L J S A
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This isn't even a new thing for us, so no one should be shocked. That's like us being shocked if we don't close out on a three-pointer.
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Rocket
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OK.......forget what you read.
Oh, I’m not shocked. We just let the starting PG and SG for the 10th place team score 46 pts on 17-29 shooting with 14 assists to just 4 turnovers. And I believe they
are both just sophs?
L J S A
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Wow, it's even worse when you put it like that
Hopefully next season brings the guard play and defense Pitino has been known for.
Look at Jayden Epp's numbers the last 7 games before us...
28% FG, 22% 3pt, 13 ppg, 4 ppg.
Rocket
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The only way to ever reach Uconn level success is to win multiple national championships and multiple sweet 16's.
Uconn is on the Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, UCLA heights.
We are South Brooklyn wishing we were Brooklyn Heights.
UCONN is a blue blood. They've won five national championships with three different coaches in four different decades. That is sustained excellence that we have never had.
Jayden Epps from his Georgetown page:
2022-23 AT ILLINOIS
PRIOR TO COLLEGE
2022-23 AT ILLINOIS
- Epps averaged 9.5 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.5 assists on 41.4% from the field and 30.1% from three this past season for the Fighting Illini, appearing in 31 games and starting in 11.
- He scored in double-figures 20 times throughout the season, posting a season-high 21 points against Monmouth (Nov. 11) on 8-12 from the field and 5-9 from deep.
PRIOR TO COLLEGE
- Epps was recruited to Illinois ranked as the nation's No. 51 prospect and received offers from Kansas, NC State, UConn, and Providence among other schools.
- In high school, the guard played his senior season at Combine Academy in Lincolnton, North Carolina after previously attending King's Fork High School in Suffolk. Epps was named 2020 Class 4 Player of the Year by the Virginia High School League and All-Tidewater Player of the Year.
dk423: UCONN is a blue blood. They've won five national championships with three different coaches in four different decades. That is sustained excellence that we have never had.
Mea culpa, I should have phrased it differently. Pitino was mentioning aspiring to the upper tier teams in the Big East. I think we should be able to aspire to compete with the top team(s) in the BE whether that is Uconn or not. Aspiring to winning the BE regular season should not be beyond our grasp.
dk243: Uconn's national success since Calhoun and our recent historical success (or lack), we agree, are on TOTALLY different planets. I did not mean to imply the contrary.
{Rocket: As being from BKLYN, it is more like Marine Park wishing it was Carroll Gardens or Bay Ridge wishing it was Williamsburg, lol}
Rocket
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You spend too time with your head in oven breathing fumes. You are comparing two different players! Pre-injury he was a vital link. Post-injury he is a situational sub.
If you think he is not a liability on defense then you haven't been watching.
Rocket
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Daniss Jenkins has better stats all around over Epps.
Moral of the story is Jenkins should have shot more.
Epps took 20 shots!
Jenkins took 8.
Yeah, where was Uconn in the 50's? Listen, there's history which is relevant to the present, especially as it relates to prospects and media, and then there's ancient history which are nice stories to tell. UConn's been ranked at some point in 32 of the past 36 years, #1 in 7 of them. Made the dance 73% of the time and then there's the Nattys, and I bet they make it to the dance this year too. Just because 24 of those years were under Calhoun doesn't make them any less relevant. People want to point at a the last two years of Ollie and the first two years of Hurley cleaning up after him as if that's normal rather than an exception. At least as STJ fans we have nice stories to tell. But in my mind modern basketball started evolving under Wooden and Gilbert, and really started with Bird v Magic, so there's really only 45 years of relevant history during which to become a powerhouse. Or are we gonna wax poetic about CCNY.
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We have different opinions . Refs saw it and called it a jump ball and tie up . Ball to Hoyas .
If possession Arrow went our way, we wouldn’t remember it .
Kind of like the over whelming number of blocking fouls Vs Charging calls .
Most of the time , Jenkins does split the defenders . This time he didn’t . It didn’t impact the final results since Jenkins make a clutch jumper to put us up 7 and seal the win .
Daniss Jenkins has better stats all around over Epps.
Moral of the story is Jenkins should have shot more.
Epps took 20 shots!
Jenkins took 8.
Or maybe Jenkins should have guarded Epps better.
Of course the other way to look at it is he was due.
The prodigal son may return
Rocket
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Or Dingle should have guarded him better, or Alleyne.
But they lost by 5 on a last second shot by Brumbaugh.
We were ahead double digits under 3 minutes but then Styles, Bristol and Epps hit 3 pointers. Bristol twice!
They scored 11 points in under 3 minutes. We've gone 11 minutes without scoring 3 points.
Credit Georgetown on a furious comeback in the final minutes. Unfortunately, we have a fan base of guys whose glass is always half empty instead of half full.
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That’s because the St. John’s fan base has had to drink to get through the games for 20 years
Rocket
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Walt put up 24 shots but Florida lost. They are 18-8 and were ranked last week.