Transfers SJU May Get Involved With

[Class of 72]

Per Zach Smart, who may be the big Guy's agent, lol

7-foot-2, 250-pound Serbian C Nikola Scekic could make his decision as early as next week. Between St. John's and South Florida

Maybe we made a top secret offer with a deadline date for us to add a big. Looks like the date is this weekend.
I'm in an optimistic California state of mind and you kante change my mind. There is room for Nikola because he may not have talent or a motor but he would be the biggest attraction on campus for the comely coeds.

 

[fun]

Per Zach Smart, who may be the big Guy's agent, lol

7-foot-2, 250-pound Serbian C Nikola Scekic could make his decision as early as next week. Between St. John's and South Florida

So did this kid make a visit ? I thought I read something about us not being seriously considered. If not then we can't lose out to a rag tag outfit like So. Florida, can we ?

Google "south florida dance team" and get back to me.

 

[usguard]

We had time we knew our weakness and you are telling me across the US WE COULD NOT RECRUIT 1 6-9 TO 7-0 PLAYER

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT OUR RECRUITERs Lets stop giving them too much credit until they bring us a very competitive team

 

[ras]

We had time we knew our weakness and you are telling me across the US WE COULD NOT RECRUIT 1 6-9 TO 7-0 PLAYER

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT OUR RECRUITERs Lets stop giving them too much credit until they bring us a very competitive team

Can't just recruit a big. Have to recruit a big that can play. A JUCO bench warmer is not who we should be after. I have to admit I am disappointed.

 

[Class of 72]

Per Zach Smart, who may be the big Guy's agent, lol

7-foot-2, 250-pound Serbian C Nikola Scekic could make his decision as early as next week. Between St. John's and South Florida

So did this kid make a visit ? I thought I read something about us not being seriously considered. If not then we can't lose out to a rag tag outfit like So. Florida, can we ?

Google "south florida dance team" and get back to me.

Never underestimate Matt! He is pulling all the stops to land Nikola. We will officially add a Serbian dance team if he commits.

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[L J S A]

This kid might not ne a 4* but we can not avid to lose him It could have recruiting complications

Being stuck for two years with a kid who has less skill than our current big man who everyone rags on on this site would be a bigger complication, don't you think?

 

[Class of 72]

This kid might not ne a 4* but we can not avid to lose him It could have recruiting complications

Being stuck for two years with a kid who has less skill than our current big man who everyone rags on on this site would be a bigger complication, don't you think?

We have no one who is a natural 5. Yakwe, Alibegovic and Owens cannot play the 5. It would be nice to have one, even for 10 minutes per game. Would help in practice sessions also to go against a big big who can simulate opposing big even if he plays sporadically. Then again, game preparation has not been a staff priority from some of the debacles this past season with one sided losses and losses to Delaware State and LIU. I think most here agree that year 3 will determine the future of this staff. A winning season and securing early commitments from a couple of targets will restore some confidence in the fan base. Those two things don't happen and year 4 will be like a visit from the ghost of Brian Mahoney. His coaching tenure still haunts me.

 

[L J S A]

This kid might not ne a 4* but we can not avid to lose him It could have recruiting complications

Being stuck for two years with a kid who has less skill than our current big man who everyone rags on on this site would be a bigger complication, don't you think?

We have no one who is a natural 5. Yakwe, Alibegovic and Owens cannot play the 5. It would be nice to have one, even for 10 minutes per game. Would help in practice sessions also to go against a big big who can simulate opposing big even if he plays sporadically. Then again, game preparation has not been a staff priority from some of the debacles this past season with one sided losses and losses to Delaware State and LIU. I think most here agree that year 3 will determine the future of this staff. A winning season and securing early commitments from a couple of targets will restore some confidence in the fan base. Those two things don't happen and year 4 will be like a visit from the ghost of Brian Mahoney. His coaching tenure still haunts me.

Reasonable thoughts, but thinking some stiff who couldn't get off the bench in juco is the answer is completely unreasonable. The guy will suck so hard at SF next season it's not even funny. I honestly think finding the best local D-2 big makes more sense.

 

[Class of 72]

This kid might not ne a 4* but we can not avid to lose him It could have recruiting complications

Being stuck for two years with a kid who has less skill than our current big man who everyone rags on on this site would be a bigger complication, don't you think?

We have no one who is a natural 5. Yakwe, Alibegovic and Owens cannot play the 5. It would be nice to have one, even for 10 minutes per game. Would help in practice sessions also to go against a big big who can simulate opposing big even if he plays sporadically. Then again, game preparation has not been a staff priority from some of the debacles this past season with one sided losses and losses to Delaware State and LIU. I think most here agree that year 3 will determine the future of this staff. A winning season and securing early commitments from a couple of targets will restore some confidence in the fan base. Those two things don't happen and year 4 will be like a visit from the ghost of Brian Mahoney. His coaching tenure still haunts me.

