COTY Final Four: Kyle Weaver vs. Derrick Low

by Grady Clapp on Jan 28, 2009 10:14 PM PST in Coug of the Year

This is the matchup I've been dreading since I came up with the Coug of the Year bracket. I imagine that if you have two children, and someone asks you which one is your favorite, this is pretty much how you feel.

Good luck. Polls are open for 72 hours.

I think that pretty much sums it up. And then, to cheer you up (h/t to Dancing football for reminding me of this):

Poll

There can be only one.

Kyle Weaver

50 votes

Derrick Low

16 votes

66 votes | Poll has closed

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This is like one of those terrible hypothetical situations

But have to go with Kyle, because it has been a rarity for the Cougs to actually send someone to the NBA. Plus he has rep’d us well by working his butt off and earning 20 minutes a night.

by Craig Powers on Jan 28, 2009 10:20 PM PST reply actions

Also

Derrick Low is so flippin good, watch him run through those screens, catch, and fire a three without barely a look at the basket! We have no one that even comes close to doing that this year. I may be sad I already voted now.

by Craig Powers on Jan 28, 2009 10:22 PM PST up reply actions

oh man!

I am considering not voting because I just can’t choose one over the other. Like the Hardwood classic video shows, the Low-Weaver connection is a beautiful one. Can’t we just make them one ultimate COTY dynamic duo?

by JimtheCoug on Jan 28, 2009 10:20 PM PST reply actions

My vote was for Low.

I don’t know why…but Kyle Weaver pulled a big-timer or something and was the only player not to show up at the end-of-the-season ZZU CRU party last year. Yeah, it’s probably hard not to have something more important or at least more interesting to do then that, but all of the other players were there, even the red-shirts and the other seniors.

Now I have two cougar basketballs autographed by everyone on the 2007-08 men’s basketball roster except for Kyle Weaver.

by cfred on Jan 28, 2009 11:30 PM PST reply actions

Low

This was tough but I just love the way Derrick could catch and shoot. Who can forget the UCLA game when he made 7??? three-pointers in the span of a few minutes. (I forget the actual numbers but let’s just agree he “went off.”

Kyle brought so many skills to the game but my vote went to Derrick.

by CougarsRock on Jan 29, 2009 7:56 AM PST reply actions

It wasn't just Low hitting those

Harmeling and Rochestie were in on the action as well.

by Craig Powers on Jan 29, 2009 8:42 AM PST up reply actions

My vote went to Kyle

He was just so dynamic last year. If it had been 2007, my vote would have gone to Low, because he simply carried the team at times. But Weaver was our guy we could always count on last year for a big bucket when we needed it — he was never afraid to go to the rim. And while I think Low was an underrated defender, Weaver was, of course, in another league. Where Low was the team MVP in 2007, I just think Kyle Weaver did a little more for last season’s success.

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by Jeff Nusser on Jan 29, 2009 9:05 AM PST reply actions

I voted for DLOW

I think in 2008 you could say he and Kyle both deserved an MVP award. The way they worked on the court together last year was a thing of beauty. I always had confidence when the two of them were running down the court together that good things were about to happen. They just knew each other’s game so well….

I miss a lot of things after watching that WSU Zag game…Daven…Derrick…a spirited crowd (jab, sorry). But we sold that place out that game with really no expectations. Nobody knew we were going to be good, people just showed up to see if we could pull off the upset (and that game was on a wednesday night). Now we can’t sell out a Thursday night game against a top ranked UCLA….Nuss I need that beating the dead horse picture, sorry.

by MLips on Jan 29, 2009 9:30 AM PST reply actions

At your service

CougCenter

by Jeff Nusser on Jan 29, 2009 10:16 AM PST up reply actions

Boy do I miss those guys....

Especially Daven, since he’s the only one that could still help….

sigh

by TiltingRight on Jan 29, 2009 11:03 AM PST reply actions

I miss Daven so much

He used to hit so many big shots with regularity. I suppose he does have one this year (that three to tie against OSU) but he has missed so many more opportunites.

by Craig Powers on Jan 29, 2009 11:08 AM PST up reply actions