Plenty of people had told then NovaMBB head coach Jay Wright not to take the Philly kid, Kyle Lowry. But he had something the Wildcats were missing: The right sort of nastiness. DanaONeilWriter on the now 6x NBA All-Star and veteran of the MiamiHEAT:
The 2 p.m. check-in time came and went. Fifteen minutes late stretched to 30, to 45, igniting a panicked search in the men’s basketball office. Where the hell was? The prized point guard was past due at freshman orientation, and no one had heard from him.
were hot thanks to another Philly guard by the name of Jameer Nelson, and Cardinal Dock was loaded, with future D1 players in Lowry, Shane Clark, DeSean White and Bilal Benn on the roster.Martelli wasn’t there to make a formal recruiting pitch; more like a casual meet and greet. After practice, he sat with each of the players separately, sharing no more than maybe 15 minutes of his spiel.
Lowry brought it. “For me, I don’t empathize with people who don’t buy in,’’ Sheridan says. “Kyle doesn’t empathize with people who don’t compete.’’ Collectively the staff also came to realize that people had been misreading his personality. Where others saw disrespect in his aloofness, they came to recognize it was a simple lack of trust. Plenty of people offered Lowry things — stuff, usually, in exchange for his basketball prowess — but they always wanted something in return.
The idea of sitting out did not compute in Lowry’s brain. Raised in a rough neighborhood in North Philly, Lowry was not the sort of kid to give his mother worry because she always knew where to find him. He was either on the playground or in a gym somewhere playing ball. Somewhere around early December, team physician Rob Goode, who performed Lowry’s surgery, pulled the head coach aside. “I don’t know how to tell you this,’’ Goode said. “But his knee is fine. He can play.’’ Lowry dressed for the Wildcats’ game against Penn on New Year’s Eve. In 17 minutes, he scored seven points, collected three rebounds and dished an assist.
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