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In that case, even better!

Technology is wild.

I would try and sell Romeo on a James Harden type role. He's the same size Harden was coming out of high school, and I think that's his best chance at big time success in the NBA. Archie can help him learn to run the point.

I prefer your plan too. We seem to be in good position with several great '19 prospects, so if we miss on the home runs in this class I would rather bank the extra scholarships.

If we land a point guard soon, do you guys think we'll put the full court press on Romeo and then focus the rest of our attention on guys in '19? Or do you think we'll keep recruiting some of the other guards we've been recruiting in the '18 class?

Any chance over 0% is too high. No recruit would've been worth another go around on that roller coaster.

From an entertainment perspective I think it'd be interesting if they brought in a couple non-NBA players to compete in it. Have a contest beforehand where the top two guys get to be in the all-star dunk contest. There's only so many dunks out there so something like that would bring in a new touch.

That's crazy. I remember reading about how they'd play home games at Akron's arena because so many people wanted to go. Like you said, that circus was without any social media. I can't even imagine what it would've been like with today's technology.

I would sneak out of my room after my bedtime to watch his high school games on ESPN lol. I remember my dad saying something along the lines of "no one will remember him a few years from now" meaning that he'd just be another phenom that didn't live up to the hype, so I like giving him a hard time about that every now and then.

I think I still have that one recorded somewhere. I went to the 2007 Burger Boy dunk contest but I never remembered that Blake Griffin won it that year until I was going through old family videos a few months ago. There was a lot of talent there that year with Kevin Love, D Rose, Eric Gordon, James Harden and Griffin all on the team.

Some people never learn. What a waste.

I don't think he ever did the dunk contest because he's more of a power dunker. His style of dunking isn't flashy or conducive to a dunk contest. I kind of like how the dunk contest has been in recent years where it's largely up and coming players trying to make a name for themselves rather than established stars. It gives some attention to new faces.

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Yeah I don't know why they included that either lol. Everything else is solid but including all star game MVP seems dumb to me.

This is an interesting graphic I found.

Yeah, it stands for Middle School Bob. I'm not entirely sure of the origin but the legend of MSB grows to this day.

If he would have to take 37 out of town he'd still be around for awhile.

He took on 5 thugs at once, wisdom teeth are no match for him!

You mean you didn't like Stan Robinson on AJ Hammons??

Awesome, I'm gonna check it out. Thanks man!

That'd be a solid deal. Would that be on the IU ticket website?

I just graduated this past May. My student ID is still valid through August of 2018 though. A couple of years ago I bought a single game student ticket for a friend that had just graduated and it worked for him so I'm hoping to be able to do something similar.

Man I'm really hoping I can find someone to hook me up with a student ticket. With gameday coming the ticket prices will be too dang high.

I have to actually correct myself. LeBron is 11-9 in elimination games, not 10-9. Anyway, what do you think is a good indicator? The "eye test" isn't a reliable indicator because no two people's eyes will see the same thing. I think that "clutch" means that a player comes up big for his team when they need him the most. There's no time that a team needs a star player more than when they are facing elimination. Elimination games are "do or die", win or go home. We're not talking about 3 or 4 games. Lebron has played in 20 of them. It's plenty big enough to use as a sample size. That's a huge number of elimination games for a player to play in during his career.

It's not just ppg. His numbers in elimination games are better than his career playoffs averages. He elevates his play when he faces elimination. If he was choking then his elimination numbers wouldn't be better than his career averages. His advanced numbers are also elevated. If you don't care about the individual statistics then I can go to winning percentage. He has a higher winning percentage in elimination games than Michael Jordan did. LeBron is 10-9 in elimination games, Jordan was 6-7. This doesn't show that LeBron is more clutch than Jordan, but it does give credence to the argument that he isn't "not clutch". I think we get so hung up on the last 25-30 seconds of a game that we tend to ignore what happened in the first 47.5 minutes.