2023 SF/PF Mackenzie Mgbako to Texas A&M via Portal

[Hoosier2014]

2 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I’m beyond caring about likes.  That gets into silly season IMO.

I don't disagree and only went to check because I saw a tweet talking about it lmao. Who knows they both could be trolling but the 3 tweets in a row that he liked doesn't look great. 

[reconmkd]

KU board poster claims it's IU, yesterday, said the entire staff is following mom on social.  Who the heck knows at this point, let's all enjoy the rollercoaster ride before we get sick of all the ups and downs, lol.

[darB s'tI]

Just now, normandale97 said:

The Carmelo Anthony stuff is a little disingenuous. He was in Denver for 8 seasons before going to the Knicks and was already an NBA superstar. That had nothing to do with Woodson. 

That's about as glass half-empty of a statement that could ever be made about Woodson. He's a mentor to Melo. Go back to the Kansas board! Haha.

[Hoosier2014]

2 minutes ago, reconmkd said:

KU board poster claims it's IU, yesterday, said the entire staff is following mom on social.  Who the heck knows at this point, let's all enjoy the rollercoaster ride before we get sick of all the ups and downs, lol.

I love the ride. Not much into the NBA (will watch the later half of playoffs) so this is good entertainment. Gives me something to do while "working".

[ib4iu]

7 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

The Carmelo Anthony stuff is a little disingenuous. He was in Denver for 8 seasons before going to the Knicks and was already an NBA superstar. That had nothing to do with Woodson. 

My point is does Mike Woodson have more knowledge on how to motivate and knows what type of work ethic goes into becoming a Melo after spending 4 seasons with him or does Self know with 1 year of 18-19 year old Wiggins what it takes to become what Wiggins has reached?

Not to mention Mike had an 11 year career himself. If a player had the same exact NBA career that Mike had they’d probably make over 100 million in todays NBA. He KNOWS what it takes to train and make the NBA but also to have. SUSTAINABLE career. 

[RaceToTheTop]

Would be a great get, could be the smoke is true and he ends up at Kansas.  Regardless, got to keep plugging ahead because whether or not we have him we have at least spot to fill.

[bigrod]

Has anyone reached out to M&M's about a NIL deal? Seems like a good fit.

[lillurk]

If the crystal ball/futurecast picks are the only smoke this morning, I wouldn’t worry to much just yet. He may well pick KU but unless it’s Slater, Mack himself, or a Trilly Donovan tip, I don’t know that it means much.

[Tasmanian Devil]

3 minutes ago, lillurk said:

If the crystal ball/futurecast picks are the only smoke this morning, I wouldn’t worry to much just yet. He may well pick KU but unless it’s Slater, Mack himself, or a Trilly Donovan tip, I don’t know that it means much.

Here’s latest from Trilly. Could be pertinent, especially with what @Chris007 said 

 

[Artie86]

2 minutes ago, Tasmanian Devil said:

Here’s latest from Trilly. Could be pertinent, especially with what @Chris007 said 

 

.....and we should feel sorry for you ONLY getting less than 6 figures? Where is the pride in just playing for your college team and coach? That ship has sailed for a lot of these players. It's a shame that it has become money war.

 

 

[RaceToTheTop]

FWIW, here is what I have MM projected's stats being using comps from the 2022 recruits.  Compared him to the five most similar (not exactly similar obviously) in terms of size, position and rating.  Players I compared him to:  

• Whitehead, Duke
• Jackson, South Carolina
• Mitchell, Texas
• Walker, Houston
• Mitchell, Duke

The average totals for the five were 25 minutes/game, 8.2 shots, 44.3% shooting, 2.6 three point shots per game, 36% from three, 2.2 ft, 68.1% ft, 4.7 rebounds, 0.6 blocks, 0.8 steals, 1.4 turnovers, 9.7 points.  Using Torvik's projection of 30.8 minutes per game, that would have him averaging:

10 shots per game (44.3% fg), 3.2 three point shots per game (36%), 2.7 ft (68% from the line), 5.8 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1 steal, 1.1 blocks, 1.8 turnovers, 11.9 points.

As a team, I have IU three points better with MM than without.

[RaceToTheTop]

1 minute ago, normandale97 said:

So, I’ve said this before and people did not want to believe it. The main thing that put IU over the top with Ware was the NIL. Ware was working with the same people as JHS…and JHS was able to confirm that IU delivered what was promised in terms of $. There are plenty of kids getting promised a certain amount and they are not receiving it. Our NIL game is on point for basketball. 

Out NIL is on point.  Obviously so is Kansas'.

[Artie86]

3 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

So, I’ve said this before and people did not want to believe it. The main thing that put IU over the top with Ware was the NIL. Ware was working with the same people as JHS…and JHS was able to confirm that IU delivered what was promised in terms of $. There are plenty of kids getting promised a certain amount and they are not receiving it. Our NIL game is on point for basketball. 

[RaceToTheTop]

10 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

.....and we should feel sorry for you ONLY getting less than 6 figures? Where is the pride in just playing for your college team and coach? That ship has sailed for a lot of these players. It's a shame that it has become money war.

 

 

Adapt and adopt or fall behind.  And even prior to NIL I would have told my kid to go where he could get minutes, not for 'pride for playing for your college team'.

[Uspshoosier]

Regardless of how this shakes out IU fans should feel good in the direction this staff is going when it comes to recruiting.   Before this staff not sure how many in the ring battles there was for out of the state program changing kids.  I’ve followed Slater for a long time and he barely mentioned IU or IU wasn’t in many battle that he was a part of.   With this staff he has been in town for a game where he thanked the staff for th hospitality.  Small things but having a staff wanting to build the right relationships when it comes to big time recruits is a positive.   Shows how far out IU actually has been but you have to start somewhere and I feel like IU is making up ground everyday.   If the staff keeps building relationships and keep finding themselves in these types of battles they are going to be just fine.    They’ve already started winning some of these and other programs are noticing and paying attention.   

[Jeff Flabjohns]

3 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

Been saying this for weeks for anyone willing to listen but don’t have the “street cred” for that 

Is this a shtick? Feels like every other post of yours is you bitterly trying to prove you’ve been right about something. 
 

are you Peegs?

[Uspshoosier]

1 minute ago, Ngw7183 said:

Been saying this for weeks for anyone willing to listen but don’t have the “street cred” for that 

these numbers fans keep believing are not real. Not even close to it. 

It’s a free message board don’t need “street cred”  just post and enjoy the conversation.   If people agree awesome and if they don’t who cares it’s a free message board 

[TheWatShot]

9 hours ago, HoosierTrav said:

 

-Apparently Mgbake’s mom gave their hand away on an Instagram post which she quickly deleted but not before many seen it. 

 

 

Yeah, I'm gonna say 0% chance that actually happened. 

 

And no way they shared anything worthwhile with Hunter Dickinson but have continued to sit on it for this long. 

[Artie86]

Just now, TheWatShot said:

Yeah, I'm gonna say 0% chance that actually happened. 

 

And no way they shared anything worthwhile with Hunter Dickinson but have continued to sit on it for this long. 

...yeah, I have a hard time believing mom would make that big of a mistake. 

[go iu bb]

6 minutes ago, DoctorP said:

Is this a shtick? Feels like every other post of yours is you bitterly trying to prove you’ve been right about something. 
 

are you Peegs?

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