Demo

He’s got the Nick Zeisloft stat line. Played over 900 minutes and took 45 2pt looks and 16 free throws. Actually, that’s probably harsh on Nick.

Shot lights out at the Chipotle Nationals. Hair trigger release and NBA range. Kind of a 1 trick pony on offense, but if you're gonna have 1 trick he's got the right one. Should be able to defend and competed hard.

The reason every decent player jumps in the portal. A catch and shoot guy from the A-10 is about to cash a big check.

Maybe, but that kid’s built like a stick figure. If he’s gonna have any chance to defend size in the B1G he needs to add probably 25lbs.

Unsurprising

So, basically, OSU has traded Gayle and Okpara for Bradshaw and Meechie Johnson. Unless Bradshaw blows up I’m struggling to see how they’ve gotten better. I’d take Gayle over Johnson straight up without a thought.

I agree. I don't see how a kid like him looks at our 6 scholarship guards, out MCDAA freshman wing and our MCDAA combo forward and sees an obvious path to sustained rotation minutes. They may be there and that may not be there at all. I imagine they'll be able to fill the backup 4-5 fairly easily because they can sell that as 20 minute rotational role, though barring injury I doubt that's how that will actually go, but for a wing shooter that's gonna be tough.

I’m sure that’s right. The Max Bielfeldt’s and Anthony Walker’s of the world, experienced guys willing to take undefined roles that could be very small, are tough pulls.

I like him as a piece over the course of a season because on the 2nd night of some back to back in January he’s gonna be the hardest playin’ dude on the floor and probably steal you a couple of games. But playoff basketball mitigates every single thing he brings you. And when he’s shot hunting, man.

I know NBA coaches are slavishly devoted to their rotations, particularly early in games, and Carlisle’s fantastic, but the fact that Ben Sheppard just played 4 mins in the 1st qtr of the Pacers’ 1st playoff game in forever is, frankly, insane.

Like the fit with Ron Hunter. Best of success to Kaleb.

It’s always a hoot where some of those end up. I’m 6’4” and the number of kids listed as 6’5”, because that’s the magic number for college wings, that I’ve looked down on has always made me laugh. Happened just a couple of weeks ago with VJ Edgecombe. Listed at 6’5” and I’m taller than he is.

So if they’d brought on Essegian or Hickman they’d look at this team significantly differently? These guys wear their hot take stupidity like a freaking merit badge.

So Rice is 6’4”, so much the better. And I don’t know if it’s actually true, but’s it’s always seemed to me like girl’s measurements are almost always accurate while a decent percentage of boy’s are definitely exaggerated.

Seems pretty straightforward. Competing for a B1G championship. Competing for a B1G tournament championship(they’ve never won it, that needs to happen). 2nd week tournament team. From there it’s about matchup and how you play in 1 given game.

That’s better than average. Question: Is Carlyle a legit 6’3”? Curious because he and Rice are both listed 6’3” and yet in that picture from their visit Rice is clearly taller. So either Rice is 6’4” or Carlyle is 6’2”.

Not sure OSU came out ahead on that one. Maybe offensively, but Okpara’s a defensive menace and plays with his hair on fire every minute.

Was a little worried early when you just knew they’d been in hard on Carlyle that he was looking for a primary ball handling roll and he can be a little wild and crazy and sometimes crosses the line between playing fast and out of control and those things in your primary could yield a fair amount of team inconsistency. But pairing him with a rock solid natural PG in Rice and the presence of a kid like Galloway can temper a lot of that and is an almost perfect setting for him. I fully expect Carlyle to be a monster.

He was also young for the class. He hit campus at Gonzaga at 17. He’ll play his entire year this year at 22.

Check out the 2 pictures of Rice. Those are minimum 2 1/2 years apart and that kid had added no bulk at all. Obviously the cancer treatment was a huge factor, but that’s pretty striking. Ok, Cliff, get to work. We need 15lbs on that kid by November.

Remember Ya doing a, I believe, Hysterics podcast the summer he was hired and talking about how IU was a different environment and not everybody’s wired for this and what a consideration that was in extending offers and thinking, “Oh, so that’s why they’re not offering Kanaan Carlyle.” Yeah, I’m a freaking genius.

Would love to see the look on Cooper Flagg’s face the 1st time he tries to post Gillis in some June pick up game and catches 1 of those surgically accurate Purdue elbows right in his kidney as Gillis is flopping and calling him for an offensive foul.

I am floored by this. A new Libertines album for the 1st time in gotta be 10 years. I just assumed one of those dudes would have killed the other ages ago. Always liked them. Their best music is terrific, though the range of outcomes was always pretty wide. Haven’t listened to it yet, but really happy that they’re still alive and kicking.

He was the kid with the sort of weird push shot, right, or am I thinking of the wrong kid?