Jeronne Maymon

[Bo Ryan's Massage Therapist]

I went down with a friend to the Mizzou-Tennessee bball game.  Tennessee plays a 2 guard 3 forward offense with maymon as a starting forward.  He scored 5 pts and played extensively on the low block.  While he is labeled a forward, his role was very different from the other forwards...he guarded mizzous 5 and spent most of his time setting screens and interchanging sides on the low post. He did not take a shot from more than 8 feet away and wasn't utiliZed much.  In short his role was like that of a 5.  I found it very ironic considering his reason for transferring. 

[dgies9156]

Wonder what Daddy is thinking?

Well, he and Vander Blue can tour Europe together!

[Pakuni]

Wonder what Daddy is thinking?

Well, he and Vander Blue can tour Europe together!

There are worse ways to spend your 20s than touring Europe while being paid to play basketball.
Like, pretty much all of them.

[keefe]

I found it very ironic considering his reason for transferring. 

What is offered for public consumption is not always the meal served behind the velvet curtain. Maymon "leaving" was 98% Tim and 2% Jeronne.

[PGsHeroes32]

I went down with a friend to the Mizzou-Tennessee bball game.  Tennessee plays a 2 guard 3 forward offense with maymon as a starting forward.  He scored 5 pts and played extensively on the low block.  While he is labeled a forward, his role was very different from the other forwards...he guarded mizzous 5 and spent most of his time setting screens and interchanging sides on the low post. He did not take a shot from more than 8 feet away and wasn't utiliZed much.  In short his role was like that of a 5.  I found it very ironic considering his reason for transferring. 

yeah and this has always been his role too.

Havn't seen him much this year but in other years at Tennessee it was the same thing and he was a brick layer at the free throw line.

[Avenue Commons]

Kind of reminiscent of Dameon Mason going to LSU. Should have been a star in the Big East, instead his career just fizzled. http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=185992

[keefe]

Kind of reminiscent of Dameon Mason going to LSU. Should have been a star in the Big East, instead his career just fizzled. http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=185992

Mason should have ended up in the Marquette Pantheon of Heroes. What a waste of talent.

[willie warrior]

Wonder what Daddy is thinking?

Well, he and Vander Blue can tour Europe together!

Who cares what daddy is thinking? People said he was a head case.

[Avenue Commons]

Mason should have ended up in the Marquette Pantheon of Heroes. What a waste of talent.

Agreed. Saw Mason in high school. Thought he had all the tools to be a force in college. His sophomore season at MU should have been the start, not the pinnacle of his career. Plus he had an NBA body. Came from a solid background, too. Always struck me from a distance as a nice kid.

Very unfortunate it ended the way it did. Sic transit gloria mundi.

[keefe]

Who cares what daddy is thinking? People said he was a head case.

Precisely the point, Willie. From what I am told the final straw was some unacceptable behavior at the Kohl Center before the MU-UW game. Not worth repeating but it is the stuff that makes a warrior want to kick the sheet out of coward like Tim Maymon. I actually feel sorry for Jeronne but as they say you get to pick your buds but not your fuds.

[real chili 83]

All you need to do is pull Tim Maymon's record in Dane county.

I feel bad for his son.

[dgies9156]

Who cares what daddy is thinking? People said he was a head case.

I probably should have used teal. It was tongue in cheek.

[GGGG]

Precisely the point, Willie. From what I am told the final straw was some unacceptable behavior at the Kohl Center before the MU-UW game. Not worth repeating but it is the stuff that makes a warrior want to kick the sheet out of coward like Tim Maymon. I actually feel sorry for Jeronne but as they say you get to pick your buds but not your fuds.

Getting away from Wisconsin probably was best for Jeronne in the long run.  Never once was mad at the guy...I felt sorry for him.  Hopefully he will earn his degree, if he hasn't already, and be satisfied with whatever career he chooses.

[Nukem2]

Getting away from Wisconsin probably was best for Jeronne in the long run.  Never once was mad at the guy...I felt sorry for him.  Hopefully he will earn his degree, if he hasn't already, and be satisfied with whatever career he chooses.

