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Taylor’s a spectacular example of how the changes in the game have impacted recruiting profiles. He’s not as good, but physically he’s basically Ralph Sampson. He might be 7’2” and he has the feet and movement skills of a 6’7” kid. 30 years ago he might have been the number 1 kid in the class and everyone would have been on him. Now he’s just a highly regarded kid who’s profiled as a rim protector and finisher.

Luigi Suigo signed with KK Mega. So he’ll play against IU in Puerto Rico.

The “Baylor will help me grow closer to God” thing from his 247 interview seems kind of tough to overcome but I have faith in our student body’s ability to corrupt him on a visit.

Serbia stays unbeaten with a 14pt win over Ukraine. Ristic with 12pts and 11 assists.

https://x.com/HaterReport_/status/1944966570939232744/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1944966570939232744&currentTweetUser=HaterReport_ God, obviously the poster/dunk has been everywhere, but I had not seen the Sportscenter anchors breaking down howling at the kid. He’ll never live this down.

Announces a final 7 of IU, Miami, Cincinnati, Providence, Illinois, Florida St and Texas per Tipton.

Of all the things the NCAA has just summarily punted on, holding fast to playing at the end of the year rather than the beginning is pretty incomprehensible.

https://www.on3.com/teams/indiana-hoosiers/news/2026-commit-prince-alexander-moody-has-fully-embraced-hoosier-nation-being-a-hoosier-is-a-privilege/ I swear, Moody’s parents should give classes. They raised a really good kid.

Well, that’s pretty hideous. But it does suggest the question: if you’re gonna have a bison mascot isn’t the clear next step with that creating videos for the home games of a bison just trampling the living F out of Day or Bielema or whomever the visiting HC is to be playing on the video screen as you’re taking the field? This just feels obvious to me.

Nolan Smith, who was K’s lead recruiter and then Penny’s, is apparently taking the Tennessee St HC gig, per Rothstein.

Yeah, there are gonna be some matchups that’ll be a problem. But in these 3 games now, with the exception of flat losing a baseline cutter in this game, he’s shown really good awareness and he’s been assignment sound. There was a play in the 1st half where his guy took a handoff and was trying to drive Ristic towards a screen but he read it immediately, I’m sure it was part of the scout, and he quartered the guy and forced him wide of the screen and he was able to climb over it no problem. When he can process and execute like that, and that may take a minute at B1G speed, I think he’ll hold up ok. He’s not JBJ where you just know he’s got no chance.

5. And 1 thing that makes it a little easier to keep track of him, because Serbia’s guards all kind of look the same, particularly if you’re watching on like an iPad instead of a tv, is that Ristic has bright orange shoelaces that really stand out. Seriously, that sounds really dumb but it helps.

Not sure I’m clear here, are we talking about an actual Bison?

Kayden’s a pleasure to watch. Kid’s a bulldog. Penn St did really well there. And I agree that Dylan’s not a true PG while the other 2 kids definitely are. But Dylan’s said that he thinks he is and whomever’s in on him will recruit him that way for sure.

Looking forward to watching it tonight. France was also undefeated in group, so Serbia wins their group stage.

Per Rothstein, Greg McDermott says he’s going to coach 2-3 more years before handing it off to Alan Huss. I assumed when they made that move with Huss McDermott was doing 1 more year. 3 years would be a pretty long apprenticeship.

Taylor portalled, right? Is baseball NIL enough to possibly top a 2nd round baseball contract?

The big fish would almost certainly be 1 of the PG’s, particularly if they’re now trying to get in on Mingo. 1 of the PG’s, Moody, Allmond and 1 of the 5’s, say Taylor, would be a really nice class. I watched a few of Derkack’s EYBL games while I was watching Jackson and didn’t love him, though I did like him more than Jackson because he was just more aggressive on both ends. If they want him, ok.

Off the top of my head that looks right, though it hurts this old heart to not include Chronister.

https://247sports.com/college/basketball/recruiting/longformarticle/new-balance-p32-four-star-ponder-a-dominant-force-as-others-play-onto-the-national-radar-251721567/ Bossi with thoughts on Ponder from this weekend. Kind of annoyed because this event was in my backyard and I didn’t know a thing about it. Would have absolutely checked this kid out.

And finished off the event with 35 on 17 shots today according to Rabby. Kid had a monster week.

Ristic played really well today other than just not making shots. Actually better than yesterday. He’s very composed and aware and he just doesn’t make mistakes. Also had the play of the game by straight breaking a kid’s ankles on a crossover and finishing with, swear to God, about a 6’ George Gervin-style finger roll. In this era of floaters I didn’t think anyone still had that one in the bag. Watched it several times. Btw, Slovenia blows. It could have been worse. Their paint defense was so bad that Serbia was just pounding them at the rim. Woody would have been proud.

Pretty clear they’re really invested in the high end 1’s and the high end 5’s. Would think among the 1’s they’re in on Mingo would be by far the hardest one to get. But they’ve got a bunch of money and the keys to the car to give one of them. Someone’s gonna take them up on it.

And 2 steals where kids were trying to throw hit ahead passes over him maybe 5 feet from him and he just went up and caught’em. Athletically, that kid is rare.

Yeah, Mingo’s 1 of those kids who has an offer even if he doesn’t. He can go anywhere.