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  Out-Sourcing and In-Sourcing American College Basketball: Good, Bad or Neutral?
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  @drgnslayr I believe that the Thon Maker “legend” suffered a serious blow at the Nike Hoops Summit last weekend as I mentioned a t the time. He showed he is really not ready for prime time and at this time, he is more of a project than an immediate impact player. First, if you are that good and want to compete against the best, why in the world do you attend school in Canada? I don’t have anything against Canada but let’s face it, other than a few…make that several, good players that have come south lately, it is really not a basketball hotbed. Second, is there a chance that there are issues with his grades? It is not uncommon for these private schools that cater to “athletes” to have academic issues. Like you said, the world has suddenly gone silent on Thon Maker.
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  Who Was the Most Recent American College Basketball Footer Likely to Make the NBA Hall of Fame?
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  @JayHawkFanToo A little bit. He shouldn’t have said that on air, even if there’s truth to it it’s too touchy. Slaves often weren’t treated as people, but more like cattle. It’s terrible and I’m glad I didn’t have to live through that era. The modern world with very few slaves (outside of NIKE factories) is much better than it’s ever been in man’s history.
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  This Made My Day!
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  Convincing him to stay one more year can be the difference between a Sweet 16 appearance and a Final Four run out. Wish he would have stayed! He would have had an amazing season next year. Pretty good scouting video. His biggest issue is going too much to the left. He’ll get hedged out of a lot of his scoring opportunities at the next level. He’ll have to learn to score with his right hand, dribble with his right hand, develop faster, better handles and compete with a crossover dribble. He really needed another year to develop some of this. Just hope he figures it out soon. He’s too good a player to not make it in the NBA.
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  Everyone's Super Bowl!
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  @Crimsonorblue22 just type type the word puke in parentheses. (puke)
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  Perry's Back!
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  @BeddieKU23 In recruiting and until the commitment form is signed, it is all speculation…wouldn’t you agree? I have ZERO inside information on this issue so I am just wildly speculating, partly based on what I read and partly is just plain wishful thinking.
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  Shonn Miller
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  @Crimsonorblue22 Yes their leading scorer Williams had a huge restriction list. I think he’ll end up at Michigan St where he wants to go. Izzo recruited him in HS. Crazy the restrictions he had, makes you wonder how bitter departments are handing these waivers out. I think Uthoff lost only a year of eligibility in the end since he had already red-shirted and sat one to begin with. His situation was really weird and I think Wisconsin basically gave him a free pass after it made ESPN and Bo had to be interviewed about it. But my impression was they lost 2 years.
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  so no one starting a Perry Ellis Thread? guess I will
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  @drgnslayr Marcus could also rip someone’s head off if he so desired! I’m hoping he didn’t!
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  BG's hip
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  @drgnslayr but I didn’t stay at a holiday inn last pm!
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  Rabb commits to Cal
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  @stupidmichael You could certainly be right about the injury effecting his play/maybe even his defense. It certainly could have hurt his jump shot and confidence in shooting. I give you Selden from last year for reference though. Found out to have a bum knee, gets it corrected and is back to full contact within I think a month of so. Had the entire off-season and we hyped that a healthy Selden would perform much better. That certainly didn’t end up being the case. Now we have Greene who is going to miss the entire spring/summer games/practice/individual work on his game that he needed. If his recovery is quicker, the better if it takes him longer its questionable whether he will be any better than his Soph. year. I think its safe to say we need to find another wing or Perry may see a lot of time at the 3 depending on his summer transitioning to that spot.
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  jSN XCLUSIVE FAKE NEWS: Calipari to join KU as lead recruiter...IMPACTING
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  @jaybate-1.0 Interesting quote. Timely too, as this is the 150th anniv. of his death.
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  Wiggins posterizing dunk
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  @JRyman True… it points to what I see as the difference between D1 coaches and NBA coaches. D1 coaches are teachers of the game, NBA coaches just want to win so they use a strategy they think will create more victories.
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  Wiggins vs Tarik and Cole and Embiid and KY and Ben Mac
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  @JayHawkFanToo we have had some pretty darn good kids!! Ben knows what it’s like to be cold and hungry!