Think you meant Jeronne, not Tim...

[GGGG]

Ha...I edited it before you even quoted me!!

[MUSF]

Wonder what Daddy is thinking?

Well, he and Vander Blue can tour Europe together!

Why bring Vander into this thread? Their situations are not similar and Maymon will be lucky to even get close to the D-League.

[rmi210]

Looks like Mason is doing alright now...
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=126677084&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=k439&locale=en_US&srchid=287164121392593489986&srchindex=1&srchtotal=1&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A287164121392593489986%2CVSRPtargetId%3A126677084%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary

[GGGG]

Still lists "Marquette University" under education.

[rmi210]

Still lists "Marquette University" under education.

Ya, but he does list LSU as well.  Good to see he landed on his feet

[Dawson Rental]

Precisely the point, Willie. From what I am told the final straw was some unacceptable behavior at the Kohl Center before the MU-UW game. Not worth repeating but it is the stuff that makes a warrior want to kick the sheet out of coward like Tim Maymon. I actually feel sorry for Jeronne but as they say you get to pick your buds but not your fuds.

I believe you heard wrong.

[keefe]

I believe you heard wrong.

Could be, Murs. I have never claimed to have any pipeline to the God of MU basketball. Perhaps it wasn't the final straw but it was part of the calculus. From what I was told it was more despicable than outrageous behavior. I was told the Administration wasn't pleased, in any event.

I cannot picture my father doing something like that. But then he was an AF flag officer and not a hoodlum.

[GGGG]

It was actually at practice the next day where the problems arose with Maymon's dad.

[We R Final Four]

It was actually at practice the next day where the problems arose with Maymon's dad.

I don't think that they arose the next day, they finished the next day. Adios.

[GGGG]

I don't think that they arose the next day, they finished the next day. Adios.

Yes....well put.

[Dawson Rental]

It was actually at practice the next day where the problems arose with Maymon's dad.

And his old AAU coach, Hennessey Auriantal.

Courtesy of Milwaukee Express
According to Scout:
So Tim Maymon shows up at the Kohl Center on Saturday night and goes over to the Marquette will call desk to get his tickets. The woman at the desk (who works for the Marquette ticket office) hands him his four tickets. Tim says there must be a mistake because he said he needs a total of 20 tickets and demands his 16 other tickets. The woman tells him that even if she had 20 extra tickets, which she doesn't, she couldn't give him 20 tickets because NCAA regulations only allow for tickets per player.

Papa Maymon proceeds to call her names and says he doesn't care about NCAA regulations and the woman is in tears and someone else has to take over and usher Maymon inside.

Fast-forward to the next morning. I'll head back to Scout's recap of the situation:

Marquette had a practice at the Al McGuire Center. As it is beginning, the doors fly open and Tim Maymon and Hennessey Auriantal (J.May's AAU coach) come walking in. Tim is swearing up a storm again about his son playing the wrong position, not getting the ball, etc.. Buzz calms him down and ushers him out and tells him that they'll talk after practice. The two go off to either the AD or an assistant AD's office (who has already been briefed on the antics of Saturday night) and tear that guy a new a-hole for an hour.

Finally the AD has enough and walks the two back to practice. He pulls Buzz over in front of the team and says, "Buzz, this had gone on long enough. If it's ok with you, I'm throwing these guys out of the building and I don't want to see them ever again." Buzz says fine and they tell Tim and Hennessey if they don't leave immediately, campus police will be called and they'll be arrested for trespassing. Buzz tells Jeronne to shower up and head home – he's off the team.

Sunday night into Monday, Jeronne calls everyone from Buzz to the assistants to his teammates and is basically in tears saying that he doesn't want to leave the team.

So basically everyone who assumed that that Papa Maymon was the problem was right and while its good that Buzz finally stood up to him, it's clear that these problems were happening for quite a while and Buzz let him get away with it.

The Scout piece speculates that since Jeronne was Buzz's first big recruit, Buzz didn't want to admit it was a bust and therefore let the thing go on too long.

Either way, it's too bad that an 18-year old's life is so dictated by his crazy father.