{"id":112239,"date":"2018-01-05T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=112239"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:55:23","slug":"video-how-mens-hoops-hopes-to-replace-the-great-delpeche-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/05\/video-how-mens-hoops-hopes-to-replace-the-great-delpeche-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Meet Bates basketball&#8217;s newest big men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a college coach like Jon Furbush &#8217;05, saying goodbye to talented seniors is a coaching reality.<\/p>\n<p>Still, &#8220;it&#8217;s always a fun adjustment,&#8221; says the men&#8217;s basketball coach. &#8220;You miss the old ones but you really appreciate the new ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans can watch two key &#8220;new ones&#8221; at 7 tonight as the Bobcats kick off their NESCAC schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.bates.edu\/sports\/mbkb\/2017-18\/schedule\">vs. Bowdoin in Alumni Gym<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Juniors Nick Lynch of Westford, Mass., and Brandon Galloway of Fort Washington, Md., have taken over the low-post defensive duties once handled by twin brothers Malcolm Delpeche and Marcus Delpeche, standouts who graduated last spring and now play professionally in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Twin Shoes To Fill\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/249800422?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A six-foot-seven center, Lynch is a traditional big man. Galloway is shorter (&#8220;Six-two on a good day&#8221;) yet effectively guards players a half-foot taller with strength, grit, and what Furbush calls &#8220;ridiculous hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Together, says their coach, the pair are &#8220;really bringing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lynch and Galloway forged a strong friendship last year as they worked to overcome injury. &#8220;We basically became best friends,&#8221; Lynch says. &#8220;The rehab process is not easy and we really pushed each other to get back on the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bates men&#8217;s basketball begins NESCAC play tonight, get the inside scoop on how the Bobcats are replacing the great Delpeche twins on defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":112272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[1263,10586,10834],"class_list":["post-112239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-basketball","tag-jon-furbush","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112239"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112294,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112239\/revisions\/112294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}