Post#637 » by molepharmer » Yesterday 4:25 pm
If you get The Athletic ($$) real good article from D Wiederer on Tyrique Stevenson.
- Stevenson apparently didn't know he was the one who deflected the ball up in the Hail Mary, until he saw the film
- TS in the locker room after the Was game, called his middle school wresting coach (Rudy Trevino, mentor and confidant) who gave TS an earful; "...you're a teach tape now. For the rest of your life..."
- TS never met his father and his step dad left when he was in middle school. So TS had to be the man in the house of five women (mom + four sisters) at a young age.
- dropped 13 lbs in a 24hr period to make a wrestling class weight in 8th grade (article details 24 hr workout with Trevino)
- was over confident/mouthy a couple of times in high school and at U Miami and got burned on big plays
- had a son born in April, fatherhood has changed his outlook, spotlight now on his son (Poles, Trevino and Byard all note TS maturity change)
- this spring equipt manager T Medlin asked TS if he'd forgiven himself yet for the Hail Mary fiasco [this question apparently caused TS to look within himself in greater depth]
TGibson (1/28/17); "..."a 4 or 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 for drama"...What's the worst? "...yelling matches with Thibs, everybody is just going crazy and I'm just sitting there...like, 'Don't call my name please..."