http://youtu.be/San3tDWKLmM

White guard with athleticism and swagger? YES SIR.
Floor slapping and white boy mean mugging after jams? YES SIR.
Duval County product? YES SIRRRRRRRR.

Our 2014 recruitment class starts with a MEMS. Excellent work, K.

That's an odd comparison. I guess it's the best one if you just wanted to throw some pro-Michigan sentiment into the post apropos of nothing. So if that's the case, fair enough.

>I guess it's the best one if you
>just wanted to throw some pro-Michigan sentiment into the post
>apropos of nothing

Aside from Nik being a better shooter and ball handler.

Mmph... kid looks legit.

Yeah I can see hating this kid for a long long time. He got just the right amount of punchability in the face area. Plus he doesn't look good enough to go pro after just a year or two. Seems like he'd like to stick around and develop in that system. Yeah... I hate him already.

Taking the athletic creator over the spot-up shooter isn't a decision K has often made, but I don't mind it one bit.

1a and 1b. Jones and Okafor.
2a and 2b. Lyles or Looney.
3a and 3b. Winslow or Pinson.

I haven't seen enough of the last four guys to have strong opinions at the moment. But in a fantasy world, we get Jones, Okafor, one of the kids from my 2 list, and one of the kids from my 3 list.

Obviously that's unlikely to happen. But still. Fantasy world.

And back off Lyles

I just want: Mudiay, Lyles, and Alexander. I'm also big on Stanley Johnson . Not sure if we can pry him for the westcoast though.

But as you usually note every year, there's a difference between being set and being SET. UK usually has three or four top fifteen recruits and I still see you putting in a post, "Now all we need is to get THIS guy," lol.

I'm too close to the days of patiently waiting for Jai Lucas to decide to go to Florida. Yep Jai Lucas.

And if K can manage to get Jabari to stay 2 yrs. shit.

If we get Black for next year, we'll make big enough moves with that roster that I don't expect to keep Sheed, Hood, or Parker.

WHen they interviewed him on the sidelines of the Jordan Brand Classic about other schools recruiting him he looked right into the camera and said some shit like, "All of the other schools were great and I was fortunate for them recruiting me but when as a black man from my community you have a chance to go to a prestigious University such as Duke and play under a legend Coach K....."

I was like awww shit. This Corey Booker ass dude is fantastic....That Basa and Frank, "Jabari for Senate" post in 2028 is gonna be epic.

He doesnt look that good really.

guess he figures it gives him a higher chance of keeping them all 4yrs


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Amida Brimah, a 6-foot-11 center from Miami, signed a national letter of intent Monday to play for UConn, making him a full-fledged member of the program.

The signing was expected. Brimah orally committed to UConn on Jan. 14, when he visited the school and watched the Huskies lose to Louisville. Last weekend he traveled to New York to watch incoming freshmen Kentan Facey and Terrence Samuel in an all-star game, a strong indication of his investment in the program. Brimah, originally from Ghana, is expected to begin classes at UConn in early July.

"Amida was one of the most passionate basketball players I saw during the entire recruiting period, and I fell in love with his passion for the game," UConn coach Kevin Ollie said. "He showed leadership both on and off the court, and then he was the best player in the game."

Brimah, like Facey, has been playing organized basketball for only a few years. He played mostly soccer during his childhood in Ghana.
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But as a senior at Miami's Archbishop Carroll, Brimah averaged 16 points, 11.7 rebounds and 7.2 blocks and shot 68 percent from the floor and 72 percent from the free-throw line. Brimah had five triple-doubles and helped Archbishop Carroll (26-5) reach the Florida Class 4A regional semifinals.

The consensus evaluation of Brimah is that he could help UConn immediately as a defensive presence, but that his offensive skills will need time to develop. UConn coaches began closely monitoring him last November, as did other schools.

"We think Amida can be another in the long line of outstanding UConn big men," Ollie said. "He's a terrific shot-blocker and rebounder. He's obviously got to get stronger , but he's got a chance to make an impact right away. I love the fact that he is dying to get up here this summer."

"With Amida joining Kentan and Terrence, we think we have three new players coming in who can all help us. What I like best is they each have a relentless motor that just keeps going. They are excited to play basketball."

Trust me, I measured it

This bodes well.

Until I broke out the slide rule and measured
it, I wasn't very impressed.

we talkin YMCA nite league smellin like BenGay..

his name is an inversion of one of the only "cool" elected officials in Florida (i.e. Last Name First Name)

Duke's gotten TOO far away from the "Classic Duke Hate" mold with their "remembered" players as of recent. Zoubek vanished. Singler was close, but was too much a goon. Paulus might have been the last real "This Is Why We Hate Duke" player alongside Redick... because motherfuckers hated Redick like shit.

Austin didn't stay long enough to get that true hate. he (like SouthBeachMan said about Hendo) is like Kobe if he went to Duke. Which means he should have been the GOAT hated Duke player, but...