Reasonable thoughts, but thinking some stiff who couldn't get off the bench in juco is the answer is completely unreasonable. The guy will suck so hard at SF next season it's not even funny. I honestly think finding the best local D-2 big makes more sense.

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[Red.Fans]

This kid might not ne a 4* but we can not avid to lose him It could have recruiting complications

Being stuck for two years with a kid who has less skill than our current big man who everyone rags on on this site would be a bigger complication, don't you think?

We have no one who is a natural 5. Yakwe, Alibegovic and Owens cannot play the 5. It would be nice to have one, even for 10 minutes per game. Would help in practice sessions also to go against a big big who can simulate opposing big even if he plays sporadically. Then again, game preparation has not been a staff priority from some of the debacles this past season with one sided losses and losses to Delaware State and LIU. I think most here agree that year 3 will determine the future of this staff. A winning season and securing early commitments from a couple of targets will restore some confidence in the fan base. Those two things don't happen and year 4 will be like a visit from the ghost of Brian Mahoney. His coaching tenure still haunts me.

Reasonable thoughts, but thinking some stiff who couldn't get off the bench in juco is the answer is completely unreasonable. The guy will suck so hard at SF next season it's not even funny. I honestly think finding the best local D-2 big makes more sense.

He was actually a starter on the JUCO National Championship team. I looked at his minutes which averaged out to around 10pg but was actually made up of a lot of games under 5 or 6 minutes and a few with more minutes but in ever game I looked at, he started. His stats averaged out to 40 are not bad and in the one game where he got 23 minutes stats were decent. Why he started and then rode the bench in most games is the question but I suspect as with most extra large guys it has to do with stamina. So for our purposes he might be a 5 mpg guy but if he could provide 5 solid minutes and be disruptive in the way Curtis Johnson was, that might actually help our undersized team. Again, my opinion is that we need a ready to start, grad transfer with good size and hands. Then if we could also land Kante as our future and maybe some frosh minutes, a 3rd big man option would also be needed. All hypothetical if he is already headed for USF, I'm just saying that we need 3 bigs. This guy probably doesn't have the wind to give us a ton of minutes regardless but I would not mind have a 7'2" 240lb guy on our roster. Cujo had physical problems getting up and down the court but made a difference for us in a couple of games.

 

[mjmaherjr]

This kid might not ne a 4* but we can not avid to lose him It could have recruiting complications

Being stuck for two years with a kid who has less skill than our current big man who everyone rags on on this site would be a bigger complication, don't you think?

We have no one who is a natural 5. Yakwe, Alibegovic and Owens cannot play the 5. It would be nice to have one, even for 10 minutes per game. Would help in practice sessions also to go against a big big who can simulate opposing big even if he plays sporadically. Then again, game preparation has not been a staff priority from some of the debacles this past season with one sided losses and losses to Delaware State and LIU. I think most here agree that year 3 will determine the future of this staff. A winning season and securing early commitments from a couple of targets will restore some confidence in the fan base. Those two things don't happen and year 4 will be like a visit from the ghost of Brian Mahoney. His coaching tenure still haunts me.

Reasonable thoughts, but thinking some stiff who couldn't get off the bench in juco is the answer is completely unreasonable. The guy will suck so hard at SF next season it's not even funny. I honestly think finding the best local D-2 big makes more sense.

He was actually a starter on the JUCO National Championship team. I looked at his minutes which averaged out to around 10pg but was actually made up of a lot of games under 5 or 6 minutes and a few with more minutes but in ever game I looked at, he started. His stats averaged out to 40 are not bad and in the one game where he got 23 minutes stats were decent. Why he started and then rode the bench in most games is the question but I suspect as with most extra large guys it has to do with stamina. So for our purposes he might be a 5 mpg guy but if he could provide 5 solid minutes and be disruptive in the way Curtis Johnson was, that might actually help our undersized team. Again, my opinion is that we need a ready to start, grad transfer with good size and hands. Then if we could also land Kante as our future and maybe some frosh minutes, a 3rd big man option would also be needed. All hypothetical if he is already headed for USF, I'm just saying that we need 3 bigs. This guy probably doesn't have the wind to give us a ton of minutes regardless but I would not mind have a 7'2" 240lb guy on our roster. Cujo had physical problems getting up and down the court but made a difference for us in a couple of games.

