Another of the Doghouse members Dez Ridenour will be forced into action. This is the second consecutive failure of a JC big time player. Not sure why we even went the guard route when we have them all over the place.

Well, that makes it easy for Ferry. Maybe Stevens is pissed because he thought he was going to be the star of the team. One less guard to find minutes for next year. Colter, Mason, and Castro are going to take the bulk of the minutes anyway. Has any JC player ever done anything here besides Hargrove, and Palmer?

No room for him anyways.  Next year at the 1 and 2 we will have Mason,DC,castro,Jackson

WashPaRick wrote:

Just a guess but I'm thinking Jackson will be playing the 3.

I think so too. Jackson will split time with Jones, and then take over the spot the following year.
 

duq81 wrote:

Well, that makes it easy for Ferry. Maybe Stevens is pissed because he thought he was going to be the star of the team. One less guard to find minutes for next year. Colter, Mason, and Castro are going to take the bulk of the minutes anyway. Has any JC player ever done anything here besides Hargrove, and Palmer?

Reggie had a good senior season for RE.  Got 9.8 ppg playing only 21 mins a game due to the 10-40 for two-thirds of the year and was clearly the team leader down the stretch.

rogabee wrote:

duq81 wrote:

Well, that makes it easy for Ferry. Maybe Stevens is pissed because he thought he was going to be the star of the team. One less guard to find minutes for next year. Colter, Mason, and Castro are going to take the bulk of the minutes anyway. Has any JC player ever done anything here besides Hargrove, and Palmer?

Reggie had a good senior season for RE.  Got 9.8 ppg playing only 21 mins a game due to the 10-40 for two-thirds of the year and was clearly the team leader down the stretch.

Forgot about Reggie and Tuck. We got very good use out of them.
 

Tejas_Duke wrote:

duq81 wrote:

Well, that makes it easy for Ferry. Maybe Stevens is pissed because he thought he was going to be the star of the team. One less guard to find minutes for next year. Colter, Mason, and Castro are going to take the bulk of the minutes anyway. Has any JC player ever done anything here besides Hargrove, and Palmer?

Miles Powers who played a big role on Carrroll"s MCC n Nit teams in 93-94
 

In other words, some rose to the level of role players, with Reggie probably being the best of these. Hargrove, and Palmer were a step above the others, although Reggie might have risen to that level, had the backcourt not been so crowded. In hindsight, I wish we had never brought Mensah here. He didn't play that well, and he ate up minutes that would have been put to better use in the hands of AJax, and Reggie.
 

rogabee wrote:

duq81 wrote:

Well, that makes it easy for Ferry. Maybe Stevens is pissed because he thought he was going to be the star of the team. One less guard to find minutes for next year. Colter, Mason, and Castro are going to take the bulk of the minutes anyway. Has any JC player ever done anything here besides Hargrove, and Palmer?

Reggie had a good senior season for RE.  Got 9.8 ppg playing only 21 mins a game due to the 10-40 for two-thirds of the year and was clearly the team leader down the stretch.

 
Absolutely, Reggie and Tuck were both good guys and productive JC transfers.  Reggie took most of his first season to acclimate, but really played great his senior year, and has parlayed that into a professional career in Europe.  Tuck was an amazing jumper, and always an alley oop threat running the baseline.  I guess the most important quality to look for in a JC transfer along with talent, would be the willingness to be a good teammate and have a willingness to share the ball.  I think the coaches gave Jordan plenty of chances to show that he could change his game to help the team, but it didn't look like he was willing or able to do so.

It was a JC in Kanas I think, he was a 18 point scorer on a team that averaged almost 100 and were highly rated. At Duquesne he could score but turned over a lot on sloppy passes.

He seems not to be making the adjustment to the D-1 level.

I completely forgot about Reggie and Tuck.  Reggie was the most unassuming athlete I ever met on campus.  I worked as a Desk Aide at Towers and he made it a point to be nice to everyone.  He made special note of the Red and Blue Crew and always thanked us for the support.  Tuck was a nice guy too.  I loved it when you could tell Tuck was about to leap for some absurd dunk.

My ex Gf had a crush on Osimani.  He reminded me a lot of Jason Williams from the Sacramento Kings.  His passes could be amazing, but dear lord was his shooting woeful.

Palmer was great.  He was the lone bright spot (maybe Jimmy Tricco or B. Mccalister) on Danny Nee's teams.