The Legacy of Dom Maddis (CHoops 2K8)

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A Coach is Born

Dom Maddis grew up an enormous Michigan State fan, living only 10 miles off of campus. He watched the change from Jud Heathcote to his protege Tom Izzo, and then the ensuing dynasty Izzo would create in East Lansing. Dom always looked up to disciplined coaches, ones that would crash the boards and play stingy defense. Luckily for him, he found that coach in his dad, whom he played for his entire life. After graduating from Michigan State, he took an assistant-coach position underneath his dad at a small liberal arts school in West Michigan. There, they achieved great success, winning 3 straight division titles, and took 2 out of the 3 teams to National Championships. After the 2nd, it was clear that this would be Dom Maddis' last year there.

He received a call a mere 3 hours after the last championship from the athletic director at Hartford. Their old coach just recently retired and they were looking to go with an outside hire as the new head coach. Ecstatic, he consulted his dad, who with overwhelming excitement, told him to take the job.

And so, a coach is born.

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Coach Overview

From ESPN.com:
"Maddis known to be a hard-working coach, that pushes his players to the limit to get what he wants. Based off his father's philosophies, his teams are known to rely on the three pointer, and then crash the boards to get high-percentage shots down low. Look for a run and gun squad if they have the opportunity, but don't be surprised if they slow down the offense to get the shot they want.

His teams will be disciplined, fundamental, and exciting. Don't be surprised to see them make an impact on the America East Conference."

Offense: C
Defense: C
Teaching: C-
Scouting: C-
Charisma: C+
Discipline: C

Season Schedule

Hartford Hawks 2007 Schedule
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
Nov 9	at St. Francis (NY)
Nov 11	at Quinnipiac
Nov 17	at Michigan State
Nov 20	at Brigham Young
Nov 23	at Jackson St.
Nov 28	vs Army
Dec 1	at Long Island
Dec 8	at North Texas
Dec 11	vs Monmouth
Dec 12	vs Brown
Dec 14	at Villanova
Dec 30	at Virginia
Jan 5	vs Yale
Jan 9	vs Binghampton
Jan 12	vs Boston University
Jan 16	at UMBC
Jan 19	vs Albany
Jan 21	at Maine
Jan 24	vs Stony Brook
Jan 27	at New Hampshire
Jan 30	vs Vermont
Feb 2	at Binghampton
Feb 6	vs Maine
Feb 9	at Albany
Feb 14	at Stony Brook
Feb 17	vs New Hampshire
Feb 20	at Vermont
Feb 28	at Boston University
Mar 2	vs UMBC

Schedule Analysis:
Maddis has schedule a tough non-conference schedule that includes games against his alma-mater - Michigan State, Brigham Young, Villanova, and Virginia. Also watch out for the game against Army, where his dad went to school."

Team Roster

2007-08 Hartford Hawks
#	NAME	POS	HT	WT	CLASS	HOMETOWN
15	Dustin Clarke	PG	6'4	175	FR	Jacksonville, NC
1	Milton Burton	SG	6'5	175	SR	Birmingham, AL
10	Mustafaa Jones	PG	6'1	155	FR (W)	Philadelphia, PA
20	Yolonzo Moore	SG	6'2	170	FR	Austin, TX
2	Mark Nwakamma	SF	6'6	215	FR	Lewisville, TX
11	Andres Torres	PG	5'10	170	SR	Puerto Rico
32	Clayton Brothers	PG	6'1	170	SR	Philadelphia, PA
44	Oren Faulk	PF	6'7	250	SO	Midwest City, OK
4	Corban Roe	SG	6'1	190	FR (W)	Australia
13	Ryan Baker	SG	6'5	200	JR (W)	Corpus Christi, TX
14	Joe Nardi	PG	6'1	175	FR (W)	Camden, NJ
12	Charles White	PG	6'1	170	JR (W)	Philadelphia, PA
21	Genesis Maciel	C	6'9	250	SR (W)	Los Angeles, CA

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Depth Chart

Hartford Hawks Depth Chart - 2007-08
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
PG	M. Jones	A. Torres	C. Brothers	C. White
SG	D. Clarke	Y. Moore	C. Woe
SF	M. Burton	R. Baker
PF	M. Nwakamma	G. Maciel
C	D. Faulk	G. Maciel

Roster and Depth Chart Analysis:
Sporting a guard heavy and very small team, Hartford will attempt to outrun and outwork their opponent's day in and day out. With strong 3-point shooters in Jones and Clarke, Hartford will stretch the defense and look to rely on the three-pointer.

Overall: 69
Offense: 75
Defense: 64
Team Unity: 20

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Opening Night

Hartford @ St. Francis
November 9th, 2007
Game 1

It was a classic “tale of two halves” situation in New York tonight, while Dom Maddis lost his inaugural game as head coach of the Hartford Hawks. He was excited to get the game going, as quoted saying, “I just want to start. I want all of this ‘hoopla’ to be over with so I can get my team and myself focused to win this.” However, he wouldn’t be so excited as the Terriers took off on a 9-2 start to begin the game, with the Hawks missing four three-pointers in the first two minutes. Things started to level out, however, as some shots started falling for Hartford and they were able to get out on the fast break. Clarke drained a buzzer-beater 3-pointer from about 25-feet out to pull Hartford within one point as the 1^st half ended. At halftime, Coach Maddis said, “Obviously, we would like to be shooting the ball better, our rebounding is lacking, and we haven’t taken a foul shot all game. We need more penetration in the middle which will allow us to take some better shots on the perimeter.”

