Ricky Smith
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Why would a Team with no shooters and zero brains play a guy like this?
Max Hooper
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Why would a Team with no shooters and zero brains play a guy like this?
This is why you have to bring in recruits every year, obviously to balance the roster. Lavin keeps mentioning the next class, but the result is going to be a sub-par team next season, and then a team full of freshmen the season following. Boy is this spiraling out of control quickly.
STJ11Redmen
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Max Hooper will graduate this May from @StJohnsU in only three years with a B.S. in psychology. Congrats to Max! #SJUBB
Does that mean he can use that graduate school exemption and play next year and still retain both years of eligibility?
Max Hooper will graduate this May from @StJohnsU in only three years with a B.S. in psychology. Congrats to Max! #SJUBB
Does that mean he can use that graduate school exemption and play next year and still retain both years of eligibility?
ct_redstorm
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Guys, it's Max Hooper! This isn't doomsday. We will get players this spring/summer, the coaching staff will be sure of that. If it's a transfer like Lawrence or Calhoun who won't be eligible until '15 is the future really that bad? I personally would not be upset having some solid transfers added to a hopefull class of Briscoe, Diallo and Govan. Jones will be as productive as Orlando this year and Felix will be MUCH more effective than Max. De la Rosa will most likely be here and should give us at least what Gift gave us, any other 5th year transfer or JUCO would be gravy IMO. If Jakarr somehow ends up getting drafted this year that turns into a positive for the program as well. If we are the youngest team in america in '15 so be it, if we can land the first two kids on that list we will have 2 Mcdonald's AA and an energy around our program that we haven't had since Lav has been here.
Ricky Smith
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Good for him. Couldn't get out of there fast enough
ct_redstorm
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Smart Kid. I wonder if that had anything with Jakarr leaving as I'm sure they didn't find out this week that Max would be graduating.
I really don't like that he is leaving. Shooters are so valuable...even if just in practice and certain situations in games. He should have been used more...and he should have been used better.
Obviously the staff knew of this...kids just don't graduate unexpectedly. They have to meet certain requirements. To do that in three years with a transfer and while playing basketball, that had to be the plan from the start. I'm guessing he had plenty of AP/college credits from his prep year at Brewster that he was able to use along with the year at Harvard.
Obviously the staff knew of this...kids just don't graduate unexpectedly. They have to meet certain requirements. To do that in three years with a transfer and while playing basketball, that had to be the plan from the start. I'm guessing he had plenty of AP/college credits from his prep year at Brewster that he was able to use along with the year at Harvard.
beast of the east
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A few thoughts:
His mother tweeted "I told you so Max. You should have stayed at Harvard"
Max was on record as saying he wanted to coach in the future and spent the season sitting next to the coaches on the bench. Apparently in one season he felt he learned everything he could from Lavin.
His grades at St. John's were actually lower at SJU than at Harvard. Perhaps he was proving a theorem that there must be lead paint chips in the cafeteria food.
His mother tweeted "I told you so Max. You should have stayed at Harvard"
Max was on record as saying he wanted to coach in the future and spent the season sitting next to the coaches on the bench. Apparently in one season he felt he learned everything he could from Lavin.
His grades at St. John's were actually lower at SJU than at Harvard. Perhaps he was proving a theorem that there must be lead paint chips in the cafeteria food.
Ray Morgan
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Like I have said many times before, shooters just don't want to come here, and now apparently stay here. It just has never been a part of the offense at SJU. Which helps explain the lack of success after the rule change. Not having guys that can make a shot worth 50% more than a shot an inch closer is not a good formula for winning basketball.
