Chiggers
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Originally posted by treberta
I can't believe you think Reynolds is not that good!!!!! You are right though he isn't good he's amazing on the basketball court. He could drive by anybody whenever he wants to. He chooses to keep his teamates involved, he could score 28 points a game if he choose to.
"He will leave as the seventh guy, and second Wildcat, to make all-Big 5 first-team four times. If he gets 50 more points, he also will leave as the top scorer in program history.
Yet with Scottie, it's always seemed to go way beyond the obvious.
"I keep telling him I want the nasty Scottie Reynolds," Wright explained. "That killer Scottie Reynolds. But I don't talk to him about the end.
"Each guy is different. If you tell him he can't do it, that's all he has to hear. I love that. Even if he's sick one day, or he has a little bump, whatever. One time he had this blue tape on his thumb. I didn't ask, I didn't care. I'm just liking that he had something wrong. And it was his left hand. Anybody else, I see that and I'm going to the trainer, 'What's up?' Him, I'm like, 'Good.' He loves the challenge."
And he's had an answer for most everything that has been thrown his way, from the time he left Oklahoma, where he had originally signed, and detoured to the Main Line after coach Kelvin Sampson went to Indiana.
The word special is way too overused. As is great. Yet in his case, it hardly ever seems out of place. And sometimes that has nothing to do with his athletic prowess.
"He means everything to us," said assistant coach Jason Donnelly, who's in his fifth season. "He's the embodiment of what we're trying to do. He was a McDonald's All-America who came in with a lot of hype, and he came in a roundabout way. He was the first guy we had after the [Jason] Fraser-[Randy] Foye guys. He was the guy who bridged the gap to the next generation. He carried the flame. You couldn't ask for a better ambassador.
"You never worry about him. That's the person he is. You know where he'll be on Sunday morning, you know he'll be in class, you know what he's going to do on the court. You never worry about the 3 a.m. phone call. And there hasn't been a time when he hasn't played for the team. It's never about him. The freshmen might not get what he's about right now. But they will. That's his legacy. This is how it's done, with character and class.
"I don't know if people realize just how unique he is. He's so humble and unpretentious. To him, Villanova's not a place to play. It's home."
A Mcdonalds All American and After 4 Years Under Wright, May go Late Second Round in The NBA Draft. Wooo Hoooo Way to Develope them Wright !
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