His father Chip is absolutely loaded; manages several musical acts and an agency.
Max Hooper has NOTHING to worry about.
Shame for people on here blaming a game on 1 or 2 kids.
Just like the individual (won't mention names) who complained about the kids not shaking hands; they all ran back on to the court last night to shake. If you want to critcize people on here that is fine but at least criticize facts. And if i don't forget these are 18-22 year old kids. Coaching has not been great and not putting them in the best position to win. I like Lavin, I've spent some time with him over the past few years, but he has not done a good with THIS TEAM THIS YEAR. I give him a pass but after this no more execuses. Blame the coaches not the kids. Maybe Jordan should have been in the end to penetrate and get to hoop that is a strength; not Phil's. But phil was put in that position.
I am certainly not blaming Hooper for the loss of the game. Should he have known better? Yes. But I have been rather vocal in my opinion that Lavin is the problem here- including putting Hooper in that play in the first place.
But now that you mention that Hooper’s father has a talent agency, Lavin’s recruitment of him is all adding up now….
There is never a single person responsible for a loss that's certain. My VERY first redmen game when I was a teen, I believe was a loss to Army when Richie Lyons dribbled a ball off his foot late in the game. Regardless of the loss, I wouldn't have remembered the game had it not been for that critical play (if it even happened - it was a long long time ago)
Hoopers gaffe was critical at the worst possible moment - VICTORY had already been achieved, and had to be preserved. We had the lead, the ball, and the clock on our side.
St. John's ran a basic press break as far as I could see. Two guards start out at the defensive wings extended, and criss cross, one setting a pick for the other. One guy ends up with the ball. He is supposed to leave enough room between himself and the baseline to get it back to the player inbounding if the ball can't quickly be advanced upcourt. Hooper left no room and got trapped on the baseline. Error #1. Then he immediately panicked and gave up his dribble under pressure. Error #2. Then instead of keeping his composure and finding the open man, he covered up like a turtle going into his shell - or the way 4th grade kids do when they have no court sense or ballhandling skills. Error #3. In doing do, he actually completely panicked and appeared to try to hold the ball until time expired or he got fouled. In doing so, he showed too much ball (he may have tried to extend his arms out of bounds so no one could get to it, but at that point he was probably 2 feet inbounds. error #5. in all of this he failed to call time out error #6.
The biggest error of all was that he was on the court. That one goes on Lavin, who had a speedy ballhandling point guard on the bench (who for the short memory in all of us, did get stripped driving to the hoop late in the previous loss) Error #7
Why focus so much on this single play? In a game we absolutely needed to right a sinking ship and save the season the game was right there to be won as long as we didn't turn the ball over. In that regard, it reminded me of the Syracuse loss at Alumni hall so long ago. only this time the fans held their collective breaths hoping for a win, instead of screaming with premature bravado that "We're number one" as Bernard Rencher stepped to the line for a game cinching 1 and 1 from an 80+% FT shooter. That loss was worse because the pain lingered for a very long time. This loss is worse because it effectively killed our season.
