Monday Morning Sports Roundup: Brady Continues, UMass Is a RI Hotbed, and Can Bryant Dance?
Monday, January 18, 2021
Let’s take a look at some key takeaways from this weekend in sports:
Celtics
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe Celtics scored 17 points in the 1st quarter. Then, they stepped it up and scored 18 in the second quarter. Then their hot shooting fell off and they only had 15 in the 3rd quarter.
50 points through three quarters. The sycophants will whine that Jason Tatum is out and defend the jobs that Brad Stevens and Danny Ainge are doing. It is true that Tatum is out with COVID. But. there are mid-level 6th-grade teams in CLCF that can score 50 points in 36 minutes.
Stevens has lost this team. He lost them in the locker room last year in the playoffs late one night.
Oh yeah, Kemba Walker was back.
The good news? The Celts cut the Knicks margin to just 30 points — Knicks won 105-75.
Ouch. Just...ouch.
Tom Brady -- Grr
He did it again. Tom Brady stood up to the pressure once more -- he was 18 for 33 for 199 yards. He threw two touchdowns and rushed for one. In contrast, New Orleans' Drew Brees threw three interceptions.
Brady is now going to his 14th conference championship game. He and the Bucs will face Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.
TB has played in the NFL for 21 seasons and now will have played conference championship games two-thirds of the time.
UMass Basketball is loaded with kids from Rhode Island
Three members of the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team have Rhode Island connections.
- Preston Santos, a sophomore, is from Providence and attended Hendricken along the way.
- Dyondre Dominguez, a freshman is also from Providence.
- T.J. Weeks, Jr., is a freshman and played and Hendricken. He is being redshirted. (His father scored more than 1,000 points for UMass).
Which Rhode Island Team Has the Inside Track to the Big Dance
- Bryant’s men lead the Northeast Conference at 6-2 and are 10-3 overall.
- The Rams are in 7th in the Atlantic-10.
- Fatts Russell finally shot well on Saturday. He has dominated almost every game, but this time he hit some shots going 6-12 from the field and 3-5 from beyond the 3-point line.
- Russell is playing 33.5 and is scoring 15.5 ppg.
- The Friars are in 7th in the Big East.
- David Duke is playing 37.5 minutes a game and 19.9 ppg.
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