Here We Go Again... (Updated)
by Sean Keeley on Nov 27, 2009 12:09 PM EST
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PrintIt's the"slightly-ambiguous-but-not-really tweet/status update from an athlete after a tough night" that we've all become so accustom to seeing.
Mookie's latest update came in around 12am ET last night. Let's see how this goes...
Update: To be fair, I suppose "thanking" might actually mean thanking and not thinking. Thanksgiving is tomorrow and all. But...I dunno.
Update 2: Thank God Boeheim doesn't know how to use Facebook. In response to a friend's commnt on his FB page, Mookie unloaded this distribe a few nights ago:
Evreything is cool with me,I understand what you and evreybody saying,but I'm not a cheerleader,I been ready for this,I waited all last year,I stayed up here for 6 months,not seeing my fam,and daughter,juss so I can get better and play this,I work my a** off evreyday,I played at msg both games and we come back home and I sit till the last 5 min,I feel disrespected,I know I got 3 years,but I'm ready now,I respect cuse,coach,and team,but I got to no where I stand on this team,if I'm not in the plans,I will respected and move on,i juss want to play and go to school,not cheer for 40 min,mine as well give me some palm palms.I don't thank people understand how cold,boring,depressing sitting on the bench can be,befor people thank I'm a a*****e for this one,juss understand where I'm comming from
This ends...not well.
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UMass
loves Big East rejects. Have fun Mookie!
A Lot Of Thanking To Do?
Mookie’s just in the Thanksgiving spirit! Nothing to see here.
Binghamton.
Sort of worked for Tiki Mayben.
Mark Macon, a NE college legend, is interim coaching while the investigation is on going, so there’s some street cred.
Believe me, DeFluer would like nothing more than to win the AmE again sans “questionable” players to prove that it can be done.
That said, Mookie is prolly too talented to take that offer. Also watching them most likely go 3-fer this season won’t help their stock.
But it’s places like here in Binghamton, with commitment to being “up and coming”, shiny new(ish) facility, and a cakewalk of a conference for even a medially talented team.
Worked for Tony Bland
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
Mookie probabaly
won’t like to see that Manny’s debuted replica t-shirts with 8 different players! http://www.mannysonline.com/IBS/SimpleCat/Shelf/ASP/Hierarchy/0407.html but he didn’t make the cut apparently
IT'S NOT QUITTING IF YOU THANK ABOUT STUFF DURING A BIG WIN REMEMBER THAT!
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
by kotite4ever on Nov 25, 2009 1:45 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Mookie on FB
CONFIRMATION: Thank = think in Mook-ese
Theodore Todd Jones: Evreything is cool with me,I understand what you and evreybody saying,but I’m not a cheerleader,I been ready for this,I waited all last year,I stayed up here for 6 months,not seeing my fam,and daughter,juss so I can get better and play this,I work my ass off evreyday,I played at msg both games and we come back home and I sit till the last 5 min,I … See Morefeel disrespected,I know I got 3 years,but I’m ready now,I respect cuse,coach,and team,but I got to no where I stand on this team,if I’m not in the plans,I will respected and move on,i juss want to play and go to school,not cheer for 40 min,mine as well give me some palm palms.I don’t thank people understand how cold,boring,depressing sitting on the bench can be,befor people thank I’m a asshole for this one,juss understand where I’m comming from
Despite having a very good grasp on literature and the English Language, I still had to take English 101 when I went to Syracuse….is this not a requirement for athletes? I know that there was a basketball player in my Geology class (although he never actually got any playing time) so why not English?
It reminds me of when I took Spanish my Sophomore year…I was pretty good in High School (scored a 95 on the Regents exam) and assumed I’d get an easy “A” and be the teacher’s pet, but wound up being the only non-Hispanic guy in the class! As it turned out, though, my classmates could speak Spanish fluently, but they could not write any of it. Fortunately, we all got easy “A’s”.
Not his status
It was a response to something someone posted on his wall.
Do you mean to tell me you’re not “friends” with Mookie on FB?
