Class of '66 Old Fart

Tried a New Holland Mad Hatter IPA tonight. A little on the hoppy side but not all that bad although I still prefer Belle's Two Hearted Ale. Sorry no pictures! :-( https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/335/2904/

I should have added, is that what was actually said by CTC or is it what Scruggs thought he heard (or wanted to hear)? Definitely an interesting article since supposedly there is a "to Xavier" announcement tonight.

Hats off to Emerson for sharing the above. Unless it's the truly exceptional recruit does any coach honestly make this statement to a recruit, "They told me that I would start as a freshman...." With what we know as outsiders at this time, it's pretty hard for me to envision CTC telling him that or quite honestly projecting that Scruggs would move ahead of this year's incoming guard recruits let alone over RoJo or JBJ should he stay (I've lost track does Newkirk have 1or 2 yrs. left?).

A nice piece from the NY Times on Derek Drouin's unusual high jump technique. Scroll or use the arrow keys in the lower right hand corner to advance the presentation. nyti.ms/2b8w3Jk

And our '17 forward targets Brian Bowen '17 (SF) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 22 Games Avg 19.9 45% 24% 76% 7 2 3 1 Zach Gunn '17 (SF) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 17 Games Avg 7.6 46% 31% 71% 5 1 1 1 Jaren Jackson '17 (PF) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 21 Games Avg 15.7 45% 44% 80% 7 1 2 1 Jermaine Samuels Jr. '17 (SF) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 22 Games Avg 13.4 46% 33% 73% 7 2 2 1 Justin Smith '17 (SF) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 13 Games Avg 10.3 43% 26% 40% 4 1 2 1 Jordan Tucker '17 (SF) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 22 Games Avg 15.3 41% 44% 77% 4 2 1 1 Kris Wilkes '17 (SF) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 15 Games Avg 18.3 53% 24% 55% 7 1 2 2

'17 SG targets and our '17 commit Al Durham Chaundee Brown - '17 (SG) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Avg 19.9 52% 42% 84% 6 2 2 1 18 Games Hamidou Diallo '17 (SG) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 20 Games Avg 19.0 45% 22% 63% 6 2 2 2 Al Durham '17 (SG) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 16 Games Avg 14.9 32% 25% 75% 5 4 3 1 Brandon Randolph '17 (SG) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 20 Games Avg 15.5 47% 38% 87% 3 1 1 1 Lonnie Walker '17 (SG) Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 21 Games Avg 16.6 45% 39% 72% 5 3 2 1

FWIW and because I have all these statistics..... Here's a synopsis of how our '17 PG targets fared during their respective AAU seasons. And before someone jumps up and down that I missed so and so; yes, I probably did. Jose Alvarado '17 (PG) - The Rens 2016 EYBL Season Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Avg 11.3 40% 37% 70% 4 5 2 2 20 Games David Beatty '17 (PG) - Team Philly Pride Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 12 Games Avg 14 45% 35% 69% 3 3 2 1 0 Alex Barcello '17 (PG) - Oakland Soldiers 2016 EYBL Season 0 Date ` FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Avg 18.9 45% 37% 82% 4 3 2 1 15 Games Matt Coleman '17 (PG) - Boo Williams 2016 EYBL Season Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 15 Games Avg 12.5 53% 21% 73% 3 3 3 1 Paul Scruggs '17 (PG) - Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 12 Games Avg 14.1 60% 54% 72% 6 5 2 1 Isaiah Washington '17 (PG) - New Heights 17U Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 12 Games Avg 13.6 39% 30% 71% 5 5 2 1 Tremont Waters '17 (PG) - Expressions Elite 2016 EYBL Season Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 21 Games Avg 13.2 41% 34% 85% 4 5 3 2 Nick Weatherspoon '17 (PG) - MBA Hoops Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 16 Games Avg 22.1 42% 36% 79% 4.8 3.5 2.9 1.3 Trevon Duval '17 (PG) - WE R1 Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. 16 Games Avg 16.5 39.9% 43.0% 61.4% 5 5 3 2

PUke has offered and Duke and Notre Dame are knocking at the door.

Virginia native and five-star shooting guard Keldon Johnson will transfer to Huntington Prep (WV) for the coming season.

2016 AAU stats on the Nike EYBL circuit. [With all the offers we throw out, I think I'm going to ask CTC for an administrative assistant! ] Alex Barcello '17 (PG) - Oakland Soldiers 2016 EYBL Season 0 Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 4/16 11 4 13 0 5 3 5 7 3 0 0 0 4/16 6 2 10 2 3 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 4/17 17 6 15 1 7 4 4 1 1 1 1 0 4/22 21 8 16 4 9 2 4 1 2 3 1 0 4/23 2 1 6 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 4/23 25 10 21 1 4 4 4 4 0 2 4 0 4/24 21 9 16 1 4 2 2 6 1 2 1 0 5/13 24 6 10 5 6 7 8 5 3 3 1 0 5/14 21 9 18 3 7 0 0 7 3 0 1 0 5/14 0 0 6 0 3 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 5/15 22 8 14 2 5 4 4 4 5 1 2 0 5/28 30 7 20 2 7 14 17 7 1 6 5 0 5/28 14 5 18 2 4 2 2 3 3 0 1 0 5/29 27 11 17 4 7 1 2 5 5 3 4 0 5/29 26 9 19 4 9 4 4 3 7 2 0 0 5/30 36 13 20 2 7 8 9 3 3 3 0 1 Team Did Not Qualify For Peach Jam Tournament Avg 18.9 45% 37% 82% 4 3 2 1

