21 Jump Street

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Like the young officers on the TV show, our players are young and inexperienced but in the end there is always a moral to all the played out drama. Today it was you can't commit 21 turnovers and hope to win a basketball game. Especially when you leave 14 points on the free throw line. In the end, up by 1 with seconds to go, the player with the ball in his hands is my favorite foil guy Malik Ellison. Trapped in front of his own coach, who should have yelled at him to call a time out, he turns the ball over and fouls. Game over. In crucial plays like this you need a leader on the floor, preferably a point guard, even when your coach is as asleep as you on the side line. Unfortunately both guards that will fill that role were spectators today.
Even with 21 turnovers this game was won by St. John's twice in the final minute only to be gifted to Seton Hall with 3 bad last minute plays.
Big positive was Kassoum Yawke with a huge double double. Today he exhibited a jump shot and interior domination that reminded me of a young David Russell. The kid will be jump street dangerous in a couple of years. Had Sima not been playing with just one hand our interior defense would have been even more dominant.
Terrific MSG crowd for a team that has won only one Big East game and going nowhere.
Actually, we are going somewhere. ....in the future because if this marginally talented team can take a very good Hall team to the limit, with 5 new ready for prime time players next year St. John's will own New York City!
 
Exciting game, did lots of yelling, proud of the team yet extremely disappointed.
...Why is Sima getting the ball on the last play? In any shape or form it's a recipe for disaster.......
.....the fowl shooting, and I do mean FOWL, ARGHHHH......
......compounded by the fact that they aren't even looking at the possibility of offensive rebounds, a few times there was only one Redstorm player lined up on the block. It's not like the misses are just rimming out, the rebounds are there for the taking. Jones, on Yakwe's last miss, would have had a great chance at a ball that went towards the corner but he was running back on D while the shot was in the air.....
.....once again, I beg to know, why is Jones bringing the ball up against the press?....
.....why didn't Ellison throw the ball to Mussini, wide open in the corner?...
.....Felix's dunk? Play of the year?.......
......absolute killer, good defensive series and Mussini takes a Tito Santana flying forearm in the lane, no call!....as were the ample hipchecks we took while driving baseline.....also loved the "my time" call while neither team had possession.....
......did Ellison set a new record for fastest to ever be subbed out of the second half? 4 seconds?.....
 
Like the young officers on the TV show, our players are young and inexperienced but in the end there is always a moral to all the played out drama. Today it was you can't commit 21 turnovers and hope to win a basketball game. Especially when you leave 14 points on the free throw line. In the end, up by 1 with seconds to go, the player with the ball in his hands is my favorite foil guy Malik Ellison. Trapped in front of his own coach, who should have yelled at him to call a time out, he turns the ball over and fouls. Game over. In crucial plays like this you need a leader on the floor, preferably a point guard, even when your coach is as asleep as you on the side line. Unfortunately both guards that will fill that role were spectators today.
Even with 21 turnovers this game was won by St. John's twice in the final minute only to be gifted to Seton Hall with 3 bad last minute plays.
Big positive was Kassoum Yawke with a huge double double. Today he exhibited a jump shot and interior domination that reminded me of a young David Russell. The kid will be jump street dangerous in a couple of years. Had Sima not been playing with just one hand our interior defense would have been even more dominant.
Terrific MSG crowd for a team that has won only one Big East game and going nowhere.
Actually, we are going somewhere. ....in the future because if this marginally talented team can take a very good Hall team to the limit, with 5 new ready for prime time players next year St. John's will own New York City!
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great post
 
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