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What a fascinating career that guy’s having. His stat line is so weird and yet he’s a winning player.

WINNER 
Post-season stats- .245/.375/.557--- Top 3 all-time in post-season HRs
2x All star
2- World Series appearances (winning one)
4- League championship series
2-Wild card appearances 
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I'm still bummed out about 2021-- the man was on absolute FIRE and tore his hamstring. In the 21 games before that injury --- Kyle was hitting .338/.409/.974 with 16HRs --- he was traded to BOS at the trade deadline that year and tore it up in Fenway. They loved him. 
only played 113 games that year and still hit 32HR and 71RBI

Halfway to 500
 

I’m not sure how I’d rank guys with all the factors at play, but if you told me I had to pick a coach for a team without having any idea what the roster construction looked like, I’d take Underwood and wouldn’t even consider anyone else. That guy has won with such wildly different rosters and schemes that it’s almost tough to believe. 

He is a Guy. Love him. There’s video of a presser from when Kennesaw St made the tournament of the guy choking up talking about everything his kids had done to resurrect that program and, hell, I would have run through a wall for him. Some smart power conference AD is gonna hook that guy up and not have to worry about it again for 25 years.

That’s as good an endorsement of the kid as you could ask for. Even the highest profile factories still recruit to varying degrees. Montverde straight selects.

Gregg Doyel is the #9 trending topic in the US on Twitter right now for being an outright weirdo in Caitlin Clark’s Fever presser. Good work, Gregg!

If Woodson ends up with Rice, Carlyle, Essegian, Tucker, Malone, and Ballo in the spring, I saw we let him have a few days to golf.

Eric Bossi from last weekend's 3SSB event.  Thompson playing for Indiana Elite 16U.
Throughout the course of this past high school season word started to circulate out of Ohio that Anthony Thompson may be the next elite prospect from out of the state. 247Sports finally got a chance to get an in person look at the product of Lebabon (Ohio) High when he took the floor with Indiana Elite's 16U team. Based on what we had been told about Thompson, expectations were high and he not only met but exceeded them during two weekend viewings.
Standing around 6-foot-7, Thompson is a long-armed lefty with a beautiful looking jump shot, plus athleticism and an advanced skill set. Young for the class of 2026, Thompson won't turn 16 until August and also told us that he's grown around five inches in the last year or so. Odds are the growth spurt isn't done yet and whether he grows or not, Thompson has now commanded our attention and looks like he could be one of the premier small forward prospects in the class.
Thompson can be a bit deferential to teammates at times and could probably stand to be a bit more aggressive attacking the rim given his physical gifts, but he's got plenty of time to completely round out his game. College coaches are well aware of Thompson who already has offers from and has seen high majors like Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, and Xavier just to name a few.

And lived to tell about it.

I would agree that a healthy Newton probably has the highest ceiling, particularly defensively, though Rice seems to be more instinctive and Carlyle has more of a scoring mentality. But they didn’t play travel ball together. Newton played UA, Carlyle played EYBL and I think, could be wrong, that Rice played 3SSB. 

Don’t remember for sure where I heard it, might of been a YouTube video that was trailing him that I saw,, but I believe he said himself that it was originally diagnosed as a meniscus tear, but there turned out to be more to it. Made it sound like the procedure he had 3-4 months ago was not that big a deal and was precautionary though he wasn’t specific. 

I would agree that a healthy Newton probably has the highest ceiling, particularly defensively, though Rice seems to be more instinctive and Carlyle has more of a scoring mentality. But they didn’t play travel ball together. Newton played UA, Carlyle played EYBL and I think, could be wrong, that Rice played 3SSB. 

Watching my son play. He’s walking home if he’s not in the 30’s

It was misdiagnosed originally, he had a microfracture IIRC. He's had a few procedures on it. The procedure this year was reported as a knee scope but that wouldn't have kept him out all year.

Don’t remember for sure where I heard it, might of been a YouTube video that was trailing him that I saw,, but I believe he said himself that it was originally diagnosed as a meniscus tear, but there turned out to be more to it. Made it sound like the procedure he had 3-4 months ago was not that big a deal and was precautionary though he wasn’t specific. 

Can’t imagine he would. He’s gonna get starter’s minutes somewhere. 

I would agree that a healthy Newton probably has the highest ceiling, particularly defensively, though Rice seems to be more instinctive and Carlyle has more of a scoring mentality. But they didn’t play travel ball together. Newton played UA, Carlyle played EYBL and I think, could be wrong, that Rice played 3SSB. 

I'm here and BTownqb has it exactly right. Shot-making, especially from of our guards, was non-existent last year, and yes that includes the ability to shoot from the perimeter. But how many guys were effective shooting off the bounce in PnR? How many could get to the rim when they wanted? On top of converting? How many times did they get to the line because of their dynamics? That was by far and away our biggest issue last season, not "We PLaYeD THrOuGH THe  POsT".

Lot of posters really underselling Jakai and I fully understand why.  But if this kid can come back to 90%+ of what he was IMO he won't be the 11-13th player on the bench.  Maybe on the first day of the season but not by March.   

I thought I saw somewhere(maybe here, HSN or social media) that when Newton played with Rice and Kanaan all together on the AAU circuit while Ya was coaching and that Newton had a higher ceiling than Rice and Kanaan. 

Michigan transfer Tarris Reed has committed to #UCONN, @247Sports has learned. 2023-24 Stats: 9.0 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks per game on nearly 52 percent shooting from the field.

Always thought that looked like water damage from a leaky roof.

I’m not sure how I’d rank guys with all the factors at play, but if you told me I had to pick a coach for a team without having any idea what the roster construction looked like, I’d take Underwood and wouldn’t even consider anyone else. That guy has won with such wildly different rosters and schemes that it’s almost tough to believe. 

The last sentence confused me. He's a stretch 4, not a big. And other than Malik, MM, and MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE TG in a pinch... who on our roster can play the 4? and maybe more importantly, guard a 4? 
I think the way things stand now, it's obvious MM is going to play some 4.