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10-05-10 08:57 PM - Post#87076
NJ Hoops today had a write up of Skylar Scrivano an earlier commit plus a write up a new commit, another Peddie postgrad, Alex Rosenberg from Millburn High in NJ. Both write-ups follow:
October 5, 2010
Jay Gomes
NJHoops.com Editor
6-foot-9 Peddie School postgrad Skylar Scrivano has made his college pick. Scrivano will join his Peddie School teammate Alex Rosenberg at Columbia next season.
Scrivano came to Peddie from Central Bucks East High School. Despite his size he was somewhat of a sleeper missing the important July Live period last summer due to injury.
This past season he was a 3rd Team All-Suburban One League Continental Conference selection and second-team All-Intelligencer pick.
Some of the other schools looking at Scrivano were Princeton, Brown, Rider and Monmouth.
October 5, 2010
Jay Gomes
NJHoops.com Editor
Rosenberg Makes His Pick
6-foot-7 Millburn grad Alex Rosenberg will continue his education in the Ivy League. The Peddie School postgrad has given a verbal commitment to the Columbia Lions and new coach Kyle Smith.
As a senior at Millburn last year Rosenberg averaged 19.0 ppg and 7.9 rpg.
He was named NJ Hoops 10th Team All State, NJ Hoops All Essex County, and NJ Hoops All Academic 1st Team.
He helped lead Millburn to a 23-4 record, spot in the Group 3 North 2 championship contest and final NJ Hoops ranking of 42nd in the state.
He is a very good three point shooter with good size and a good feel for the game.
Rosenberg was a standout on the Roadrunners AAU team the past few seasons.
He was ranked among NJ Hoops top 60 seniors.
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Dr. V
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10-06-10 08:43 AM - Post#87084
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The Millburn boys basketball team made history last winter with the most wins ever and by advancing farther in the county and state tournaments than any other Miller team ever. Co-captains Alex Rosenberg and Joe Kizel will be forever synonymous with this year's 23-4 squad as quite possibly the best one-two punch this township has ever seen.
They sank their last baskets for the Millers in the state sectional final when their team lost 66-62 in Mendham. It's a game that has not and likely will not soon fade from their memories, especially considering Mendham went on to win the Group 3 championship.
"I thought we had a great season. I don't regret anything," Rosenberg said. "Obviously the Mendham game was a heartbreaker and I thought we were the better team... We had a great season but we didn't really have a championship."
Nonetheless, this season was a remarkable one for a team that was just two games above .500 a year ago and sported losing records in the two seasons before that. There were no bigger factors in Millburn's charge to the top than the play of their dynamic duo.
"Joey and Alex, when I look back at our season, they sort of started this push towards excellence," said Miller head coach Rodger Blind. "They just had that inner drive to be great players. That's what you talk about as a coach, but that's a separator."
But as Blind astutely pointed out, this season was something that began coming together nearly a decade ago when both Rosenberg and Kizel were in elementary school wowing parents in junior games.
Joe was always a natural point guard with tremendous ability to see the floor and find the open man. Alex was a true scorer and always found a way to fill up the stat sheet with buckets. They also were soccer players up through their freshmen years in high school.
"They're both very good soccer players," Blind said. "I told them to play if they wanted to play. You don't want to tell your players to specialize."
After they played for the freshmen and junior varsity teams in soccer (Kizel was the JV goalie, and Rosenberg was a freshman forward), they landed the starting gigs on the junior varsity basketball team. It was after that season they decided to leave soccer alone and dedicate themselves to basketball.
"In the end we just saw that we had a better chance having more success in basketball," Kizel said. "After our freshmen year we just decided to give basketball our hearts and stuck with it."
Boy did that decision pay off.
After a spring and summer filled with playing games for traveling teams and training in the gym, Kizel and Rosenberg won starting positions on the varsity roster as sophomores and never looked back. That season Kizel led the team in points, rebounds, steals, assists and blocked shots. Rosenberg was right behind him. The boys went from 4-19 the season before without Millburn's pair of 1,000-point scorers to 10-14.
During their junior season, with both Kizel and Rosenberg assuming captainship of the squad, Millburn improved to 13-11 and qualified for the state playoffs for the first time since the 2004-05 season. Rosenberg took over the lead in scoring, jumping from 10.1 points per game to 18 during his junior year. Kizel's scoring also jumped from just over 11 per game to 15.