We can stop wasting our time chasing this particular rainbow and maybe for the most part we already had. Always wondered when a coach sees the writing on the wall and continues the recruiting effort but on a much less concerted effort in order to devote resources in another more promising direction.

From 247Sports: Indiana is the latest offer for 2018 five-star shooting guard Keldon Johnson per recruiting analyst Pat Lawless. His prior offer was from Georgia Tech. Johnson, 6-4, 200-pounds from South Hill (Va.) Park View High School, is a superb athlete who loves to attach off the dribble. He is ranked No. 19 in the 247Sports Composite.

Doesn't appear to be any real IU interest but Nunge did pick up his second B1G offer, this one from Nebraska. Supposedly Stanford still recruiting him but hasn't offered.

From Hutch at the Anderson Herald-Bulletin Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Today’s Hoosiers Insider Blog will look at the top kids playing high school basketball in the state of Indiana in the class of 2018. And with Indiana picking up its third football commitment in the last four days, we'll take a look at that, too. On Monday, I had a blog that looked at the top high school basketball players in the state of Indiana for the 2017 class. I talked about how there’s a lot of information out there from a lot of good people that focus on recruiting first. Indiana is filled with good recruiting reporting at sites like Scout, Rivals, 247 Sports and Inside the Hall to name a few. Myself, I do my best to keep up. When you’re a beat writer covering college football and basketball, you end up wearing several hats. Staying current with the recruiting scene is one of them. In compiling this list of the top 10 high school basketball players who will be playing basketball in the state in the 2018 class, I looked at several sources. One of the ones I found the most user friendly and balanced was the composite top 150 for 247 Sports. So I’ll refer to that list to give a top 10 Indiana basketball kids in the class of 2017. Here’s how that top 10 looks according to 247 Sports: Romeo Langford (New Albany) SF, 6-5, 191 Kevin Easley (Lawrence North) SF, 6-6, 210 Musa Jallow (Bloomington North) SF, 6-5, 195 Damezi Anderson (South Bend Riley) SF, 6-6, 175 Kevin Zhang (La Lumiere) SF, 6-6, 175 Robert Phinisee (McCutcheon) PG, 5-11, 160 Eric Hunter (Tindley Prep) SG, 6-3, 165 Aaron Henry (Ben Davis) SF, 6-5, 185 Austin Boucher (Fort Wayne South) CG, 6-3, 165 Gavin Bizeau (Plainfield) C, 6-11, 181 Of the group, Langford is the one who stands out. He’s the No. 2 ranked player overall in that class by 247 Sports, Rivals and Scout. He has offers from all of the usual suspects including Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, Louisville and Kansas. Purdue is there as well. Just how much of a gap is there between Langford and the rest of the field when it comes to 2018 state of Indiana kids? After Langford at No. 2, Kevin Easley is in the No. 105 spot in the 247 Sports rankings. Musa Jallow is No. 112, Damezi Anderson is No. 117 and Kevin Zhang is No. 149. No one in the class is committed at this point and it’s still a little early for that. Perhaps by the spring in a few of the cases, there could be some movement on that front. Both Indiana and Purdue are on all of the top 10 and have offers out to several of them. This coming season, their junior year of high school, will dictate a lot of their movement in terms of where they could be leaning with college choices.

Kansas has offered.

Committed to West Virginnie today.

In the finale of the Adidas event, neither Mo Bamba nor Nick Weatherspoon played for Team Rose in its 3rd place win over Team Africa. In the championship game Team Harden (loaded with talent as HoosierAloha noted) beat Team Canada 123 - 96. Hamidou Diallo with 12 pts. on 5 of 8 FG's; no 3's; 2 of 3 FT's; 3 reb; 2 asst; 5 TO's; 1stl; no blk in 19 min. Trevon Duval with 7 pts. on 2 of 7 FG's; 0 for 1 on 3's; 3 of 4 FT's; 3 reb; 2 asst; 1 TO; 1 stl; no blk in 21 min. Team Harden had 7 players in double figures!

Auburn has offered.

