@Providence, Sat., Jan. 6, 12 Noon, FS-1

paultzman said:
Stanley also passes well out of post ups to cutters or open guys. Foul shooting is still an issue, but he should be rewarded for his hustle, pretty smart play and movement as noted above. Investing in in him over Nyiwe for the long term seems advisable. Lastly, don’t treat Stanley as an afterthought when in there and run some plays for him.
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They need to run plays for Storr also. It might get him moving more on offense and to not be so stationary in the corner.
 
Stanley has definitely earned starter's minutes at the 4. I'd like to see Storr get more minutes as well - keep bringing him along, since we need his outside shooting to keep defenses honest. Jones is a mystery - he's not playing nearely as well as I thought he would. I'd love to see him drive to the hoop more, rather than relying on jumpers early in the shot clock. We need to get him untracked.
 
As we move forward this season, it's really important that Pitino gets to see what he will have to work with next year, who he wants to retain, who he wants to jettison, who he wants to over-recruit, etc.

So yes, I think Stanley should get lots of minutes. Storr too.
 
Anthony Mattia said:
Jones rode the bench most of the 2nd half for coming down a d taking an I'll advised 3 very early in the shot clock. I'm not offended by that decision at all. It was a horrible decision and one that he has made numerous times.
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Before the season I said "Curbelo and Jones will equal 90% of Wheeler/Julian losses". And that was why I was so optimistic, anticipating a huge step up from Soriano and a return to form for Posh, addition of Storr.

And the team bought into what Anderson was selling. We had zero significant transfers despite a disappointing season.

Aside from Soriano, I could not have been more wrong. Jones is our leading scorer but he stinks, Curbelo has mostly been terrible and an attitude problem.
 
PC has rabid fans and an amazing game day experience at the AMP. Except perhaps for UConn, I can't think of a program that might match it; DePaul certainly does not.
 
Interesting takes from a PC fan board about SJU after the game:

Very good win. St. John’s can beat anybody and lose to anybody.

That was a vintage St John’s performance

-Stretches where they look incredibly good
- technical foul, flagrant foul
- after a made basket they threw an inbound pass straight out of bounds
- basket interference for grabbing the rim down the stretch
- firing a free throw off the backboard to lose the game
 
braintrust said:
What exactly has Jones done? He came from a last place program, DePaul, and has done little to make the players around him better. he has shown flashes of 1-on-1 success but often his possessions are like turnovers. Let him come off the bench.

Storr, on the other hand, represents more future than Jones...
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Why does Storr represent more future than Jones? Storr has three years of eligibility after this season while Jones has two. More importantly, we’re not a professional sports team that will benefit from tanking the season and growing our younger guys.

In today’s era of college basketball and particularly with this team and this coach, there’s a good chance that neither Jones nor Storr will return.

Jones absolutely deserved to sit on Saturday and if he doesn’t get the message, he should continue to sit. For this year at least, however, it’s obvious that Jones is the far superior player both offensively, defensively and as a rebounder.
 
Boo Harvey said:
Why does Storr represent more future than Jones? Storr has three years of eligibility after this season while Jones has two. More importantly, we’re not a professional sports team that will benefit from tanking the season and growing our younger guys.

In today’s era of college basketball and particularly with this team and this coach, there’s a good chance that neither Jones nor Storr will return.

Jones absolutely deserved to sit on Saturday and if he doesn’t get the message, he should continue to sit. For this year at least, however, it’s obvious that Jones is the far superior player both offensively, defensively and as a rebounder.
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This idea that Storr is going to stay around here is based on what? Not one human being has played four years of basketball at SJU since the immortal Amar. Amar was recruited two coaches ago, and there is a chance next year it will be three coaches ago. There is no chance his streak will end this year as there are zero, zip, nada, four-year players on this team. And this was all going on at SJU BEFORE free transfer rules.

If you really think Storr is going to play four years at SJU I want to be your bookmaker.
 
Storr represents more future because of Gardner next year; Shoe's reputation as the point man in Storr's recruitment, how Storr is handled can affect future opportunities.

Half way into the season, what has Jones done to earn carte blanche minutes? His chucks from 3 might as well be labeled as turnovers. Half his drives to the basket are blocked. He's a very streaky shooter who accumulates points. Defense...no one on this team is playing enough defense.
 
IDRAFT said:
This idea that Storr is going to stay around here is based on what? Not one human being has played four years of basketball at SJU since the immortal Amar. Amar was recruited two coaches ago, and there is a chance next year it will be three coaches ago. There is no chance his streak will end this year as there are zero, zip, nada, four-year players on this team. And this was all going on at SJU BEFORE free transfer rules.

If you really think Storr is going to play four years at SJU I want to be your bookmaker.
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I thought the idea that he wasn’t going to stay around four 4 years was the exact point he was trying to make.
 
braintrust said:
Storr represents more future because of Gardner next year; Shoe's reputation as the point man in Storr's recruitment, how Storr is handled can affect future opportunities.

Half way into the season, what has Jones done to earn carte blanche minutes? His chucks from 3 might as well be labeled as turnovers. Half his drives to the basket are blocked. He's a very streaky shooter who accumulates points. Defense...no one on this team is playing enough defense.
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Re defense, in second half of last three games SJ gave up 46, 55 and 44 points, not the D necessary for this often offensively challenged group to succeed
 
Amaseinyourface said:
I thought the idea that he wasn’t going to stay around four 4 years was the exact point he was trying to make.
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Sorry (Both you and Boo) he was and I was agreeing with him. I could see how that could have been unclear by the quote I replied to. Bad job by me.

If anyone else does think he's staying I want to be their bookmaker!
 
Storr is a true freshman . 19 years old or so. Jones , I think has accumulated the Covid extensions on eligibility .And , I believe played JC ball before DePaul . So , he has more experience playing College Ball . Jones was the Second option on offense at DePaul. Freeman- Liberty was the straw who stirred the drink last year for the Blue Demons .
 
IDRAFT said:
This idea that Storr is going to stay around here is based on what? Not one human being has played four years of basketball at SJU since the immortal Amar. Amar was recruited two coaches ago, and there is a chance next year it will be three coaches ago. There is no chance his streak will end this year as there are zero, zip, nada, four-year players on this team. And this was all going on at SJU BEFORE free transfer rules.



If you really think Storr is going to play four years at SJU I want to be your bookmaker.
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What about Posh and Wusu? Don't think either of them will stay for their fourth year?
 
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