Oso planning to go pro
He will get hate for it, but they are completely right. Badger fans love to point to Kaminsky and Dekker, but completely miss the point. The Badgers havent had a highly rated recruit come in and leave for the NBA in under 3 years under the Bo/Gard reign...ever.Greg Steisma, top 35 recruit. Stayed 4 years, undrafted.Brian Butch, top 10 McD AA. F-ing redshirted, stayed 5 years, undrafted.Sam Dekker, top 15-20 recruit, stayed 3 years.Devin Harris, highly rated recruit, but again, stayed 3 years.Its a great system for under the radar or late blooming guys like Kaminsky, Alando Tucker, or Jon Leuer, but if you're trying to come in and ball out right away and bounce in a year or two, its the worst place for that. Wojo brought in a one and done and let him go to work and he ended up being a top 20 pick. With the incompleteness of his game, he wouldn't have been the go-to guy in Madison for a year or two, no chance he's getting drafted right away.Wojo has had 3 top 40 level guys (before Dawson). One was a top 20 pick and the other was a first team AA and set a pile of records. The other was Joey and thats an incomplete. I'm not a Wojo fan, but he's still gonna be a better spot for you to get to the league, or put yourself in that position quickly, than Gard or his mentor.
Leuer was a top 100.Henry fell to top 20 when he was gonna be a lottery. You probably should include Fischer and Johnson for top 40sAnyways it's no argument that our system is usually better just saying this isn't exactly the buzz years where pretty much everyone at least got a cup of coffee compared to like nobody from Bo
Apparently Hayes and Dekker have something in common with Sam and Joey. All worked behind the scenes to make sure Herro left the state.
Leuer didn’t even start until the very end of his sophomore year. He was borderline top 100 but nobody viewed him as a pro prospect most of his career. Completely different than a Dekker or Herro situation. Counting Jayce is a joke given he was a 5th year who had been unremarkable in his other 4 years and Fischer is a bit more valid but again he didn’t recruit him out of HS and he had plenty of issues by the time he was here.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
I believe the Johnson being referenced is Jajuan as he was a consensus top 50 recruit.
The strangest thing about this Hayes story is his motivation for bringing this up at all. Why would he talk about this publicly? Now Badger fans probably don't like him, and he has hurt recruiting for his alma mater. All for what? A mention of his name nationally?I just don't understand the logic here.
I applaud Herro for having the nut sack to decommit, gamble on himself, and chart his future. He made the difficult, right decision, and he and his family took some vicious chit for doing so. We used to recruit kids with not only talent, but also a chip on their shoulder who played with moxie. They won NCAA Tournament games and personified Warriors, aina?
Major error in judgment by the Woj dude, hey?
With friends in the Whitnall district and friends involved in the travel basketball world during the Herro recruitment process, I can tell you it was widely known well in advance that if he got offers from schools of Kentucky’s ilk, he was not going to stay in state. It was also widely known he was not going to stay committed to UW well in advance of his decommitment. The kid is baller and fun to watch. He wasn’t coming to Marquette regardless of the coach.
Dynamic of the finals may have just changed. How bad is AD? LbJ can still put the team on his back and finish.
Lakers gonna win it tonight.
Lakers have had the “injury edge” for the last 4 games and should have finished off the Heat in 4 (or 5 at the most). Jimmy wouldn’t let that happen. If AD is out that would give the same edge to the Heat for game 6 (and 7 if necessary). Bottom line? King James has been great. JFB has been every bit his equal. And that is astounding. Marquette fans everywhere should be proud.
Switch JFB and LBJ, and the JFB led Lakers would have won in 4.