Week of 12/16 Games & News Thread

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#102      
KJ and possibly Kylan may be in NBA next year. Welcome home Jeremiah 🤗
 
#103      
I think Fears will be in the NBA before Boswell. In fact, right now Boswell needs to up his game or learn a new language.
 
#104      
That is not accurate.

Fears committed on 1/22/2024, Boswell committed 4/14/2024, and KJ committed 5/28/2024

So we had Fears first and then Underwood chose to recruit over him. I'm sure there were personal issues like Fears wanted x, but this was a choice Underwood made knowing it would impact Fears.

Looking at their stats thus far:

Fears - 17.9 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 4.6 apg, 2.3 spg, 3.9 topg, 49.6/34.1/85.9
KJ - 16.1, 6.1, 5.6, 1.4, 4.0, 46.9/42.0/84.2
Boswell - 10.1, 4.1, 3.4, 0.9, 1.7, 36.0/20.2/71.4

No way to sugar coat it, Boswell's shooting has been a major disappointment. He was much better at Arizona, so hopefully that comes around. I very much wanted Boswell and KJ has been as good as Fears, but fact remains, Fears was committed 3 months before either of the others came on board.

I'd imagine Fears may have some ambition concerns, because if you questioned his talent, then I'd question your evaluation skills. It was a bit strange that he ended up at Oklahoma. But for guys that want to go straight to the NBA, getting 30 mpg and a starting role out of the gates is a big deal.
Didn't Fears commit for next year though? He only left after he reclassed to this year.
 
#105      
Jeremiah is far more likely to be drafted this year than Kylan.

Kylan will be back and it's trending towards Riley playing in college too(though who knows if he stays in Champaign).

Don't want to get ahead of ourselves but just from watching so far I think KJ is the only guy that declares early then obviously Hum will be out of eligibility.

Everyone else could realistically return but a lot of things could change and I'd expect a few guys to transfer out based on how much they have been playing.
 
#106      
I watched the from ~5 mins left in game to 1 min left. Fears had about 4 bad turnovers during this time. Michigan had come back during this time and taken the lead, obviously. Turned it off cause I thought the game was done. Also saw only 1 Fears bucket, so I missed all the good stuff apparently.
 
#108      
KJ and possibly Kylan may be in NBA next year. Welcome home Jeremiah 🤗

I mean if two of the three are heading to the NBA following this season it's almost certainly KJ and Jeremiah. I don't see how Boswell would be on any draft boards at the moment.
 
#115      
Other than Ohio State and the cupcakes, their wins and losses are all within five points. Really interesting when you see who they've played, they seem to be stuck playing up or down to their competition.
I don’t even know if they’ll make the tournament this year. 7-4 and currently 85 in NET. They do have a Q1 win (currently 1-3), but they also have a Q3 loss, which essentially nullifies that.

They’ll have to get a lot better if they want to get anywhere near the tourney.
 
#123      
It was crazy to me how much credit people gave Painter for Edey's dominance. He's never been a stranger to the bubble. Nice guy. I don't dislike him. But I think he and Purdue have become severely overrated.
 
#124      
Auburn just did this to tO$U a couple of days ago. Sadly, they are very, very good. The SEC is just loaded. And I think the Big Ten is very, very mediocre this year.
I know Auburn is good but Purdue just wasn’t that good and appears like a like a mid major playing a buy game. The Way you make it sound like Auburn was 4-5 times better than Tennessee that we played.My point is that Auburn can be good and at the same time Purdue can show up with a mediocre effort.
 
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