SJU Backcourt Tandems

[Section3]

George Garrison and anyone

 

[SJU85]

Once Mike Moses went to the bench and replaced by Mark Jackson, the Jackson-Mullin backcourt was the best backcourt in St. John's history. Mullin and Jackson; it doesn't get any better than that.

Redken Jax did not replace Moses during the 84-85 year, at best he split time with him later in the year. Moses started every game that year I believe. While Jax turned out to be a great college player, he was no better than an OK college player during his freshman and sophomore years. By the time he blossomed during his Junior year, Chris was gone.

They split time and Moses started every game but the Niagara which he sat out with a knee injury (could have been tendinitis).

Midway in the 83/84 season Jackson replaced Willie Glass in the starting lineup with Mullin going to the 3 and Allen replaced Stewart at the 4. So the lineup was Moses, Jackson, Mullin, Allen and Wennington.

 

[SJU85]

Hardy/Kennedy

Wasn't Horne Hardy's backcourt mate and Kennedy the 3?

Barkley and Thornton.

 

[beast of the east]

Thanks for that recap...
I should have remembered Calzonetti as my then girlfriend, now my wife, had a crush on him.
I remember when Warren came back with the Knicks for practice a few years later and a bunch of us students were on the court. The 4 knicks split up and let us play with them for 20 minutes. The highlight of my career was getting stuffed by Johnny Warren.
(Some of us never reached great heights)

Punctuation is important. I originally thought that Carmine was your girlfriend, became your wife, and you had a crush on him.

 

[monte]

Hardy/Kennedy

Wasn't Horne Hardy's backcourt mate and Kennedy the 3?

Barkley and Thornton.

Horne and DJ somewhat interchangeable if memory serves me correctly. Lots of interchangeable parts on that team. As there were on the Barkley/Thornton teams.

 

[beast of the east]

Hardy/Kennedy

Wasn't Horne Hardy's backcourt mate and Kennedy the 3?

Barkley and Thornton.

Horne and DJ somewhat interchangeable if memory serves me correctly. Lots of interchangeable parts on that team. As there were on the Barkley/Thornton teams.

The senior laden roster that SL inherited kind of reminded me of the back end of a pitching rotation on a championship baseball team. As 3-4-5th best option and even some starters as valuable bench players, if the team had two stud players, we could have gone very deep into the tournament. As it was Hardy was in the role of stud, and everyone else did their part, but imagine if the team was anchored by a George Johnson, Berry, Artest or a Mullin type of player or two.

 

[jerseyshorejohnny]

Carmine Calzonetti was the point guard on the Warren/Dupre teams. Warren and Dupre were interchangeable at the 2/3 positions, but Johnny Warren was primarily the 2 guard and Joe Dupre the small forward. Abraham was a really good undersized PF. The name of the center escapes me, but he was very soft. I was at the UCLA game in the Garden for the Holiday Festival, when we played them even at four positions, but got killed at center by Lew Alcindor.

Dan Cornelius from Huntington area, not very good as noted,

Correct, Dan was 6'9" which as tall as anyone we had at that time, he was from Wyandanch, one exit away from Huntington. Rudy Bogart (sp?) from Molloy preceded him.

I think Carmine had the flu during thy Festival final, but we would have gotten killed by UCLA anyway.

Is Carmine still working for SJU.

Carmine, a great guy, hasn't worked at SJU for many, many years.

 

[redmaninalbany]

Oops..