Wish there was an unlikely button. Man, I really want to root from the kid. If he went there, If want to see him take some hard fouls and miss the front end of a lot of free throws. I don't want my pettiness and immaturity to take me there.
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Invisible and Bulletproof
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Wouldn't it be wild if today's Insider Bonanza was just a well-coordinated April Fool's joke to get back for all the bull!!!! that's been thrown their way lately?
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Every player I listed was as much in the frame as Sellers, Dix or Lendeborg are at this moment, that's my point. Egor Demin and Jamir Watkins too.
Everybody just pencils in the best possible five-card flush as if there's no competition. It was exactly the same when it was the best in-state HS juniors.
What else would we do. It's a long way to next season.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
I live in Las Vegas lots of UCLA alumni out here. Talked to a friend of mine that’s a UCLA alum and booster that’s close to basketball program. According to him and a former UCLA basketball player I know UCLA is going all in Morez . He did tell me Aday Mara UCLA 7’3” center was transferring a couple of weeks ago and it was just announced yesterday
Captain 14
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How in this day and age do you 100% lock somebody down? Just curious
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
What? Dude was getting 30 min a game and an unlimited green light!
He didn’t succeed at what he was paid handsomely to come do, and when the staff finally made a change….injuries, more Will and Rez, he was just ok in his reserve roll.
He is a clear example of a shooter that thrived at a lower level with less physical defense and smaller 2s and 3s to shoot over.
He’s not a bad kid, he’s also not a B1G player.
sacraig
- The desert
To be fair, for most of us, that was a relatively safe bet to do for the overwhelming majority of the time we have followed college basketball. Old habits die hard.
I did not know there were that many Ivisic's.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Apparently because the artist “forgot.”
And that's totally understandable. People have preferences on what they want 1-9 to look like. It's the backhanded and critical(degrading) comments that I take issue with.
A religious kid, who was the whipping boy for the season, was threatened on social media, his family ridiculed at games, who was fully aware of the bashing he was getting(made a comment saying that he knew not many people liked him at one of his sermons) and now more that a WEEK after the season ends....he's still catching cr@p? C'mon...enough is enough.
You're respectful about it, but some people here just don't stop and it's like.....why? Is it a feel good thing?
A religious kid, who was the whipping boy for the season, was threatened on social media, his family ridiculed at games, who was fully aware of the bashing he was getting(made a comment saying that he knew not many people liked him at one of his sermons) and now more that a WEEK after the season ends....he's still catching cr@p? C'mon...enough is enough.
You're respectful about it, but some people here just don't stop and it's like.....why? Is it a feel good thing?
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
The Quad Towers? Imagine THAT!
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... No chance May is going to let Morez be Wolf.. Shoot, maybe best case scenario he lets Morez shoot the occasional 3 like Goldin...
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Honestly, I’d rather we be watching Illinois play in the Final Four right now. But this is a nice fallback activity. 
Yeah fair - we'll see. I will say that suddenly it seems like there's a lot of smoke on some of these, and some do seem to make sense.
From my complete outsider perspective, our targets in order of most to least likely to commit would be:
1) Big Z. Seems like a no-brainer for both sides. Might already be a done deal at this point?
2) Sellers - of his self-professed top 4, we would seem to be BY FAR the most likely to make the tournament given our track record. So I could see that being attractive to him if he wants to come be Justin Harmon v2. If he's more interested in a bigger bag, then maybe we get outbid.
3) Sarr - obvious connection with KJ and GA. But his recent high profile performances with the big boys certainly make me a bit nervous that the blue bloods jump in with big money that we don't want to match. But if Duke is indeed the only main competition, and if they are likely to get Ament, maybe we can seal the deal here.
4) Dix. This one wouldn't surprise me if it fell through. About the only thing in favor here in my view is the insider posters saying Brad really wants him.
5) Sandfort - maybe if Dix does come he'd want to also? I don't know. I don't see how we end up with more than 2 of Ty, Jake, and Sandfort - and maybe just having 1 of those is the most likely scenario at the end of the day?
6) Yaxel - seems pretty unlikely to me. He seems great so I'd love to be wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear he ends up getting 3m or so.
He ended up on the bench because he absolutely sucked as a starter....in the spot they wanted him. That he was getting 30 MPG is laughable. He was a turnstile on defense that was targeted throughout the season. 34% after clanking wide open shot after wide open shot where he legitimately never moves on offense isn't good enough when he's being torched defensively.
I don't mind as a very spot minute guy off the bench. Albeit he offers nothing Big Z doesn't & frankly, at a minimum, likely nothing more that Jake/Jakstys would in that same limited minute breather role. But let's not paint this narrative "he was put in a bad spot". He was put into a bench spot because he was horrible in the initial starting role they gave him. If they want to throw an end of bench spot to him, cool.
He wasn't cut up for this level. And that's ok.
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Tai Streets, who he played for in AAU, is a scUM grad
if you look at per minute stats, which makes sense to me because if you are on the court, you should be producing better than the guys on the bench, then Ben is one of our worst players. If you look at only the 9 guys that actually saw the floor, Ben was:
8 of 9 in FTs attempted. Since he never really drove he never got fouled.
9 out of 9 in points per minute. He pretty much only shot 3s (75% of his shots) and 34% just isn't going to cut it, if you're supposed to be a specialist.
8 of 9 in rebounds per minute. If you're playing the 4, you've got to rebound.
5 of 9 in assist per minute. So that's not bad at least.
That just isn't going to cut it, especially when your defense was suspect too. He is simply not a P5 level starter, likely not a P5 level player.
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