6th Man of St. John's Basketball
St. John's Red Storm => Recruiting Archives => Recruiting => 2012 Class => Topic started by: IcemanSTJ on August 07, 2011, 09:48:18 AM
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http://www.ctpost.com/highschool/article/Stratford-big-man-Whittingham-transfers-1748371.php (http://www.ctpost.com/highschool/article/Stratford-big-man-Whittingham-transfers-1748371.php)
Last month it was swingman Tom Bajda. This month's Stratford basketball departure is big man Tafari Whittingham.
Whittingham, who is to be a senior, confirmed Friday that he will be transferring to Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., the same high school NBA player Sebastian Telfair, and former NBA player Stephon Marbury attended.
"Basically I wanted to get a better opportunity to showcase my skills," said Whittingham, who also said he made his decision to transfer at the beginning of the summer.
Last month Bajda transferred to the Winchendon School in Winchendon, Mass.
Stratford coach Paul Dudzinski said Whittingham told him a few days ago that he was transferring. The Red Devils coach also said that losing two key players in one summer is frustrating.
"Yeah, it's frustrating," Dudzinski said, "but I understand it. It's (still) frustrating. I just think it just makes it difficult to have a (player-coach) relationship and I just don't have an answer. I don't have control. There's many factors (why an athlete would transfer). Believe me I'm frustrated about that, but you know, I've had it the other way. I've had kids transfer in, not just this year but in the past. Just unfortunately now, I have some guys transferring out."
Last season was Whittingham's first at Stratford after spending two years at Avon Old Farm. The 6-foot-7 center enjoyed some statistical success with the Red Devils, but was also suspended for two games for an undisclosed reason.
Whittingham said he had no issues with the coaching staff at Stratford.
"There weren't any issues at all," Whittingham said. "It was an all around experience and the coaches and faculty were amazing and helped out a lot."
Whittingham, who plays AAU basketball and just finished winning MVP in the Hoop Group Elite Camp Session III top 20-41 All-Star game in Reading, Pa., said he has been contacted by Robert Morris, Dayton, Siena, Iona, Villanova, St. John's and Hofstra.
According to Dudzinski, AAU is giving elite high school basketball players exposure they've never had before, but it is making it harder to keep them at a public school.
"These kids, they're going to Orlando and Vegas and being exposed to a lot," Dudzinski said."You know, I'm jumping on a bus to go to a SWC game. It's just different. I don't know. I can't tell you that AAU has become more important to a lot of people than high school basketball. I think you're seeing that maybe happening across the nation."
Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/highschool/article/Stratford-big-man-Whittingham-transfers-1748371.php#ixzz1ULnv2ADO (http://www.ctpost.com/highschool/article/Stratford-big-man-Whittingham-transfers-1748371.php#ixzz1ULnv2ADO)
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I like him. He's very mobile. He was probably a top 20 player at camp but I think he got more exposure being in the 21-40 game.
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What a stupid answer for why he transferred. The NYSPHAA will be all over him.
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The PSAL & Tiny Morton are a disgrace.
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Any updates on this guy?
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Any updates on this guy?
Don't need any.
If your asking about Iona, he's perfect for you.
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Any updates on this guy?
Most likely Juco
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Any updates on this guy?
Most likely Juco
What happened to Prep for a year?
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Any updates on this guy?
Most likely Juco
What happened to Prep for a year?
I suppose that is an option still.. Just heard he was visiting a Juco the day of the event at Baruch.
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Any updates on this guy?
Most likely Juco
What happened to Prep for a year?
I suppose that is an option still.. Just heard he was visiting a Juco the day of the event at Baruch.
Should just go to Monroe.
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Lincoln's Tafari Whittingham has signed with JUCO Hutchinson Community College.
http://twitter.com/NYPost_Brazille/status/195734535122591745 (http://twitter.com/NYPost_Brazille/status/195734535122591745)
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Shocking another PSAL player doesn't make the grades to play as a Freshman.
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Or more accurately, shocking, the PSAL betrays another teenager to the point that they are unequipped in terms of both skills and status to fully pursue their goals in a timely manner.
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Besides lance let's name some guys who successfully went from psal to a high major program
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Or more accurately, shocking, the PSAL betrays another teenager to the point that they are unequipped in terms of both skills and status to fully pursue their goals in a timely manner.
Of course, blame the system instead of holding the student accountable.
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Or more accurately, shocking, the PSAL betrays another teenager to the point that they are unequipped in terms of both skills and status to fully pursue their goals in a timely manner.
Of course, blame the system instead of holding the student accountable.
The system Knows it is broken--the Chancellor has closed 20 schools officially last night. they will reopen in fall with at least 50% new teachers and new administrators. It is not only the student that is a fault. How did Rob Thomas get into HS even though he could not read due to learning disabilities. Where were the schools in his case that they could not identify it.
