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Post by Tony on Oct 18, 2014 3:37:22 GMT -5
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Post by siena12077 on Oct 18, 2014 12:20:09 GMT -5
While he's very crafty with the ball in his hands, he seems a bit sluggish and without much lift off the ground. He's very skilled and creative though like a Paul pierce or deron Williams type
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Post by OneIndian on Oct 18, 2014 13:37:43 GMT -5
Still kills me that just a few months ago he's touted as the best player on the team and now he's 10th in the rotation.
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Post by MTS on Oct 18, 2014 14:08:53 GMT -5
Still kills me that just a few months ago he's touted as the best player on the team and now he's 10th in the rotation. He probably isn't the best player on the team or the 10th man. Both statements were probably hyperbole. What Cole brings to the table is a talented player capable of giving us another scoring option off the bench. A player who can create his own shot and handle the ball. I think eventually he will be the first man off the bench. But that's far from a lock...we've got some really good competition with White and Oliver right there. Jimmy Paige is also a possibility but he is a freshman so I'm not expecting a lot from him out of the gate.
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Post by Tony on Oct 18, 2014 16:09:44 GMT -5
Still kills me that just a few months ago he's touted as the best player on the team and now he's 10th in the rotation. What Jimmy is saying is he has 9 guys that played last year--Pat Cole will get nothing "handed" to him. He has to earn his way into playing group- at Umass barring injury to a big he will be 1st or 2nd guy off bench
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Post by musicman on Oct 18, 2014 18:44:24 GMT -5
Still kills me that just a few months ago he's touted as the best player on the team and now he's 10th in the rotation. What Jimmy is saying is he has 9 guys that played last year--Pat Cole will get nothing "handed" to him. He has to earn his way into playing group- at Umass barring injury to a big he will be 1st or 2nd guy off bench Exactly! Jimmy knows how to mold a team and develop cohesiveness. It shows respect. These young men all get it.
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Post by bagger on Oct 19, 2014 6:44:35 GMT -5
Thanks to the Sunday Gazette & Macadam 10-19-14
LOUDONVILLE — Patrick Cole didn’t want to get into much detail about why he missed a few days of practice this past week. There was a shoot to love the kid!!ing back home, in Newark, N.J., a childhood friend died and he needed to leave the Siena College campus for a few days. “He died Monday, that’s when I got the news,” Cole said on Friday, back within the green-and-gold walls of the Alumni Recreation Center. “I grew up with him. Kind of did the split,” he said, clapping his palms together, then spreading them apart. “But he was still a close friend, so that’s why it hurt. “But it’s fine.” While the transfer trend seems to be growing in men’s college basketball, even in a mid-major conference like the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Siena doesn’t have much history bringing in transfers — Josh Duell and Brandon Walters come to mind. They leave one school for another for a variety of reasons, frequently because of a coaching change, sometimes to be “The Guy,” as Siena coach Jimmy Patsos puts it. In Cole’s case, he decided to leave Coppin State after an all-rookie 2012-13 season for the simple reason that west Baltimore resembled Newark just enough to make him look for something else. One visit to Siena, and he was sold. What Siena inherits is a versatile 6-foot-5, 220-pound guard who won’t start, but is a big reason the Saints will be picked near the top of the MAAC this season, even though he’s never played a minute for them. Cole could’ve been The Guy at Coppin, but he neither expects nor wants to be that here. “I chose it because of the camaraderie, it’s familyoriented, real small,” Cole said. “I just got a feel from it, and coach Patsos adds to that, with his expectations and drive to win.” Under NCAA transfer rules, Cole was allowed to practice with the team last year but not play. Senior small forward Rob Poole has said that Cole was the best player on the floor during those practices, and although Siena returns its entire scholarship roster from a 20-win team, Cole brings some things to the table that will force Patsos to find important minutes for him, especially his ability to create his own shot. Cole is big for a guard, but can play forward and has shown unselfishness and willingness to pass. “Kyrie Irving, I think, is who he models his game after,” Poole said. Patsos and his wife Michele just moved from Saratoga Springs to Albany, so he still has horse racing on the brain. He compared Cole to a horse who was unraced as a 2-year-old (Coppin notwithstanding) and shows terrific training, but needs to transfer that form to an actual game. “His Beyer speed rating on Tuesday morning at 11 is great; I want to see what happens on Saturday at 5 o’clock when there’s 27,000 people there and he’s walking through [the paddock] and people are yelling at his jockey,” Patsos said. “He’s not ‘The Guy.’ Everyone wants to make him ‘The Guy,’ but he’s coming off the bench. I want to see what happens in the real world.” The real world these days for Cole is a far cry from Newark, which Time magazine rated “The Most Dangerous City in the Nation” in 1997. He said he holds no grudge against the NCAA for denying a hardship waiver application based on the fact that his father, Patrick, was sick at the time. He died this summer. The new Siena player’s mother, Denise, is an Army captain, and Patsos said she prefers that he go to college in a setting like Siena’s, far from the bustle of the big city. “He had a tough week,” Patsos said. “He had a friend killed in Newark, and his mother called me and said, ‘He’s never coming back to Newark, he’s getting a summer job up there.’ That’s just emotion talking. She’s a great lady, really a military lady ... ‘He’s going to earn his way, prove his rank.’” Cole didn’t even know much about Siena when he decided to tell Coppin State coach Fang Mitchell that he wanted to transfer, after averaging 10.3 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists as a freshman. But he knew Patsos a little bit, since Coppin State lost to his Loyola team, 67-51, that season, and Cole’s AAU teammate, Kasim Chandler, now a freshman at Quinnipiac, had been recruited by former Siena coach Mitch Buonaguro. Cole reached out to Siena, and quickly clapped his hands shut around the school, committing right then during his campus visit. The feeling was mutual for a team on the rise looking for a playmaker who Patsos believes will finish close games like V.E. Day catching stablemate Wicked Strong in the Travers. “It was love at first sight,” Cole said. “Some people don’t believe it, but when I first came here, it was an atmosphere that I couldn’t deny. “I just feel like I’m home here.”
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Post by musicman on Oct 20, 2014 17:00:37 GMT -5
Nice. I hope he does well. Certainly for us but also for himself. He should get a break, I'm really rooting for him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 15:37:23 GMT -5
I hope it's not all lip service, Pat has been through allot and I hope he excels.
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