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With new faces like Storr, Jones, Curbelo, Gardner and talented 23 targets naturally sucking off-season oxygen out of the room, let’s also appreciate the heart and soul of the team, Posh Alexander. He competes fiercely, defends non stop and can make outcome determining plays at key times. Posh rather than worry about Curbelo’s impact on his role, immediately welcomed the addition in his usual “team first” manner. His shooting may never be at top of the scale, but he works endlessly to improve. Posh, like former SJU warrior, “D’Lo”, is a guy who puts it all out there every game. That is refreshing in an age when many kids are so stats conscious and selfish. Incredibly, we will likely have several more years to watch this unique, hard nosed and winning player lead the way. The ride should be fun and I bet successful.
 
Fans, especially ours, are always looking toward the next generation of players, the shiny new thing that brings us hope to get out of a 30 year funk.

That's why recruiting threads are exponentially longer than threads on current players if we have any at all.

And yet here we are with the best thing to hit our program in years: a humble, homegrown upperclassman with a game few of us could describe well but with a heart that knows no bounds - a loyal leader who will go down as one of the best to ever don red.

Appreciate Posh. Savor every moment he is here.
 
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Posh is a talent all to himself. Fiercely competitive, he has always needed an ace to match his talents. I looks forward to the dynamic that he and Belo will have.

Posh hasn’t fought it one second, and will ultimately thrive off of it. He’s a ball player, and even more dynamic than we have seen his first 2 years.
 
He has to be the best offensive rebounding player under 6t in the country. He really improved his mid range pull up game last year.

The final piece to the puzzle is developing a 3 point shot. It got to the point last year where he just stopped attempting 3s. You cant do that. I hope he can get his confidence back and become a decent threat from 3 this year.
 
I’m usually someone who thinks your best players should play as many minutes as possible. This year with the apparent depth and added pg in curbelo, I really want to see if CMA will try to implement more non stop pressure. Imagine the pace Posh could play at if he was playing 28 or so minutes a game. If we gotta pull back a little as the season goes, so be it, but I say we let it rip early and see what we can do. There’s no better guard in the country to be the head of a fast paced, full court O/D system, and now he’s got the adequate support to give him some breaks. Can’t wait to see him on the court again. His team.
 
If Posh could develop the skill to shoot off the dribble from eighteen feet with his quickness he becomes one of the top backcourt men in the country.
 
Posh has been in the gym non stop this off-season. I don't think anyone in their right mind is talking about this team without thinking of or mentioning him first. He is the leader of the team, albeit a quiet one. His talking is done on the court. But I don't think anyone is forgetting about Posh. The idea that everyone is only thinking of or talking about the new guys like Curbelo, Jones and Storr - those pieces don't fit here as well - without Posh being the straw that stirs the drink.

No plan on this team can be started without him. The two headed monster - and frankly 3 - of Posh Curbelo and Pinzon if utilized properly should not only create a lot of flexibility for us, but create great problems for teams.

You have two very strong defensive guards in Posh and Curbelo and are fast as all hell. Pinzon plays the same position, but is so much bigger and longer plus he can defend 3 positions due to his height. There are going to be tremendous advantages here. Wusu gets to stay at his natural position of SG.
 
Amaseinyourface said:
Someone else mentioned Speedy in another thread. Checked out his college stats and found this interesting, perhaps regarding Posh’s development.

Speedy as a frosh/soph was 8/49 from 3 (16%). As a Junior/senior he was 57/153 (37%).
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If Posh gets into the mid 30s (or even slightly better) from 3 he is a borderline BE POY and All American given everything else he does. I don't think that's a stretch when you consider everything else he does well already.
 
SJUDave said:
Posh has been in the gym non stop this off-season. I don't think anyone in their right mind is talking about this team without thinking of or mentioning him first. He is the leader of the team, albeit a quiet one. His talking is done on the court. But I don't think anyone is forgetting about Posh. The idea that everyone is only thinking of or talking about the new guys like Curbelo, Jones and Storr - those pieces don't fit here as well - without Posh being the straw that stirs the drink.

