Seton Hall, Sat. Feb. 11, 12 Noon, CBS SN/SiriusXM

[monte]

We are #83 in Kenpom. We have a real shot at the NIT. Amazing, nobody expected that two months ago.

Season is already a big success, but NIT would make it a slam dunk.

Very important that we finish strong and not just for post season invite reasons. We need to go in to next year feeling good about ourselves and we need recruits to feel good about the direction of our program.

I agree, just referencing the NIT since it'd be a major statement. No matter what though, we clearly have improved and that was always the goal this year. NIT is just a stretch goal.

Two months ago I was panicking because I thought recruiting would fall off the map. Nice to have a completely different mentality now.

Was agreeing with your point as well, just added the other 2 reasons. If we make the NIT it will be a phenomenal accomplishment.

NIT? My mind right now is on winning the BET and getting an automatic bid. The only team that worries me is Nova. We've already handled Butler, Creighton and Xavier have both lost their PG and all the other teams we'd be either favored or a pick em. Avoid the 5 seed so we don't meet Nova till the finals and anything can happen

Love your optimism, but the only team that worries you is Nova? Not saying we can't beat anyone, but every team we face worries me.

 

[fun]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

 

[paultzman]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Yes, I should have been positive about Yakwe's overall game & not voiced opinion re his rebounding. Seeing the negatives is too often part of my personality. Fair point.

 

[Red.Fans]

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

About 15 years apart, I've cut the tip of my finger off TWICE while doing kitchen prep at halftime during St John's games. Fortunately these are the one part of the body on a human that will actually grow back - like a lizard's tail although one of the finger nails is permanently disfigured Both times had a considerable amount of blood.

Spoiler

(There may have been some alcohol involved in one or both incidents which goes to show that only a moron operates a mandolin while intoxicated and my fixation with REALLY sharp blades has a down side.)

but the point being there has been blood and I'm sure that I am not alone.

 

[Section9]

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

About 15 years apart, I've cut the tip of my finger off TWICE while doing kitchen prep at halftime during St John's games. Fortunately these are the one part of the body on a human that will actually grow back - like a lizard's tail although one of the finger nails is permanently disfigured Both times had a considerable amount of blood.

Spoiler

(There may have been some alcohol involved in one or both incidents which goes to show that only a moron operates a mandolin while intoxicated and my fixation with REALLY sharp blades has a down side.)

but the point being there has been blood and I'm sure that I am not alone.

Thanks for sharing. :dry:

 

[ras]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Yes, I should have been positive about Yakwe's overall game & not voiced opinion re his rebounding. Seeing the negatives is too often part of my personality. Fair point.

When discussing a player I like to read a fair evaluation. Both negatives and positives. Yakwe has looked better of late , but does need to beat out Ponds in he rebound dept.

 

[Red.Fans]

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

About 15 years apart, I've cut the tip of my finger off TWICE while doing kitchen prep at halftime during St John's games. Fortunately these are the one part of the body on a human that will actually grow back - like a lizard's tail although one of the finger nails is permanently disfigured Both times had a considerable amount of blood.

Spoiler

(There may have been some alcohol involved in one or both incidents which goes to show that only a moron operates a mandolin while intoxicated and my fixation with REALLY sharp blades has a down side.)

but the point being there has been blood and I'm sure that I am not alone.

Thanks for sharing. :dry:

I've got pics ?

 

[paultzman]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Yes, I should have been positive about Yakwe's overall game & not voiced opinion re his rebounding. Seeing the negatives is too often part of my personality. Fair point.

When discussing a player I like to read a fair evaluation. Both negatives and positives. Yakwe has looked better of late , but does need to beat out Ponds in he rebound dept.

True, but yesterday may not have been time to bring it up considering how well he battled. I get picky sometimes.

 

[Red.Fans]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Yes, I should have been positive about Yakwe's overall game & not voiced opinion re his rebounding. Seeing the negatives is too often part of my personality. Fair point.

