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Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: iBOsbu
Date: February 19, 2013, 3:51 pm
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•Jameel Warney could mean the difference between an NCAA
tournament bid and another disappointing title game for Stony
Brook this season. In his last four games, Warney is putting up
12.6 points and 7.8 boards.
HTML http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/21732441/freshman-of-the-year-nerlens-noels-injury-shakes-up-race
More I watch him, more I am amazed... I am so happy he is
playing at Stony Brook. Praises have been raining down on him
from everywhere.
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Re: Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: iBOsbu
Date: February 19, 2013, 3:53 pm
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- How efficient is Stony Brook freshman Jameel Warney? The 6-8,
255 pound power forward has made 18 of his last 20 shots from
the floor, and leads the Seawolves in both scoring (12 PPG) and
rebounding (7.6 RPG). Steve Pikiell’s team could be a really
tough out for someone in the NCAA Tournament if they win the
America East and reach the field of 68. Stony Brook is currently
19-6 overall and 10-2 in league play.
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Re: Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: Hammertime
Date: February 19, 2013, 3:57 pm
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Nice find ibosbu.... Warney is getting better and better each
passing week.. The next 3 years will be great for sbu
basketball.....
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Re: Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: iBOsbu
Date: February 19, 2013, 3:58 pm
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Yeah, Jameel Warney is THAT Good.
Stony Brook freshman center has run away with the Rookie of the
Year and is putting up Player of the Year numbers.
February 18th, 2013 by One-Bid Wonders
By Matt Whitrock and Sam Perkins
Jameel Warney is a force in America East unlike anything we’ve
seen in years.
After turning down scholarships from the likes of Iowa, Penn
State and Charlotte, the 6’8” 250 pound bruiser from Plainfield,
New Jersey had amassed a hype even larger than his massive
frame.
“He’s the best big man that will ever play here, absolutely,”
Stony Brook head coach Steve Pikiell said at the time.
Over the course of his first season of college ball, Warney has
not only lived up to the lofty expectations, but exceeded them.
Through 25 games, Warney currently ranks fifth in the conference
in rebounding at 7.6 boards per game, 10th in scoring at 12
points per game, while leading the league in field goal
percentage (62.4 percent) and blocked shots (1.6 per game). In
conference play, Warney has been even better, averaging 12.6
points per game (8th), 8.3 rebounds (4th) and 1.6 blocks (1st),
while shooting an insane 65.9 percent from the floor.
“It’s unbelievable; he has the best hands I’ve ever seen,” raved
fifth-year senior Tommy Brenton, the team’s captain and
emotional leader. “He makes me look good, honestly, I’ll just
throw it up there sometimes [and] he catches it.”
His raw numbers become all the more impressive when considering
the defensive attention already being paid to the Seawolves
workhorse.
“In high school he would have five guys on him,” said Steve
Pikiell following the Seawolves dominating 65-48 win over
conference rival Vermont. Warney shrugged off double and triple
teams to post 12 points on a perfect 5-of-5 shooting to go with
10 rebounds to help the Seawolves secure a resounding win and
two game cushion in the conference standings.
Simply put, Warney is already the runaway Rookie of the Year.
But he’s more – much more – and much better than his raw
numbers. When looking at his advanced statistics, Warney is not
only the most efficient offensive player in the conference, but
the most impactful rookie to come through the America East in
more than half a decade.
Compare Warney against all America East players, regardless of
class: Warney’s shooting 62.4 percent over the course of the
year and nearly 66 percent in conference play dwarf the rest of
the field. If you look at every America East player currently
averaging over six points per game – a figure more than low
enough to include any player carrying a significant offensive
load – the only player who cracks even 55 percent on the season
is Dom Morris, and even then he just barely sneaks over the line
at 55.7 percent.
In general, any randomly selected AE season of recent vintage
will have one or two players who average six-or-so points per
game while shooting 55 percent or better from the floor. But
remember, Warney’s not averaging six points per game, he’s
averaging 12 points per game. He’s not shooting 55 percent –
he’s well over 60.
