Nuri Leaving
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True - none of us truly know what is best for Nuri. I think I know, but it doesn't mean I'm correct. In the end, he'll have to live with his decision. It will effect him much more than the team over the long run, so I hope he's choosing correctly. Imho I would have waited for Coach to get back and complete the season b4 making such a big decision. In the scheme of things, it'll be another transition, another set of teammates and coaches to get used to. essentially, another year will be lost in addition to this one.
BTW, is it just me or do the insincere sounding (doesn't mean they are not) boiler plate comments irk you all? The "I'll always love and support St. John's," "the decision was best for me and my family," "I apologize to the fans and supporting cast" ---it all seems like the break up cliches that are used in dating and sports...lol
Nuri's quotes say exactly what he means. Nuri expected to come in this season for ony one season and be "coached up" by Lavin and groomed for the NBA. Somehow this kid feels that Lavin being out a month or so is the reason that he's shooting 0% from the outside. And turning it over every other possession. He graced us with his "presence" enough. It must have been extremely frustrating coming here and finding out that unranked Phil Greene was better than him. Remember, last year he was already calling himself SJU's "starting PG".
The kid is nowhere near ready for NBA andis suffering the delusion that he's Wilt Chamberlain and that somehow SJU is slowing him down. Abandoning SJU right now is total gutless BS. Don't need guys like this around the program. He's got a better shot at an MBA than the NBA right now. He'll be playing in The Chosen League.
The kid is nowhere near ready for NBA andis suffering the delusion that he's Wilt Chamberlain and that somehow SJU is slowing him down. Abandoning SJU right now is total gutless BS. Don't need guys like this around the program. He's got a better shot at an MBA than the NBA right now. He'll be playing in The Chosen League.
redstorm89
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mike francessa talking about st. john's right now. but not without throwing some love for iona of course.
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Well, with Nuri or without him, the assist to TO had to go up for overall play to improve for the team. Phil and Malik's better ratios will help the ball flow, but I'd never want to lose talent that could have hopefully been molded as in Nuri's case. I think the staff was starting to break him down in order to begin building him back up as they do in the military. It was ill-received and a reflex withdrawal (instead of hanging in there and improving) occurred - that's too bad.
queensbridge
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Maybe I'll try that out with my girlfriend. "Hey thanks for the love but I'll be moving on to another girl now." Just waiting for Nuri to give us the "It's not you it's me" tweet. What a joke. Peace bro. If there are any NBDL teams with a need for a point guard with the right hand driving ability of Aron Ralston and the outside jumper of Curtis Johnson you're in luck.
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I thought of that "it's not you it's me" as well - crazy S... Let me know how it goes if you ever deliver that one to your gf if you break up - Don't do it! lol
This kids delusional, of all the players besides Stith, this is who I would want to transfer if I had to choose. From what I saw this year, he is very overrated, he is 0-6 from 3-point range, he is shooting about 56% from the free throw line and he turns the ball over. A program like Iowa State will take a shot with him. They take every malcontent athlete who wants to transfer mid-year or possibly Oregon who stole Devoe Joseph from Minnesota last year, when Joseph quit.
Now for all you Idiots who think this is the downfall for St. John's. Every program has to deal with stuff like this. Look at Minnesota last year or Oklahoma who just lost their 2nd leading scorer to transfer. St. John's is never going to be Kentucky, NC, or Duke. It is to hard when you don't have football. Villanova is having a down year, PC is one of the toughest jobs in the country, DePaul lost by 20 to UWM. G-Town and Marquette seem like they are going to have good years from the non-football Big East.
Now for all you Idiots who think this is the downfall for St. John's. Every program has to deal with stuff like this. Look at Minnesota last year or Oklahoma who just lost their 2nd leading scorer to transfer. St. John's is never going to be Kentucky, NC, or Duke. It is to hard when you don't have football. Villanova is having a down year, PC is one of the toughest jobs in the country, DePaul lost by 20 to UWM. G-Town and Marquette seem like they are going to have good years from the non-football Big East.
queensbridge
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What are you looking at? Our conference has completely fallen apart. Four recruits have decommitted. We have ZERO signed recruits for next year. Let me say that again ZERO signed recruits for next year (Is there not a fax machine on campus at Bridgton Academy??) Our coach is out indefinitely. Granted most of this is out of our control but it’s just really surreal how horribly the past 3 months have gone for us after how high we got our hopes up.
cavalier86
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We have 2 games left(fordham and Texas PA) until Garrett is eligible to return. So we will be really shorthanded for those 2 and then be back to where we were. and we may be better off with garrett then nuri. first we have a kid who has from day 1 pledged his love for our university and second he is a front court player where we are week. greene and stith will man the PG position and the 5 others will rotate up front.
And hopefully with Lavin gaining stamina he will be able to coach this team soon.
Nuri's departured hurts at the moment, but we will bounce back and be a better team.
And hopefully with Lavin gaining stamina he will be able to coach this team soon.
Nuri's departured hurts at the moment, but we will bounce back and be a better team.
Just curious-anyone know if Malik Nichols (sp?) would be eligible to come this month with Amir, as I thought he was supposed to graduate last year from what I have read, and he decided to go to prep school to get a better offer than he had-or was it his grades? If he is eligible I would jump on him as he would be another defensive player and a very live body-which we need- and certainly now have space for 
cavalier86
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I didn't mean to say we are weak up front, more that we are a little shorthanded at the forward position.
sorry!!
sorry!!
Not a bad post. Quite frankly, your above-quote was something I kinda tossed around in my head. Unfortunately, the manuever didn't work out and he's not hightailing it out of town.
IMO, you could see him somewhat dogging it during his play in the Detroit game (hence, Moose's point-shaving joke during the game). He seemed somewhat out of it for a couple of a games prior to Detroit. But, he seemed clearly out of it versus Detroit. I guess we now know why.
tom in salem
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0-15 from 3.
A scowl like an old nun! LOL! Classic, TIS, just classic!
As for Nuri, I can't wish him well or not well. Just go.
bball purist
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TG I didn't experience it first hand, but in my school, Sr. Jean Michael also packed a mean right hook to go with her scowl! :angry:
The guy apparantly has a lot of issues but his leaving does not bode well for our future. The impact of playing with such a short roster could cause the other players to get down significantly I am ignorant of why we are limited to only 12 scholarships when other teams I believe offer 15. I may be wrong on that but if it is the case would having the full amount have not offset to a large degree the loss of three (now four ) players ?