When discussing a player I like to read a fair evaluation. Both negatives and positives. Yakwe has looked better of late , but does need to beat out Ponds in he rebound dept.

I guess most of us assumed that with his truly elite athleticism and the explosive springs he's got that we had a future Dennis Rodman. I think he is still learning and the hands are something that some can develop and others can't. I seem to recall they brought in some special machine to help Marco Baldi develop his hands...

 

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What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

About 15 years apart, I've cut the tip of my finger off TWICE while doing kitchen prep at halftime during St John's games. Fortunately these are the one part of the body on a human that will actually grow back - like a lizard's tail although one of the finger nails is permanently disfigured Both times had a considerable amount of blood.

Spoiler

(There may have been some alcohol involved in one or both incidents which goes to show that only a moron operates a mandolin while intoxicated and my fixation with REALLY sharp blades has a down side.)

but the point being there has been blood and I'm sure that I am not alone.

Thanks for sharing. :dry:

I've got pics ?

On a need to know basis, that's more than I need to know.

 

[mjmaherjr]

he should practice catching passes with one of those smaller basketballs that way the regular basketballs seem much bigger

 

[panther2]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players. All of us on the board entered our professional lives as works in progress. If our first two years were recorded and played out in public, I can only imagine what would have happened. For some, the learning curve takes a little longer. Some on this board wanted to threw Dom Pointer under the bus after his sophmore year, look at how he turned out. Kassoum is a nice young man who wants to play at St. Johns, let's support him and hop that he continues to grow as a player.
Damn, I just agreed with Fun. Miracles never cease.

 

[mjmaherjr]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players

if redmen.com had a charter flight and crashed in the Andes forget seeing people help each other. Everyone would be looking around to see who the first meal would be .

 

[Red.Fans]

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players. All of us on the board entered our professional lives as works in progress. If our first two years were recorded and played out in public, I can only imagine what would have happened. For some, the learning curve takes a little longer. Some on this board wanted to threw Dom Pointer under the bus after his sophmore year, look at how he turned out. Kassoum is a nice young man who wants to play at St. Johns, let's support him and hop that he continues to grow as a player.
Damn, I just agreed with Fun. Miracles never cease.

I agree with Fun almost always. He just loses me at the serial killer and atheism stuff. I also find it ironic that he attacks Italian players mercilessly for the sole reason that he is an anti-Italian bigot while defending with loose logic, every other player of any ethnicity other that Italian and Colorado-an.

 

[Section9]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players

if redmen.com had a charter flight and crashed in the Andes forget seeing people help each other. Everyone would be looking around to see who the first meal would be .

You'd starve to death because you'd be looking for lobster rolls washed down with pale ales. :cheer:

 

[mjmaherjr]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players

if redmen.com had a charter flight and crashed in the Andes forget seeing people help each other. Everyone would be looking around to see who the first meal would be .

You'd starve to death because you'd be looking for lobster rolls washed down with pale ales. :cheer:

Yeah bur I know Guiness77,BrookJersey Redmen and MCNPA are the most likely to carry beer in their suitcases so I'm taking the first 2 out and keeping MCN around a while since he works in a hospital he can be of use to me

 

[Red.Fans]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players

if redmen.com had a charter flight and crashed in the Andes forget seeing people help each other. Everyone would be looking around to see who the first meal would be .

You'd starve to death because you'd be looking for lobster rolls washed down with pale ales. :cheer:

Yeah bur I know Guiness77,BrookJersey Redmen and MCNPA are the most likely to carry beer in their suitcases so I'm taking the first 2 out and keeping MCN around a while since he works in a hospital he can be of use to me

you've really thought this through

 

[redken]

NIT? My mind right now is on winning the BET and getting an automatic bid. The only team that worries me is Nova. We've already handled Butler, Creighton and Xavier have both lost their PG and all the other teams we'd be either favored or a pick em. Avoid the 5 seed so we don't meet Nova till the finals and anything can happen

I'll have what he's having.

 

[Section9]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players

if redmen.com had a charter flight and crashed in the Andes forget seeing people help each other. Everyone would be looking around to see who the first meal would be .

