Wednesday's world of WAC roundball

Dayton Morinaga goes multimedia about a new (to PTW) name in Hawaii's backcourt collection.

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George Hostetter interviews Fresno State Coach Rodney Terry and PTW thanks both for the information provided. Two key lines: 

"...We're going to be about playing hard-nosed defense...

and

...There can't ever be any slippage in your life, on or off the court...

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Blake Snow/Deseret News serves up a homecourt advantage feature.

New Fresno State assistant?

FresnoRocks has posted at the Barkboard Save Mart Center MB that a Fresno area media guy is saying that former DePaul, Richmond and UNC Wilmington mentor Jerry Wainwright is in as a Bulldog assistant coach. Rodney Terry and Wainwright worked together at the latter.

It's lean so far this morning

Matt James plows through some not so pleasant recent (pre-Steve Cleveland) Fresno State basketball history vis-a-vis a tabla rasa-like Rodney Terry. Who knows what the Terry era will bring but PTW feels the need to state that Terry and Ray Lopes have but coaching basketball in common.

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Gary Wilkinson's "unduly rough play" -- gotta love the influence of the King's English, or is it the Queen? -- produced a fine but no off the court time as his New Zealand squad continues to battle for the championship.

Grading the new coaching hires

First, off nobody knows how any new coaching hire is going to turn out. Indications can be 'read' and history 'interpreted' but any predictions of how a new hire -- especially an assistant coach moving three feet over -- will turn out is simply for fun only and to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.

PTW is typing this because Jeff Goodman, who knows many things basketball, offers a C for the hiring of Rodney Terry at Fresno State:

"I’m just not quite sold on this one. Terry has strong ties in Texas, but heading all the way to Fresno, Ca. didn’t make that much sense to me. He has been on Rick Barnes’ Texas staff for a while and had spurned a couple of opportunities in the past"

Worth noting is that Terry also has ties to Canadian basketbal, plus connections in North Carolina and Virginia -- the latter from previous coaching stops. Being in one of the states (California) that annually produces large numbers of D-1 players is also quite a plus.

In PTW's book (if we ever write one), landing a position with a soon-to-be Mountain West Conference program is a notch on the belt for Terry.

By the way, Mike White's hire earned LT's AD an A- with this Goodman note:

"White may be young, but he’s got quality bloodlines (his father is Duke athletic director Kevin White), and is extremely savvy. This one was outside the box, but I love it"

Let's all meet here in five years.

Rodney Terry's first hire is a backcourter

Per Daniel Lyght, Fresno State Coach Rodney Terry has broken the ice and landed his initial basketball recruit -- a two guard out of the southern California high school ranks.

Here's a March 4, 2011 article on the young man.

Here's a rather large photo.

The Fresno State coaching staff is now complete

At the Save Mart Center basketball MB at the BarkBoard site, DogEatDawg writes that Coach Rodney Terry has completed filling out his coaching staff -- go here.