22 Nisan 2009 Çarşamba

Cappie kendisini klonlamıştı yollamış


Pondexter'ın kalbimizdeki yeri ayrıdır elbette ama giderken Fenerbahçe'ye kazandırdığı Mateja Ajavon'u da çok sevdik. Cappie kadar uyumlu bir kişiliği yok, biraz arızalı hatta bazen takımını yakabilecek ölçüde sorumsuz ama o da Cappie kadar kazanmak için doğmuş.
Sanki Cappie kendisini klonlamıştı kopyasını bize yollamış.

Transferini duyduğumda internette şöyle bir tanıtımını bulmuştum Ajavon'un.
Bugüne dek gördüğü en iyi oyuncunun Cappie olduğunu söylediği bölüme dikkat.

Matee Ajavon
* Position: Guard
* Height: 5-8
* Weight: 160 lbs.
* Birthday: May 7, 1986
* School: Rutgers '08Hometown: Irvington, N.J.(As of May 20, 2007)

USA Basketball Notes:

* Gold Medal: 2003 USA Youth Development Festival.
* Named to the 2007 USA Pan American Games Team on July 9, 2007.
* A 2004 USA Junior National Team Trials participant.
* Member of the 2003 USA Youth Development Festival East Team that compiled a perfect 5- record and claimed the gold medal.
* Shot a Festival record 60.0 percent (6-10 3pt FGs) from 3-point.
* Posted Festival bests of 11 points and five rebounds versus the North and four assists versus the West.


College Honors

* Named Associated Press 2007 All-America honorable mention.
* Earned 2007 NCAA Tournament All-Final Four honors, averaged 12.0 ppg. and 2.5 apg. in the Final Four.
* Named the 2007 NCAA Tournament Greensboro Region MOP, averaged 16.8 ppg. and 4.3 apg. in four contests to lead Rutgers to the Final Four.
* Named to the 2007 All-Big East Conference second team.
* Selected to the 2007 Big East All-Tournament Team.
* A 2006 All-Big East Conference first team and 2005 All-Big East second team selection.
* Earned 2005 NCAA All-Philadelphia Region Team honors.
* Selected to the 2005 Big East All-Tournament Team.
* Named the 2005 Big East Freshman of the Year and Big East All-Freshman Team.
* Named 2005 and 2006 All-Metropolitan Basketball Writers first team.
* Named Big East Rookie of the Week four times in 2004-05.
* Earned all-tournament team honors at the 2004 Paradise Jam.


College Notes

* Aided Rutgers in 2006-07 to a 27-9 record, the Big East Tournament title and the 2007 NCAA title game; started 28 of 32 games played and averaged a team fourth-best 12.0 ppg. and contributed a team-high 121 assists.
* Averaged 12.6 ppg., as well as team highs of 4.5 apg. and 2.6 spg. as Rutgers finished the 2005-06 season with a 27-5 record, advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and earned a 16-0 league record for the Big East regular season title.
* As a freshman in 2004-05, aided the Scarlet Knights to a 28-7 record, including 14-2 in the Big East for the conference regular season crown, and the NCAA Elite Eight; averaged a team second best 12.4 ppg., while adding team-highs of 3.5 apg. and 2.2 spg.
* Hit Rutgers' 2007 NCAA Tournament single-game highs of 20 points on three different occassions.


High School Notes
* Attended Malcom X Shabazz High School (N.J.), where she led her squad to a pair of New Jersey Tournament of Championship titles in 2003 and 2004, becoming the first team in history to do so.
* Named a 2004 WBCA, Parade Magazine (second team) and USA Today All-American.
* Named the 2004 Essex County Player of the Year and was a three-time Associated Press all-state selection.


Personal Notes
* Born in Monrovia, Liberia, resides in Irvington, New Jersey.
* Daughter of Patience Wilson and Sameul Ajavon, has one brother, Shawn, and two sisters, Samma and Kardy Goe.
* Was a four-sport athlete in high school, also competed in volleyball, golf and track and field.
* Favorite takeout food: Chinese.
* Favorite meal to make at home: cheddar and broccoli rice with baked chicken.
* If I could be a standout athlete in any sport it would be: tennis.
* When I was five I wanted to be: my mother.
* At my bedside is: a basketball.
* Favorite magazine: ESPN The Magazine.
* Always in my fridge: ice cream.
* Always on my fridge: cereal.
* Most prized possession: my phone.
* Favorite sport aside from basketball: golf, tennis and swimming (even though I can't swim).
* I can play: an invisible flute.
* Favorite basketball player: Allen Iverson, Steve Nash, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Cappie Pondexter.
* Favorite non-basketball Olympian: Michael Johnson.
* Best game I ever watched: Rutgers vs. Duke.
* Best player I ever faced: Cappie Pondexter.
* I want to go one-on-one against: C. Vivian Stringer.
* Favorite basketball announcer: Dick Vitale.
* When not playing hoops: I am sleeping.
* Most people don't know: I am a clown all the time.
* Most interesting place ever visited: McDonald's House.
* If I were stranded on an island: I'd call Tom Hanks for advice.

2 yorum:

twilost dedi ki...

cappie'nin ekaterinburgla sözleşmesi kaç senelik? dönme ihtimali yok mudur? hayır ajavon gs'ye karşı maşallah aratmıyor da sezon sadece gs'yle geçilmiyor.. euroleague finalfour istiyoruz artık..

tozlu parkeler dedi ki...

Cappie'nin döneceğini zannetmiyorum. Ekaterinburg'tan aldığı paraları bizimkilerin ödemesi mümkün değil.
He, Maldonado ve Josico'ya harcanan paralarla final foura ulaşabilecek bir kadro kurulurdu o ayrı.