re: LSU 2018 Basketball Recruiting Thread *updated-ish*

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Running list of transfers out there in case anyone is interest, just today another 13 added

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This guy looks intriguing. Part-time starter for Syracuse, 6-8 PF, Matthew Moyer. Any chance we can get him?

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Looking at his numbers he honestly seems like a downgrade from Sims.

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But is 2-3" taller

He's an upgrade from Kiir and is taller than Sims. We need depth guys for continuity to balance the talented one and dones. He's just one guy I spotted. Are there other decent looking bigs that are transfer candidates?

Those people asking questions about LSU's recruiting would be idiots. LSU's all time team would beat anyone's with the possible exception of ucla and unc. LSU getting great players in hoops has been going on for 40+ years. Fortunately, we now have potentially the best coach in our history to go along with it.

He doesn't really fit what Wade wants since he's a senior transfer, but Trey Porter from Old Dominion would be a really good get. 13.2 points and 6.1 rebounds a game, along with 1.4 blocks a game and a 58 percent shooting percentage on a 25-7 team is pretty good.

Kid is transferring because he says he wants to play in the tournament. And he's 6-10 and 230, so if you added him you would have an absolutely dominant front line.

Problem is, he's a redshirt junior right now. He's got one to play one.

I have not researched this, but have been an avid LSU fan since the Dale days. I am pretty sure over the last 40+ years, LSU is SOLIDLY in the top 25 schools for basketball recruiting, vandy is not. LSU getting great players is not an anamoly, it has happened for years. We always have 5+ players in the NBA in any given year, not a hell of a lot of schools can say that.

Personally, and I think some logical people may agree, Will Wade the recruiter is still very much to be determined.

- Smart is from right here in Baton Rouge area. We know e can get good players from here. Nonetheless, it's ALWAYS a good job to keep the elite talent at home, as very recently Robert Williams got away...

- Emmitt Williams literally just about EVERYONE backed off on during his arrest and ordeal, leaving the door wide open for us to keep more contact open and "show him the love" when he wasn't getting it from really anywhere. I feel like this recruitment could have gone much different had that arrest not happened. Not saying we dont land him if that doesn't happen, but you could argue one of the worst things to happen to Williams was one of the best things to happen in our recruitment of him.

- Naz Reid, his girlfriend plays on the women's basketball team here, no doubt in my mind that played a gigantic role in him coming here, do not see him coming here without that thing in particular being in our (and Wade's) favor

- Days was a really good land for wade, seemingly with no real connections like Reid, Smart or a situation like Williams had. Now, UF didn't offer him, so that certainly helps when the flagship basketbal state school ignores a guy in their own town, but in the end he had a ton of offers and he chose us.


This is not to damper what Wade has accomplished here in in his short stint, just pointing out how we wont know about will wade the recruiter truly for a while. The way the 2019 class is beginning to take shape, it will be a handful of kids in that 100-200ish range or so, not a class full of Top 50/75 guys like this one.

Interesting tidbit I just found out:

Duop Reath has a younger brother who is a freshman at Lee college, Sebit Reath. He's also 6'10, and he didn't play a ton his freshman year, but Duop didn't do much either until his sophomore season.

Considering he's following in his brother's footsteps, I wonder if we have legit interest in keeping up with him and him possibly coming here if he breaks out next year at Lee college.

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Quite frankly it doesn't matter one bit if a great player is fom LA or the moon.

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Except it very much does. Nobody bats an eye if Lsu signs great players from Louisiana, in any sport. It's actually expected.

See tbird's thoughts on Javonte smart.

Tasmin Mitchell choosing Lsu over Kentucky surprised no one.

Before he left, people still expected trent Johnson to get jarrell martin to Lsu, despite very little evidence to support the idea that he could. And were pissed when Greg Monroe left.

Signing great players from all across the country is what gets people's attention.

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Just off the top of my head (for sure I am omitting some) these are players that virtually EVERYBLANKINGBODY recruited, yet chose the correct school.

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Once again, completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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I doubt there are a dozen schools that could compete with the quality of that list.

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I'm not going to go through and list every player from each school, but off the top of my head these 13 schools should be able to put together a very high quality list of signees that would compete very well with your Lsu list.

Unc, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA, Arizona, Michigan st, Indiana, Syracuse, Georgetown, uconn, Florida, Texas,

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LSU getting great recruits is like the sun rising in the east every morning.

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Except it's not. There are 10 people on your list from this century, and 2 of them are in this year's class. The sun rises in the east more than just 8 times in 18 years.

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You know, we can piss back and forth forever, but you have claimed that LSU is comparable to vandy in how surprising it is that they are signing top flight players. That is the topic YOU have gotten off of, and you are 100000% wrong about that.

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The first comment I made about Vanderbilt in this thread was to say people have just as much reason to be surprised by Vanderbilt's class this year as they would Lsu.

Clearly you have issues with reading comprehension, staying on topic, and factually supporting your arguments. Maybe this whole message board thing just isn't really for you.

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have no clue how long you have watched LSU or sec basketball, but I go back to 1977. Once again, the problem has NEVER been can LSU attract great talent in hoops, it has been, can we manage, coach, and keep them together long enough. I have a suspicion (and hope) we have cured that with Will Wade.

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Getting a big recruit 4 times every 9 years is not indicative of a basketball recruiting powerhouse. Neither is having 1 NCAA tournament victory in the last 10 years. When a school with that track record suddenly pulls in a top 5 class with multiple highly ranked players from places they havent traditionally gotten players from, it's going to lead to questions/suspicions. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. Because it's already happening.

I really don't understand what is so difficult to comprehend about this.