Watching Knicks/Pacers. T. J. McConnell has really carved out a nice career for himself. Proved a lot of people wrong.
T. J. McConnell
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Yes. He has been very good tonight. Was good last series as well. He plays so hard
Agree, nobody---am i mean literally NOBODY----saw this coming. you would have been laughed out of town and referred for mental health exam if you predicted while in high school that TJ would even sniff an NBA tryout let alone have a decade of sustained success in the league . No WPIAL player in history has out performed projections to this extent.
I wouldn't have predicted NBA but after seeing him in Green Tree after his senior year of HS, I did say he is a Big East level player and everyone thought that was crazy. It was extremely easy to see up close that he could play in the Big East.
Seems like every WPIAL NBA guy was some low-rated dude who had a late growth spurt. McConnell, Cam Johnson, Thiero.
I know about as much about the NBA as I do about the deepest part of the oceans, so I'm just going by what others have said. But it sounds like he'll get drafted.
I saw McConnell at Greentree, too. After all the discussion about him, I kept my eyes on him, and I was surprised at how good he looked. I was not at all thinking about his future success, but he was intense every second. He really got after it on defense. I thought to myself, "Who does he think he is?" I guess he was the only one there who knew.
I remember him playing Gibbs full court man and giving Gibbs trouble. The whole "this type of player cant play defense" stereotype went out the window when I saw that. Gibbs did have a nice game that night but he worked for it.
There were a lot of well-respected posters on this board who scoffed at the notion that this guy could play at the BE/ACC level. I never saw him play in HS so I never had a thought on the matter. But when he transferred to AZ and ended up being first team all-P12, I think it was safe to assume he probably would have been a very good player at Pitt.
The guy was a coach's son and averaged like 35 and 10 ast as a HS senior. He may not have physically fit the P4-6 mold but I still say you take a chance on that kid. We certainly signed far less fundamentally skilled players during that time frame.
The guy was a coach's son and averaged like 35 and 10 ast as a HS senior. He may not have physically fit the P4-6 mold but I still say you take a chance on that kid. We certainly signed far less fundamentally skilled players during that time frame.
Of course by the time he played basketball as a high school senior he had already been committed to Duquesne for two years.
TJ and the Pacers playing the Knicks now so I’m shifting the subject of this thread. There are a number of elite players in the NBA but I have to put Jaylen Brunson up there in all their company. One heck of a BB player and so clutch.
When he left Duquesne, didn't the Dukes deny him the option to transfer to Pitt?
Signed his LOI as a sophomore, did he?
I would think if anyone knows that a verbal commitment doesn't mean much and doesn't stop other teams from courting the committed player or the player from changing his commitment, it's a Pitt fan.
Not sure what point you're intending to make here.
I seem to recall Pitt and WVU were blocked.
I think his point is that you don't know what you're talking about, as per usual, with your constant passive aggressive Pitt digs, ya troll...
No, he didn't. But of course he did sign his LOI in the early signing period, which happens in early November. Which is still before he would have played even one game, or hell, in PA, had even one practice, as a senior in high school.
So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you have no idea what you are talking about. Imagine that.
No surprise there.
No, not that you were obviously wrong. Just that you can't bring yourself to admit it.
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