Rick’s Targets

[Marillac2]

Unless I’m crazy one measurement says 6’9” and the other says 6’11” on the same page. Or maybe I am misreading it?

Either way looks interesting. I can’t even imagine a team with 3 or 4 bigs. My heart be still.

Height without shoes is 6’9 and change and listed height (presumably with shoes) is 6’11.

 

[SLYFOXX1968]

Both your and Panther’s posts poignant!
Not much more to add but that we have a great HC, perhaps the GOAT and very talented perhaps exceptional players

SSG, I like the word Poignant ! Good vocabulary .

After we finish with Age ,Heights , Weights has to be next , we can start on when will summer Corn be ripe on Long Island ?

Here’s a question for the Membership . Do you think RP has ordered new Basketballs for the coming season ?
The old ones are definitely cursed and carry bad karma.

The test question is, how many are ordered ?

 

[paultzman]

Heard staff looking at big recruit from Portugal is indeed true & this is a talented player. We’ll see, but that is all the detail I have

 

[SLYFOXX1968]

Graduating in 1962 from SJU and just celebrating my eighty third birthday puts me in the old geezer class and if that doesn’t having gone to MSG in Dec 1953 to see SJU play Santa Clara certainly does.
One benefit of that and growing up in Queens gave me a fifteen minute train ride to MSG for a nickel and seeing the Knicks play the Minneapolis Lakers with George Mikan on a Tuesday for fifty cents and the next night to see the Rangers play Montreal with both Richards, Geoffrion,Beliveau, Plante, Harvey etc. for forty cents with your GO card.

Great post , GC 62! Thanks for sharing those memories from back in the Day .

They are all HOF players you named . You saw a lot of good BB and Hockey in that era .

 

[rehobie]

89 in august. Is their a leader board so I can see where I stand.

 

[GardenCity62]

Newsman13 posted he saw the Bill Bradley vs Michigan Holiday Festival game. That game was played following the SJU vs Cinci. semi final game. SJU beat Michigan the next night for the championship.
Bill Bradley put on the finest exhibition of basketball that night I ever saw or have seen since.

 

[smalley]

If it’s Ruben Prey, nbadraft.net has him mocked as a late second rounder in the 2024 draft.

Two “walk ons” with legit nba potential is insane

 

[dk423]

I put his name out there without sources, but I tried to connect the dots between Y2 on twitter saying "Prey", Portuguese big man who's 6'9", and the guy fitting the profile of someone very talented & can shoot. It would seem like an insane coup if we end up with him.

 

[Marillac2]

https://eurospects.com/player/ruben-de-oliveira/

Maybe it's this guy

This would easily be the most skilled big we’ve had in my time. Very fluid compared to QS. Rail thin though. He’s so smooth on that pick and fade. A level above any of the international players we’ve had this century.

 

[ejoyce]

Looks like a real talent especially under the mentorship of a Hall of Fame Coach. I hope this Bird of Prey enjoys feasting on Huskies, Wildcats, Bluejays...

 

[paultzman]

This would easily be the most skilled big we’ve had in my time. Very fluid compared to QS. Rail thin though. He’s so smooth on that pick and fade. A level above any of the international players we’ve had this century.

 

[SJU79*]

All I can say is this kid has expressed interest in coming to the states( a BIG TIME west coast school has been trying)....timeline TBD

 

[MCNPA]

Yeah I figured we’d probably go after a guy who can split some time at center and not a kid that we can’t roll out the balls and use this season. He’d be great to share some too me with Joel this season and be ready to step into the role for 2024.

 

[SigEpSJU09]

All I can say is this kid has expressed interest in coming to the states( a BIG TIME west coast school has been trying)....timeline TBD

Maybe AZ with Tommy Lloyd ? who is the king of international recruiting

 

[dk423]

Maybe AZ with Tommy Lloyd ? who is the king of international recruiting

Ruben De Oliveira Prey

Ruben De Oliveira Prey

247sports.com

I have no access to this but it's an Arizona MB talking about him.

 

[newsman13]

Newsman13 posted he saw the Bill Bradley vs Michigan Holiday Festival game. That game was played following the SJU vs Cinci. semi final game. SJU beat Michigan the next night for the championship.
Bill Bradley put on the finest exhibition of basketball that night I ever saw or have seen since.

That's the one. Our Michigan win still stands out in my mind...but you're right about the Bradley exhibition. I can't remember seeing better in person than that game.

 

[austour]

Ruben De Oliveira Prey

Ruben De Oliveira Prey

247sports.com

I have no access to this but it's an Arizona MB talking about him.

AZ already have two high quality bigs in Ballo and Krivas, and size depth with the Lithuanian signed today, who like Borovicanin is more of a stretch 6'9", plus 7" Anderson, so not as many in the way for him at STJ.

 

[Astoria STH]

Versatility, agile, soft touch, can step out on pick and pops, would really help backup Joel and lets Zuby go to 4 full time-

 

[SJUWillRockNYC]

Heard staff looking at big recruit from Portugal is indeed true & this is a talented player. We’ll see, but that is all the detail I have

Time to Google.

Guess no need to lol

 

[Mean Gene]

Unless I’m crazy one measurement says 6’9” and the other says 6’11” on the same page. Or maybe I am misreading it?

Either way looks interesting. I can’t even imagine a team with 3 or 4 bigs. My heart be still.

6’11 with Sneakers, 6,9 without sneakers