Recent content by ChiefGritty

Totally, he'd be a big get, and I'm fascinated by the mechanics of it all. But Wooga Poplar or Chaz Lanier would probably be a better player next year. (In the same way, say, Marcus Domask was better than Reed Sheppard) Would Demin stay for more than one year? Look at us, running into Calipari...

Demin is a 5-star freshman. But, in recent years 5-star freshmen haven't exactly impacted the game the way they used to, so expectations should be kept in check.

Are we paying a transfer fee? Who is paying? Has that ever happened in college basketball before? Gotta put on my soccer cap here.

Shouldn't be an issue against famously parsimonious [checks notes]...Real Madrid

We don't need to fill all 5 open spots. Really we only NEED two more guys, a perimeter scorer and a true center. Big holes that need quality solutions, but what we have so far is a pretty good start. Boswell, Booth and White are really talented (as is Morez of course), Ty impacts games, and...

Chaz Lanier was an anonymous bench player for KenPom #231 North Florida as a 3rd year junior in 2022-23. And then he absolutely nuclear-grade blew up as a scorer this year. 51% FG, 44% 3PT, he couldn’t miss. Some solid performances against high major competition in the NonCon too. Kentucky is...

It indicates he has some idea of what he’s getting himself into which is heartening. The scale of the transition for those guys, school, language, style of basketball, everything is just so big.

Where does that impression come from?

Would/can Duke take both of Wooga Poplar and Sion James? I'd love to swoop in for one of those two. Similar complete, strong shooting senior guard/wings.

It's possible. There's an argument he's the most talented player on the team (3rd behind Morez and Boswell for me, but not by much). But he was a bad basketball player last year, and will need to prove he's changed.

Totally, and that is one doubt among many in this case, which have the cumulative effect of making the state's case weaker and weaker. But if the entire thing turned on whether the accuser correctly ID'ed TSJ as the person she'd interacted with, I would be extremely worried, because I think the...

Two 20-somethings meeting on a late-night dancefloor for less than a minute resulting in the girl getting upset about something no one else noticed, it's very easy for a juror to be convinced that TSJ was caddish and ungentlemanly and much MUCH more difficult to convince a juror that TSJ is a...

They have Shannon on camera at the scene as well (which I don't think TSJ denies, he was there), and the circumstances of the ID are pretty strong and generally supportive of the broad outline of the accuser's story. They interacted after midnight in a crowded sweaty bar, very briefly, with her...

https://www.nbadraft.net/nba-mock-drafts/?year-mock=2025 Lots of fun there. Egor Demin #20, Kylan Boswell #29, AJ Storr #31, Zvonimir Ivisic #45, Tomislav Ivicic NR https://nbadraftroom.com/2025-2nd-round/ That one goes really deep in rankings. Zvonimir Ivisic #15, Egor Demin #22, AJ Storr...

Ivicic is Croatian. One is well advised to avoid getting nationalities wrong in that part of the world...