Transfers

Good get;

@AdamZagoria: Maurice Watson Jr has committed to Creighton, per his dad. BU transfer
 
@AdamZagoria: St. John's is also targeting Jon Horford, who will be immediately eligible upon leaving Michigan, sources told @SNYtv
 
@JonRothstein: St. John's transfer Max Hooper has committed to Oakland, he tells @CBSSports. Will be immediately eligible next season. #SJUBB
 
@JonRothstein: St. John's transfer Max Hooper has committed to Oakland, he tells @CBSSports. Will be immediately eligible next season. #SJUBB
Oakland in California or in Michigan where Norm recruit Curtis Jackson went?
 
@JonRothstein: St. John's transfer Max Hooper has committed to Oakland, he tells @CBSSports. Will be immediately eligible next season. #SJUBB

from harvard to st johns to oakland. talk about spiraling out of control.

My parents would have killed me if I did that
 
@JonRothstein: St. John's transfer Max Hooper has committed to Oakland, he tells @CBSSports. Will be immediately eligible next season. #SJUBB

from harvard to st johns to oakland. talk about spiraling out of control.

My parents would have killed me if I did that


My parents would have died of shock if I got into Harvard.
That includes as bussboy
 
@JonRothstein: St. John's transfer Max Hooper has committed to Oakland, he tells @CBSSports. Will be immediately eligible next season. #SJUBB
Oakland in California or in Michigan where Norm recruit Curtis Jackson went?

No university in Oakland, Calif., named Oakland, so the Michigan one. Larry Wright went there. Don't recall a Norm guy named Curtis Jackson.

I actually hope Hooper was on the verge of failing out of Harvard and had to leave. Otherwise, he's taken a weird path.
 
@JonRothstein: St. John's transfer Max Hooper has committed to Oakland, he tells @CBSSports. Will be immediately eligible next season. #SJUBB
Oakland in California or in Michigan where Norm recruit Curtis Jackson went?

No university in Oakland, Calif., named Oakland, so the Michigan one. Larry Wright went there. Don't recall a Norm guy named Curtis Jackson.

I actually hope Hooper was on the verge of failing out of Harvard and had to leave. Otherwise, he's taken a weird path.

He had a 4.0 at Harvard and a 3.9 GPA at St. John;s Failing is not and option.
 
@JonRothstein: St. John's transfer Max Hooper has committed to Oakland, he tells @CBSSports. Will be immediately eligible next season. #SJUBB
Oakland in California or in Michigan where Norm recruit Curtis Jackson went?

No university in Oakland, Calif., named Oakland, so the Michigan one. Larry Wright went there. Don't recall a Norm guy named Curtis Jackson.

I actually hope Hooper was on the verge of failing out of Harvard and had to leave. Otherwise, he's taken a weird path.

He had a 4.0 at Harvard and a 3.9 GPA at St. John;s Failing is not and option.

He took a weird path then. He must really love basketball. Should have gone to NYU or similar school where getting his shot off would not be an issue.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.

Read the Rubin story it is clear he had no contact with SJU.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.

Read the Rubin story it is clear he had no contact with SJU.

You are correct. And I stand corrected for what I said yesterday - this wasn't a leak, he obviously wasn't talking to anyone on staff. And Rubin didn't imply that we were necessarily involved with Horford or Newbill either, just that they were available possibilities.
Where he got the info about Newbill is anyone's guess.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.

No idea if it's true or not, but completely agree that if everything else falls into place as it currently looks like it might, adding an impact small forward is this roster's biggest need.

Which is funny, because during Lavin's first recruiting class it looked like we were going to be a team full of athletic small forwards, but it hasn't really ended up being an impact position for us. Mo/Jakarr ended up playing bigger, Amir played with incredible effort but was a role guy, and Dom had bigtime moments in his first two years but really took a step back this year. As a result we've ended up playing with 3 guards a lot (particularly this year) which I really don't believe has served us well at all.

If we could add not just a small forward, but a Newbill/Mason caliber small forward, and finally define Greene/Pointer with roles off the bench, you are absolutely correct the roster goes to a new level instantaneously.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.

Read the Rubin story it is clear he had no contact with SJU.

Don't be naive.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.

Read the Rubin story it is clear he had no contact with SJU.

Don't be naive.

Uh I'm not. The only naive person here is you. Trust me I know he did not talk to anyone on the staff.

Let';s be clear a few weeks ago I said Delarosa was headed to SJU. Then an article appeared in the Daily News mentioning that SJU was “falling behind” in the Delarosa sweepstakes and that they did not even go to Albany for the Federation Tourney. Where did Delarosa end up?
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.

No idea if it's true or not, but completely agree that if everything else falls into place as it currently looks like it might, adding an impact small forward is this roster's biggest need.

Which is funny, because during Lavin's first recruiting class it looked like we were going to be a team full of athletic small forwards, but it hasn't really ended up being an impact position for us. Mo/Jakarr ended up playing bigger, Amir played with incredible effort but was a role guy, and Dom had bigtime moments in his first two years but really took a step back this year. As a result we've ended up playing with 3 guards a lot (particularly this year) which I really don't believe has served us well at all.

If we could add not just a small forward, but a Newbill/Mason caliber small forward, and finally define Greene/Pointer with roles off the bench, you are absolutely correct the roster goes to a new level instantaneously.

Good points about SF position. I sense Lavin has something in mind for that slot.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the DJ Newbill info. That couldn't have been completely fabricated. More likely, DJ, or someone from his camp, reached out to SJU and they told him that he'd have to through the proper channels first.

When Zags tried to follow up, the staff would have to deny. He's a really good player and either he or Mason at the three would change this team overnight.

Read the Rubin story it is clear he had no contact with SJU.

Don't be naive.

Penn State beat writer;

@Ben_Jones88: Just to follow up on that RT, there is no reason to think DJ Newbill would be leaving Penn State despite a rather ambiguous 12 hours.
 
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