Malik Stith Withdraws From Basketball Team, Will Remain As Student Assistant

Some peeps gotta realize where they are in the food chain.

Quote from: Choz4Life on February 10, 2012, 08:15:50 AM

Some peeps gotta realize where they are in the food chain.

Has St.John's ever had a worse scholarship player?

Are you referring to Stith?   If so.. How can you measure who was the worst?  I can think of a lot of mediocre players over the years.. but it's kind of hard to call them out by name man.  People get salty when a player either leaves or de commits this program...  Wouldn't it suck if everyone called you out on your own life decisions?

The funny thing is every ones gonna be crying that he left when he's scoring 15+ for Post, just like Ty Edmonson, Q Roberts, and Ced

Quote from: LoganK on February 09, 2012, 05:43:55 PM

@bball_fan:

I'm not saying you are not friends with Stith, or that what you were told is incorrect, just merely going to state my opinion on the matter (strictly opinion).  What you claim Stith said about him not liking the "playing style" doesn't really make sense to me.  Not for nothing, is playing style really important when you're playing 5 minutes a game?  As far as practices being much more difficult the response is twofold.  First off, if you don't want a hard practice, don't play in the Big East.  Secondly, is this not the same coaching staff that was present last season?  I would imagine the practice style hasn't changed much (outside of having half the bodies).  In addition, if it was an issue with coach Dunlap (or anyone else for that matter), why come back this season only to leave with 8 games left?  It just leads me to believe personal reasons (such as family issues) makes more sense as a reason to bail now.  I wouldn't imagine there was any ill will if his father was seen at the game, but who knows, I'm not inside any of their heads.  Like I said, just my opinion.

As it stands, i'll believe what I read about Stith citing family reasons, and I still respect him for staying at SJU even though he was being recruited over with no chance of significant playing time.  I appreciate the hard work he has put in, as well as his help with getting our Fresh 5 accustomed to BE play.  I wish him the best of luck in the future.

i never said he left strictly because of dunlap's practice regiment. It was a combination of that plus not seeing any personal growth, gain, or shine. Most coaches that are ridiculously strict or tough will have their players stick with them if the players personally benefit through winning, exposure, etc. If you have the tough practice regiment combined with no personal gain or growth, thats like having the worst of both worlds. Like i said originally, i dont personally agree with stiths decision. Just explaining where it came from.

Quote from: Choz4Life on February 10, 2012, 08:15:50 AM

Some peeps gotta realize where they are in the food chain.

Has St.John's ever had a worse scholarship player?

Choz - Dunlap?

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Quote from: Poison on February 09, 2012, 11:49:18 AM

How do you know that Jamal White has a shot? Have you seen him shoot? Not trying to be a dick, but who is Jamal White?

In only two minutes and with only 2 attempts Jamal White has scored the same 3 pointers than Amir Garrett (2-11 in Big
East Conference) and more than Pointer (1-18 in Big East Conference).

Yeah Michael.  And you should know this but while it was all happening you were already slumped over in your seat on the train; half-way into your fourth tallboy - previously having been spotted leaving the Garden in a semi-comatose state mumbling incoherently about Anita Bryant...er Lyle Alzado and 3/4 defenses...er orange juice or soda or something or
other.   

Who and what is this post for?

Quote from: Marillac on February 09, 2012, 09:19:36 AM

We lost our two worst players.  It's not like Harrison, Moe, or Greene left us.

Nuri was not one of our two worst players.  In fact,  in some games of the 9 total he looked like our best.  In others he looked like our second best.

This post is so assanine...so infuriating...I just feel like punching a wall.  Nuri shot ZERO effing % from three (26 ATTEMPTS including scrimmages)...he shot FT's like he wa a 7'4 360 tribesman that was just shown a basketball for the first time...I've never seen a kid get his shot blocked so much...I've never seen a kid with such an inability to adjust to being called for charge after charge after charge...his defense was disgusting--I don't care what anyone says...and he still averaged 3.2 fouls per game!  Why? Because he was called for so many effnig chages.  When coaches got this kid on tape, it was over.  Tell your bigs to plant their feet and let this idiot run into you reckless abandon...if he get by you block his shot.  You cant get away with reckless drives at this level of basketball.

Where did Nuri end up?  LASALLE.

Was Nuri our best player or second best player at Detriot when he scored 4 points and had SEVEN turnovers and zero assists?  Was he our best or second best player when he had 1 pt, 1 assist, FIVE turnovers and FIVE fouls against Kentucky in just 20 minutes?

This kid lost his job to Green and he bolted.  Stith was getting embarassed by Greene and Branch in practice...he bolted.  Big deal.


Now the above rant def reminds me of Bluto's "was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor" speech. So now we are using "scrimmage stats" to try and prove a point. Senator Blutarsky would be impressed. Unfortunately for you I once saw Nuri hit 25 straight threes in a pickup game so there. And my buddy the official stat sheet informs me that Nuri's stats blow away Greenes's in almost every category. He asked for me to tell you that if you insist on making up stats he will have no to choice but to seek legal restitution.

This post is so assanine...so infuriating...I just feel like punching a wall.  Nuri shot ZERO effing % from three (26 ATTEMPTS including scrimmages)...he shot FT's like he wa a 7'4 360 tribesman that was just shown a basketball for the first time...I've never seen a kid get his shot blocked so much...I've never seen a kid with such an inability to adjust to being called for charge after charge after charge...his defense was disgusting--I don't care what anyone says...and he still averaged 3.2 fouls per game!  Why? Because he was called for so many effnig chages.  When coaches got this kid on tape, it was over.  Tell your bigs to plant their feet and let this idiot run into you reckless abandon...if he get by you block his shot.  You cant get away with reckless drives at this level of basketball.

Where did Nuri end up?  LASALLE.

Was Nuri our best player or second best player at Detriot when he scored 4 points and had SEVEN turnovers and zero assists?  Was he our best or second best player when he had 1 pt, 1 assist, FIVE turnovers and FIVE fouls against Kentucky in just 20 minutes?

This kid lost his job to Green and he bolted.  Stith was getting embarassed by Greene and Branch in practice...he bolted.  Big deal.


Now the above rant def reminds me of Bluto's "was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor" speech. So now we are using "scrimmage stats" to try and prove a point. Senator Blutarsky would be impressed. Unfortunately for you I once saw Nuri hit 25 straight threes in a pickup game so there. And my buddy the official stat sheet informs me that Nuri's stats blow away Greenes's in almost every category. He asked for me to tell you that if you insist on making up stats he will have no to choice but to seek legal restitution.

The most important stat:  1.  What is that?  The # of times Nuri Lindsey quit the St. John's basketbal team after Phil Greene TOOK his starting job. 

By my count in the last year Wood, Gathers, Pelle, Sampson, Nuri, Polee and Stith "have quit" the team. So basically as many people have quit that have not if you include Branch with the 6 surviving players. Something is clearly wrong here! Hopefully Lavin can get healthy and figure out what "it" is.