IU/Butler/Notre Dame

Have you heard anything about the commitment ? He made it abundantly clear he wanted to be a two sport athlete so that’s an interesting commitment especially to turn down his other offers ...think he got any consideration for b-ball ?

25 in a snoozefest against eastbrook then 35 and 7-10 assists against jay county in a packed house 4.4k plus ...fun environment

Scored 30 in an OT win against south Adams ...I counted 5 assists but could be plus or minus a couple depending on scoring ....They’ve played a couple bad games this year and this was near the top of the list ...might be the least aggressive and most careless I’ve seen luke play also ...especially in coach Hoover’s return

Latest offer ...Lehigh

Great question ...I dealt with the junior high coches frequently in travel basketball but am not familiar with the head coach. I’ll reach out to a couple folks I know in Randolph county and the surrounding area ...if you get a chance to watch the Blackford game I think you’ll see what I mean in regards to eye brow raising set ups because either the kid is oddly u aggressive or they just don’t make an emphasis to utilize what is clearly their best weapon

I completely agree ...very soft touch I was very surprised with his free throws. I’m shocked at the lack of Aggression with His size and if you put him against bigger guards than what he sees now and post players his size and bigger I don’t think he’s there at a big ten level ...again he could stretch more or get quicker but right now he simply can’t get up and down the floor as would be needed in power 6 play

Agree that’s who we should go after ...disagree with limiting ourselves to that demographic ....a good staff digs for the guys no one else knows about ...not only are those the good stories to root for but the ones that pan out tend to be Four year program foundations. They are more miss than hit outside the top 150 but there are some unreal success stories just without our own state outside those rankings. Our last eight years we’ve had some amazing athletes who either don’t get after it themselves to improve or don’t end up having translatable basketball iq and it can really cause the team to be set back. Rankings can also be skewed and biased. I want a staff that will go find basketball players regardless of where they are ranked

I watched him as a freshman and was intrigued because I thought “wow this kid could be unreal by his senior year “ ...he has gotten taller but he is basically the exact same speed and nothing else has changed. If you watch him against some of the East central Indiana teams they play ( many common opponents with Blackford ) he is the tallest on the court by 4-5 inches. He is not UNathletic so with some with some drive and hard work he should be a 30-15 kid every night at 2A and he isn’t yet. Like I said I wouldn’t close the door but if you get a minute the bruinsportsnetwork on YouTube will have last year and this years game to watch. I recommend doing so on mute but last year they put a 5’11 junior on him most of the game and that frustrated him and this year I found myself scratching my head at the Winchester coach for not finding better ways to utilize him. He literally could have scored on every possession against Blackford

I will say that in either the first or second quarter he had a baseline spin move for a layup up that I completely didn’t expect given my previous assessment but it was the only real “ next level “ flash I saw ...you never know if he’ll grown more , drop some weight , or turn some weight into muscle so it’s worth watching but I wouldn’t get my hopes real high ...if you put him against a Caleb Furst it would be a massacre but I like that it’s an under the Radar prospect who has a full year to develop more

I’ve seen him live five times now including during Blackfords epic 24 point collapse last week. Positives are the kid has a soft shooting touch ( especially from the line ). Also the kid appeared to have a decent attitude. He also protected the rim fairly solidly ( for what that may be worth against a Blackford team that doesn’t attack the basketball well and has no players over 6’2 that play near the rim ) I respectfully disagree with any interest. his footwork is noticeably slow, he has difficulty Getting up and down the floor in transition offense or defense. He is a roving rim protector but wasn’t sticking well to his man and if you can’t stay with your Blackford post player you have issues. Additionally for what big kids like tai McClung ( 3 inches shorter ) have done to Blackford he literally should have /could have scored 60 points if he put his body to work. Also luke is maybe one of the more clever olayers I’ve ever seen but he got 5-6 shots at the rim against this guy without getting blocked which shouldn’t happen every time at his size. Just what I’ve seen ...I know nothing about his character or work ethic or family background etc

They’ve been kept around the 20’s most games but 70 in a freshman game is a ton !...my guess is that smith boy May eventually play varsity as a senior and then maybe the Limlee and Martin boy can make the team but likely not play , not sure anyone else from that class will make it...you must have a couple solid kids and a good jv team !

How’d it go ? They haven’t won many ...the only two decent kids from that class have been playing jv ...they only have one ball handler

I remember from last years game 5 of their six leading scorers graduated ...Thats difficult to recover from. You guys’ season going ok ?

My fault ! No offense to any squaws or braves out there ! ( that is their mascot right ?)

Looked that way ...only brobtson ( spelling ?) and one of their guards had any real scoring ability ...a couple kids looked like they had decent shots but nothing in way of creation for them

Oh and worth noting the 31 was on only 15 shots

After the 54 point game but collapse Blackford bounced back against frankton and this time held their 20 plus point lead...they left a single defender on Luke in the first half and he had 20 points and 3 assists by my count and was given several good looks off the dribble for 3...second half they stayed mostly man to man but sent a second defender at Luke every possession he finished with 31 points for sure and I counted 7 assists but that could be as many as one high or one or two low depending on how a couple were officially scored

You guys also probably played Belmont who had Seth coleclasure who went to valpo and is an all time top 25 scorer

I couldn’t agree more I was 01 as well and there was most definitely a different buzz ( at least that I observed ) locally for Kline as opposed to Kramer ...same with odle at oak hill ...coach Knight would have never had a reason to be at Blackford lol but I have a feeling he’s the type that would have at least caught a Luke brown game at some point ...that’s why coach almost always owned the state when it came to kids willing to work

Had Kline and Kramer ...current coach Craig Teagle used to be at jay county ...had some really good teams ...had you graduated before Kline ?

It’s my favorite

Did you go to Huntington north ?

LOL! I think you’re correct although One could argue he seems to not know some of his guards exist NOW as it appears there ain’t much back court coaching being done ........

It would be a glorious sight ...gonna take a lot of work and another ten pounds this summer as well as some other people turning us down though I’m afraid