Nice Article on Mike Young
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Read that article... it was interesting to say the least. It showed you just how far MY has come, and you get the sense from this that he should be the most mentally tough kid on this team.
Reading that honestly just makes me want to root for him even more.
And dare I say it... root for Jamel even more.
Reading that honestly just makes me want to root for him even more.
And dare I say it... root for Jamel even more.
Really puts things in perspective. Thanks for sharing.
And this article is a must read for all you decaying mill town, HS heroes, who's lives depend on the outcome of your local HS team. And you bitch and whine about private/catholic schools "recruiting" and your team got beat. Well here is the flip side. Mike Young maybe dead, or definitely not playing hoops if he didn't get a "scholarship" to Shady Side Academy. Or even in the case of Rashard Wheeler who went to Central instead of Wilkinsburg.
Some of these schools are failed or failing, the neighborhoods failed or failing, if some kids can get out through athletics (or academics) more power to them.
Some of these schools are failed or failing, the neighborhoods failed or failing, if some kids can get out through athletics (or academics) more power to them.
This highlights the question as to why JD is so loyal to his kids generally, and these two specifically.
I remember a somewhat similar article about Taylor and Woodall.
I don't think the had known each other much prior to coming to Pitt, but the article was their junior or senior years, they were room mates, and it highlighted that they both came from pretty tough backgrounds, too.
This is not a knock, but these kids are in some ways "damaged," for the lack of a better word in some way, and I think for all the work they put in, the discipline to make themselves better people generally and as basketball players, they have a steeper hill to climb that kids who came from more stable and safer backgrounds, so in some ways it sort of makes it harder for them to achieve a higher level as a team.
Those tough times on the court, a kid with less "baggage," again for the lack of a better term, has more of a stable foundation to get past them.
I remember a somewhat similar article about Taylor and Woodall.
I don't think the had known each other much prior to coming to Pitt, but the article was their junior or senior years, they were room mates, and it highlighted that they both came from pretty tough backgrounds, too.
This is not a knock, but these kids are in some ways "damaged," for the lack of a better word in some way, and I think for all the work they put in, the discipline to make themselves better people generally and as basketball players, they have a steeper hill to climb that kids who came from more stable and safer backgrounds, so in some ways it sort of makes it harder for them to achieve a higher level as a team.
Those tough times on the court, a kid with less "baggage," again for the lack of a better term, has more of a stable foundation to get past them.