But the better-looking 2^nd half would never come to fruition as the Terriers dominated all facets of the game. They rebounded extremely well allowing them to get out on the break and hit some easy shots. Hartford struggled to get any sort of offense going as they ended up going 2-10 on 3-pointers in the second half and still only attempting 2 foul shots. At the end of the game Maddis said, “We have a bunch of stuff we need to work on. We have a huge game against Michigan State in just over a week, and if we want to be competitive, we need to fix a lot of stuff.”

Hartford Hawks at St. Francis (NY) Terriers
Nov 9, 2007	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Hartford (0-0)	31	22	53
St. Francis (NY) (0-0)	32	46	78

Hartford Hawks
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
M. Jones	19	5-9	0-3	0-0	0	4	0	0	2	10
D. Clarke	14	3-7	2-4	0-0	2	1	0	0	1	8
M. Burton	14	4-6	1-2	1-1	3	2	2	0	2	10
N. Nwakamma	17	5-11	0-1	1-1	3	2	0	1	3	11
D. Faulk	13	1-2	0-0	0-0	4	0	1	0	0	2
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Y. Moore	11	2-4	0-1	0-0	1	3	0	0	1	4
A. Torres	4	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0
C. Brothers	-- DID NOT PLAY --
C. Wroe	10	2-5	1-4	0-0	0	1	0	0	3	5
R. Baker	8	1-4	1-2	0-0	1	2	0	1	0	3
G. Maciel	9	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	2	0	0
C. White	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		23-50	5-17	2-2	18	17	3	4	12	53

St. Francis (NY) Terriers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
R. Cadell	11	5-7	1-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	2	11
A. Bennett	18	3-8	1-5	-12	2	7	2	0	1	8
S. Perunicic	13	6-10	3-5	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	15
M. Trivic	16	1-4	1-1	0-0	9		3	1	0	3
A. Harrington	15	3-4	0-0	1-3	6	2	0	1	0	7
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
A. Johnson	11	2-2	0-0	1-2	4	2	1	0	0	5
J. Newton	10	5-8	0-1	0-0	0	6	0	0	1	10
M. Milk	11	1-2	0-0	0-0	4	0	2	1	0	2
R. Clark	6	4-5	0-0	2-2	0	2	1	0	0	10
R. Williams	7	2-4	1-2	2-4	0	1	0	0	0	7
D. Calloway	2	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0
T. Nichols	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		32-56	7-17	7-13	29	22	11	3	4	78

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Loud TD Bank Sports Center Disrupts Hawks

Veteran's Day wasn't particularly kind to Coach Dom Maddis and the Hartford Hawks as they lost another battle. The Quinnipiac Bobcats provided a tough matchup and strong defensive presence as they won 60-50. Azotam led the Bobcats with 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, and Johson as provided 12 pts, going 2-5 from 3-point range. For the Hawks, Nwakamma scored a team high 14 points, going 5-14 from the field and 4-6 from the foul line.

A visibly angry Head Coach Maddis said after the game, "They beat us. We lost. We won the rebound battle, they won the game."

The Hawks travel to East Lansing, Michigan, when the Hawks take on Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans on November 17.

Hartford Hawks at Quinnipiac Bobcats
Nov 11, 2007	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Hartford (0-2)	30	20	50
Quinnipiac (1-0)	35	25	60

Hartford Hawks
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
M. Jones	14	0-5	0-1	0-0	5	0	0	0	1	0
D. Clarke	21	4-8	2-4	0-0	4	3	0	0	1	10
M. Burton	16	4-8	1-5	0-0	3	2	1	0	0	9
N. Nwakamma	17	5-14	0-1	4-6	6	2	1	1	2	14
D. Faulk	20	5-7	0-0	1-1	3	0	1	0	1	11
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Y. Moore	8	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	2	0	0	1	0
A. Torres	6	1-3	1-2	1-2	0	1	0	0	0	4
C. Brothers	-- DID NOT PLAY --
C. Wroe	5	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	2
R. Baker	4	0-2	0-1	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0
G. Maciel	11	0-1	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	0
C. White	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		20-50	4-15	6-9	28	12	3	1	6	50

Quinnipiac Bobcats
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
D. Twyman	12	1-5	0-2	0-0	1	1	1	0	1	2
J. Johson	19	3-9	2-5	4-4	0	3	1	1	0	12
I. Azotan	18	5-7	0-1	2-5	4	2	0	0	1	12
J. Rutty	18	4-9	0-4	3-6	5	1	1	1	2	11
J. Jackson	19	4-4	0-0	0-1	9	1	0	0	1	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
A. Alecxih	12	1-1	0-0	1-2	2	2	0	0	0	3
R. May-Thompson	3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0
T. Baskin	-- DID NOT PLAY --
D. Johnson	9	2-2	2-2	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	6
D. Langston	-- DID NOT PLAY --
W. Harrison	-- DID NOT PLAY --
M. Gabriel	11	2-3	0-0	2-2	3	0	2	0	0	6
TEAM TOTALS		22-41	4-15	12-20	24	12	6	2	5	60