Jaylen Brown to.....California?!?
Jaylen Brown tells Scout that he has committed to California. Story coming.
— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) May 2, 2015
Can't even outrecruit Cal. :/
Or LSU, or Texas A&M, or VIrginia Tech, or Illinois, Washington or Minnesota, or Oregon State, or Arkansas. You know, all those basketball powers.
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I blame Obama
Sooo... Next years lineup?
1: Walton
2: Caris
3: Irvin
4: Dawkins if you believe what you saw last Feb/March OR Robinson if you believe the Mark Donnal like hype that he is the 3rd best player on the team!
5: Doyle
I expect Walton to be at 30 min a night and Caris Irvin at 35 - thats how just Beilein rolls. That doesnt leave much time in the backcourt for anyone other than Spike IMO - some 2 PG sets with Spike and Walton and some backup minutes for Spike behind Walton. MAAR gets garbage time and plays on nites Walton or Caris get their 2 fouls early.
Beilein said Wilson is NOT a long term 5. But he could be a 5 this one year. I expect him and Donnal to fight for that backup 5 spot - winner gets the 15-17 minutes a night Doyle doesn't get. Loser gets to play in the garbage time role or when one of the top 2 centers gets 2 early fouls or we play one of those teams with a very bad man at center who gets all our guys in trouble.
The 4 is just a big pile of competiton and unknowns. Mo dude from Germany is a fit there, Duncan Robinson probably plays there some or backs up Irvin most nights at 3 (and plays more on nights Irvin gets into foul trouble) and Chatman plays there. So depending on how much Dawkins can improve on everything he does other than 3 pt shooting, depends on how much minutes is left for everyone else. Alternative narrative - Robinson is a wunderkid ready to take over DI basketball due to practice reports and crowds everyone else out. I don't believe that narrative myself based on recent years hype.
I wouldn't count out Chatman. He had some big contributions toward the end of the year. If Chatman, Wagner, and Robinson live up to their potential in the next couple years, we will be very very good. If even one or two of those guys can live up to the hype we will be serious contenders. We've all seen what Beilein can do in developing talent.
this is hilarious because Cal is NOT good and their coach is NOT good at developing talent. It's weird when players talk about wanting to progress so much and often commit to coaches who are not even known for their player development.
when Shavodrick Beaver committed to Tulsa. . .
well 2015 wasn't a stellar recruiting year for the basketball team thats for sure. How the fuck does LSU have a top 5 or 10 class in basketball? They have like 3 big time recruits and i thought i saw on EspnU that they had another top recruit that decommited from them? How the hell are they pulling that off?
Neon Boudeaux, Ricky Roe, and Butch McCrae?
I'm glad they didn't get Brown. He is so good already that Beilein would have had a difficult time coaching him up.
Agree. If he drives to the basket all the time who will we bitch at to drive to the basket?
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Also, we will be fine next year. Dawkins is no slouch, he will have a big year. That's probably part of the reason why Brown did not commit to us: playing time.
phew, luckily kenny willaims isn`t visiting.
"A rumor floating online is that they lost Brown due to a coach announcing his silent verbal before he Brown publicly announced. If you haven't followed the recruitment, within a span of about 24 hours the following things happened: Brown went from a heavy Michigan lean to rumored to be a silent UM commit, indicated he would announce next week, coach Alexander tweets some stupid tweet about the best players commit to the B1G after the silent (much like Jim's idiot son likes to tweet after a silent commit), Brown withdrawals the commit, deletes coach Alexander as a friend on twitter, the experts shift to a lean away from UM, and he publicly commits to Cal a few hours later."
Is there any truth to this? Or complete crap?
If so, colossal fail on BA's part. Just another reason why social media is completely stupid.
I'm not sure I'm buying the BA tweet theory as a reason for Brown's decision, but that doesn't change the fact that you're right about social media. For whatever reason, it seems to bring out the stupid in people, including those who should know better, like everybody over the age of 22
I mean, I know it's en vogue around here to slobber over the drivel Bacari Alexander puts on his twitter, but it's often completely unbecoming of a professional adult. Jay Harbaugh, too.
On the other hand, I think Bacari should have known better. There was no need to make a tweet like that.
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It's much easier to say "we were correct, but michigan blew it" vs. "we were wrong and had poor/ made up info".
than at UMich. Good luck JB, you'll probably be awesome no matter where you go.
Does he realize that Berkley is NOWHERE near Disneyland????
Never underestimate the MGoIdiot portion of the board.
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For someone who was super pissed he was going to Kentucky, I'm almost pleasantly surprised.
I congratulate Cal on their fine requruiting class. I think their staff is a new force in the Pac 12 and I think it is a little presumptuous to think they are doing anything unethical. Coach Cal and even UK has a shadey history. UM has a history too. Granted I feel good about Coach Beilein and that he is doing this the right way but the coach at Cal has always had the reputation for being a good person and getting his players to perform. I thought TN was crazy for letting him go. Can you imagine how frustrated UK is right now? I know I live in Kentucky. Also, Couch Cal is under a microscope here. Yes UK treats their basketball players like kings but I believe it is all legit. The housing facility is amazing! I would also like to say the UK players as I'm sure is the case in a lot of situations are very endearing to the fans. They are humble and really reach out to the community and are involved in many charitable organizations. Just saying.
this is another reason not to get hyped about recruits and to cement that we have no idea what they are thinking, 93% of crystal balls had him headed elsewhere.