Onlookers were flabbergasted Friday night at Dillon Gym when the trio of senior guard Ahmed El Nokali, sophomore center Konrad Wysocki and junior forward Ray Robins fell 62-41 in the finals of the Princeton intramural basketball three-on-three tournament.
The other team, led by a tall guy named Chris, a sharpshooting blond guard who looked vaguely familiar to El Nokali and a chem graduate student whose name no one could pronounce, played an effective inside-outside game as Chris repeatedly was able to use his size to smack around the smaller German.
"I didn't really like playing those guys because they were tall," Wysocki said. "I'd much rather face someone like Tower which doesn't have as many tall guys."
In addition to the smackdown Chris laid on his smaller defender, the blond, who was known only as "Spencer" smoked El Nokali repeatedly, bombing three-pointer after three-pointer.
"Dude, we haven't had anyone shoot like that in years on the varsity team," El Nokali said. "Except for that guy who kept going back and forth across the country.
"Who was that again?"
The Chem grad student was held scoreless and failed to touch the ball during the heated 25-minute contest.
"I kept asking them why they didn't come out and try out for varsity," Robins said. "One of them actually dunked."
"They just nodded and mumbled something incoherently."
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