Because Thomas Bryant participated in this Adidas event on the college roster, I'll put his event stats in this post. Sunday night's games from the Adidas Global Nations event. Deng Gak (Team Asia Pacific): 1 pt. on 0 for 3 FG's; no 3's; 1 of 2 FT's; 3 reb; 0 asst; 1 TO; 2 stls; 1 blk in only 9 min. of court time. Tyler Herro (Team Lillard): 5 pts. on 2 of 7 FG's; 1 of 3 on 3's; no FT's; 3 reb; 1 asst; 0 TO; 1 stl; 0 blk in 22 min. Their respective teams were in the consolation bracket. Tonight at 8:00 ET Mo Bamba and Nick Weatherspoon (Team Rose) play Team Africa for 3rd place and at 10:00 ET Hamidou Diallo and Trevon Duval (Team Harden) take on Team Canada for the championship. Both of these games will be televised on ESPNU. I've seen one tweet to the effect that Weatherspoon will not play because of an injury.

This thread got me tuned into the Jack Reacher and Pike Logan books and their oftentimes very physical and graphic narratives. The Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter offers a change of pace. Set in England, Morse is a Chief Inspector but not without his personal flaws. These books don't have the brutality of the Reacher and Logan books but I think the story lines are well-written and enjoyable reading.

From the Indy Star: Kris Wilkes top 11 schools: Indiana, Xavier, Butler, UCLA, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Washington, Arizona, UConn.

4th round Adidas Global Nations: T. Herro: 3 pts on 1 of 3 FG's; 0 for 1 on 3's; 1 of 2 FT's; 0 reb; 0 asst; 4 TO; 2 stl; 0 blk in 17 min. H. Diallo: 10 pts. on 3 of 6 FG's; 0 for 1 on 3's; 4 of 6 FT's; 3 reb; 2 asst; 2 TO's; 2 stls; 0 blk in 22 min. T. Duval did not play in this game. D. Gak: 8 pts. on 4 of 7 FG's; no 3's; no FT's; 6 reb; 1 asst; 2 TO's; 0 stl; 1 blk in 25 min. N. Weatherspoon: Name is in the box score but no evidence he played. Mo Bamba's name does not appear in the box score.

3rd round Adidas Global Nations: Special guest appearance by Mo Bamba: 18 pts. on 8 of 11 FG's; 0 for 2 on 3's; 2 of 4 FT's; 5 reb; 0 asst, TO and stl; 1 blk in 19 pretty productive min. Of course, he hadn't played in the 2 previous games so he wasn't tired. Bamba teammate Nick Weatherspoon: 12 pts. on 6 of 12 FG's; 0 for 2 on 3's; no FT's; 2 reb; 1 asst; 0 TO, stl and blk in 26 min. Tyler Herro rough evening: 3 pts. on 1 of 10 FG's; 1 of 6 on 3's; 0 FT's; 5 reb; 0 asst; 1 TO; 0 stl and blk in only 6 min. Wasn't foul trouble; maybe injured?? Deng Gak: 14 pts. on 6 of 7 FG's; no 3's; 2 of 5 FT's; 5 reb; 0 asst; 4 TO's; 0 stl and blk in 29 min. Hamidou Diallo: 7 pts on 3 of 4 FG's; 1 of 1 on 3's; 0 for 2 FT's; 1 reb; 4 asst; 1 TO; 2 stls; 1 blk in 16 min. Diallo teammate Trevon Duval: 11 pts. on 5 of 9 FG's; 0 for 2 on 3's; 1 of 1 FT's; 2 reb; 8 asst; 4 TO'; 2 stl; 1 blk in 20 min. Again, Romeo Langford apparently not participating. 4th round scheduled for 2:15 ET. Tournament play based on 4 game record slated to start at 10pm ET. 3rd place game on Monday at 8:00pm ET and championship game at 10:00pm ET.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/kevin-sumlin-is-running-out-of-strikes-at-texas-am-152316215.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma Pat Forde doing a number on Kevin Sumlin of Texas A & M for a female chalk talk $80.00/plate dinner that bordered on the lewd and vulgar.

2nd round of Adidas Global event: D. Gak with 8 pts. on 3 of 8 FG's 0 for 1 on 3's; 2 of 2 FT's; 3 reb; 0 asst; 1 TO; no blks or stls in 17 min. H. Diallo with 7 pts. on 3 of 6 FG's; 1 of 2 on 3's; no FT's; 2 reb; 1 asst; 1 TO; no blks. or stls in 17 min. T. Duval with 24 pts. on 7 of 9 FG's; 3 of 5 on 3's; 7 of 9 FT's; 3 reb; 2 asst; 6 TO's no blks; 1 stl. in 19 min. [Nice game until you see the 6 TO's.] N. Weatherspoon with 14 pts. on 5 of 10 FG's; 2 of 4 on 3's; 2 of 2 on FT's; 1 reb; 1 asst; 2 TO's; 0 blk; 1 stl in 16 min. [Again, no evidence that Mo Bamba is in attendance. T. Herro with 17 pts. on 7 of 9 FG's; 3 of 4 on 3's; no FT's; 2 reb; 1 asst; 1 TO; no blks or stls in 32 min. Romeo Langford was scheduled to play for Team Wiggins, however, once again he's not listed in the box score and apparently not in attendance.