Food for thought during the doldrums: Mase, Justin Burrell and Rob Thomas...

if mase and rob thomas are 100% then that is a good frontcourt, BUT i would be very careful in your expectations of those 2, especially rob thomas.  if people expect him to come in and dominate right away i think theyll be setting themselves up for disappointment.  remember that those 2, (especially thomas), is coming off of being hurt and neither have really gotten full run yet this year.  

i dont really expect too much out of either one for a good part of the year, and anything that they give SJU will be pleasantly surprising IMO

Quote from: johnniesfan1127 on December 13, 2007, 06:43:26 PM

if mase and rob thomas are 100% then that is a good frontcourt, BUT i would be very careful in your expectations of those 2, especially rob thomas.  if people expect him to come in and dominate right away i think theyll be setting themselves up for disappointment.  remember that those 2, (especially thomas), is coming off of being hurt and neither have really gotten full run yet this year.  

i dont really expect too much out of either one for a good part of the year, and anything that they give SJU will be pleasantly surprising IMO

You have to be kidding me not expecting anything out of Mase!!  The kid has an ankle sprain, he didnt blow out everything in his knee.  If  Mase doesnt give us a good Big East season it will be a big letdown/dissapointment.  All i have to say is Mase better be ready for the conference schedule because tight now the coaches are babying him.  The lineup of the three of them at full strength could be scary and I for one and praying we will see it against Cuse in the opener.

Exactly kjd... "johnnyfan"(lol) is way off base as usual.. .. btw - Pretty sure most fans are NOT "expecting" Thomas to come right in & dominate like he did in h.s. I think most "rational" fans are expecting him to provide some scoring "punch" off the bench & for the staff to "baby" him the first month coming off the injury... On the other hand, i think most fans are expecting Mase to contribute in a BIG way & be the leading scorer on the team once he shakes the rust off from the injury. Saying u "don't expect much" out of Mase this year is just plain nice personic.. .. The bottom line is we are going be a MUCH better basketball team when we get those two back & Norm finally settles on a 8/9 man rotation going into conference play..  .. Peace!

out on the court at the same time in a Big East game. I know that the possibility depends upon the recovery of two out of the three and that you'd have to think twice before doing this against teams with dominant centers...but...if I were playing SJU and those three were waiting out on the court for me, I certainly wouldn't be thinking "cupcake time," would you?

Quote from: qcredman on December 13, 2007, 06:00:04 PM

out on the court at the same time in a Big East game. I know that the possibility depends upon the recovery of two out of the three and that you'd have to think twice before doing this against teams with dominant centers...but...if I were playing SJU and those three were waiting out on the court for me, I certainly wouldn't be thinking "cupcake time," would you?

Is anyone else concerned that, in year 4, we must depend on
Anthony Mason Jr. ( a nice player, but severely limited, and a borderline starter for a top 25 team)
Justin Burrell (a raw freshman with an attitude problem), and
Rob Thomas (hasn't played organized ball in over two years/academic issues and is coming off a major knee injury)
to be dominant in the Big East just to escape the "cupcake" title?

Didnt think so...keep drinking the kool-aid.

Man do we need to step in and contribute right away.  Lofty expectations, I'll admit, but wouldn't that be a pleasant surprise?

Quote from: qcredman on December 13, 2007, 06:00:04 PM

out on the court at the same time in a Big East game. I know that the possibility depends upon the recovery of two out of the three and that you'd have to think twice before doing this against teams with dominant centers...but...if I were playing SJU and those three were waiting out on the court for me, I certainly wouldn't be thinking "cupcake time," would you?

Is anyone else concerned that, in year 4, we must depend on
Anthony Mason Jr. ( a nice player, but severely limited, and a borderline starter for a top 25 team)
Justin Burrell (a raw freshman with an attitude problem), and
Rob Thomas (hasn't played organized ball in over two years/academic issues and is coming off a major knee injury)
to be dominant in the Big East just to escape the "cupcake" title?

Didnt think so...keep drinking the kool-aid.

Quote from: Stool on December 14, 2007, 05:30:24 PM

Quote from: qcredman on December 13, 2007, 06:00:04 PM

out on the court at the same time in a Big East game. I know that the possibility depends upon the recovery of two out of the three and that you'd have to think twice before doing this against teams with dominant centers...but...if I were playing SJU and those three were waiting out on the court for me, I certainly wouldn't be thinking "cupcake time," would you?

Is anyone else concerned that, in year 4, we must depend on
Anthony Mason Jr. ( a nice player, but severely limited, and a borderline starter for a top 25 team)
Justin Burrell (a raw freshman with an attitude problem), and
Rob Thomas (hasn't played organized ball in over two years/academic issues and is coming off a major knee injury)
to be dominant in the Big East just to escape the "cupcake" title?

Didnt think so...keep drinking the kool-aid.

whats wrong with his attitude? please explain

Quote from: kob24 on December 16, 2007, 01:01:19 PM

Quote from: Stool on December 14, 2007, 05:30:24 PM

Quote from: qcredman on December 13, 2007, 06:00:04 PM

out on the court at the same time in a Big East game. I know that the possibility depends upon the recovery of two out of the three and that you'd have to think twice before doing this against teams with dominant centers...but...if I were playing SJU and those three were waiting out on the court for me, I certainly wouldn't be thinking "cupcake time," would you?

Is anyone else concerned that, in year 4, we must depend on
Anthony Mason Jr. ( a nice player, but severely limited, and a borderline starter for a top 25 team)
Justin Burrell (a raw freshman with an attitude problem), and
Rob Thomas (hasn't played organized ball in over two years/academic issues and is coming off a major knee injury)
to be dominant in the Big East just to escape the "cupcake" title?

Didnt think so...keep drinking the kool-aid.

whats wrong with his attitude? please explain

He got T'd up yesterday for staring down the ref. If you need more examples, Ill be happy to provide them, but you shouldnt.

Quote from: Stool on December 16, 2007, 02:13:37 PM

Quote from: kob24 on December 16, 2007, 01:01:19 PM

Quote from: Stool on December 14, 2007, 05:30:24 PM

Quote from: qcredman on December 13, 2007, 06:00:04 PM

out on the court at the same time in a Big East game. I know that the possibility depends upon the recovery of two out of the three and that you'd have to think twice before doing this against teams with dominant centers...but...if I were playing SJU and those three were waiting out on the court for me, I certainly wouldn't be thinking "cupcake time," would you?

Is anyone else concerned that, in year 4, we must depend on
Anthony Mason Jr. ( a nice player, but severely limited, and a borderline starter for a top 25 team)
Justin Burrell (a raw freshman with an attitude problem), and
Rob Thomas (hasn't played organized ball in over two years/academic issues and is coming off a major knee injury)
to be dominant in the Big East just to escape the "cupcake" title?

Didnt think so...keep drinking the kool-aid.

whats wrong with his attitude? please explain

He got T'd up yesterday for staring down the ref. If you need more examples, Ill be happy to provide them, but you shouldnt.

so him clapping it up for his team and helping the niagra players up off the floor also constitue as a bad attitude right? i mean u saw the game so u had to see that also. or did u see him get smashed and was aggrivated and looked at the ref? that couldnt have been the only thing u saw sir was it?