congrats to him fort being invitied to the Team USA basketball tryouts this summer in Philly! an international win sure would look good next to an ACC Title, and dare i say, a NC!

4/20/2007 12:25:14 AM

thx for jinxing us/him dicknose

4/20/2007 12:27:20 AM

Is this what they are talking about in the PP Premium sections?

Congrats.

4/20/2007 12:27:54 AM

He should spend his summer at the

4/20/2007 12:28:30 AM

just another chance for him to get injured

4/20/2007 1:50:03 AM

^want him to stay in a bubble?

4/20/2007 2:15:48 AM

4/20/2007 3:01:29 AM

420 woooo!!!!!!!!!!!

4/20/2007 3:05:29 AM

^^^ that's not a bad idea, actually.

4/20/2007 9:20:23 AM

just think what could have been had engin not played overseas last summer

4/20/2007 9:36:28 AM

THATS HILARIOUS^^^^^^^

4/20/2007 9:57:46 AM

^^ playing overseas probably helped engin's game evolve

and you don't know that if he didn't play, he wouldn't have been injured

4/20/2007 10:22:14 AM

Quote :

"just think what could have been had engin not played overseas last summer"

did he pull his hammy over there first?

4/20/2007 10:29:03 AM

someone post more details

4/20/2007 11:38:52 AM

^^No, he didn't injure it there exactly. BUT, he admitted his body kind of wore out, which increased the injury risk & severity.

4/20/2007 11:49:21 AM

yeah, he had that bone spur thing at the beginning of the year, remember? It's cool to get invited, but i'd say no thanks, just ask all those NBAer's who complained all season about bball year round...

4/20/2007 4:35:19 PM

well, i'd say that engin's game markedly improved between his junior and senior year. i wouldn't be surprised if international ball didn't have a lot to do with it. and for someone like atsur who's going to end up playing international ball anyway, him doing it seems like a no-brainer.

nba players are another story altogether.

4/20/2007 5:36:20 PM

^Some of that I think came from his needing to step up and do the job right. I think he really took to the need. Not that I think the additional playing didn't help. And I would never expect someone to not take such an offer for playing over the summer.

4/20/2007 8:30:43 PM

was just at the food lion on avent ferry

4/22/2007 10:45:20 PM

Tell him to get some braces

4/22/2007 10:55:42 PM

i think he left

and i definitely left

4/22/2007 11:00:48 PM

^ haha

you mean you aren't on the wolfweb in food lion?

[Edited on April 23, 2007 at 12:04 PM. Reason : .]

4/23/2007 12:04:19 PM

PBOMB

4/23/2007 12:25:04 PM

looks like Costner didn't make the squad...

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2937067

Quote :

"This meant that Washington's Jon Brockman, Wisconsin's Brian Butch, N.C. State's Brandon Costner, Alabama's Richard Hendrix, LSU's Tasmin Mitchell and Saint Joseph's Ahmad Nivins didn't make the cut. Butch and Brockman were said to have had their best practices of the five on Saturday but that didn't do enough in the decision process, according to multiple sources. Costner played well on day one but wasn't able to differentiate himself the rest of the weekend."

7/15/2007 8:47:45 PM

Sounds like the Costner from the McD AA game. A shame that that fag Thompson from UNC made it over him.

7/15/2007 8:58:07 PM

Quote :

"A shame that that fag Thompson..."

you give me shit for talking about ebonics, and then say something like that? cman.

7/15/2007 9:06:56 PM

You asserted that all people who talk like blacks are thugs, which is preposterous.
I asserted that a UNC player sucks cock, which is more than likely.

Did you have a point somewhere?

7/15/2007 9:22:21 PM

I'm pretty sure he asserted that all people who talk like thugs are thugs. Since, you know, that's what he posted.

7/15/2007 9:45:22 PM

^.

plus, stephenson is actually gay, or at least his myspace says so. pretty sure you knew that.

7/15/2007 10:00:50 PM

lawl at "talk like blacks"

jeez i can't believe i'm reading the thoughts of college folk sometimes

7/16/2007 2:16:07 AM

Quote :

"You asserted that all people who talk like blacks are thugs, which is preposterous. I asserted that a UNC player sucks cock, which is more than likely. "

i will have to agree with you here Hova...this is just as absurd as the point YOU are tying to make, low jack

7/16/2007 9:01:38 AM

Quote :

"N.C, State forward Brandon Costner was one of the top three or four players at the first practice, but he fell off the radar and missed the cut. So I'm not exactly sure what to think about him."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/seth_davis/07/16/hoop.thoughts/1.html

7/16/2007 2:16:24 PM

It might be a good thing that he didn't make the team. Guys that play competitively all through the summer often burn out over the course of the season, either physically or mentally.

7/16/2007 2:29:50 PM

as many minutes as he played last year, im glad hes gonna be back home gettin a lil bit of rest

7/16/2007 2:34:34 PM

[sour grapes]

perhaps.

7/16/2007 2:35:52 PM

^no, i cringed when i heard he was being invited. If he had made the team, i would have been happy, and happy for him.....but for next year and for the team, this may be better

7/16/2007 2:39:58 PM

i don't argue that. that's why it only got a 'perhaps'.

7/16/2007 2:43:52 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/644698.html

Tudor actually does a good job on this one.

Some interesting quotes from Costner on the upcomming season:

Quote :

""I can't wait to get going. None of us can," he said. "I think the sky's going to be the limit for us, I really do.""

and

Quote :

""The new guys are going to help a lot," he said. "I've played with them a lot this summer, and I think they're going make a difference. [Point-guard recruit] Javi Gonzalez is the real thing."

7/21/2007 12:33:26 PM

these boys are probably so happy just to have a true pg, anybody would seem like the real thing,

I can't wait

7/21/2007 1:45:19 PM

I can see Javi starting over Degand...from what I've seen/heard of Degand he can be out of control sometimes

7/22/2007 7:54:07 PM

Just what we need, another Cliff Crawford

7/22/2007 8:02:52 PM

everybody take a moment to remember this play by Costner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJJ4lIcVDVM

7/22/2007 9:08:08 PM

^ lol, i uploaded that.

7/22/2007 10:05:20 PM

one of the related videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoUNS_Sgbxs

7/22/2007 10:20:45 PM

even the wake forest fans went "ooooooooooo...dayum"


reynolds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBCcQnENtA&mode=related&search=


[Edited on July 22, 2007 at 10:30 PM. Reason : sdf]

7/22/2007 10:21:58 PM

^^so they make a big ass deal about the dunk and give lil mention to the fact that they lost.

usual NC State exposure

PS- Damon Thornton's dunk over the Maryland player from back in the day was way better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHl5hDk5Bs

at least this guy was a 7 footer

7/23/2007 2:16:12 AM

That dunk over atsur was still badass, though. European guys need to learn how to get out of the way of being hurdled.

7/23/2007 8:49:17 AM

well duh, it's ESPN. they do have a national audience. what do you think most viewers are going to care more about? an over-the-defender dunk or a game where unranked ncstate beats unranked georgia tech. no conspiracy here

7/23/2007 8:49:52 AM

Quote :

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBCcQnENtA&mode=related&search="

that game that would never seem to end

but what a great feeling and the electricity was in the air during the marist game
wow...it was like old time

7/23/2007 9:39:38 AM

did yall read that vomit from Caulton Tudor in the N&O about Costner

i hate that guy

7/23/2007 9:57:34 AM