I couldn't bring myself to drudge up any kind of hate for dudes like Kyrie, Quinn Cook, and esp. Nolan Smith. I mean, CMON. They've been more Johnny Dawkins than Grant "Buzzer" Hill and Christian Laettner, even in their championship teams for a while.

only reason Kyrie dont get Duke hate is because he barely played for them. and i even then i still find myself like "damn i like a nigga off Duke? this is weird"

Austin was close, but he was gone real quick. He has potential for "residual" hate ala Laettner and other post-Dukies.

and certainly not like Boozer, He Who Shall Not Be Named, Baggins, Spaghetti, and friends did.

Oh shit. I did forget the one Dukie that I STILL hate years after he's gone.

SHELDEN
FUCKING
WILLIAMS.

Fuckin' Thwomp Trap lookin' ass...

I got no love for Duke basketball but I hate FSU, and the U-Rine as much as I hate Duke now. Especially FSU. Fake Forest, Pee-Tech and them are in the second-tier of hate.

That's the only difference

And its mostly about K

People started liking K...he might not be the
KEY to Duke hate but if you LIKE coach K it becomes
harder to hate Duke

More on that later

But to the current players? ALL these niggas just as hateable
if NOT MORE than Hill, Laettner, Hurley, etc

Umm Bobby Hurley has more street cred than 99.999% of hood
niggas, grew up way more hood than any Fab 5 nigga not
named Jalen or Juwan....we HATED him and there was almost
nothing to dislike about him, really

Even Grant Hill: could outjump all these Earl the Goat,
Helicopter Hearns types. Yeah, fucked up fade I guess...
...okay, that fade warranted the hate...but still, Hill
did nothing really to deserve hate (other than that fade,
good lord)

Compared to these modern niggas?

I mean serious:

Kyrie has a PERMANENT asshole smirk on his face

ALWAYS

There is less than a 10% chance that Kyrie is anything
more than a dick in real life

There is literally nothing likeable about Austin. He
was a jerk, had it seeping through his caesar

Quinn Cook shouted "this is my city" down double digits
to Maryland...he is easily one of the least likeable
people in SPORTS


ALL the fodder for hatred is there...one thing:


Duke and MOSTLY COACH K, started winning niggas over


The "they suck in the NBA" myth started disappearing, K
was restoring USA basketball back to glory and all of a
sudden it wasn't hateable anymore



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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

>The "they suck in the NBA" myth started disappearing, K
>was restoring USA basketball back to glory and all of a
>sudden it wasn't hateable anymore

particularly the USA Basketball part. Larry Brown lived up to his "Bronze Brown" name after K outcoached him.

It's a begrudging respect that has replaced insta-hate.

The players? Yeah, Kyrie is low-key "Rondo" smug, Quinn Cook is the anti-Duke archetype, and Austin has the NOT-low-key Kobe gene... he is easily the most hateable out of the last few years.

but hateable Duke players peaked in the '90s... they will never reach the heights of Hurley, Hill, and Laettner. At least Buzzer cut his hair, I still hate Hurley and Laettner. Esp. Laettner, LOL

If this dude is good and cheap like Austin would have been had he stayed at Duke more than one year... he has a chance.

I'll put it like this. Duke now is like the Celtics after they got some Ricky Davis-type niggas.

>Quinn Cook shouted "this is my city" down double digits
>to Maryland...he is easily one of the least likeable
>people in SPORTS

damn cook lol.

.

i won't let it die.

You aint slick, nigga, I see you lightweight supportive
on some clapping lightly in the audience

You don't really fuck with this dude too hard, admit it

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

How can I resist?

I'm not gonna hit on any of those "future pro" agendas until I actually see him play in game, mind you-- all I've seen of the kid is online right now. But I like his style, and people I trust who've seen him in person dig his game and his potential, so no reason for me to fret over this signing.

>How can I resist?
>
>I'm not gonna hit on any of those "future pro" agendas until I
>actually see him play in game, mind you-- all I've seen of the
>kid is online right now. But I like his style, and people I
>trust who've seen him in person dig his game and his
>potential, so no reason for me to fret over this signing.

That means he's pretty gooddamn good.

You have every right, hometown or not.


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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

i follow recruits for at least a year before they commit. duke was after dev booker and ahmed hill and then grayson started gaining notoriety and duke kicked the tires. K flat out likes him. he can shot and handle. grayson's a late-bloomer because he don't like to stand apart from his teammates. now in AAU or HS. not that's he's more comfortable doing that, he'd finding new parts of his game. everybody was chasing after him. at first it was just the SEC schools who'd seen him a lot.

kids emerge, dogg. said it plenty of times...the soph to junior year high school jump is no joke. kids come from NOWHERE to elite status. grayson was on the radar, but he is the hottest 2014 SG recruit right now.

So silky.

Duke never really lacks for spot-up jump shooters, so I'm not terribly worried about the fact that he's likely gone now... still, always sucks to lose a guy who is clearly good.

I like the gentle layups.

"He tends to shy away from handling the ball when he is being pressed in the full court setting. He also needs to work on moving without the ball if he wants to be a scorer at the next level. His man-to-man defense also needs work."