I remember cujo came up big in a game was it Notre Dame ? I think he had some big blocks or something like that

I feel like it's 4am in the local pub and all the hotties have left and all the sudden the jukebox starts playing dont stop believing from journey and you get desperate and start beer goggling.

The 7ft2 guy is sounding better to me now

 

[Red.Fans]

I think he had some big blocks or something like that I feel like it's 4am in the local pub and all the hotties have left and all the sudden the jukebox starts playing dont stop believing from journey and you get desperate and start beer goggling.

The 7ft2 guy is sounding better to me now

GMTA
http://redmen.com/forum/4-redmentalk/46266-transfers-sju-may-get-involved-with.html?start=549#251514

 

[Class of 72]

This kid might not ne a 4* but we can not avid to lose him It could have recruiting complications

Being stuck for two years with a kid who has less skill than our current big man who everyone rags on on this site would be a bigger complication, don't you think?

We have no one who is a natural 5. Yakwe, Alibegovic and Owens cannot play the 5. It would be nice to have one, even for 10 minutes per game. Would help in practice sessions also to go against a big big who can simulate opposing big even if he plays sporadically. Then again, game preparation has not been a staff priority from some of the debacles this past season with one sided losses and losses to Delaware State and LIU. I think most here agree that year 3 will determine the future of this staff. A winning season and securing early commitments from a couple of targets will restore some confidence in the fan base. Those two things don't happen and year 4 will be like a visit from the ghost of Brian Mahoney. His coaching tenure still haunts me.

Reasonable thoughts, but thinking some stiff who couldn't get off the bench in juco is the answer is completely unreasonable. The guy will suck so hard at SF next season it's not even funny. I honestly think finding the best local D-2 big makes more sense.

He was actually a starter on the JUCO National Championship team. I looked at his minutes which averaged out to around 10pg but was actually made up of a lot of games under 5 or 6 minutes and a few with more minutes but in ever game I looked at, he started. His stats averaged out to 40 are not bad and in the one game where he got 23 minutes stats were decent. Why he started and then rode the bench in most games is the question but I suspect as with most extra large guys it has to do with stamina. So for our purposes he might be a 5 mpg guy but if he could provide 5 solid minutes and be disruptive in the way Curtis Johnson was, that might actually help our undersized team. Again, my opinion is that we need a ready to start, grad transfer with good size and hands. Then if we could also land Kante as our future and maybe some frosh minutes, a 3rd big man option would also be needed. All hypothetical if he is already headed for USF, I'm just saying that we need 3 bigs. This guy probably doesn't have the wind to give us a ton of minutes regardless but I would not mind have a 7'2" 240lb guy on our roster. Cujo had physical problems getting up and down the court but made a difference for us in a couple of games.

I remember cujo came up big in a game was it Notre Dame ? I think he had some big blocks or something like that

I feel like it's 4am in the local pub and all the hotties have left and all the sudden the jukebox starts playing dont stop believing from journey and you get desperate and start beer goggling.

The 7ft2 guy is sounding better to me now

I think Matt recruited Zach Brown as the bar was closing. Now he is passing on Nikola for this guy after another visit to the same bar.

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[L J S A]

I remember cujo came up big in a game was it Notre Dame ? I think he had some big blocks or something like that.

Made Humphrey completely uncomfortable and had like 4 blocks in a couple minutes, I think.

 

[L J S A]

I feel like it's 4am in the local pub and all the hotties have left and all the sudden the jukebox starts playing dont stop believing from journey and you get desperate and start beer goggling.

We do need size and that's chubby hour at the bar. :lol:

 

[MCNPA]

Well he looks in fantastic shape for a guy 7'2'... I dunno. I don't see much downside to adding a massive kid like this for a year or two, even if to disrupt opponent's true big men for a while and dunk some balls.

 

[paultzman]

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[boo haarvey]

What if we don't get Kante? Seems to be far from a lock. Possible that we go into next year with a weaker front court than last year. Inexplicably poor job by the staff on this.

 

[Happy]

What if we don't get Kante? Seems to be far from a lock. Possible that we go into next year with a weaker front court than last year. Inexplicably poor job by the staff on this.

if we do get Kante ( and I believe we will) will you call it a good job by the staff on this?

 

[boo haarvey]

What if we don't get Kante? Seems to be far from a lock. Possible that we go into next year with a weaker front court than last year. Inexplicably poor job by the staff on this.

if we do get Kante ( and I believe we will) will you call it a good job by the staff on this?

I would still be very disappointed with our front court depth and talent going into next year, but I would take some solace in the fact that we would at least have the luxury of an additional big body to eat up some minutes in the event of injury and/or foul trouble.

Perhaps I was being unrealistic, but I really believed the staff would have no problem reeling in a solid fifth year contributor up front.