MBB Recruiting: 2015 5* F Luke Kennard to Duke
March 24th, 2014 at 10:44 PM ^
You're clearly a Duke fan in some way. Your responses have made the mocking worthwhile.
recruits if they want to go Michigan.
Duke
Well as he said yesterday this would be a "shock"... I mean whodda thunk .. errr yeah.
if i were a hot shot recruit, the pull of playing in the duke unc game would be huge for me. everyone would love to see sparty fall off the map, but the UM MSU basketball rivalry could blow up. i dont think we'll get duke vs unc hype anytime soon, but substance wise are we so far behind in the short run at least? meeting them in the finals would help raise the profile, i'd think.
how often do you have powerhouse school without a great rival?
I pulled up Luke's highlight video on Rivals and I have had an opportunity to watch Austin Grandstaff in Dallas area. There isn't a lot of difference between the two. I would love to get Austin! Luke plays in a lower division and Austin plays in 5A. 5A is the highest division in Texas. Austin lead DFW in scoring this year at 30+ and there are two top 6 2014 5* stars, Mudiay and Turner, in DFW. I talked to Austin and he is coming to AA for a visit this summer and hopes to get an offer. He really likes to watch Nik play. Florida is another team he is interested in. His Dad talks to Bacari quite often. I posted an amateur scouting report on UMHoops.com
But I'm not gonna lie, it would be nice to get some "above the radar kids"...wait, above?
In all seriousness though, definitely wanted this one. And Zimmerman for that matter.
GRIII #11 overall
Zak Irvin #24
Kameron Chatman #29
Mitch #30 overall (once #3)
Derrick Walton #37
It's not like this is a team still starting Novak at the 4. We have little to complain about
Yeah but we got most of those guys (McGary and Chatman the exceptions) when they were still under the radar. GRIII in particular. He was a three star type that didn't hold offers from Purdue or Indiana when we locked him up.
but we're really digging. Our coach is apparently an elite talent evaluator who basically wins with whoever he feels like putting on the floor. I'm sure if Rivals could go back and 're-rate' everyone that Caris, Trey, THJ, and Nik would all be vastly higher than where they were before. Beilein gonna Beilein
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Whatever Beilein is doing is working great. I'd love to see us get to that next level; maybe we need to win a national championship, maybe we can never get there and be clean.
My only point was that we're not here because of getting above the radar guys. We're here because Beilein (and staff) is an elite talent evaluator, and an elite talent developer.
If this is the ceiling, it's a hell of a ceiling and I'll take it all day long.
because if there's one thing I know to be true, it's that John Beilein never takes a group of 3 stars, makes them a tournament team, and possibly gets a few of those drafted in the 1st round of the NBA draft. Definitely never does that. Needs 5* talent at all positions to win.
But seriously, right now we have three 5*s on the team. One is injured, the other is a 6th man, and the other is generally considered the weak point of the starting 5.
Our PG is a 4* true freshman, our SG is 3* sophmore, our PF is 4* sophmore, and our center is a 3*....and we're favorites to make the Elite 8 this weekend. John Beilein can recruit whoever he wants! I don't care. I just know he's going to win with whomever is on the floor
Aren't they getting Okafor as well?
We'll see how Coach K does with these two... but I don't know, it seems like he hasn't adjusted that well to this 1-and-done era. Lot of disappointing seasons lately, albeit sandwiched around one great one. But with all the talent they get year in and year out, you would think they would at least be in the Elite 8 every year, not bowing out in the first round two out of three years.
The upside though is that every time Duke loses, an angel gets its wings.
March 24th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
I believe that they also landed the #1 PG from MN.
There's also speculation that Jabari could stay another year, but we'll see about that one.
Thad Matta really screwed the pooch on this recruitment.
This is going to hurt as bad as whiffing on Trey Burke.
stars and recruiting are fun, but as our football team has shown the last couple years, not essential or a guarantee of success. as nice as it is to get garret taylor, my response to football recruitnig these days is, 'ok, but lets see it on the field'.
well, we see it on the court with our bball team. kid made a reasonable choice, good luck to him. it would be fun to see our on court success result in 5 stars throwing themselves at the program, but as long as we have beilein it doesnt seem to matter.
March 24th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
March 24th, 2014 at 10:24 PM ^
March 24th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
oh dear god...
March 24th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
oh dear god...
March 24th, 2014 at 10:09 PM ^
Novak? Morgan? Albrecht? LeVert? Burke? Stauskas? Hardaway? None of these guys were blue chip recruits. Some were barely even recruited, and yet Beilein made them all essential pieces of a winning program. He knows how to find talent, he knows how to develop the hell out of it, and all that's done is gotten us two Big Ten titles, a title game appearance, an All-American or two, not to mention the best damn player in college hoops last year. Oh, and several NBA draft picks, with undoubtedly many more on the way.
Would've been nice to get this kid, but we shouldn't lose sleep over it. Beilein will make studs out of whoever he recruits.