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RE: Have you ever played basketball past 8th grade? It is a long
Posted on: September 20, 2016 at 09:08:33 CT
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http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2012/1/24/ratliffes-hook-shot-keeps-tigers-afloat/
It was bad enough having to run up and down a soccer field with 267 pounds of senior teammate Steve Moore on his back. Then Missouri senior forward Ricardo Ratliffe had to get in the pool.
The weekend before conditioning week -- before the Tigers began their historic campaign under coach Frank Haith -- was structured like military training, Ratliffe recalled. For the team's lone starting post player, the most grueling part of it all may have been the swimming part, the part that he was totally incapable of doing.
Luckily, he wasn't alone in the water.
"All the guys were trying to hold me up," he said with a smile. "Without them, I would've probably drowned."
http://www.komu.com/news/long-standing-record-could-be-broken-by-mizzou-s-ratliffe/
Ratliffe says he bonded with his teammates this summer when Navy Seals came to campus to teach teamwork.
"It made me have more confidence in the guys. It made me trust them a lot more. Especially with the swimming pool thing because I didn't know how to swim. Having those guys hold me up, especially the smaller guys like Phil or Mike (Dixon) struggling to hold me up. It just made me trust those guys a lot more," Ratliffe said.
It was bad enough having to run up and down a soccer field with 267 pounds of senior teammate Steve Moore on his back. Then Missouri senior forward Ricardo Ratliffe had to get in the pool.
The weekend before conditioning week -- before the Tigers began their historic campaign under coach Frank Haith -- was structured like military training, Ratliffe recalled. For the team's lone starting post player, the most grueling part of it all may have been the swimming part, the part that he was totally incapable of doing.
Luckily, he wasn't alone in the water.
"All the guys were trying to hold me up," he said with a smile. "Without them, I would've probably drowned."
http://www.komu.com/news/long-standing-record-could-be-broken-by-mizzou-s-ratliffe/
Ratliffe says he bonded with his teammates this summer when Navy Seals came to campus to teach teamwork.
"It made me have more confidence in the guys. It made me trust them a lot more. Especially with the swimming pool thing because I didn't know how to swim. Having those guys hold me up, especially the smaller guys like Phil or Mike (Dixon) struggling to hold me up. It just made me trust those guys a lot more," Ratliffe said.
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RE: Have you ever played basketball past 8th grade? It is a long - FIJItiger MU - 9/20 09:08:33