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Phillips vs. Militic by The Sultan
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The Superbar / Re: 2025-26 NFL Thread
Last post by Dish - Today at 02:43:02 PM
I'm ok with Drew Dalman retiring. Chicago media is having a meltdown, but he was...alright?
#2
Hangin' at the Al / Re: Phillips vs. Militic
Last post by The Sultan - Today at 02:42:43 PM
Quote from: BCHoopster on Today at 02:38:56 PMJust trying to say, if you play 50 games starting in 7th, by the time they get to being seniors they have played almost 309 games, as a college coach who should be able to see if they are ready or not.

I saw Nigel play enough in high school to realize he was ready to shine as a frosh, hope the 2 kids are ready as well


Other guys are playing 309 games a well though.
#3
Hangin' at the Al / Re: Phillips vs. Militic
Last post by wadesworld - Today at 02:41:14 PM
Quote from: BCHoopster on Today at 02:38:56 PMJust trying to say, if you play 50 games starting in 7th, by the time they get to being seniors they have played almost 309 games, as a college coach who should be able to see if they are ready or not.

I saw Nigel play enough in high school to realize he was ready to shine as a frosh, hope the 2 kids are ready as well

You should send your resume to Shaka for GM position.
#4
Hangin' at the Al / Re: Phillips vs. Militic
Last post by BCHoopster - Today at 02:38:56 PM
Just trying to say, if you play 50 games starting in 7th, by the time they get to being seniors they have played almost 309 games, as a college coach who should be able to see if they are ready or not.

I saw Nigel play enough in high school to realize he was ready to shine as a frosh, hope the 2 kids are ready as well
#5
The Superbar / Re: War with Iran
Last post by Pakuni - Today at 02:38:46 PM
Rubio is changing his story yet again, now saying we attacked Iran because they were about to attack us.
Which is even less credible than yesterday's justification.
#6
The Superbar / Re: War with Iran
Last post by #UnleashJosh - Today at 02:33:18 PM
The mental gymnastics
#7
Hangin' at the Al / Re: Phillips vs. Militic
Last post by wadesworld - Today at 02:12:31 PM
Quote from: BCHoopster on Today at 02:02:02 PMShaka seems to like bringing in kids that are not ready as freshman. Phillips at 17 years old as shown he is not ready to play, sure he can make a 3 once in awhile, but has no creative skill to drive to the hoop.  Hard to believe he has not scored a 2 all year.  So why bring in another kid who is not ready yet either, makes no sense.
 
What I am getting at, my grandson in 7th grade is going to play 50 games this year.  Kids play so much prior to college Shaka should have a feeling if they can help right away.  Enough with projects.  I hope Johnston and Alex can play right away.

Lol had been too long until your grade school grandson was brought up.

There are 15 scholarship spots available to rosters now.  1) You aren't going to be able to fill up your roster with 15 players who are ready to be rotational pieces in the Big East, kids who are ready to play will go elsewhere if there aren't minutes available for them.  2) Unless you're landing 5 star prospects, you very rarely can tell if a kid will be ready to play Big East minutes from the jump until they're actually playing in those games.  And again, you aren't getting 15 5 stars to come join your team.

There's a bit of a difference between 50 7th grade games (congrats to your grandson!) and Big East basketball.  Or even really high level AAU and Big East basketball.
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Hangin' at the Al / Re: Phillips vs. Militic
Last post by The Sultan - Today at 02:10:21 PM
Quote from: BCHoopster on Today at 02:02:02 PMShaka seems to like bringing in kids that are not ready as freshman. Phillips at 17 years old as shown he is not ready to play, sure he can make a 3 once in awhile, but has no creative skill to drive to the hoop.  Hard to believe he has not scored a 2 all year.  So why bring in another kid who is not ready yet either, makes no sense.
 
What I am getting at, my grandson in 7th grade is going to play 50 games this year.  Kids play so much prior to college Shaka should have a feeling if they can help right away.  Enough with projects.  I hope Johnston and Alex can play right away.


We have two freshmen who start, including one who may be the BE freshman of the year.
#9
Hangin' at the Al / Re: Phillips vs. Militic
Last post by Jay Bee - Today at 02:10:20 PM
Quote from: BCHoopster on Today at 02:02:02 PMShaka seems to like bringing in kids that are not ready as freshman. Phillips at 17 years old as shown he is not ready to play, sure he can make a 3 once in awhile, but has no creative skill to drive to the hoop.  Hard to believe he has not scored a 2 all year.  So why bring in another kid who is not ready yet either, makes no sense.
 
What I am getting at, my grandson in 7th grade is going to play 50 games this year.  Kids play so much prior to college Shaka should have a feeling if they can help right away.  Enough with projects.  I hope Johnston and Alex can play right away.

No idea how your 7th grader grandson has anything to do with this, but I will say.. when you have 15 scholarships available, I don't have any issue bringing in guys - especially "a year early" to be with the team and improve.

Now, if the hit rate of good/solid players vs. total misses within 2-3 years of their start date is awful, then it's a problem. But, a young shooter with great length (pawz).. I'm OK with that.

Back to your 7th grader and determining if a kid can be good in the future or not... were you sold on Tyler after his second year of college, and his first here? I think he probably played more than 50 games prior to that in his career...
#10
Hangin' at the Al / Re: Phillips vs. Militic
Last post by Biggie Clausen - Today at 02:07:45 PM
Shaka's probably pissed he got strong-armed by the boosters and can't bring in another project to fill Zaide's spot.