No plan on this team can be started without him. The two headed monster - and frankly 3 - of Posh Curbelo and Pinzon if utilized properly should not only create a lot of flexibility for us, but create great problems for teams.

You have two very strong defensive guards in Posh and Curbelo and are fast as all hell. Pinzon plays the same position, but is so much bigger and longer plus he can defend 3 positions due to his height. There are going to be tremendous advantages here. Wusu gets to stay at his natural position of SG.
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I have suggested for a while now that Wusu is in trouble when trying to combine court vision and handle. Rather than 2 or SG I believe he is best suited to a sort of point forward position. Barkley, Bernard, Dantley, Aguirre and many others played this role over the years. The problem is that in the era of the 3ball most coaches don't want to use this system. Wusu has the baseline 3 shot to pick and step out or pick and pass to make this work but it changes the whole structure of the offense.
 
Amaseinyourface said:
Someone else mentioned Speedy in another thread. Checked out his college stats and found this interesting, perhaps regarding Posh’s development.

Speedy as a frosh/soph was 8/49 from 3 (16%). As a Junior/senior he was 57/153 (37%).
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I went to almost every Hofstra home game back then as my friend from work was friend with Jay and Pecora but honestly I don’t see s speedy posh comparison at all. It’s real tough to extrapolate numbers from American East conference to Big East but I’ll definitely agree with anytime sayint Soeedy could have played in big east heck you can argue that ge started Jays trajectory as he was the first big time kid then he got Gittens and a couple others who’s names escape me
 
mjmaherjr said:
I went to almost every Hofstra home game back then as my friend from work was friend with Jay and Pecora but honestly I don’t see s speedy posh comparison at all. It’s real tough to extrapolate numbers from American East conference to Big East but I’ll definitely agree with anyone sayint Soeedy could have played in big east heck you can argue that ge started Jays trajectory as he was the first big time kid then he got Gittens and a couple others who’s names escape me
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mjmaherjr said:
I went to almost every Hofstra home game back then as my friend from work was friend with Jay and Pecora but honestly I don’t see s speedy posh comparison at all. It’s real tough to extrapolate numbers from American East conference to Big East but I’ll definitely agree with anytime sayint Soeedy could have played in big east heck you can argue that ge started Jays trajectory as he was the first big time kid then he got Gittens and a couple others who’s names escape me
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MJM, you are definitely correct. Speedy, Roberto Gittens, and Duane Posey all played for me. Norm Richardson from Grady was the second leading scorer on the 99-2000 team. Speedy changed the trajectory of Jay Wright's career. Hofstra was struggling until Speedy arrived. As for whether or not Speedy could have played in a high major conference, After his freshman year at Hofstra, Speedy was one of the college players selected to be a counselor at the prestigious ABCD Camp at FDU. In the morning while the high school players were in class, NBA assistant coaches worked out the counselors. Speedy more than held his own in these workouts. His ball handling and creativity were great, he even tap dunked over a 6'10 player whose name I won't mention. His road to the NBA started that week in Teaneck.

Jay Wright is a HOF coach who has had an incredible career. He will be the first to admit that it started with Speedy.
 
panther2 said:
MJM, you are definitely correct. Speedy, Roberto Gittens, and Duane Posey all played for me. Norm Richardson from Grady was the second leading scorer on the 99-2000 team. Speedy changed the trajectory of Jay Wright's career. Hofstra was struggling until Speedy arrived. As for whether or not Speedy could have played in a high major conference, After his freshman year at Hofstra, Speedy was one of the college players selected to be a counselor at the prestigious ABCD Camp at FDU. In the morning while the high school players were in class, NBA assistant coaches worked out the counselors. Speedy more than held his own in these workouts. His ball handling and creativity were great, he even tap dunked over a 6'10 player whose name I won't mention. His road to the NBA started that week in Teaneck.

Jay Wright is a HOF coach who has had an incredible career. He will be the first to admit that it started with Speedy.
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Wow next time we all get together we have to talk Hofstra back then. Richardson was awesome too. Jay Vs Brey has there ever been a small conference coaching matchup as good knowing what they became later ? Even then Jay was wearing Armani suits then drinking beers with us at Monterey’s after
 
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