13th&Jackson

LeBron may have to play some games with the South Bay Lakers if he wants to play with Bronny

Porter Moser is interesting. He had two great teams at Loyola. But his other 16 seasons of his career (4 schools), he’s barely above .500

True, he's now Naruto, whoever that is... In a recent interview with GQ, Williamson compared his path to the famed anime character Naruto:

MJ's sons would be a good comparison, although Bronny is ranked higher than either of them were out of HS.

I think it's safe to say that, if he was Brady Jamison, he'd be ranked 50 spots below his current ranking. I could see him landing at Oregon, due to the Nike ties, then getting a huge NIL deal with Nike. He'd have his own shoe and there would be lots of ads and promos with he and Sr. James is now ranked 49 by 247Sports and No. 43 in the 247Sports Composite. He hasn't fallen off as a recruit necessarily -- to consistently be ranked as a top-50 player nationally is quite a feat, as both Bossi and Finkelstein agreed -- but he has lost at least some hype overall, falling from a five-star to a four-star recruit. On the other hand, during the first of July's two live weekends he didn't play nearly as well and his team just wasn't that great all summer. Strive for Greatness was only 2-10 during July and those losses were often blowouts. So, I think he was a bit better to end the month of July and I'm hoping that was a sign of what is to come during his senior year, but you have to take the entire spring and summer into account." "Right now, I'm seeing Bronny as a really good high school player who has a chance to be a nice player at the high-major level," Bossi said.

Cal owes you royalties

“I’ll play anyone, any place, any time. Well, except Princeton, of course. I may be crazy but I’m not stupid.” - John Chaney, 1996

As long as they have automatic bids for the Nike Ducks, the Adidas Jayhawks, the ESPN Blue Devils and the UnderArmour Terrapins.

If I can’t get the game on channel 4, with my B&W with rabbit ears and aluminum foil, I won’t watch.

“…and all NIL money goes to the library fund!”

Biggest ACC homer ever

I hope they're left with individual synchronized gymnastics until someone finally pulls the life support. It's amazing that the idiots running the place destroyed an iconic brand that had a near monopoly. Of course it's under the same management umbrella that ruined the Star Wars franchise and has badly wounded Toy Story/Pixar. Marvel will be next to fall. I don't think you could randomly pick 10 people out of the phone book who could mismanage those brands to this extent. Unfortunately, the moron running Disney is an IU grad. Thankfully he's a biology major so he doesn't taint the reputation of Kelley SoB. Former Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger was behind many of the biggest moves of the media company of the last two decades with acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Fox and Lucasfilm. Although, one of the biggest moves made that Iger regrets is the decision to name current Disney CEO Bob Chapek as his successor. According to a new report from Business Insider, Iger regrets naming Chapek as his successor as CEO of Disney and called it one of his worst business decisions ever. Now looking back, Iger said he would have never stepped down if he knew how bad the pandemic would be, according to a former Disney executive. The executive said Iger believes Chapek is arrogant and uninterested in other people’s opinions. Disney recently renewed Chapek as CEO for two additional years, a decision that was surprising to many Disney fans and shareholders, given the disappointing results for Disney shareholders. https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/07/28093776/bob-iger-regrets-hiring-bob-chapek-as-disney-ceo-successor-calls-it-one-of-his-worst-business-decisi

Took a while to get here

Wonder if Under Armour is stepping up for NIL deals for these MD commits?

Department of Motor Vehicles? You tracking their car registrations? 😀

It's tough to hold a wedding ceremony when she has a restraining order.

Who wants to be a Twerp?

One of the big problems is a lack of balanced 3 pt shooting. We never spread out a defense from the perimeter. In the Rutgers game, X was 2-4, but Phin 0-2, Kopp 1-5 and Stewart 2-9. Kopp and Stewart had numerous open looks in the second half of a game IU lost by 3, but couldn't deliver. Against OSU, Stewart was 3-4, but X was 0-3, Bates was 1-4 and Kopp was 1-5. At PU, Kopp was 4-6, but RT was 1-4, Stewart and Phin were 0-2 and X was 0-4. There was no consistency and we never seemed to have more than one player shooting well. It's so frustrating seeing TJD kick out to wide open shooters for multiple misses. You could see it deflate TJD and the whole team at times. IU had only 3 players out of their first 7 in minutes played who shot over 30% from three. Compare that to MI. Of the top 6 players in minutes played, all but Diabate shot 33% or better from 3. If you gamble on defense or they make an extra pass or two they always seemed to have an open three, with at least a 1 in 3 chance of a make. That's how they could really get on some runs. Same with IA. 5 of their top 6 players were 32% or better. On and on. We can only hope for a more balanced attack this year.

Really hope you’re right. Just hate to think of TJD playing 4 years without putting shooters around him.

The final four teams ranked 41st to 65th in 3 pt shooting. They averaged 35.8% to 36.6%. IU was 216th and averaged 33.3%. For a team to increase its perimeter shooting 2.5 to 3.3% would be a big jump, especially without adding any shooters. The biggest issue is that IU was 311th in D1 in made three pointers per game. That means a lot of close, grind it out games, with a lot of pressure on the defense. We've seen too many games where a game has been close, or IU had a lead (but one that should have been larger), and then one guy on the other team starts throwing in clutch or even garbage 3s late. I hope I'm wrong and this team materially improves its perimeter shooting or can somehow compensate. It's just a glaring weakness, especially with how the game is played today.

Bulking up for positionless basketball

Getting in the reps... 😀

Not really a surprise. Their 3 pt % was 2nd and 3rd behind Stewart last year. This doesn't make me optimistic, though. Kopp has always been a streaky shooter and X's shot mechanics aren't good. He may be putting up a lot of reps, but I doubt that he completely remade his shooting motion. Just have a bad feeling that this team won't meet expectations due to poor perimeter shooting again. This team desperately needed a Zeisloft or Alfonso Plummer type pickup from the transfer portal and didn't get one.