CCC and staff visit Paul Mulcahy
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Those are some long arms on that young man.
The entire coaching staff? Talk about being made to feel like a priority recruit.
GOUNUII
Hoboken, Jersey City and Bayonne are being revitalized with millennials flocking in to take advantage of relatively "cheaper" costs of living but being only a ferry or PATH train from NYC.
Exxon's Bayonne refinery and storage tanks are one of the areas top tourist attractions !
Exxon's Bayonne refinery and storage tanks are one of the areas top tourist attractions !
I used to work at the Exxon Bayonne refinery site. Actually, it hasn't been a refinery for like 40 or 50 years. Was a terminal and Chemical plant, the chem plant shut in ~'90. I think IMTT bought the tank farm. Exxon has a lubricants blending plant there now. Exxon has pretty much sold off all its NJ assets. All that is left is their corporate R&D lab out in Clinton.
I heard that's now their top secret skunkworks for producing CH3.
Exactly what my son and his young family did six years ago before most others caught on to the advantages of Jersey City. They bought a brownstone there just off Hamilton Park. Great place. Only a stone's throw to Wall Street where they work. They have invested 3X what I paid for a much nicer home in Cincy. But 1/3rd what the same brownstone would have cost in Brooklyn. And they have a back yard which carries huge value in the area.
GOUNUII
Still don't understand all the love. Unless you're thinking that he will be the best available (and a good one at that) on the heels of Lathon and you know you have to have another ball handler in the 2019 class.. Without a true freshman or graduate transfer, we will have nobody on the 2019 roster backing up Lathon.
GOUNUII
NU wil have at least 4 scholarships available in 2019: Law, Pardon, Ash and Taylor, so looking at a SG isn't crazy. Two backcourt and 2 frontcourrt players seems pretty obvious.
As as now, for 2019-20:
LG: Lathon then nobody
Wing: Turner or Gaines
Wing: Kopp
S4: Nance then Falzon
C: Benson then Young
I think we need a LG (like QBs, they should be pursued yearly), a wing, a big and then a best available.
Given the number of scholarships that will be available (probably 5), Paul is almost a must-get at this point. Ideally they’d get either Liddell/Days too, then...?
I agree with everything you said here. I just don't see Mulcahy as a shooting guard. He definitely has the height and length for it, but his skill set doesn't check any of the boxes. Very much a facilitator skill set .
GOUNUII
Exactly. You can add a healthy measure of swag as well. At 6-6 and playing against HS guards, those are the qualities that have made him a very good HS player.The problems are: 1. He is not an explosive athlete. 2.When he gets to the rim he is a finesse finisher (won't work well for him in the BIG) and, 3. He is only an average shooter made worse by a release that might as well come from south of the border. Those are the qualities that have held back his offer sheet notwithstanding all that there is to otherwise like about his game.
GOUNUII
I used to work at Exxon's Bayway refinery shortly after the Arthur Kill spill while I was studying engineering. Bayway has the beautiful flares by the Garden State Parkway. The refinery was sold to TOSCO about a year after I graduated and is apparently owned by Phillips. The chemical plant appears to be owned by a join venture involving Exxon.
Also worked at Florham Park, which apparently was sold off too.
In addition to NU, Coaches from these schools saw enough to offer:
UCONN, Xavier, Florida, BC, Va Tech, Georgia Tech, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Marquette, UMass, Rhode Island, Temple, Saint Joseph's and SMU
UCONN, Xavier, Florida, BC, Va Tech, Georgia Tech, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Marquette, UMass, Rhode Island, Temple, Saint Joseph's and SMU
I worked for Paramins (the precursor to the current JV, Infineum) at Bayway in '92 and '93. I led the integration of the Teamsters bumped from the refinery into the chem plant when Tosco took over. Smartly, Tosco took everyone who had a drug problem, was a discipline problem or otherwise wasn't wanted and shoved them onto us. What a motley crew! I still recall leading the meeting where we assigned the new guys to units in the chem plant. It was unbelievably tense. At the end, the plant manager came into the conference room to get the results. He took me aside after the meeting and said, "Mark, the sign of a good meeting is when everyone is equally pissed off at the end". Words to live by.
[As an aside, Bayway is hard by the NJ Turnpike, Exit 10 if you're keeping score, not the Garden State Parkway. The refinery guys strung lights from the flares at Christmas time making them look like Christmas trees with the burning flare as the star]
With respect Go-U-NU...
* On the explosion side....he does just enough to be superior to his competition...perhaps we've not seen him pushed to his max;
* On the finesse at the finish....kid's a bad ass.....beats his player and lays it up like butter;
* The important parts of his shot are there....let him practice against and Turner and Kopp for a couple weeks....he'll raise his release point and everything will chocolate pudding.
I think the chances are slim he has an extra gear never shown in any form in multiple games. More confident of that slim chance knowing that bad ass HS players rarely pass up an opportunity to make a statement. Paul is clearly a bad ass. Wish Nance had more of that in him.
I hope for Paul’s sake it’s easy for him to raise his release significantly. I remain skeptical. Without that adjustment and no more explosiveness than he has shown on film, he won’t be hard to defend in the BIG. Will have to rely on his exceptional craftiness and BMac like floaters to get the occasional open opportunity or tough basket.
That’s my take. Pretty confident in it. Still hoping CCC gets the guys he wants and takes the Wildcats to a championship level.
GOUNUII
I have faith in CCC's evaluation of his talent. We'd be lucky to have him and I hope we get him. We could use someone with a Sanjay-like attitude on our team.
I too have the same faith FF. But recruiting is dictated far more by opportunities than evaluations. CCC has to pursue his best opportunities. The entire WR redo, the new practice facility, the exposure from recent success. They all go to expanding the pool of opportunities. That’s the hardest part of the process. Especially when you’re an aspiring program like ours.
I am confident CCC sees Paul as a good opportunity, relative to others he can realistically recruit, to fill a pressing need in the 2019 class. I am also confident CCC’s strengths and weaknesses evaluation of this recruit would not be materially different than mine.
GOUNUII
Likely 5 as if we get a grad transfer his spot would open up as well and if not we would be carrying an open schollie into next year
If that low release point gives him a quick enough release, he might be getting it off before D can cause a problem. Isn't that like what Shurna did?
Wow, this kid is a unique player that would fit in really well in Collins system. Ball handling at that height and wingspan is a rare quality, he'll be able to see over defenses and work the pick and roll like a master.
I think Collins sees a bit of BMac in him, and is willing to take that chance largely because Lathon will already be in the fold and there’s no pressure on Paul to immediately start.
The guy can flat out handle the ball. Can’t say that about a lot of the players Collins has recruited to date.
Here is a blurb. Wonder if his coach is related to Jaren Sina?
https://www.zagsblog.com/2018/05/15/class-of-2019-pg-paul-mulcahy-to-announce-wednesday/
I remember that it was a pleasant meeting when he went out to NJ.
Truth is, young Sina wasn't the type of guard Collins was looking for....that is in no way a criticism.....he probably wasn't displeased when he went to SH.
