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Blew out a knee a couple of years ago that set him back. He’s a great looking athlete without a playable skill.

Doubt this will interest anyone but me much, but saw Fielder play a couple of games in HS and liked him pretty well. Unlike a lot of stretch big types he’s got enough bulk and leverages well enough to hold up against most traditional 5’s and good enough feet to chase stretch 4’s and hedge pick and roll. He’ll help a good team.

Gotta say this, if UNC hires Jerry freaking Stackhouse to THAT job KU might as well get that “Danny Manning, Head Basketball Coach” desk plaque on order.

No way, but it would be the funniest thing ever. It’s like someone looked at the ‘21 IU hiring process and thought, “Yeah, we GOT to get us some of that.”

Which one?

Have watched 90% of the games in his career. An absolute defensive menace. Great on ball defender. Not good, great. But he has no PG instincts to speak of. Just doesn’t make good reads. Can probably help a good team as a 3rd guard, but if he’s your primary you’re gonna struggle on offense.

Explains how Carr came across Taelon Peter last year. That was such a wildly random draft pick and he’s got a chance to stick. Tell you what: if Carr’s kid him tipped him off on Peter they need to hire him because that kid has an eye.

And you know Tommy Amaker is watching that stuff and just kind of loving it.

Has UK written all over him. A catch and shoot kid from Kentucky. That’s Pope’s boy.

Atlanta kid. In the Ya days I would have bet the house on IU involvement here.

So I guess Bizjack wasn’t the player the dude was referring to. Got to say this, for a guy I’d never heard of before maybe 10 days ago, he has provided a bit of fun fodder to speculate on, even if it all turns out to be bull$hit.

For all the bulldog options we were kicking around over the weekend from that dude’s tweet, this certainly feels like the actual correct answer.

Nice numbers for 25mins/gm in the Big 12. His highlight clips have top tier “holy $hit” elements to them because his movement skills are exceptional. But I’m gonna guess that if you actually watch him play he gets physically handled pretty good.

Yup. Rayl and Mount and Maravich were decades ahead of their time.

Nice shoutout. Memories

Just saw Mullins’ game winner again and it occurred to me that the real unsung hero of Duke going home is Steph Curry. Kid throws up a 35 footer and for him it’s a just a regular old jump shot. 15 years ago it would have been at least a bit of throw. But this generation that’s grown up on Curry and Lillard and how they changed the game have just developed different stuff. I like defending the old game as much as the next guy but the skill level on the perimeter now is just a different deal entirely.

Shockingly, the Duke radio guy’s go to response is to look for the officials to bail them out.

Oh no, way too busy. He’s been working his coaching magic on the 19-56 Sacramento Kings.

Absolutely true, but the expectations game was very different 30 years ago and he’s had the talent to plausibly win a Natty every year he’s had the job.

They have a great class coming in, of course, but it’s not as ready to go from a maturity standpoint as the last couple. If they have another sweet sixteen kind of year next year they may not sweat it all that bad.

Given Duke’s resources and name the answer here is probably a loooonnnnggg time, but it’ll be interesting to see how many more years of Scheyer not getting it done late it’ll take before the elite kids start to say hmmm and not just reflexively commit there. Then what happens? As long as K’s alive he has total job security, but he could go to the NBA.

Would agree with the contingency that DDV is able to spend 100% of his NIL budget and fully construct his roster with that kid not being factored in in any way and should they be able to make something happen there the money people are prepared to write a big extra check. If that’s the agreement, fine, keep swinging and treat his recruitment like a lottery ticket. Just not sure that’s how that will go.

Ok, so if the deal here is that you’re gonna have to hold back 3, 3.5 mil of your NIL budget for the possibility of bringing on a kid who isn’t going gonna hit your campus until August so will have missed your entire summer program, has held your roster building hostage, is only gonna be there for 1 year and, oh yeah, you may not actually get him and have therefore failed to maximize your roster potential? Uh, no. Don’t care how talented he is, if that’s the timeline I’m down with moving on. You better have roster certainty in June.

Feels like one that would have probably preferred to stay but Royal and Bynum don’t fit particularly well and Bynum’s better.

Sampson confirmed he’s returning. Great