Boy, are you missing some good stuff ;-)
He must have blocked me
cause I used to be but not anymore
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by Sean Keeley on Nov 26, 2009 11:21 PM EST up reply actions
uh-oh
They’re on to you Sean. Maybe you need to set up a fake account and pretend to be a freshman in their writing class or something. Nothing beats the Facebook news.
turns out I'm not blocked
just forget he uses his real name
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by Sean Keeley on Nov 27, 2009 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
At first, I actually thought that the term ‘palm palms’ was slang for ‘touches,’ and when Mook asked for ‘palm palms’ he was asking for the opportunity to get in the game and have the ball in his hands. Then I realized that he was talking about those things that cheerleaders hold in their palms.
by ForthCountry on Nov 27, 2009 10:01 AM EST up reply actions
sounds as though...............
he may have a touch of the desaun williams complex, doesnt like to pass………….shoots too early……..and thinks he is better than he really is
Mookie = transfer to Siena
Siena would love to have you, Mookie. Only a 2 hour ride down the Thruway. You can go from playing for one of the best teams in the country, in the best league in the country, possibly winning the NCAA championship, to a team that has to win the conference tournament to make the NCAAs and success is winning one game in the tourney. Hey, but you will get all the playing time you want.
Give thanks you have a free ride to a great school that a normal kid has to get 1200 on his SAT’s and pay $30k a year to attend.
after reading that msg he posted i'm not even sure i want him on the team.
the world needs ditch diggers..
I know I am not adding anyone
I added Devo and Harris… and they went pro early. I added Mike Williams and he quit.
I do note that Mookie is a fan of “Syracuse Basketball.”
How so? Seems to me that he is just a fan of Mookie Jones. Too bad he can’t befriend himself.
anyone that thinks Mookie should transfer is crazy
We’ve seen far too often the last few years that ACL’s tear and someone’s season is over. God forbid it happens again, what would we do? Play 6 guys? That wouldn’t be successful whatsoever.
I really don’t know if some of you are Syracuse fans with the posts I see here. We should be supporting all of our players. As of right now, Mookie is on the Syracuse basketball team.
The best comment I heard on it is that Mookie has a lot of passion right now because he wants to play. The inexperience is that he doesn’t know how to use that passion in the correct way to get better/stronger/faster, etc. It’s JB and the coaching staff’s job to motivate him to keep going and get ready for this season, because there will be chances for him this year and in the future.
I think that people on here
Have had it with malcontents – the Mike Williams defection still stings a little. Hopefully Mookie is just blowing off some steam, because you make a good point – we need depth at all positions if we are going to make any kind of deep tournament run. I don’t think it means anyone on here is less of a fan, though.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
NOBODY SAID WE DIDNT NEED DEPTH
only that right now mookie does not win us games, nor does he lose us games if he wants to leave………………..he is just a kid, but storming off the bench because the coach says something you dont like is the way to act…………his shoot forst mentality doesnt work well into the teams chemistry right now……….a person in his position should be happy with whatever he can get, that alone if he performs as he should will garner more playing time……………….welcome to the real world mookie, and please take a lesson from kris joseph………….modesty, willingness to learn, and patience is how you get in the game
What happened to the Mookie Jones rivals.com used to know and love?
I love how Kris Joseph has developed, but I was definitely surprised last year when he came off the bench ahead of Mookie (and got more mins.) after rivals.com was so high on him. Now KrisJo seems to be so far ahead of Mookie. Wondered what happened?
Rivals.com called Mookie “the jewel of the Syracuse recruiting class” and the best SF recruit coming into the Big East last year:
Top Dogs: Best at each position
Point guard: Kemba Walker, UConn
Shooting guard: Mike Rosario, Rutgers
Small forward: Mookie Jones, Syracuse
Power forward: Greg Monroe, Georgetown
Center: Henry Sims, Georgetown
God damn, I fucking love this team:
Donna Ditota writes about Mookie Jones. Now he just sounds like a kid who had a little tantrum, but he’s calmed down and sees what he has to do to get on the court. Who knows, maybe this continues to bubble the whole season, but this article at least makes the situation sound under control right now.
Anyway, what I really love is that Scoop and Wes, and probably others, helped keep the whole situation in check by talking to Mookie, calming him down, while still being realistic with him.
It’s also pretty amazing how intelligent and rational Mookie sounds when he’s not ranting on Facebook and the reporter does all the spelling.
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