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  HOLY MOLY - MIGHT BE THAT TARIK WILL BE GETTING A LAKER CONTRACT.
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  @drgnslayr I am not the only one that came out with that impression based on his Nike Hoops Summit performance; SB Nation posted basically the same thing… When you consider that he wants to play only half a season, I juts don’t see too many programs going along with that. Of course there is always the chance that if he comes for half a season he might end up staying another, but that is a big gamble.
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  THIS IS DEFINITELY A RECRUITING ADVANTAGE FOR KANSAS.
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  @Statmachine “The other half is going to be the cheerleading squad.” LMAO.
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  Does Slice Rohrssen Leaving UK Signal that the Hypothesized Nike-Agent Complex Has Lost Faith in Cal?
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  @DoubleDD Recruits dd not know who would be staying or leaving at UK and in part, this is why so many of the top recruits waited, He still has the top ranked class so there is no problem there… UK is tied in long term contract with Nike so I don’t believe there is an issue there either. Much ado about nothing.
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  Kansas guard Wayne Selden to return for junior season
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  @ralster did you do the camp?
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  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  @JayHawkFanToo I don’t really have an opinion in comparing Wilt to Kareem. Two very different players, playing in different periods, against vastly different talent. Kareem played a long long time. And when you look at his numbers over those decades it is impossible to not have him in the conversation for the very best. He kind of reminds me of a bigger Perry Ellis. He was a technician and his moves were highly-polished. I didn’t see enough of Wilt’s games to judge his, but I can’t believe he had anywhere near the polish Kareem had on his shot. Wilt had freakish athleticism that matched up well with his size. Very large hands. I remember him often faking one-handed (palmed) passes and he would wind up his arm and really throw the pass but not let go. Everyone bit on his pass fakes. You just knew that ball was going to be thrown or come loose, but it didn’t. Kareem’s skyhook was pure art. Mechanical art. They don’t make 'em like Kareem or Wilt anymore! Those were “one-mold” players.
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  EXPERIENCED BACKCOURT RETURNING, good front court taking Shape, come on Jaylen!!!
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  @jaybate-1.0 I don’t agree that the Colonial and the A-10 are comparable; it is not even close. What you are saying is that if Smart wins 70% of his games in the Big 12, then the Big 12 and the Colonial are comparable? I don’t think so. In the A-10 Smart simply got better players befitting the better conference and thus his percentage stayed basically the same; in the Big 12 he will get better players at Texas and his record will likely stay around 70%. The A-10 is consistently ranked in the 6-8 range and sends 3-4 teams to the dance every year while the Colonial is more in the 16-20 range and only send the automatic qualifier. Here is a conference ranking for last season… And here is one for the previous years. You can check previous years and records against top 25 and top 50 and you will see that this two conferences are not comparable, no way, no how, no ma’am.
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  St. John's: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them
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  @HighEliteMajor I believe the logical answer would be view this from Rick Pitino’s reported perspective and start looking at recruiting pool sizes as having some proportional relationship to which shoeco-agency complex one is aligned with. Hypothesis: reliance on shoeco-agent complex A with a larger pool to draw from than shoeco-agency complex B with a smaller pool to draw from increases the probability of signing sufficiently high ranked talent at all 5 positions. Remember those buttons a few years back. “That was easy.” Especially so, I believe, since Rick indicated that he thought the NCAA viewed what is going on, whatever specifically he may have been referring to, as okay. I infer therefore that it does not matter if you change shoeco-agency complexes, contractual relationships permitting. I am frankly more concerned about what we do, if we get the players without changing shoeco-agency complexes and have to deal with the apparent current “approach” of the NCAA to seeding the Madness, and then have to deal with the officiating the last ten minutes appearing to evidence XTReme Asymmetry. I was proud of Wisconsin making it to the Finals, without what Bo Ryan tactfully called rent-a-players, but would like to avoid KU and Coach Self having to experience a similar phenomenon, what ever may have actually triggered the appearance of the phenomenon, just because they happen to have a strange circle pattern on the belt lines of their uniforms, as Wisconsin did, too.
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  St.. John's all in on Chieck
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  Sima signs w/ St. John’s http://247sports.com/Bolt/St-Johns-lands-a-big-man-36767767 Hopefully that will push Diallo our way!