Ricky Smith
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Was he city POY?
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Was he city POY?
Avon Barksdale
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right and we beat out BU, Hofstra, Lehigh and Manhattan for his services.
Ricky Smith
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Not much has changed, except now we lose recruits to Bradley and Illinois Chicago
Ricky Smith
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Assistant coach under Tim Leary at St Francis Prep
Avon Barksdale
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Maven loves everyone
Ricky Smith
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Stephon Marbury or Mark Jackson. Better High school player?
Marbury by leaps and bounds.
Avon Barksdale
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I put Lamar Odom right there too, although he didnt finish his senior year at CTK.
His performance in the '95 City Title game as a soph is the best ever....35 points (19 in the third q.) vs St. Rays.
I would also agree that Felipe and Marbury are at the top of the list - i am too young to remember Anderson, but from all accounts he was an all time great.
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Another underskilled player that Norm fell in love with. He loved to put these "not good enough to play in the BE" and try to prove that these guys belonged, but if you paid a shrink it was Norm's way of saying that "I coulda been a contender" instead a D2 star at Queens College, if they even were D2 at the time, which I do not believe is true.
I actually thought of my old friend Steve Shurina. I played against Steve (at SFP) when I played for Molloy in the 80's. Hung out with him at SJU. Really good guy. Not a great player but hey he got a ride and one of the best seats to watch the Redmen right next to Looie for the most part.
Avon Barksdale
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For the "older" posters:
Wasn't Kenny Smith also a great player out of Molloy?
Mashburn at Hayes?
Wasn't Kenny Smith also a great player out of Molloy?
Mashburn at Hayes?
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Kenny Smith played at Molloy. He was one of three points guards out of the city that year considered blue chip recruits, Pearl Washington and Mark JAckson considered the others. Jackson was considered a distant third to Washington (Syracuse) and Smith (UNC).
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I think it warrants discussion as to how there has been a decline in the abundance of incredible talent coming out of NYC. Is it that everyone has caught up, or that there is something else? Certainly the radical decline of schoolyard basketball could be a factor. A lot of stars from the past grew up on playgrounds where if you didn't win, you sat. Schoolyard games could become wars, where lesser skilled players would give 150% to stay on the court and wouldn't yield an inch to better players. Sadly those days are gone.