Curbelo

If he was playing well I would be fine with "Manny being Manny". He is eccentric to say the least but the truth is if he was playing up to his potential none of us would care...
Sad to say you are incorrect and there are more people on this board who watch players in trouble with the eyes of "having lived through tragedies" both personal and professional. When I was Training Director at Bronx Psychiatric Center we ran a program to teach recovering substance abusers how to do drug abuse counseling with people in both drug abuse and mental health trouble. If you took the basketball talent that came through that program you would have multiple NBA draft choices, all-state and all-city guards, and wings and power forwards in the 6-6 to 6-8 range. Some of us old guys learned long ago that the conjectured correlation between basketball talent and personal well-being is spurious.
 
Sad to say you are incorrect and there are more people on this board who watch players in trouble with the eyes of "having lived through tragedies" both personal and professional. When I was Training Director at Bronx Psychiatric Center we ran a program to teach recovering substance abusers how to do drug abuse counseling with people in both drug abuse and mental health trouble. If you took the basketball talent that came through that program you would have multiple NBA draft choices, all-state and all-city guards, and wings and power forwards in the 6-6 to 6-8 range. Some of us old guys learned long ago that the conjectured correlation between basketball talent and personal well-being is spurious.
I agree we all want what's best for the kids in the program and want them to have the best life possible.

We have had many student athletes that had major problems (family,substance,academic etc) I mean our most famous player had an alcohol problem that was not exactly hidden. As fans of a team we want our team to win. Just look at the coaching search threads and you can see that winning is what matters.

I personally think that 95% of every person that comes through the program needs to embrace the college experience and use the free education to better themselves. God knows that they'll do better in life than me if they do...
 

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And what an error.
Sorry to say but I was flat out wrong about him being an addition to our team. He was a huge distraction, embarrassment and did not fit in. Talented certainly. We screwed with chemistry and it backfired. I wish him all the very best and it is great to see Posh once again playing so well.
Mea culpa on my part also on this.
 
And what an error.
Sorry to say but I was flat out wrong about him being an addition to our team. He was a huge distraction, embarrassment and did not fit in. Talented certainly. We screwed with chemistry and it backfired. I wish him all the very best and it is great to see Posh once again playing so well.
Far from only you.

The majority of us were completely wrong.
 
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