UUUUGGGGHHHHH, "Fitzgerald has another visit set up net weekend as he is scheduled to visit Quinnipiac's campus.  A third visit to Hofstra is epected to be set up very shortly afterwards".

This is who we are going after?

How is Fitzgerald just a lesser version of the already signed Nemanja Mikic?

January, 2010: Mikic is your typical European combo-forward that has size and is skilled on the perimeter; he is an ecellent shooter when he has a chance to get his feet set. He is difficult to guard in pick and pop situations with his ability to stretch the defense and he is effective at shot faking and dribbling into a pull up jumper off of one or two dribbles. He is a decent athlete that is fundamentally sound on defense and understands how to give space to quicker players on the perimeter and still contest the shot. He should get some high level recruitment in the late signing period, but is probably best suited a face-up 4-man for a mid-major that plays with four on the perimeter.

Notes

Native of Serbia...Committed to George Washington in March 2010...

Seriously Thinker, I thought my long-standing hatred of white people was well know on this board.  It seems the PC police are still in effect at GW.

It's unlikely a recruiting bio is going to call a player outright slow, but you can read between the lines...On Fitzgerald: Defensively, he lacks the lateral quickness to defend the perimeter and is especially vulnerable when forced to close out.  Yes, this is the type of player that does well in Hobbs' half-court press system.

It says Mikic has "decent athleticism".  OK, Hobbs' system ussualy requires better than average athlecism from perimeter players but maybe if Mikic really is 6-7 or taller he can do still do well enough shooting over smaller guards on the perimeter to put up with his defense.

But you still didn't answer the question: Isn't Fitgerald and Mikic essentially the same player: Set shooting PF's with limited athlecism?  And since Mikic is the higher rated one (who also had more interest from better programs), what's the value of Fitgerald? 

To quote LFO,

I agree with Mentz 100%

Obviously some sort of anti-Irish bigotry.  I marched in Boston against "No Irish Need Apply" storefront signs in the 1830s and I'll march again against the college basketball community today.  They continue to discriminate agains slow, white , unathletic ballers and nobody seems to care.  Refs never give them respect and better, faster players of all races continue to take the ball away from these athletically challenged kids and even go out of their way to show them up by then jamming the ball down right in the face of the "pasty gingers".  The media implcitly complies by capturing these discrminatory moments on film and "postorizing" the gingers.  Simply outrageous.

Here's some photos from a benifit show for the Gingers:  http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=201712412&albumId=1335985