You'd starve to death because you'd be looking for lobster rolls washed down with pale ales. :cheer:

Yeah bur I know Guiness77,BrookJersey Redmen and MCNPA are the most likely to carry beer in their suitcases so I'm taking the first 2 out and keeping MCN around a while since he works in a hospital he can be of use to me

you've really thought this through

And this surprises you? Maher's all over it when it comes to beer and food.

 

[mjmaherjr]

Yakwe drew a charge around the four minute mark that kept the Hall at a safe distance when momentum shifted their way. It was as big a play as any.

Drew three charges total. Eight points, three charges, three blocks, three rebounds, flummoxed Delgado much of the game. Haters gonna hate.

Lol. So we should ignore his rebounds stats for the year because of his well played game today? I like Yakwe, kinda made that clear, doesn't take away from the fact that he averages only 3.5 rebounds a game, down 2 from his freshman year. That's the point I was making.

One of the great things about being me is that I get to offend people I couldn't pick out of a line up. So while I'm happy that my reply made you laugh out loud, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you said and my hiLOLarious reply was not aimed in your direction. ROFLMAO smiley face smiley face smiley face. But since you asked, I'll answer.

Angel Delgado is a grown ass 22 year old man who's 6 feet 10 inches tall and weights 240 pounds. He averages 15 points and 10 rebounds a game. He's a sure fire first team BE player and in real life might be the BE player of the year, because without him SH would be DePaul. Probably he won't win it, but he probably deserves it.

Kassoum Yakwe - 19 years old, a sophomore who should be a freshmen, all of 6 foot seven inches and 210 pounds - played Delgado yesterday to close to a draw in what was one of his better performances of the year. Throw out the Nova game in between and in his last two he's scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and six blocks. That's pretty good. Not great, surely could be better. He seems to me to be playing with more confidence and I hope he's shed the funk he's been in and maybe turned a little bit of a corner. But then I'm an old softie with a unicorn glass of half full of rainbows.

It's strange in light of that performance to read a discussion of his deficiencies, what he's "terrible" at, what Division two school he should be transferring to. It's particularly strange to me to hear it from a guy who spent the entire summer and fall repeating the mantra "patience" whenever a discouraging word was heard in some discussion he thought everyone should "move on" from. That's the guy to whom I was referring, not you rawdawgnyc - btw kewl name bro - and to the extent that you took it personally, you shouldn't have. I was surprised to read that discussion in this thread an hour after SJU defeated a cross town rival at Madison Square Garden on national television in the now legendary Battle for Sixth Place because it seems so incongruent, because they won and the kid played well. Soon enough they'll lose and he'll play bad and then you all (royal) can shit on him: as the man said, patience. So I replied with what to me was a shrug: haters gonna hate. Because there were lots of things that might have come under discussion - good and bad - and many of them more relevant than how Yakwe will fare next year at CW Post. I don't begrudge you your conversation - I would never tell you to move on - but I did want to register my opinion, which is this, shrug not having registered:

What I think it is is that SJ has been down so long and its fans have been so beaten down that they are conditioned to enjoy failure. They associate nostalgically with Saint John's basketball, which has disappointed them their entire lives. So that when something good happens they reach for the bad because the pain makes them feels pleasure. It's like cutting, there's just less blood.

Fun sometimes I find you sarcasm a little over the top, lol. However I totally agree with you regarding Yawke as I have stated in another thread. It amazes me how quickly we turn on our players

if redmen.com had a charter flight and crashed in the Andes forget seeing people help each other. Everyone would be looking around to see who the first meal would be .

You'd starve to death because you'd be looking for lobster rolls washed down with pale ales. :cheer:

Yeah bur I know Guiness77,BrookJersey Redmen and MCNPA are the most likely to carry beer in their suitcases so I'm taking the first 2 out and keeping MCN around a while since he works in a hospital he can be of use to me

you've really thought this through

I read this book to help me prepare for anything in life


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