Bored today, so I wanted to catch up on the Stokes hype. I didn’t know much about his size and athleticism, so I watched a bunch of highlight videos… He seems pretty mobile for a biggish guy. He was handling the ball well, dribbling in open space and in traffic. strong finisher at the rim. That gives me confidence in his abilities for sure. He was aggressive. I thought going in that he’d be more “4” ish than guard/wing ish. I’m guessing he won’t be quick or agile enough to cover a shifty shooting guard, but I think he can hold his own against wings and bigger forwards. If he stays in front of a quick shooting guard, it maybe hard to initially get by him. His size will allow switching and hedging. But these highlights were mostly showcasing offense, so we’ll see how he defends. He doesn’t look like a pure shooter, not that I expected it, but more like a guy who can put up and make shots. I didn’t see any pick and roll highlights, but I hope he can learn these skills. Good size and strength to be a rim cutter and finisher. I can see him posting up from mid range and backing his guy down. He’ll be our baseline alley oop dunker for sure! I like his confidence. I just saw Self said he’s a mix of Wiggins and Josh Jackson. I’m not sure I see the athleticism like Wiggs, but ok.

I was at that game! So fun!

@Hawk69 RCJH was right, all of them were on Larry Browns staff at KU.

Coach Townsend on Peterson... https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2026/07/jazz-notes-peterson-hinson-bates-d-ainge.html

@Jayhawk_69 "woeful...pitiful...lowly...Herculaean...Princely, stately" Great use of the English language!!

Can NCAA punish him or the schools he attended

Tiller is the puzzle to me. Looked so good for stretches, and then disappeared for longer stretches. Seemed like he just wanted to drift around the 3 point line rather than mixing it up in the middle.

Dp will wear number 22 for the Utah Jazz

Doesn't this mean their whole roster can open up their recruitment again? They have quite a bit of talent.

@bskeet Gandalf, is that you???!!!

Boy, things are really slow on this site . . . so I thought I'd share a story. Back in 1996, UMKC was looking for a new basketball coach. For "political" reasons, they formed a search committee. The committee of 24 had nothing to do with the selection, but it made a good cover. I was on the committee. We interviewed the three finalists: Mark Turgeon, Mike Anderson (who went on to head coach at Arkansas) and Bob Sundvold. Sundvold was the choice of the AD, probably because he had coached under Norm Stewart at Misery and had "taken the fall" for Norm over NCAA violations. The interview with Turgeon was memorable. I asked what I thought was a great question: "You've been an assistant to three great coaches. What did you learn from each of them?" Turgeon responded as though he had prepared for my question. "Coach Brown is the greatest in-game coach in the game. After almost every timeout, he'd come down to me as ask, 'Turg, what would you have done?' Coach Williams is exceptionally well organized. He taught me how to organize my day; how to organize practices. And Coach Green taught me how to deal with the media." Turgeon was well prepared and had a great interview. The other great question during that interview was "Coach Turgeon, what kind of players will you recruit?" Turgeon answered, "I'll recruit players who can shoot. I can teach them my offense, and I can teach them how to play defense. But I can't teach them how to shoot." Very memorable.

@patoh3 said in KState Game: I hope they can bear him. He was Scott Drew's version of Kurtis Townsend until he took the KSU job.

I've watched it. It's well done. I think CBS/Paramount picked these programs to follow based on their likelihood of making a deep run in march. WRT KU, not a whole lot was new for me, but it was interesting to see some behind the scenes. The documentary picked a player from each program to shadow and that was Darren P for KU and Yaxle L for Michigan. I felt there was striking contrast between these two players-- Yaxel allowed a great deal of transparency and access to his family, while Darren seemed guarded and less personable, with no reference to his family. There was also some interesting parallels / differences between Self and May. Worth a watch. Last episode drops April 18. Will feature post-season, which should be a rollicking fun ride for Wolverine fans.