Hmm..
I'll break that down shortly.

fdsfds

Coach K will have him playing the right way in no time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuH5mqHKIUk

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/big-ten/leaders/fg3-player-career.html?redir

Stauskas doubled all of Diebler's freshman numbers on a National Finalist and All-Regional selection

not only that, his 3PT% as a FR was better than Diebler's career mark

on top of being a higher usage player

just...no

*points to the record books*


*Maybe* you'll have a valid claim in 3 years after Stauskas graduates, and we can compare their 3 point numbers over a span of 4 years, but I doubt it.

It's cool that he made lots of 3s on his driveway though? I bet he got a trophy from his parents.

but its not as high as 44%

and like i said, Diebler wasnt as accurate as that till he was a senior

Showed up 6'5 and cut, splashing jumpers from everywhere, tenacious on D, aggressive on offense, aggressively dropping those asshole white boy smirks.

His stock just keeps rising.

Hopefully in today's game, he approaches Tyus on the other bench and says, "yeah, you saw that 30 in 18 I dropped yesterday? Let's connect like Voltron on these chumps." Then Jabari will pop out of a nearby trash can like Oscar The Grouch, yell, "I MIGHT STICK AROUND ONE MORE, FOOD FOR THOUGHT," then disappear as quickly as he arrived.

Just like I kept telling you WCS is staying. I'm gonna harp on I would not be astonished if Jabari stays.....Not that he needs to. Just cuz he wants to.

I mean unless he's a 1 & done type of sure shot kid. But I guarantee he would be in the NFL in 3 years with his physical talent at QB or Safety or WR/TE.




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He went very public before Duke was even considering offering and said "I want to play for Duke, if they offer I will accept, it's been my dream to play for K, etc."

Dude loves basketball. And considering he fancies himself JJ Redick with a handle, if he comes close to delivering on what he wants to be, that's a first round pick.

http://youtu.be/Zd8ha83INCs?t=1m1s

and even better if by my Woolverines then you have dude. he is like a lite white chocolate. duke gonna be short for a while and are just getting by so he aight,

I know you don't mean Duke'll be short in talent next year. And even in size, with Hood, Jabari, and possibly Tarik Black next year, along with a taller Andre Dawkins off the bench and Amile Jefferson, we'll be bigger and more athletic at most positions than normal.

Plus, Allen is 6'5 and may reach 6'6. I'm not too worried about his height either.

Definitely looking forward to that Michigan game. Hoping Tarik Black comes along so that we have someone to guard McGary.

From the Dallas leg of the EYBL:

Grayson Allen: 73 pts, 23-34, 8-11, 19-22, 14 rbs, 12 asts, 2 tos, 5 stls : 18.3PPG, 68% FG, 73% 3FG, 87% FT, 3.5 RPG, 3.0 APG, 6.0 A:TO, 1.3 SPG.

Yep. Me likey.

but over all he has good handle, feel for the game, all the intangibles.

I like his defensive effort but he's got some ways to go to be an effective player at the college level.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25496345/acc-will-review-dukes-grayson-allen-tripping-of-florida-state-player


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25478059/watch-dukes-grayson-allen-trips-louisville-player-gets-flagrant-foul

I'm glad that douche left the floor w/ tears in his eyes after watching Duke celebrate.

He's going to be Redick x Tebow x Hansbrough.

because his lil white Iverson routine is not going to work at the next level.

Character.

That shit barely works in college he won't be in the NBA long. (If at all)

.

#fukdook

.....but congrats.


*edit

I will say, looking at the links in this thread his game actually looks legit. All the superficial hateability of Redick but some actual skills.......approaching Laettner levels of mad making.

either way, #fukdook

The body control, y'all.

The glide-iness

You can't teach that. It's one of the most rare
things of all basketball traits



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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

>

That had some fucking POWER.

I'm glad you're on this train, OE.

Fucka needs an elbow to the neck

.

.

"And the two trips were indeed regrettable. Reactive and retaliatory as opposed to premeditated and malevolent...but regrettable nonetheless. Somehow, though, the world continued to spin on its axis after they happened."

(c) Brian Hamilton, SI.com

he not JJ. he ain't gon cry to the refs all game for calls that ain't coming. niggas gettin it as good as they give it.

XRM decided to walk up on his and hit him on the head and then take off running...his ass got tripped on his second step and ate wood. he earned it.

Also, looks like he could be Ted Cruz's kid.

That should garner him extra hate.

i bet you thought the them two jackasses he tripped up were "the wrong kid" before they fell on they face and ain't do shit.

peace & blessings,

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Fuck baby laimbeer.

He’s a danger to everyone’s career. Enough is enough.

intervention

it's amazing he's been able to go on this long maliciously fouling people in the most non-contact era of basketball ever

once the news of Caruso was made known.

Keeping the tradition of '90s Duke alive. Grayson Allen.

BANNED in Chicago.

https://hoopshype.com/2022/01/23/bucks-official-statement-we-disagree-with-grayson-allens-suspension/

Caruso should be a little pissed off about it.