Jordan & Teammates Interviewed

[mjmaherjr]

@AdamZagoria: .@NYPost_Brazille flat out asks Rysheed Jordan about NBA next year on podium: "I'm focused on today's practice and tomorrow's game."
Necessary?

@AdamZagoria: St. John's D'Angelo Harrison on first NCAA trip: "It's a great feeling but I want to win games in this tournament."

zach had an orgasm while finally being able to ask sheed a question

 

[Marillac]

@AdamZagoria: .@NYPost_Brazille flat out asks Rysheed Jordan about NBA next year on podium: "I'm focused on today's practice and tomorrow's game."
Necessary?

@AdamZagoria: St. John's D'Angelo Harrison on first NCAA trip: "It's a great feeling but I want to win games in this tournament."

What a jerk move by Zach.

He craps on the coach all year long and makes a bigger deal about Sheed than he needed to and he asks this on the eve of a tourney game?

Are you kidding me?

These are the same clowns who ask a high level kid about the NBA right after they just got bounced out of the tourney.

Sheed handled it like a "pro". Kudos to him!

Don't think these players aren't aware of which media guys give them hell.

It was Zach who ran with Rabinowitz "slur" tweets from Sheed.

It's not often we agree. What a low, low move by Zach, who is proving his make up with every passing day.

He knows this team as well as anyone. He knows what they are dealing with the whole CO debacle, three years of disappointment, and a very mercurial and, at times, very immature, young kid in Rysheed. Asking him that question could do Rysheed no good. It could only distract him and add pressure to a kid that must be carrying so much of it already. This couldn't wait until the post game presser after we were eliminated?

Zagoria should get Braziller a very nice gift for the holidays this year, because he is making Zags look like a hall of famer.

He is not there to put salve on out wounds, he is there to provoke opinions of the readers and stir emotion and comment.

Nice try. He's a beat writer sent to Charlotte to cover the game and report on that. Let us know who's injured, what experts think about the outcome, what the players and coaches have to say about only the third NCAA tournament game we are playing in last 15 years.

It's a garbage question from a garbage beat writer to a kid that simply did not need another distraction or another reason to feel pressure.

Like him or not his job is to be a reporter and he is paid to report on teams and ask questions, not to be the team shrink nor is he supposed to be advocate. Would I have asked the question, especially at that time, no, but I am not a reporter. I don't like the questions, but it is a question that I would expect a reporter to ask.

He's paid to cover the game. They didn't pay for him to go to Charlotte to report on Jordan's future. Asking questions is certainly within the scope of his assignment, but not every question is kosher. The question was bush league pure and simple.

He should be above that. He has shown the the last few weeks he is not above much. If we deserve a better coach, we certainly deserve a better damn beat reporter than that.

The fact that he does something on a daily basis that causes us to discuss his name is a sign that a beat reporter is not doing his job properly.

And who the hell are you to tell someone else how to do their job?

How many articles have you written in your life? How many interviews have you conducted?

One could ask, how many games have you coached? Just sayin'.

Alot

Jumbo_Peanuts, after bashing Lavin for two years, doesn't want anyone to tell someone how to do their job. Fans of irony take note, as Fun would say.

 

[Class of 72]

If Zach wanted to stir things up, he would've asked Rysheed how he feels about the indiscriminate benching to start the Providence game.

He could have also asked him if his grandmother was really dead, if his mother was really sick, if his girlfriend was slightly pregnant, but Zach has more class than that. After all, he earned his bones disliking St. John's while working for the [strike]New York Times [/strike]Queens Courier and now is working on his Pulitzer in investigative journalism at the NY Post.

 

[Ricky Smith]

If Zach wanted to stir things up, he would've asked Rysheed how he feels about the indiscriminate benching to start the Providence game.

He could have also asked him if his grandmother was really dead, if his mother was really sick, if his girlfriend was slightly pregnant, but Zach has more class than that. After all, he earned his bones disliking St. John's while working for the [strike]New York Times [/strike]Queens Courier and now is working on his Pulitzer in investigative journalism at the NY Post.

I'm sure he could have asked tougher questions

 

[Della9250]

I've got a biased perspective, but I have no problem with it. The kid was kept away from all media for the whole season and now has one time to go in front of the media. I think he can handle it.

And those who think he is guaranteed to talk after the game are nuts. If SJU loses they will bring Harrison, Dom and probably Branch to the podium. Jordan could easily sneak away without having to talk.

Any reporter would have asked that question knowing it might be the only chance to bring up the topic.

 

[monte]

If Zach wanted to stir things up, he would've asked Rysheed how he feels about the indiscriminate benching to start the Providence game.

He could have also asked him if his grandmother was really dead, if his mother was really sick, if his girlfriend was slightly pregnant, but Zach has more class than that. After all, he earned his bones disliking St. John's while working for the [strike]New York Times [/strike]Queens Courier and now is working on his Pulitzer in investigative journalism at the NY Post.

What relevance is his previous employer? He was looking to get scoop from a kid who hasnt spoken to the press in his 2 years here yet has spoken about going pro after this year. The question was not of a personal nature. I dont see a problem with it.