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West side of St Louis, so a couple of hours. The last couple of years haven’t gotten to see nearly as many events as I used to. So, depending on conditions, would like to do Marshall County, Bass T of C and Quincy Shootout this year. Quincy and Bass have really good fields. We’ll see.

Gabe Wiznitzer to Louisville. Know CAM barely kicked the tires here, but I’ll always remember this kid for his awesome “highlight” reel that consisted of 5 minutes of other guys making plays.

If this sound hot takish, oh well, but to me Cassius Winston might be the best pure PG to play in the Big Ten since Isiah. Love him. 2nd team is just deeply stupid.

Casey and Mohammed are playing at the Quincy Shootout, which is a nice little 2 day event at the end of January. Really looking forward to watching Casey live, assuming we’re able to congregate by then.

I’ll be on Mohammed until he goes elsewhere. But you may be right about him being the best fit here. In the couple of games of Longino’s I was able to find, he is such an efficient kid. Doesn’t force shots. Doesn’t force his way into traffic. And that kid makes everything. Gave me a strong Klay Thompson vibe. Not gonna create much for himself, but he’ll be a monster running off screens. And I really like his frame and physicality for the B1G.

Not sure I’ve seen a kid play down an offer quite that pointedly, at least not lately. But of the 3 2’s CAM has offered, Wesley is easily my #3.

Nova is is

Not sure of the timing, but a quick perusal of his follows shows that he does, in fact, follow Archie and IUMBB and nothing from the other schools. Also follows John Camden.

Great question: off the top of my head: Joby Wright, Jim Thomas, Jeff Newton, Michael Lewis and Mike Woodson. Yeah, everyone knows Woodson was great, but I think he was the best and most versatile pure scorer at IU not named Calbert Cheaney in my basketball lifetime. So I absolutely consider him underrated.

Louis Lesmond to Harvard, per Bossi.

https://www.dailyherald.com/amp-article/20200612/sports/200619763/?__twitter_impression=true Nice article. Also confirms the obvious: that Justin and his parents have a fundamental misunderstanding of some of Justin’s shortcomings. Really seems convinced that his ineffectiveness on the wing was a function of development and use, which is just flat wrong.

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/10450671/5e74fda7e985870d2cbdb473 Not as ridiculous as it appears at first blush. Yeah, the body is a mile away and the athleticism may or may not get there. But he can run. Hands look fine. Has a little jump hook over either shoulder and seems to finish comfortably with both hands. The shot looks clean and flashes range. Would like to see much more, obviously, but the kid looks like kind of the textbook example of a redshirt candidate.

If you want to watch a full game of Thornton, this is a REALLY good one. Grayson has Deivon Smith, who’s a 4-star ‘20 PG going to Miss St. He has a good game. Thornton has a great one. He’s a fun kid to watch. Has some Chris Paul to his game. With the exception of a couple of plays late, he was always under control. Very patient. Really plays with vision. Shows a lot of variety in his offensive game. Passes were crisp and accurate. Made 3 separate really good defensive plays. Oh, and he pretty much made everything. Scores at all 3 levels. Finished with 40 or so. If this is one of the games that Archie watched, yeah, you make an exception to your offer rule here. btw: it’s a really good game, goes down to the buzzer.

Ok, this is the best thing I’ve read today: per Baumgart JaQuan Lyle has graduated from UNM and is looking to grad transfer to help his draft stock. If he plays somewhere he would finish the year at 25.

Agree. I like that system and pace a lot for him.

Apparently going to Arkansas, per Brian Snow. Musselman is a flat out closer with transfers.

2 things from this: 1) team captain as a Freshman is impressive as hell, love it. 2) “Miller obtained two game films, and that was enough,” evokes images of Archie watching black and white reel to reel of Thornton lacin’ ‘em up verses Terhune.

Also saw that they’ve got Julian Norris now at #136. Have watched as much as I can find of him, which isn’t a bunch, and I think he’s a really intriguing kid. Like his length, movement, great stroke, and he’s willing to absorb contact to finish plays. Love young guards who play through contact. That’s my biggest issue with Wesley, he shies away from contact. Norris weighs all of 170 and plays through it no problem. He’s on my must see list for this winter.

Harmon sent out a tweet maybe a moth ago musing on things for Mohammed to work on without AAU obligations. I responded that I thought the kid needed to develop a really effective catch and shoot game to most efficiently pair him with an elite primary creator. Mentioned that I thought his footwork and gather were a little sloppy off the catch. Didn’t give it another thought. A couple of weeks later he posts video of him putting the kid through a series of drills coming off baseline pin downs and squaring up for wing jumpers. Mentions specifically working on his gather. Yeah, I’ve got that kind of juice.

Wow, how many years has that kid played? Saw this and the 1st thing I thought of was Bluto saying, “7 years of college down the drain.”

Love the fit geographically and, obviously, academically. But Collins runs so much motion with so many reads. Smith just doesn’t process nearly quickly enough for that, imo.

https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/wednesday-s-leftovers-uk-s-first-2021-commit-syracuse-targets-2023-stars Not posting this for any IU information. Posting it because it refers to the “grandson of Milt Wagner.” Not sure I’ve read anything in my entire life that has made me feel older than that.

Like him a lot, and only saw a couple of his games, but don’t recall seeing him display any explosive qualities at all. None. Matter of fact, if I were writing him up I would have described him as a little heavy-legged. Liked him for skills, not traits. If this is a function of him starting to physically mature then the no AAU season really was a huge break for Archie. Or maybe I just got the kid really wrong.

Gus Etchison to Western Michigan, per Baumgart. Enjoyed my couple of viewings of him. Kid’s gonna have a good run in the MAC. If he’s able to fill out can see him being a popular high major grad transfer down the road.