Chris Obekpa
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Hmmm. Late signed, "stolen" from another team. 6'9 athletic big man, who'll be only 17 throughout his freshman year.
This must seem like Deja Vu to Steve Lavin! In July 2002, he stole a 6'9 underated C/F prospect - a young man who decommitted from another school when that coach left for a better job. Lorenzo Romar THOUGHT he was taking the kid with him from St. Louis to Washington. Then Steve got involved....
One can only hope - THAT 16-17 year old wasn't finshed growing. He finished his freshman year under Steve at 6'11, and is now a 7'0 NBA center - Ryan Hollins.
We will have two excellent Nigerian Freshman bball players at SJU next season.
1. CO; and
2. Sandra Udobi, who is the top women's recruit right now and is a 6 2 " forward.
Did I say I love Nigerians.
1. CO; and
2. Sandra Udobi, who is the top women's recruit right now and is a 6 2 " forward.
Did I say I love Nigerians.
Funny you say that, because I was thinking the same thing every time I watch him. I never kept an exact #, but it seems like 80 to 90% of his blocks are kept in play. That is a very tough thing for a young kid to understand. An overzealous big swatting a shot into the stands has the same result as a deflection or kicked ball.
I was looking at the Cincy board to see what they had to say about us stealing obekpa from them. They are saying that CO took an NIT team over a Final 4 team in Cincy. I don't wanna get ahead of myself hear, But I think we are top 25 material and better than Cincy. I'm so excited!!!!! 124 days until college hoops begins!!!!
They call us bottom feeders of the BE. I'm just sitting here saying put your money where your mouth is come BE play and all the sudden the "bottom feeders" are Surprising everybody. All this talk by their fans just make me wanna play them and beat them more and more...
What on Cincy's roster is better than ours? Their backcourt is their strength and it's quite good. Cashmere Wright and Sean Kilpatrick? I think Branch, Greene and Harrison will be every bit as good. Plus I think our frontcourt will, be stronger than theirs. They lost Dion Dixon and a huge piece in Yancy Gates. We are younger, but we are deeper 1 through 5. Even with our deficiencies, we finished ahead of them 2 years ago and split with them the last 2 years. They are having delusions of grandeur.
When Cincy fans call us bottom feeders I don't think they are taking into consideration the coaching change of Norm to Lavin. IMO college ft and bb programs are who the head coach is. Take Bama ft-under previous coach Mike Shula they were mediocre-now with Nick Saban have won 2 of last 3 NCs.
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For any of you fine folks interested and in the NYC-area: Chris Obekpa will be playing tomorrow night (Thursday) at Dyckman at 8:15PM. Try and get there early if you decide to go.
The Cincy fans thoroughly believe they are a Final Four team...I really think they woke up after being dropped on their heads and now they think they are a Duke/UNC/Kentucky/Cuse. Cincy is a good not great team. They had 1 very good year this past year but I will bet they don't make the sweet 16 again for some time. Sky is the limit for the Johnnies though.
Hostility and an over-inflated belief of their team. Not to mention, some sour grapes for losing out on Obekpa. I think they'll fare decently over the course of the season, but they're smelling themselves a bit too much.
I'd love to see Obekpa have a block party at their expense.