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.
