Rider got its second verbal commitment of the class of 2011 when Eddie Mitchell, a 6-foot guard from La Salle Prep in Philadelphia, gave coach Tommy Dempsey a commitment.
Mitchell joins Winslow Twp's Shawn Valentine as a rising senior who will arrive in Lawrenceville for the 2011-12 season.
The Broncs have one scholarship left over from this season and have four seniors on the 2010-11 roster, leaving Dempsey and his staff five available scholarships.
Rider is likely to add one or two more pieces to the class, with 6-5 shooting guard Deon Jones -- the younger brother of Jeff Jones -- atop their wish list.
Mitchell, lightly recruited through much of his junior season at La Salle, impressed college coaches with his AAU play this summer. He drew an offer from Penn State, along with those from Rider, Delaware, Niagara, Marist and Wagner.
Is Tommy Boy going to add some size with this class, or is he thinking of starting a 5 guard lineup?
ReplyDeleteI will take talent over height,
ReplyDeleteSize doesn't mean just height. This season he'll have Ring at the 4, Stewart (a freshman who is know as more of an athlete then low post player) at the 4 and Ezuma (still a project) at the 5, and Penn as a tweener 3/4. 2011-12, we lose Ring. I hope Tommy Boy has a plan for replacing Ring.
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Give me talent
This is a great pickup. I have seen Mitchell play recently and he is unbelievable quick. Needs to get stronger and better shooter, but he breaks ankles with a great cross over dribble. Rider needed a point guard more than size. With Robinson and Youngblood gone the point was their greatest need.
ReplyDeletetmd has it all figured out....you should have applied for the director of ops job. it's the MAAC, not the big east....there's no size in the maac. how many post players are in the league? 1? as long as you can rebound the basketball, size doesn;t matter in this league.
ReplyDeleteHey, shooter, a couple of things: 1) This is the comments section of a blog; are opinions not allowed? Or should we all just type, "Go Rider! Go Tommy!"?
ReplyDelete2) How come KB and Donnie could always find low post players and Tommy Boy can't find anything but wings?
3) Just because there aren't a lot of low post players in the MAAC, we should build a team just like the rest of the conference? A good low post player (or two) could open things up for the wings, which would be hard for the MAAC to guard because of the lack of low post players.
JT is a given.
ReplyDeleteKevin Mcpeek, Ken Lacey, Robert Reed,Willie Dingle,Armel Minyem, Steve Castleberry am I missing any?
to me big men are 6'8 and over.
So McPeek and Lacey were good JT the best ever at Rider what other big men were there?
it's tough to recruit a stiff to play in the post when your style of offense is to have all 5 guys handle the ball. they don't dump the ball into the post....it's not the style of play the staff wants.
ReplyDeletejust have to rebound the basketball.
I'd add Jc Cleveland, Tim Pennix, Jabbar Jones, Jonathan McClark to the list, Anony.
ReplyDeleteJonathon McClark. That is the type of player Rider needs. An extremely physical, aggressvie/sometimes dirty player. I see a little bit of Mike Ringold in him. McClark wasn't the best player on the court, but he hustled like crap when he was out there and he did EVERYTHING to get a rebound. You can't even talk about JT. He's a dime a dozen that Rider or the MAAC will see in a long time. ANON: No offense to Robert Reed or Willie Dingle, but I wouldn't even mention those names up aginst the other players that were mentioned
ReplyDeleteI am not saying they were good players but refuting the claim that Harnum and Bannon recruited many great bigs, McClark was 6'7,
ReplyDeleteI think Nd-Ezuma will progress nicely in the next 3 years and I like Stewart, Valentine type of players over a Myers, Reed, Dingle etc.
Anony, where did I say great bigs? Here was the quote: "How come KB and Donnie could always find low post players and Tommy Boy can't find anything but wings?" And McClark might have been 6'7", but it was a muscular, thick, hard-to-move 6'7".
ReplyDeleteJackson, Penn, Myers, Ringgold, Nd-Ezuma, Dempsey has brought in Post players
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