Christopher Obekpa - PF - Our Savior New American - Centereach, NY - ST. JOHN'S

Quote from: Moose on May 09, 2012, 03:24:00 PM

Quote from: Gumby on May 09, 2012, 03:19:21 PM

A tweet being private?  If he thought that, what planet has he been living on for the past five years.  Mentioning money while in the recruiting process is never a good idea, even in jest. 

And you know, if Chris was coming to St. John's other boards would have mentioned that we had found deep pockets to take care of Chris.  It is difficult enough to try to keep the recruiting trail of a kid clear, without the player talking about pay.

Boy, St. John's must have really have turned Chris off some how.  Was it the possibility of Michael playing the #5 for us? 

I can see Chris wanting to venture out to OR, but DePaul and Providence?  I guess he does not like real pizza.

So much for wanting to play with his favorite best boy, Felix.

Onward and upward!

Did you ever think he turned off STJ?



With all the drama, he certainly turned me off fwiw.

Exactly

I certainly can see that he might have turned off Coach.  And you are right, I would rather focus on the possibility of Michael joining us.

The upside of the Obekpa quote was he confirmed that at SJU we "don't pay."  Yeah, he was joking around in a publicly accessible forum, which was not very smart.  Certainly does not make him look good.  And my guess it turned our coaches off.  A recruit should never even joke about money.  Some might say that "in jest there is truth"... again, SJU doesn't pay.  Good.  Maybe he'll go somewhere else that does.

Chandler is our impact player.  He is the guy we want.  Once he signs, I'm going to march right over to Carnesecca Arena and buy season tickets.  Chandler will see the real money down the line, after he dominates at MSG and wins a national championship at SJU.

I think Obekpa's tweets were his way of telling us that he wants to get paid for playing college basketball. If there was a joke in there, I must have missed it.

Whatever the case, it made him look like a fool.

I don't think Obepka's tweets were a joke and I do believe his lack of a commitment at this point echos those statements by continuing to look towards other schools. For whatever reason he wasn't into St Johns and I do know that we were turned off by his tweets.   

Quote from: sju89tr on May 09, 2012, 05:37:40 PM

I don't think Obepka's tweets were a joke and I do believe his lack of a commitment at this point echos those statements by continuing to look towards other schools. For whatever reason he wasn't into St Johns and I do know that we were turned off by his tweets.   

His visit says otherwise.  The kid put "lol" At the end of the tweet...  I think that certainly suggests it was a joke.  He doesn't want to come here...We move on...no need to call the kid a money grabber.

Quote from: sju89tr on May 09, 2012, 05:37:40 PM

I don't think Obepka's tweets were a joke and I do believe his lack of a commitment at this point echos those statements by continuing to look towards other schools. For whatever reason he wasn't into St Johns and I do know that we were turned off by his tweets.   

His visit says otherwise.  The kid put "lol" At the end of the tweet...  I think that certainly suggests it was a joke.  He doesn't want to come here...We move on...no need to call the kid a money grabber.

Quote from: Lapchick65 on May 09, 2012, 07:01:58 PM

Whatever the case, it made him look like a fool.

And I truly believe he just visited to save face and used St Johns for the weekend. We shouldnt have even allowed him to visit after knowing how he felt about us but I tend to believe we didn't want yo cut off nose to spite face as it pertains to
future OSNA players

Quote from: KAHNIGHT on May 09, 2012, 01:19:36 AM

Dam behind Jakarr I wanted Chris the 2nd most. His rebounding and shot blocking would of trigger our fast pace offense and allowed our great perimeter defenders to extend knowing a great shot blocker is behind them.

Dam we still need TWO bigs!

I'd much prefer Chandler personally.  We definitely don't need two more bigs in this class.  Add one and we still have Gift and Orlando for the 4/5 which is plenty this season.

If the kid doesn't want to come to St. John's, he shouldn't. I rather have a kid like Chandler who seems to ACTUALLY want to be with us. If he qualifies, sign him up and let Chris O do his own thing.

Quote from: MCNPA on May 09, 2012, 08:39:45 AM

Quote from: KAHNIGHT on May 09, 2012, 01:19:36 AM

Dam behind Jakarr I wanted Chris the 2nd most. His rebounding and shot blocking would of trigger our fast pace offense and allowed our great perimeter defenders to extend knowing a great shot blocker is behind them.

Dam we still need TWO bigs!

I'd much prefer Chandler personally.  We definitely don't need two more bigs in this class.  Add one and we still have Gift and Orlando for the 4/5 which is plenty this season.

I want both Chandler & Chris and that is not being greedy that is just what we need bad. IMO Orlando seems more like a 3/4. I am just tired of getting killed on the boards when we play elite teams & getting no easy points in the post. Thank god , Big East lost a lot of their  quality Bigs this year, so maybe a lack of a big man won't hurt us as much this year.

Just hope we can get a good C in 2013 or it will be very hard to turn the corner.

Also if Chris doesn't want to play here definitely don't want him here!