And he’s not a junior or a senior, he’s a true freshman. The
most recent player to reach these kind of numbers is junior-year
Marqus Blakely. Certainly no one would say Warney as a freshman
is as good as Blakely as an upperclassman, and the two certainly
have two different skill sets, but its pretty impressive company
for the freshman to already be keeping.
Warney’s efficiency isn’t solely a product of his high field
goal percentage. The Stony Brook freshman minimizes the number
of possessions he wastes. Despite being the leading scorer on
his team and drawing plenty of defensive attention, Warney
averages just over one turnover per game, lower than four other
Seawolves. In conference play, Warney is the rare post scorer
with more assists than turnovers.
“He’s a fantastic passer, he does a great job of getting the
ball to the open man when teams double,” said Pikiell.
But the above only considers Warney’s point production and
efficiency. Warney’s rebounding is already upper-echelon for any
player, let alone a freshman. The list of freshmen who have
averaged at least seven rebounds per game during the past
decade: Warney, fellow freshman Jordan Reed, Tommy Brenton,
Brian Voelkel, and Shawn James.
And few America East players have ranked among the league
leaders in blocked shots. While Warney will likely never be a
shot-stopper of the same ilk as James or Nick Billings (each
having led the America East in rejections while writing their
names in the annals of the America East and NCAA record books),
he looks to be the best young shot blocker to come through the
league since.
So how good is he?
If we’re looking for the last Rookie of the Year who was at
least as good as Warney, we have to go at least as far back as
James. James led the league in Offensive Rating just like
Warney, shot over 60 percent from the field while averaging over
10 points per game, was a strong rebounder, and was a
historically prolific shot-blocker. And while there are obvious
differences between Warney and James – Warney is never going to
block anywhere near 196 shots in a season and James was never
going to take games over and score over, through, and around
constant triple-teams – it’s telling that none of the seven
Rookies of the Year post-James come close to matching Warney’s
elite combination of scoring volume, efficiency, rebounding, and
defense.
So yeah – Warney’s a rare breed.
How rare? Statistically, he is the league’s most efficient
offensive player. He is the sole reason why the Seawolves, after
graduating three starters and four freshmen while also seeing
junior playmaker Dave Coley regress on the offensive side of the
ball, are a better team this season than last year. He is the
anchor in the post and on the glass of the league’s best team –
a team that wins games by bulldozing opponents around the hoop
and imposing its will on them in the paint.
“The great part of Jameel, is they had three guys on him, so
other guys are going to be open. If you watch him play on tape –
three, four guys on one guy,” said Pikiell.
He is also the league’s premier shot blocker and one of its best
rebounders.
America East coaches simply don’t vote freshmen for what they
deem “veteran awards,” (read conference Player of the Year or
All-Conference First Team), but if you throw out his freshman
status and look at him from a perspective of sheer impact –
production, efficiency, and defensive and offensive game plans
being drawn up to stop him – there are four words to describe
players who make the on-court impact of Warney: Player of the
Year.
Yeah, he’s that good.
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Re: Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: February 19, 2013, 9:35 pm
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If he doesnt make All American someone is blind. He has to be
one of the top freshman in country right now-bar none.
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Re: Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: ecasadoSBU
Date: February 19, 2013, 10:16 pm
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He is definitely a lock for FOY... and can easily compete for
POY in this league but of course, the politics won't probably
allow him to get the POY as a frosh...
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Re: Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: jaghatai
Date: February 23, 2013, 8:42 pm
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He won't get PoY, at least not this season.
I've been more impressed with his "floor knowledge" than his
physical tools. He makes good decisions, understands the
offense and how to help get the 3pt shooters open. And his
first step is VERY smooth, he doesn't put the ball on the floor
giving teams time to collapse on him.
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Re: Jameel Warney Thread - Freshman of the Year
DIR By: SaltySeawolf
Date: February 25, 2013, 11:46 am
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I see a problem with Jameel's Rookie of Year award. He is so
freaking good that it is possible that everyone has forgotten
that he is a freshman. Im serious about this. I think he has
first team all conference locked up, but they might give Jordan
Reed the RoY award out of pity for Binghamton. If this happens
I will be extremely miffed. You can't win 2 games in a season
and tell me you have the best freshman in the league!
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