College basketball has a way of producing great names. Duany Duany? Chief Kickingstallionsims? These are great names! It is into that fold I would like to personally and cordially welcome one Mr. Nimrod Tishman, who averaged 18 points per game in the under-18 European Championships last year, and who played for Maccabi Tel-Aviv in high school, was officially cleared to play for the Florida Gators yesterday. This is exciting news, because Nimrod Tishman is going to be one of our greatest college basketball names. I already look forward to writing it frequently.

The only problem with that is that Florida coach Billy Donovan doesn't seem all that intent on using Tishman frequently in his first year. Donovan said he plans to play Tishman 5-10 minutes a game, and that he doesn't have expectations for Tishman's contribution and that Tishman will play behind Erving Walker, Ray Shipman, and top recruit Kenny Boynton. Which, frankly, is a shame. We want Nimrod! The kid has a great chance to do things with a word that hasn't been cool since Green Day wrote that acoustic song played in every single high school graduation since. (And maybe "nimrod" wasn't even cool then. I don't know. I was like 12.)

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