft picks – in Pistons history.  Next up: The September 2002 trade, on the eve of training camp, that sent leading scorer Jerry Stackhouse to Washington for Rip Hamilton.) No matter when news had come that the Pistons traded their leading scorer, it would have been a “whoa” moment. But the timing of the Jerry Stackhouse-for-Rip Hamilton trade – a few weeks before the start of training camp, Sept. 11, 2002 – made it especially stunning across the NBA. September, after all, is typically the slowest month on the NBA calendar . If there’s anything done, it’s adding a veteran free agent to a minimum deal or inviting the last few NBA hopeful to training camp on non-guaranteed contracts . Tra...