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When do parents start being held accountable for their children? I'm curious to learn when this will occur. It's the teacher. It's the principal. It's the system. LOL. It's all a bunch of rhetoric, smoke and mirrors, a diversion if you will. The real issue is the parents. Let's call a spade a spade. When parents reinforce the value of an education at home, their children tend to learn. The correlation is strong. When parents do not emphasize the value of an education, their children tend to struggle. The correlation is strong. When will people address a major part of the issue? Parenting.
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When do parents start being held accountable for their children? I'm curious to learn when this will occur. It's the teacher. It's the principal. It's the system. LOL. It's all a bunch of rhetoric, smoke and mirrors, a diversion if you will. The real issue is the parents. Let's call a spade a spade. When parents reinforce the value of an education at home, their children tend to learn. The correlation is strong. When parents do not emphasize the value of an education, their children tend to struggle. The correlation is strong. When will people address a major part of the issue? Parenting.
I got no dog in the fight either way but to rebut your point, a parent in most cases has a job, some cased two. The kids are at school for such a large chunk of the day. The educators are being paid to teach kids. I think its the parents job to make sure they get the kids to school. Once they are there its on the educators. Then after school there is room for extra work and attention but you have to be wary of overload.
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Besides lance let's name some guys who successfully went from psal to a high major program
In recent years, I can't think too many, Eugene Lawrence Lincoln - St. Johns, James Padgett Lincoln - Maryland come to mind. Harkless didn't go to prep school his last year of H.S. instead of finishing up at Forest Hills because of grads, so he probably would have been another.
In Whittingham's case, he was in a NYC public school for one year, so unless he really bombed out this year, his challenges can't be blamed on Lincoln.
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Besides lance let's name some guys who successfully went from psal to a high major program
In recent years, I can't think too many, Eugene Lawrence Lincoln - St. Johns, James Padgett Lincoln - Maryland come to mind. Harkless didn't go to prep school his last year of H.S. instead of finishing up at Forest Hills because of grads, so he probably would have been another.
In Whittingham's case, he was in a NYC public school for one year, so unless he really bombed out this year, his challenges can't be blamed on Lincoln.
Not sure how I was reading what you wrote re: Moe but he left Forest Hills to play better comp, not grades related.
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Before he wound up on Wall St., my younger son's first job out of college was organizing blood drives for NY Blood Center. He reported again and again of going through public schools and at no time observing what looked like teaching and learning in a single classroom. The student is'nt off the hook but the student doesn't have a labor union protecting his or her non-productivity. To see what personal accountability looks like go back and read Rob Thomas' letter asking for help as it was published in the NY Times. If his knee was as strong as his heart he would have been All-American.
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The public school system is completely broken, and the union sells out the students to protect failing schools and teachers. It is so broken it cannot be fixed. The schools have to be closed and replaced with new ones, and that is what Bloomberg has been trying to do. Of course there must be student and parental responsibility as well, but it is a fact of life that more than half of the students in public schools come from broken homes. The NYC school system has to fill that void. Although we spend more per capita on our students than just about any other city, the public schools not only fail to fill that void, but they exacerbate the problem with their incompetence. And it has been going on for years. It is a tragedy. There is a reason politicians , here and in DC, who take union money and vote the union agenda, send their own children to private schools. This is not to say there are no good, caring, and hard working teachers. There are many. But they are frustrated and worn down by a failed system.
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The flip side of this is that so much of the Federal education role derived from the systematic oppression of minorities in many states well past Brown vs. Board of Ed. (of Topeka Kansas if my memory still works at all). One wonders if the proliferation of educational content and technology in the 50 years since James Meredith first walked through the doors of Old Miss has to any degree been matched by interpersonal tools that not only reach kids but also innoculate educators against burning out from dealing with so much loss.
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9 ppg, 5 rpg in JUCO. Got off to hot start has leveled off a lot.
http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2012-13/div1/players/tafariwhittinghamv4pd?view=gamelog (http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2012-13/div1/players/tafariwhittinghamv4pd?view=gamelog)
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Wall street needs to pay there fair share
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MAAC type or bigger?
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9 ppg, 5 rpg in JUCO. Got off to hot start has leveled off a lot.
http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2012-13/div1/players/tafariwhittinghamv4pd?view=gamelog (http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2012-13/div1/players/tafariwhittinghamv4pd?view=gamelog)
Amazing 48.5% from the FT line
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9 ppg, 5 rpg in JUCO. Got off to hot start has leveled off a lot.
http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2012-13/div1/players/tafariwhittinghamv4pd?view=gamelog (http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2012-13/div1/players/tafariwhittinghamv4pd?view=gamelog)
Amazing 48.5% from the FT line
Sounds like a match made in heaven :)
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South Alabama.
https://twitter.com/JamieShaw5/status/394605119548846080