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Post by dkr354 on Apr 15, 2008 18:19:33 GMT -5
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MCIGuy
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Post by MCIGuy on Apr 15, 2008 18:23:45 GMT -5
What a shock.
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idhoya
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Post by idhoya on Apr 15, 2008 18:35:08 GMT -5
People saying he's gonna run the point, but I don't see him as a point. Handle is slick, but is a straight gunner. Total opposite of Rose.
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Post by kghoya on Apr 15, 2008 18:35:48 GMT -5
i wonder how close nova was to landing this guy? i know the evans to nova train really picked up some internet steam about midway through this past season
and hes not exactly a replacement for rose is he? i didn't think he was a pure point but maybe im wrong
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moe09
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Post by moe09 on Apr 15, 2008 18:37:22 GMT -5
"He was torn between Nova, Texas and Memphis," the source said. "Then he just said, 'I think I just want to get away from [the Philadelphia area]. I just want to get away from here."
With that, Evans' decision was down to Memphis and Texas.
Then he said, "Texas is a long plane ride," the source said. "He narrowed it down to just Memphis."
I guess this would be one answer to my question in the Calipari thread... (should it hold true).
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vcjack
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Post by vcjack on Apr 15, 2008 18:44:46 GMT -5
Well we'll get to see him for ourselves sometime next season in the booth
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idhoya
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Post by idhoya on Apr 15, 2008 20:11:43 GMT -5
that sounded real orchestrated.
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Post by strummer8526 on Apr 15, 2008 20:14:25 GMT -5
Wouldn't the flight difference be all of an hour and a half or two at MOST? How often does the kid think he's flying to Philly? Whatever. Hope he enjoys his big screens, movie theater, and forgetting how to shoot free throws in crunch time.
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jgalt
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Post by jgalt on Apr 15, 2008 20:18:18 GMT -5
Wouldn't the flight difference be all of an hour and a half or two at MOST? How often does the kid think he's flying to Philly? Whatever. Hope he enjoys his big screens, movie theater, and forgetting how to shoot free throws in crunch time. He may also have been considering his family and friends flying to see him play. Regardless, once your on a plane, the extra hour is really nothing, if it was three or four hours more then it would make sense.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Apr 15, 2008 20:48:16 GMT -5
Jay Wright does a great job recruiting his home turf.
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Jack
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Post by Jack on Apr 15, 2008 22:31:20 GMT -5
Well it is understandable why he might want to leave Philly, I just hope he can find parking for his getaway car in Memphis.
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Apr 15, 2008 23:24:39 GMT -5
After Rose's exit, no surprise...
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Post by DudeSlade on Apr 16, 2008 1:34:06 GMT -5
sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/basketball/mens/news/story?id=3348041&uuu&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab8pos2This article from ESPN gives some background on Evans' decision and especially his experience growing up in Philly. Sounds like it could have been pretty rough and I can't blame him for wanting to get away from any possibility of being drawn into all the influences he managed to avoid. According to the article, his cousin was recently charged with a murder that Evans witnessed take place, so maybe the seriousness of the situation he was around finally became too much and he realized for his own sake and his future that he needed to get away from it. It also mentions the intense pressure that he was already feeling to be the savior in Philly--that city is really clamoring for one of their own. With all that and the obvious hole in the Memphis lineup, the similar offense that Memphis runs to his high school's, and the obvious ability of Calipari to get his playmakers noticed by and ready for the NBA, I can't say I blame him at all. I wish he was staying in the Big East, but I can't say that I'm sorry we won't have to play him next year...wait, we do, when we play Memphis in our house and redeem ourselves from last year. Maybe, the kid just didn't want to get beat twice by us. Ha!
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HoyaFanNY
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Apr 16, 2008 5:48:52 GMT -5
$ talks
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Post by FromTheBeginning on Apr 16, 2008 8:16:09 GMT -5
Memphis is not exactly getting away from it all.
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Post by Boz on Apr 16, 2008 8:20:54 GMT -5
'Nova was short one mansion.
(just fyi, for the humorly challenged; I was making fun of Memphis there, not young Mr. Evans, who I know nothing about and will assume is a really great kid unless otherwise indicated)
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Post by NCHoya on Apr 16, 2008 8:23:01 GMT -5
Memphis is probably a place this kid can get a ton of positive fan and community support since UM is the biggest thing going in that metro area. Things sound like they were bad in Philly for him and that city is not known for treating its sports stars well and sentiment will turn on a guy quickly if he starts to struggle.
Good choice for him, he wants a chance to go to the pros and play Georgetown.
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Post by HeartAttackHoya on Apr 16, 2008 9:00:52 GMT -5
this is the same kid who considers himself his own role model and has an ego that would make Kobe Bryant seem humble..Memphis, in a one and done situation, is indeed his best choice.
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Post by Elvado on Apr 16, 2008 11:15:50 GMT -5
Also getshimout of statei n case he's charged in that shooting where he "happened" to be driving his cousin the shooter.
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Post by moe09 on Apr 16, 2008 12:25:31 GMT -5
Ohhh please, Elvado... I think we've alllll been in that situation before... Of course by we all, I mean none of us.
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