Q&A: Wes's Farewell Tour begins

On the heels of Dan's In Memoriam tribute video, I caught up with the odd's on favorite to be the next head on the PCTI chopping block. (although the timing was coincidental) 

Wes addresses reports of his PCTI farewell tour, reveals an alliance that I never knew existed (question 4) and gives a pretty good breakdown of both squads. 

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1. Lets get right in to it. It's been widely publicized that this is your last year, is that the case and if so how did that decision come to be? 

It appears that way, but I may end up begging to retract. It comes from a) the resident hypochondriac's email that he oh so conveniently left me off only to later call me out (anyone shocked?) b) my poor participation / performance in all aspects of the weekend (blog, email, basketball, relationships, etc.)

2. If now is the time to bow out, why not do it this year? 

Because I really don't want to, as well as, there was enough other changes happen that I didn't want to burden it. I love PCTI and everything it was intended to be from its creation. I've just not showed that over the years and after so much time of that not changing, I'd be a fool to believe it would be much different moving forward.

3. Do you feel a little like Kobe? 

Haha, mostly no. But there is that whole thing where about half the teams he played on were terrible because of him. Difference, his was probably more ego and mine is much more performance

4. Who will you miss least when you leave? 

Easy answer, Ahop because he is the only one I quasi consistently see.

5. There's questions about your commitment, as you are rarely heard from. But every time I think you're going silent, you pop up with a sentence or two. Care to clear the air one way or the other? 

I rarely don't read immediately apart from an occasional afternoon of reading when I wake up (night shift problems). I've tried to throw in more comments. I don't post because I'm not creative and take forever to write my thoughts (off and on working on this for 3 hours).

[Editor's note: This email hit my inbox at 2:30 am. So, yeah]

6. You've became infamous for booking your PCTI flight a few weeks out, why?

Have you seen a theme? Procrastination and lack of effort toward commitment.

7. What should we expect from you this year? 

I'd like to tell you to expect something different. IF any of you believed that you would be nearly as big as fools as I am.

8. What's your opinion of your squad? 

Whose on my team again? Kidding. We've got 3 very good scorers, 2 quasi post (hard thing to be in PCTI) and 2 guys that are spot up guys (only one of them is the real SPOT and then me which is a spot to avoid). I think the biggest question will be how well do we move the ball and how do we respond when something doesn't go well (and something always goes wrong in a PCTI).

9. How would you size up the opponent? 

It is definitely a Ben Wilson drafted team. I know nothing about TP or Godon's game except the stuff we can't believe written by others.We lack historical ball movers, they are nearly all guys who look to pass first. With that, typically "pass first" ends up being guys who can't create / make their own shot at times, excluding Beas & Ben. I also can't wait to just wait on your spin move for the easiest charge in the books circa the last time I played with my captain.

10. As PCTI's resident beer snob, what's your strategy heading in to Cincinnati? 

Cincinnati has some better offerings than what you would think. Nothing compared to Portland & Denver, but you won't be forced into beer flavored water.