"They definitely both made each other better," Blind said. "Their skills complemented each others'."
After a second round exit in the playoffs last year and with a group of 10 seniors led by Kizel and Rosenberg returning, all of the pieces had fallen into place for the Millers to make their historic run.
"I knew we were going to be good, but I don't think anyone was expecting how well we would do," Kizel said. "We beat some really good teams this year and I don't think anyone expected us to do this."
Both posted career highs in scoring and Rosenberg also pulled down a career high 7.9 rebounds per game to go along with his 19.1 ppg average. Kizel obviously led the team in assists and steals as he had in the previous two seasons and averaged 16.1 ppg.
In most cases when you watched the pair of possible future Millburn High School Hall-of-Famers it was clear they were on another level and a different wavelength than everyone else. You could see it in the way teams defended them, in the way the offense ran through them and in the way they were able to impose their will on games.
It certainly helped they had been the best players on their teams since they were 8 years old.
"Definitely when we're playing we know where each other are," Kizel said. "I'll throw him passes that other kids won't expect on the team because we've been playing so long together. We just have great confidence in each other and that's how we've been so successful over the years."
Anyone who watched the games could see how important they were to the team, but the numbers paint the picture even clearer. Over their three-year varsity careers they combined to average 29.4 ppg, and 11.2 rpg. That translates into 58.2 percent of Millburn's total offense and 49.1 percent of its rebounding over the last 75 games.
Both Kizel and Rosenberg were always good players, but they continuously worked on their games during the off-season to keep improving.
Rosenberg was always blessed with superior height, standing at six feet seven inches as the tallest kid in the school and one of the only athletes who can dunk. Rosenberg came into high school as strictly a spot-up shooter without much ability to go to the basket. While he still prefers playing on the perimeter, he has added an inside element to his game over the years as evidenced by this season's 7.9 rpg, 177 free throws attempted and 49 percent two-point field goal mark.
"Alex is a great scorer. He can get to the basket, he can shoot the pull-up jumper and make the three," Kizel said. "He has been working on his rebounding and you can see by the numbers that he has been rebounding the ball much better. He's very tough to guard on the outside... He's basically a 20-point scorer every night and he did that for the entire season."
Kizel was always very versatile inside and out, but he also began driving to the basket more, drew more fouls and made more three-pointers as the seasons went on. During his sophomore year, Kizel made 34 three-pointers and 38 free throws. In the next season, he sank 23 three-pointers and 92 free throws. This year, he knocked down 45 three-pointers and 117 free throws. He finished his career as an 81.6 career free throw shooter.
"He's just one of the smartest players I've ever seen," Rosenberg said of Kizel. "He knows what's going to happen, he knows when I want the ball which is very important for a guard to guard or guard to forward connection. Obviously he can shoot, he can handle, he can pass, he can do anything a guard needs to do."
As far as life after Millburn High School, both plan on pursuing basketball on the next level.
Kizel will attend Middlebury College in the fall to continue his basketball playing days a little longer at the Division-III school. Rosenberg is looking into prep schools in hopes of playing for a year and transferring to a Division-I university where he and many of his coaches feel he can be an asset.
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Columbia 37P6
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10-06-10 08:44 AM - Post#87085
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Agho, Frankoski Rosenberg and Scrivano are all Peddie School guys. Sure makes recruiting easier when everyone knows everyone else and have played together or are part of the same system. This probably all started with Penn's grest point guard from Peddie.
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CU.LIONS
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10-07-10 12:59 AM - Post#87121
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Wasn't someone else from Peddie? Sweet or Loscalzo? Isn't Peddie in Princeton's backyard?
Interesting that they all seem to be going to Columbia. With Rosenberg and Scivano at Peddie this season, I will have to make a trip and see how our future products look like.
Looks like Coach Smith is good at recruiting. Keep them coming.
GO LIONS!!!
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internetter
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10-07-10 01:46 AM - Post#87122
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Peddie schedule at:http://www.peddie.org/podium/default.aspx?t=119966
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internetter
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10-07-10 02:29 AM - Post#87123
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you may have to do some digging after getting the page, the link of which is in the previous post.
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