Angel Delgado

[Halldan1]

Predicting the Top Double-Double Machines in the 2015-16 NCAA Basketball Season
By Kerry Miller , College Basketball National Columnist Jun 4, 2015


8. Angel Delgado, Seton Hall

Julio Cortez/Associated Press


Per Game: 9.3 points, 9.8 rebounds

Per 40 Minutes: 13.2 points, 14.0 rebounds

Double-Doubles: 10

One of the best quotes from the 2014-15 season came courtesy of Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard.

After a loss to DePaul in which Angel Delgado had 19 points and 19 rebounds, Willard told Maria Guardado of NJ.com, "As he gets older and understands defensive positioning, I think he can be an even better rebounder. He's still just a puppy. He had 19 rebounds, he can get 25 rebounds. That's how good of a player he can be."

If you watched him play last year, that's what we saw from Delgado in a nut shell. He looked like a puppy in the dog park that wasn't yet as coordinated as the other dogs, but managed to run laps around them while occasionally tripping over his own feet. There was just so much raw skill and athleticism that it's hard not to be excited to watch him develop over the next couple of years.

With everything that Seton Hall lost, though, there's no more time for slow development. With Brandon Mobley and Sterling Gibbs out of the picture, Delgado absolutely has to play second fiddle to Isaiah Whitehead this season.

Delgado played just 28.2 minutes per game last season, but expect that to increase to at least 31 minutes as he also becomes a much bigger piece of the offensive puzzle. He averaged one field-goal attempt for every four minutes on the court last year, but that rate should also increase considerably, leading to substantially more double-doubles than he tallied as a freshman.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...in-the-2015-16-ncaa-basketball-season/page/15

 

[pmulcahy96]

Halldan1, Do you know who coaches the big men at SHU? I am very interested to see how Delgado develops his game.

 

[Shuathelete]

Halldan1, Do you know if he has been working out this summer outside of Seton Hall? I am very interested to see how Delgado develops his game.

 

[Halldan1]

Halldan1, Do you know who coaches the big men at SHU? I am very interested to see how Delgado develops his game.

Group effort.

We don't have one coach per se who only works with the big men.

Willard is involved in all aspects of 'individuals' with the players. And despite what many will say here he is a very respected one on one coach by his peers. In fact that is considered the biggest strength he possesses.

I get a chance to talk to many in the business and they often don't pull punches with their evaluations so I hear both the good and the bad. But almost universally the good is his teaching methods.

 

[Halldan1]

Halldan1, Do you know if he has been working out this summer outside of Seton Hall? I am very interested to see how Delgado develops his game.

Unfortunately I don't.

I'll try and find out but I do know many of our players took a short time off to recharge their batteries. Now they are working at SHU together during summer school.

BTW, new players like Anderson, Carter, Gordon and Soffer were on campus this past weekend. I believe Singh was too but I can't confirm that.

 

[Seton75]

If Angel stays three years, he will leave as the greatest SHU forward of the BE era, maybe of all time.

 

[sami]

I also believe that Whitehead needs to step up to play 2nd fiddle to Angel Delgado, the reigning Big East Rookie of the Year.

 

[Seton75]

I think Whitehead is going to be a revelation this season and what all the hoopla was about will be very clear. I don't see a 1st or 2nd fiddle

 

[Shuathelete]

Unfortunately I don't.

I'll try and find out but I do know many of our players took a short time off to recharge their batteries. Now they are working at SHU together during summer school.

BTW, new players like Anderson, Carter, Gordon and Soffer were on campus this past weekend. I believe Singh was too but I can't confirm that.

Yea recharging batteries is perfectly fine. But they have to stay hungry. Love how last year GIbbs put up a million shots on his own and came back dominating from behind the arc

 

[sami]

I think Whitehead is going to be a revelation this season and what all the hoopla was about will be very clear. I don't see a 1st or 2nd fiddle

I agree with you, but until the results are proven on the court, Delgado is not playing second fiddle to anyone as the writer suggested.

 

[Burnsly]

The first fiddle always goes to the guy that create his own shot.

 

[BayonneRay]

Unfortunately I don't.

I'll try and find out but I do know many of our players took a short time off to recharge their batteries. Now they are working at SHU together during summer school.

BTW, new players like Anderson, Carter, Gordon and Soffer were on campus this past weekend. I believe Singh was too but I can't confirm that.

Some NYC/NJ schools particularly the public schools have yet to finish their school year, so it would not be a surprise if Singh is not yet on campus.

 

[bobojcd]

If Angel stays three years, he will leave as the greatest SHU forward of the BE era, maybe of all time.

I'm not saying that won't happen, it would be great if it did. But it's an awfully bold statement.

Some would open and close the conversation with the name Eddie Griffin, but only 1 year and the controversial ending, ie. punching Ty Shine, are negatives to his SHU career. But his stats for that one year are simply ridiculous.

Sam Dalembert has been playing in the NBA a LOOOOOOOONG time. A main contributor to his team most of those years, among the league leaders in blocks and rebounds a few of those years. His drawback in this argument would be he wasn't as good a college player as a pro.

Big Luther Wright was never a great college player, but if he had played three years I betcha he woulda been.

Adrian Griffin played guard in the NBA but was most certainly a forward for us. Delgado has more talent than Griff, but Griff is all-world BB IQ, hard work and hustle, and all those things are factors in greatness.

Arturas Karnishovas is, in my humble opinion, the most forgotten of our great Pirates. The man was the All-Europe MVP and a multiple-time olympian. He started all 4 years at SHU and his teams made the NCAA tourney in every year. The ultimate do-it-all small forward.

No one is saying Kelly Whitney was an angel, but man could he bang down low. His arrest with Stix Mitchell is an obvious dark cloud, but if consider only his on-court work Delgado still has a ways to go to match his toughness and offensive game.

Speaking of toughness, what about Ramon Ramos? Sure Delgado could become a greater player than Ramos before he is done, but he's still got a ton of hard work to put in before I can even put him in the same category as this Puerto Rican olympian.

Speaking of toughness again, how have I gone this long without mentioning the toughest SOB to ever suit up in old South Orange, the one Pirate I would most like to be in a foxhole with, gotta be Jerry Walker. Anyone that saw him knows what I'm talking about, and those that didn't, well, sucks for you because he was something else. Listed at 6'7", more like 6'3", no taller than Dehere.

Without Andrew Gaze we don't make the Final Four run. And if we want to include pre and post SHU career, he is by far the most decorated of our players.

Finally I will close with the man who actually is the greatest SHU forward of the Big East era, Mark Bryant. If it wasn't for Bryant none of the other guys I mentioned would even be eligible for this moniker because they never would have played in the Big East, at least not for Seton Hall, because without Bryant the Pirates woulda been kicked out of the league 25 years ago.

So....still didn't mention Anthony Avent, Daryl Walker, Gordon Winchester, Herb Pope, Gene Teague, Brian laing, all guys I would rank ahead of Delgado right now. I'm sure I've forgotten a bunch.

 

[Seton75]

Bobo, I mean best SHU forward, not the guy with the best NBA career. I know it is bold. I actually told this to prof ed before he played a game. I LOVE this kid's game and attitude.

 

[HallBall02]

Not to be an ass, but he hasn't really even played forward yet...he played center more than 85% of the time. He still has work to do to be drafted in first round and being part of the best "forward" of all time at the Hall discussion. A big step forward would be actually playing as a forward this year.

The reason I'm more optimistic than most about this year's team is that maybe just maybe, our best players will play at their most productive positions...Delgado at 4, Whitehead/Carrington at 1 and 2, and Desi at 3.