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Kudos to the entire team on hanging the Fordham Rams by their horns and exacting sweet revenge.
What can I say about Slick other than he was easily the best player on the floor and the Big East Player of the Week. To those that corresponded with me last year while in exile, this is the player I was willing to sit in a public school gym to watch last year praying he signed with St. John's because other than Omar Cook this was the type of NYC guard that was a given to Syracuse, Uconn or anyone else but St. John's.
Kudos also to the staff for reading this site and translating our game suggestions so coach Mullin could understand them and implement them against the lowly rams whom we rammed but good tonight. Finally Mully allowed some nice give and go, alley oops, inside play, blocking and rebounding. Or maybe it was keeping Slow Motion Sima mostly glued to the bench and allowing Owens to play like a young gazelle. Note to Fun: Owens did what Christian Jones could rarely do, i.e., run, handle, block.
My paesan Federico Mussini also looked comfortable hitting open jumpers while proving us all wrong. He is a miniature Max Hooper and not a Marco BourDeGaul or whatever his name was. Even Ellison played a decent game and only lost his concentration on 2 or 3 occasions when he forgot he had teammates.
Mullin looked engaged and was very vocal and seemed in charge and he even put 4 sentences together during time outs. My only criticism of Mully tonight is he needs a stylist because nothing matched and that tie he was wearing looked like one he wore at Xaverian. Somebody get him a subscription to GQ.
Now on to L.I.U. and an empty Barclay's Arena. The Blackbirds are strictly low budget and will be walking to game. The program is rebuilding. Something St. John's specializes in but the Blackbirds have been rebuilding since the Claire Bee era so maybe we can take advantage by throwing stones at those birds from our big glass house.
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What can I say about Slick other than he was easily the best player on the floor and the Big East Player of the Week. To those that corresponded with me last year while in exile, this is the player I was willing to sit in a public school gym to watch last year praying he signed with St. John's because other than Omar Cook this was the type of NYC guard that was a given to Syracuse, Uconn or anyone else but St. John's.
Kudos also to the staff for reading this site and translating our game suggestions so coach Mullin could understand them and implement them against the lowly rams whom we rammed but good tonight. Finally Mully allowed some nice give and go, alley oops, inside play, blocking and rebounding. Or maybe it was keeping Slow Motion Sima mostly glued to the bench and allowing Owens to play like a young gazelle. Note to Fun: Owens did what Christian Jones could rarely do, i.e., run, handle, block.
My paesan Federico Mussini also looked comfortable hitting open jumpers while proving us all wrong. He is a miniature Max Hooper and not a Marco BourDeGaul or whatever his name was. Even Ellison played a decent game and only lost his concentration on 2 or 3 occasions when he forgot he had teammates.
Mullin looked engaged and was very vocal and seemed in charge and he even put 4 sentences together during time outs. My only criticism of Mully tonight is he needs a stylist because nothing matched and that tie he was wearing looked like one he wore at Xaverian. Somebody get him a subscription to GQ.
Now on to L.I.U. and an empty Barclay's Arena. The Blackbirds are strictly low budget and will be walking to game. The program is rebuilding. Something St. John's specializes in but the Blackbirds have been rebuilding since the Claire Bee era so maybe we can take advantage by throwing stones at those birds from our big glass house.
