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Post by tau on Apr 30, 2010 12:51:48 GMT -5
How does he rank with past Iona PG's? Top 5? Who was better?
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Post by hawaii bill on Apr 30, 2010 13:05:35 GMT -5
How does he rank with past Iona PG's? Top 5? Who was better? In my time the best were Grimes, Glenn Vickers, McDonald, and Earl Johnson. Although McD and Johnson were transfers and only played a year each I think. So I'd put Scott right up there with those guys. IMO Grimes is the best, then Vickers. . |
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Post by ghostofwillard on Apr 30, 2010 13:17:20 GMT -5
I like Machado, and he's a good PG, but he still has quite a bit to show. Let him lead the team to a Maac conference win first before we consider where to rank him. Does he have the potential to be top 5? yes, will he? I don't know. To me Iona's best PG was Rory Grimes.
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Post by gregcrow on Apr 30, 2010 14:39:39 GMT -5
Although he used to drive me crazy sometimes, I agree that Grimes is probably the best with Vickers a close second. Also agree that Machado could be up there, but he still has 2 more years to prove it.
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Post by qs on Apr 30, 2010 18:24:50 GMT -5
When you win 20 consecutive games against grandmasters, you are Bobby Fischer.
When you play a game with 0 turnovers and make every single shot, you are Grimes.
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Post by Cjb on Apr 30, 2010 19:59:58 GMT -5
Grimes is the benchmark, but he was helped by the talent around him. Not mentioned yet is Sean Worthy, who I always felt was one of our best.
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Post by tau on Apr 30, 2010 20:05:56 GMT -5
Grimes is the benchmark, but he was helped by the talent around him. Not mentioned yet is Sean Worthy, who I always felt was one of our best. Sean Worthy? I dont think Ive ever seen that name mentioned, when did he play? |
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Post by Cjb on Apr 30, 2010 20:22:27 GMT -5
It's actually spelled "Shawn". Worthy played 1988-91, physically strong build like Machado with a high basketball iq. Had a pass first pg mentality, but could stick the jumper if ignored. I always felt he was one of our best points.
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Post by Gael Fan on Apr 30, 2010 20:58:34 GMT -5
See the following that describes the tragedies that hit Shawn and more recently his wife.
You can't even go get anything to eat now! WTF is the Mayor doing about this gang initiation? I guess because she was found in Elizaebeth her death doesn't get counted with the Newark Stats. I guess she wasn't random either! The Mayor needs to stop lying to us and do something about the crime in this city!
Green Brook businesswoman found slain in burning car
Posted by jappezza October 29, 2008 19:04PM
Tanya Worthy, a self-made businesswoman who lived in an expansive, million-dollar home in Somerset County, finished up her dinner at a Newark soul food restaurant Tuesday evening and ordered another meal to go. She told employees she'd be back to pick it up.
At about 5:15 p.m., she drove off in her BMW convertible. She never returned.
Tanya Worthy
Hours later, at 10:45, police in Elizabeth responded to a report of a burning car on Neck Lane, not far from Newark Liberty International Airport. Inside the vehicle, a white BMW, they found Worthy, the widow of a state trooper who died in a motorcycle accident nine years ago.
Today, as authorities declared Worthy a victim of homicide, investigators tried to determine where the 35-year-old Green Brook woman went and whom she saw in the hours before her death.
At the same time, family members struggled to process the loss.
"If there was a woman whose steps you wanted to follow, it was her," said Vonikue Tinny, a cousin. "She was an excellent role model. Who on earth would do this to her? Why?"
Authorities declined to say how Worthy was killed. In a statement, Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said detectives with a newly formed homicide task force "are making progress" in the investigation. He declined to elaborate.
"Work is being done to bring those responsible to justice and give the victim's family some comfort during this difficult time," Romankow said.
The task force was created last month to deal with a growing number of slayings in Union County. Worthy was the 17th homicide victim this year and the 12th in Elizabeth. This afternoon, an 18th victim was discovered in a car several blocks from where authorities found Worthy.
Romankow, in a second statement, said there was no evidence to suggest the two killings were linked.
Worthy, who ran a party-planning firm out of her Green Brook home, was born and raised in Newark, said her father, Reginald Moore, who still lives in the city. Numerous relatives gathered at the father's home yesterday, consoling one another and waiting for answers from police.
The family members said Worthy attended a local parochial school and St. Patrick's High School in Elizabeth, graduating in 1991. She then studied business at Rutgers University's Newark campus, where she earned a BA.
She worked for 10 years training employees at Fleet Bank, then in 1999 moved to DeVry University, where she was a recruiter and motivational speaker. Among her duties was traveling to area high schools to encourage students to seek an education, whether at DeVry or elsewhere, relatives said.
"She was a take-charge woman," cousin Denise Dinielle said. "She was always very well-liked."
In August 1999, tragedy struck. Worthy's husband, Shawn Worthy, a state trooper for five years, was killed in an off-duty motorcycle accident. The couple lived in Piscataway at the time.
Later, Tanya Worthy regrouped and started her own business, As U Wish Event Planning, records show. Early last year, she bought the home in Green Brook for just over $1 million.
No one answered the door today at the taupe-colored mansion, which sits atop the first Watchung Ridge. The home sports a three-car garage, a turreted stone entranceway and a gorgeous view. Campaign literature and a religious pamphlet were stuck in the door. Worthy's family members said she lived in the home with her boyfriend.
The relatives were at a loss to explain why someone would want Worthy dead.
Tinny, the cousin, called Worthy a "peacemaker" who hated controversy. She was the type of woman who, when two friends weren't speaking to one another, would play the go-between to smooth things over. She was a success in every sense of the word, Tinny said.
Tuesday afternoon, Worthy went to one of her favorite restaurants, John's Place, for an early dinner. Two employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, called Worthy a regular at the soul-food spot, saying she ate there three to four times a week. Last November, when she turned 35, Worthy held a birthday party there, the employees said.
"Nice, nice lady," one of the employees said, adding that Worthy always dressed professionally and looked sharp, with Gucci handbags and Jimmy Choo shoes. Over 45 minutes Tuesday, Worthy ate a meal of chicken liver and onions with rice. Shortly after 5 p.m., she ordered a second meal of grilled chicken wings and macaroni and cheese.
She didn't say who it was for, the employees said, but they found nothing unusual in the request, noting that she often ordered takeout after eating.
She said she'd be back for the meal, then drove off in the BMW about 5:15 p.m., the employees said.
"Where she went after that, I don't know," the second employee said.
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Post by Mr Doom on Apr 30, 2010 23:05:16 GMT -5
WOW!
God bless Shawn, his wife and their families!
Basketball is so insignificant in this context!
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Post by oldtimer on May 1, 2010 9:10:45 GMT -5
Agree with the top 4 and in order given even though Johnson only gave us one year.., but the 5th spot belongs to Marvin McCollough who gave us 4 solid years and a NCAA.....
It is a bit to early to place Machado into the 5th spot...but a NCAA appearence or two in the future will do it......It should also be noticed that all of the above led us to the NCAA or NIT's, reinforcing the believe that the point is probably the most important position in basketball.
Tragic Worthy story.....Hard nose player who never had much around him with a 500.% team for 4 years....He and Maceo Wofford are in the next group...
Aside...Don't know if such a stat exists, but Grimes 5 overtime game without missing a minute and not making a turnover has to be a college basketball record.....
Go Gaels!!!!!
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