Harrison Article

Quote from: Poison on September 30, 2012, 09:57:43 AM

Cook didn't leave SJ early to play overseas, but please tell us all how he fits right in on Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

For someone who has trouble formulating a coherent thought you have high expectations for other people. Cook's made
millions of dollars playing professional basketball. You want to characterize that as failure, fine. It's no more nonsensical than most everything else you say.

I don't expect anything of you, except that you're only here to annoy people. Congrats, you've succeeded.

Quote from: panther2 on September 30, 2012, 07:12:47 AM

As a player, DLo reminds me of Scottie Reynolds, able to shoot and get to the basket. Hopefully he improves his PG skills and eventually has an NBA career. He is nowhere near the player David Cain was as a senior. David put that team on his back, got Shawnelle Scott an NBA contract and Brian Mahoney a helluva extension. Even Mahoney knows he owes David for that. Dave was a NYC PG who did not get a chance until his senior year. He ran that team perfectly, made great decisions and most important got the ball to the right players where they could do something with it.

Cain had an amazing senior year. He averaged 11 points, 7 assists, 4 rebounds and was named first team ABE. He shot 40 percent frm the floor, 20 percent from 3, and 70 percent from the line. Before that he was awful. His transformation was one of the more remarkable I've seen in lo these many years of watching college BB.

Last year as a freshman DH averaged 18 ppg, 2 assists, and 4 rebounds. He shot 37 percent from the floor, 36 percent from 3, and 80 percent from the line. IMO Harrison is already a better basketball player than Cain - although not a better PG obviously - and this year's team will also go as far as he carries them. I doubt that's very far. But barring a catastrophe he'll - other than assists - meet or exceed all of Cain's numbers.

Saying Cain was awful before his senior year may be true but it was a small sample size as Louie did not have the patience to deal with the turnovers Cain would commit and let him play through them to gain some experience and become less turnover prone. But remember Louie played walk-on Ed Kennedy over Kevin Williams who made it to the NBA.

Quote from: Foad on September 30, 2012, 09:52:41 AM

Quote from: panther2 on September 30, 2012, 07:12:47 AM

As a player, DLo reminds me of Scottie Reynolds, able to shoot and get to the basket. Hopefully he improves his PG skills and eventually has an NBA career. He is nowhere near the player David Cain was as a senior. David put that team on his back, got Shawnelle Scott an NBA contract and Brian Mahoney a helluva extension. Even Mahoney knows he owes David for that. Dave was a NYC PG who did not get a chance until his senior year. He ran that team perfectly, made great decisions and most important got the ball to the right players where they could do something with it.

Cain had an amazing senior year. He averaged 11 points, 7 assists, 4 rebounds and was named first team ABE. He shot 40 percent frm the floor, 20 percent from 3, and 70 percent from the line. Before that he was awful. His transformation was one of the more remarkable I've seen in lo these many years of watching college BB.

Last year as a freshman DH averaged 18 ppg, 2 assists, and 4 rebounds. He shot 37 percent from the floor, 36 percent from 3, and 80 percent from the line. IMO Harrison is already a better basketball player than Cain - although not a better PG obviously - and this year's team will also go as far as he carries them. I doubt that's very far. But barring a catastrophe he'll - other than assists - meet or exceed all of Cain's numbers.

Saying Cain was awful before his senior year may be true but it was a small sample size as Louie did not have the patience to deal with the turnovers Cain would commit and let him play through them to gain some experience and become less turnover prone. But remember Louie played walk-on Ed Kennedy over Kevin Williams who made it to the NBA.

Not to mention playing Bobby Kelly over KW.

Just like to remind that a lot of this talk on D'lo leaving early springs from trying to figure how we have rides next year for more than one recruit (GG's expiring 'ship).   I may have been the most vocal that I think D'lo's ride will be available.    But  I HOPE I'm wrong - I'd love to see the kid back for his junior  year (heck, senior year, too).    Big F'ing deal if we DON'T have an extra ride for another guard next year.    There isn't a  guard recruit out there in the 2013 class I would take over a JUNIOR D'Angelo Harrison.    I mean, that's the DOWNSIDE of not being able to sign an extra player next year - we HAVE to play with what might be by then the best offensive guard in college hoops for the 2013-2014 season...

This is really a "no-lose" situation for us.   We either have room for a Rysheed Jordan (in addition to the replacement big for GG), or are "stuck" with D'lo an extra year! 

god shamgod just hired on providence college staff.

When STJ plays Prov who do you root for?

the team who had my all time favorite player billy goodwin---- but the friars are  underdogs i root for against just about anyone else.

the team who had my all time favorite player billy goodwin---- but the friars are  underdogs i root for against just about anyone else.

I actually root for Providence against most BE teams, but that's because I want to see programs like Uconn suffer bad losses. Providence really is an underdog.if those two super recruits were healthy they would have probably shown marked improvement. Now it looks like they'll finish 15th, unless other players really surprise. They need a lot of guys to surprise.

the team who had my all time favorite player billy goodwin---- but the friars are  underdogs i root for against just about anyone else.

Thought your favorite player was Steve Shurina. Remember the game he elongated his arm and ran relay races with Ron Rowan?