Madness Scrimmage !

[Murffieus]

Lazar was interviewed after the scrimmage and said that he was more concerned about getting everyone else involved then looking to shoot and score.  He said he didn't even want to take a shot so I don't know thing he was frustrated from any double teaming/shading.

Well in the scrimmage he was only concerned about himself getting to the hoop------he put his head down and went there hell or high water-----didn't get anyone involved.

[Daniel]

To me it seemed like Lazar was going to take the rest of the group to school - you know - as the senior leader - that was my impression - that's all I thought of what he was doing.  I mean, it's a scrimmage.

[Henry Sugar]

Murff's comments about Lazar are actually one of my biggest concerns about Lazar.  Despite his excellence at rebounding and scoring, Lazar is kind of a black hole when he gets the ball.  Couple that with the notion of being the "senior leader", and it's easy to envision a scenario where he starts to dominate the possessions a la McNeal and the whole team suffers.

However, it's too early to tell based solely on a scrimmage.

FWIW, I see Maymon as the most productive of the new players this year based on nothing.

[Blackhat]

I'm not going to speculate a ton on guys abilities based on 24 minutes of pick up ball but impressions were:

-Buycks looks athletic, good compact body...showed he's got a pretty good handle.
-Maymon just produced, finds a way
-Otule, somewhat better body tone
-Mbao, soft body still but he's all of 7-2
-Erik Williams, not confident during dunk contest, not as explosive as I was expecting/hoping, in the flow of actual basketball  i was more impressed
with him.   Timid streak in him hopefully goes away as he gets acclimated. 


Been following recruiting for a decade now but after watching Vander at the madness two nights ago I remember thinking "this deal might be done".   Seemed comfortable and looked good in blue and gold.   Was sitting with Jamail, Black and Mrs. Williams during the scrimmage.    Sitting behind the prospects for madness it just seemed like Buzz has got MU "plugged in" in regards to recruiting.   Good to see all these young prospects there in addition to the big 5(I'm assuming they're prospects)- the longer these relationships we can build the better.