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I must have missed his good games. All I ever saw was a tough kid, kind of a Brad Davison type, except he couldn’t shoot, to the extent that teams were always playing under his ball screens. Not sure what purpose that serves on this roster.

My inclination would be no, though I wouldn’t be that bothered if it happened. But here’s my question: Would you allow ‘20 signees to unilaterally rescind their commitments if a significant factor in their decision was roster construction and available minutes that would then change if a Sr was allowed another year? Seems like the logical extension of that idea.

i don’t know if the kid can play at all, but this is hysterical and must be shared. Shows him playing in pick and roll......and not getting the ball. Posting up.....and not getting the ball. Running the floor.......and not getting the ball. In this 5 minute clip, with his name in the title, mind you, he touches the ball a total of 4 times. 3 baskets, including dunking on a kid, and 1 terrible turnover. Also commits, not 1, but 2 and 1 fouls. Who posts this?

Don’t really know what think of it, and maybe my sample size is too small, but Landers’ play really, really seems to have elevated since he committed. He was pretty up and down in the games of his I watched earlier in the year. Example: in the CBC(Caleb Love) game he was flat out bad in the 1st half and pretty good in the 2nd. Watched a couple of others where his talent far outran his actual play. I know he’s had an ankle, so maybe it’s health related, but since he committed he’s been absolutely killing people. Glad to see it.

I keep thinking of the alley oop that Vic missed and this kid would have flushed it.

The sheer effortlessness of his explosion....not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. The block at the 3:43 mark, Jesus, he doesn’t even gather. Incredible. Even if the kid’s game never fully develops, he’s gonna make some plays that people never stop talking about.

Obviously if there was ever a ship on this one it sailed with the Lander commitment, but Rudi Williams was named his conference POY.

Interesting information. After the game I saw that Bruiser went to a couple of months back he and Harmon were hanging out and absolutely looked like boys. I mean really laughing it up. So I’ve assumed all along that their relationship was where this jumped off. If he’s an IU fan and they have a great relationship as well so much the better. Have thought all along that this was pretty unlikely to come together. But starting to develop some guarded optimism.

Jimmy Jackson with the best “feed the narrative” line of the day so far: the Harris kid from Providence knocks a ball away from Colin Gillespie, saves it from going out of bounds and it results in a tie up that goes to Nova. Webber proceeds to extol the hustle play by Gillespie. The Providence kid literally outhustled him to the ball. But he’s not the kid with the name.

Is there an example of a kid announcing an intention to reclassify who then wasn’t able to or ultimately didn’t? Off the top of my head I can’t think of 1.

Archbishop Carroll is in the same conference as DeMatha and Gonzaga, which have obviously produced an insane amount of talent, and Muhammad was 1st team all-conference as a freshman. Averaged something like 18 and 10.

You’ve seen more of his streams than I have, but that assessment strikes me as dead accurate.

If Lander wants to reclassify, that’s obviously up to him and his family. But Vonleh had the body of a 25 year old man. Lander has the body of a 17 year old kid.

I’ve written some above about the nature of his school’s competition. But a couple of things to maybe assuage your concerns: 1) Mohammed was the leading scorer at last summer’s Pangos 100 camp, which included, among many others, Jonathon Kuminga, Cade Cunningham, Paolo Banchero and Terrance Clarke. 2) He was one of the leading scorers on the EYBL circuit last year while playing up a year for Boo Williams. He was the leading scorer on a team that included Cam Thomas, who’s a top 25 type kid going to LSU. So, yeah, he’s beating the hell out of a lot of HS kids who have no chance against him. But he’s done the same against some of the best players in the country. The kid is really, really good. If anything, his level of HS competition might be depressing his ratings some. If he was playing for a basketball factory he’d be a top 5-8 type kid, even in a class as good as ‘21. IU’s roster is likely to include several similarly sized wing guards in ‘21-22. In this case, I don’t care. Mohammed is on a different level from them. If he wants to come, you take him and figure it out. He’s a 15-17 pts/gm guy the day he walks on campus. fwiw

If anyone ever wants to see the value of an orchestrator on offense, they need to watch Rutgers’ last possession. 20 seconds and they ran nothing at all.

Not sure the kid is really physically ready to play in the Big Ten, but there are 2 things he can absolutely do. He can really ratchet up ball pressure on the perimeter. And he is a rocket end to end. So if Archie is really serious about upping pace of play, and I’ve been skeptical of that, Lander can be a big piece of that. Very nice get.

What?

Crane is supposedly a pretty decent small school team. They have some mutual opponents that Greenwood beat worse in every case. Nobody else would have any shot unless Mohammed rolls an ankle or some such. Would be pretty shocking if his season ends next week.

Yeah, that’s the only 1 I’d seen, and it’s better than most. Shows a variety of skills. But wouldn’t you think these days even a junior college would stream it’s games? Kills me because I would really like to see this kid play a game. He looks a little better to me than his offer list.

I’ve been trying to find a live stream or some extended footage of this kid since you mentioned him last month. Nothing. Just the 1 YouTube clip that’s already posted. Fascinating. A bear can be eating some dude in the middle of nowhere and a random hiker ends up filming it, but I can’t find game footage of a college basketball player.

Not able to watch but flipped through the box score. Shows Mich with 1 turnover. Is that right?

The more I see of him the more I see him maybe evolving into, an admittedly unconventional, Ty Jerome-type PG. Yeah, the shooting needs to get better, and I think it probably will. But I love the vision and instincts and the defense will absolutely play. Watching him defend Jalen Blackmon last year was eye opening. He flat smothered that kid. He had no problem staying frontal, he fought over every screen and he contested everything. And even if the shooting doesn’t come he has a chance to be a really tough matchup for a lot of pg’s with his sheer size and physicality.

Ordinarily I’d agree with you on the timing not being ideal. But, actually, I like it in this case for 3 reasons: 1) The kid’s already seen a game at AH(Maryland). 2) He’s too late to see a game on campus, but that also means he’s too late to see one anywhere else(Md, Louisville). 3) If what I have been told is correct, this will be Mohammed’s 4th visit to Bloomington in something like 18 mos. So a chance to get a really focused look at the school and the program outside of the season may be exactly what he’s looking to see.

State Tournament starts next Monday for the 3 smaller classes. Somewhat similar to Indiana, but a week shorter. Open with District play, equivalent of sectionals. Usually 8 teams per district. 16 districts. Top 4 teams are seeded. Greenwood is in, I believe, District 11 and would play Mon/Thurs/Sat. The 16 winners play down to 4 Wed/Sat the following week. The final 4 would play 3/13-14 at Mo St, which is literally across the street from the Greenwood campus. So if Mohammed is, in fact, going to take a Jr OV to Bloomington, barring a fairly shocking upset, it would be after 3/14.

Yeah, great call. And somebody needs to tell Anthony Leal to study Mitchell Ballock every night. Love that kid’s game.