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2 minutes ago, HallMonitor576 said:

I think that is easily explained by it being one afternoon a week or every 2 weeks on the weekend versus practicing on school nights. 

Ok, let me clarify. It’s less about the location/ease of schedule. It’s more about his Uncle basically saying “no basketball”....period....if he had less than a B. Sounds like you have a pulse on the situation, so I’m only sharing what I heard. May not be accurate at all. 

2 minutes ago, HallMonitor576 said:

Basye works students out at Bloomington North (where he attended and his little brother is on staff), and also at the Twin Lakes recreation center. He has trained a lot of players in the area and Indiana Elite guys (Leal, Cooper Bybee, Connor Hickman, and Nick Klaiber)

Gotcha, good info. But this still makes you think and go back to the original question - which is, how it ok to drive almost 2 hours for a basketball workout when you’ve been “disciplined” due to grades and aren’t allowed to workout with your local team right in your hometown?  Just seems odd. 

20 hours ago, HallMonitor576 said:

He wasn’t working out with Bloomington South. He works out with Jordan Basye who is a trainer in Bloomington. 

There ya go. Yeah, I wasn’t 100% sure to be honest. Heard one person say it was BSouth and another say it was in Bloomington, but not BSouth. 

4 minutes ago, JcityHoosier said:

His uncle is a quite the character....I have a few friends who has worked with Loving Watts and all of them tell me that he has a terrible attitude...I watched Jeff vs Lawrence North early in the season and he looked like the best player on the court...very talented and hopefully him going to Bloomington South will get his head on straight....

Agreed. He’s got a lot of potential. He’s a legit high major prospect and IU definitely knows who the kid is. 

On 4/10/2020 at 9:35 PM, IUfaninIllinois said:

I’d love to hear the real reason he quit on his team. If it’s something selfish then I wouldn’t want IU recruiting him at all.

This one is interesting. Locally, the word was his Uncle (who I “think” is his guardian) said he cannot get below a B, or else no basketball. Rumor was he got a C and therefore, no basketball until that grade was brought up. Sounds good, right?  Everyone said, “wow, good for his Uncle for stressing academics!”  

Only problem with this is, he was shown having workouts in Bloomington (presumably with the Bloomington South team) during the time he was being disciplined for grades. So then, everyone started questioning, “He can’t play with his local school team due to grades, but it makes sense for him to be allowed to drive almost 2 hours to play and workout with a different team?”

Something doesn’t quite add up.