Keeping Up With Old Friends Thread

No doubt how re-invigorated many of our former players are right now; Phil, D’Lo, Shawnelle, TY, Dwight, Mark J, Malik B & many others. Let’s recognize these guys in a consistent, meaningful way. Nova has a template for doing this effectively.


Couldn’t agree more. Former Johnnies should have their seats at our home games fully paid for (if that’s not already happening).

Would love to see another Alumni game. We gotta get Mark Jackson back to the Garden next season too.
 
I believe that our NY Panthers team of 2001 would have given this Riverside team a great game. PG Darryl Hill, SG Taquan Dean, SF Curtis Sumpter, PF Charlie Villaneuva, and C Jason Fraser. On the bench were Tim Doyle, Marvin McCullough, and Aubin Scott. We won the three biggest tournaments of the summer, 3Stripes at Hofstra, Big Time in Las Vegas, and Double Pump in LA. Additionally, in a Showcase game at IS8, we defeated a Juice All Star team featuring Sebastian Telfair, Lebron James , Chris Taft, Elijah Clark ans a few others.

The reason this team does not get the recognition it should is because Charlie was the only one to make it to the league. It's a shame because knee and other injuries derailed the other four starters. They went on to play overseas but would have definitely made the league if they stayed healthy.
Agree. If Jason Fraser and Curtis Sumpter were healthy Villanova was a potential Final Four team.
 
Agree. If Jason Fraser and Curtis Sumpter were healthy Villanova was a potential Final Four team.
Sumpter’s knee injury occurred the summer after his junior year IIRC causing him to be a medical redshirt his senior year and coming back for and the year but he was not the same.

Fraser outside his freshman year, Frazier knee plagued him most of his time at Nova.

What could have been.
 
The what could have been is if they played for us 😉
Was told straight from Curtis a few years ago he was not even recruited by Jarvis. He told me they wanted to play here! This was 20 years after the fact so who knows how much truth to that there is.
 
Sumpter’s knee injury occurred the summer after his junior year IIRC causing him to be a medical redshirt his senior year and coming back for and the year but he was not the same.

Fraser outside his freshman year, Frazier knee plagued him most of his time at Nova.

What could have been.
That was the second injury to the same knee. The first surgeon did a poor job. Curtis' first knee injury occurred in a game against Florida in the second round of the NCAA tournament. At that time, he was planning on entering the draft where he would have been a 1st round pick. His initial surgery did not go well and he reinjured the knee during preseason workouts the next year. Dr Andrews in Birmingham performed another surgery and Curtis was able to play during his 5th year. However, his explosiveness was gone. He played a few seasons overseas.

Apologize for going off topic. Just wanted to show how a player's career path can suddenly change.
 
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Unpopular opinion but Minlend > McLeod.

I had no problem with Mahoney starting Minlend over McLeod, who may have been taller and more talented offensively, but didn't come close to the fire Minlend played with.

McLeod was the best player in practices. He asked coach what he could do to get more playing time and Mahoney couldn’t give him an answer. The rest is history.
 
McLeod was the best player in practices. He asked coach what he could do to get more playing time and Mahoney couldn’t give him an answer. The rest is history.
Unfortunately Mahoney didn’t have many answers as a head coach as his record at both Manhattan and St. John’s will attest too. Very nice man though very personable.
 
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