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When the McDonald’s All-American Game tips off
When the McDonald’s All-American Game tips off
Isaiah Watkins, one of the top power forwards in the Class of 2013 out of St. Benedict’s Prep, will be contributing periodically to ZAGSBLOG during his junior season.
His team is playing Saturday and Sunday this weekend in the PrimeTime Shootout at Roselle (N.J.) Catholic.
Here’s his first entry:
What’s up, everybody?
Our season has been really positive as far as what we want to accomplish and the record that we have so far. We are 24-1 and the only loss was by 1 point to St. Anthony.
NEW YORK — It was the first week of January 2006 and Jeremy Lin was “dead set on going to Stanford” out of Palo Alto High School.
This, according to Peter Diepenbrock, Lin’s high school coach.
The problem was that then-Stanford coach Trent Johnson “[messed] this thing up bad, really bad,” Diepenbrock told SNY.tv Friday by phone hours before Lin went off for a career-high 38 points to go with seven assists in the Knicks’ 92-85 victory over Kobe Bryant and the Lakers at Madison Square Garden.
NEW YORK — Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni is missing Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire.
But he’s also hoping Jorts returns soon, too.
“I had no idea I’d be sitting here saying I can’t wait till Josh Harrellson gets back,” D’Antoni said Friday night at MSG before the Knicks host Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
This will be a huge weekend for the future of the Syracuse basketball team — and not just because the No. 2 Orange are hosting defending national champion UConn.
The Orange will play host to a couple of recruits who could well influence the future of their program.
Nerlens Noel, a 6-foot-10 shot-blocking center from the Tilton (N.H.) School who is in the midst of reclassifying to 2012, and Tyler Ennis of St. Benedict’s Prep, arguably the top point guard in the Class of 2013, will both be on campus.
“It’s a great thing for Syracuse, that’s for sure,” St. Benedict’s coach Mark Taylor told SNY.tv. “Those two [potentially] playing together, it’s a great fit.”
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — If you believe everything you read these days, Jeremy Lin is single-handedly responsible for the Knicks’ modest three-game winning streak.
And Steve Novak will be the first to give Linsanity its just due.
“Everyone’s been able to see how valuable [he is], the way he gets in the paint on offense and finds guys, how valuable that is,” Novak, whose team meets Kobe Bryant and the Lakers tonight at Madison Square Garden, said earlier this week at the Knicks training facility.
Novak, perhaps more than any other Knick, has benefitted from Lin’s passing.
The news that West Virginia has reached a $20 million settlement to leave the Big East Conference this year means that the school’s basketball team has only six more regular season games left in the conference.
Bob Huggins and the Mountaineers will play Louisville Saturday in the first of their final half dozen games before the school joins the Big 12 July 1.
“This is our third straight year that we have come to West Virginia,” Louisville coach Rick Pitino said last week. “I always request it every year. Generally you would see in the Big East that somebody would come back to you the following year, but [Big East Commissioner] John Marinatto’s a dear friend and I always tell him, ‘Look, don’t let West Virginia come to Louisville. I’d like to visit one more time.’
“And now it adds extra meaning because they’re going into the Big 12 so it will be the last time we play against each other.”
