re: Some Will Wade recruiting possibilities

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Tell him hes the weakest link nextime...At the very least its as original as a joke about not reading a long OP. Got any more zingers...? Man....I got it....you shoulda told him that he was really on first base......Cause that's how black and white your burn was....Get it....cause the skit was in black and white....man....I wish I was as funny as you are.....such a trendsetter this guy....Like the Dane Cook of sports message boards...Saying funny things that have never been said before by anyone. Yep, you and Dane Cook...The Original Kings of Comedy...Id get a trademark on that title, pretty sure like your joke earlier, no one has ever used it before. Not like if it has been done to death that it reflects on you in any way....if somebody says something, you send them to me ok? I wont allow anyone to say you're in any way unoriginal. That's how fresh you were....Man, you wanna hang out sometime? I got 007 on N64....man, so funny...Knock Knock? (Who's there) Orange...(Orange who?) Orange you glad I didn't say another lame joke? Oh you are.....


Welcome to the club jackhole.

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Here's an interesting piece from the Memphis Commercial Appeal talking about the JUCO kids Tubby Smith is recruiting.

Among them is the Kyvon Davenport kid referenced earlier in the thread, who might be the top unsigned JUCO forward in the country. JUCORecruiting.com has him as the #19 player, but those rankings might be old. Here's a writeup from that site about him.

Another guy is the #48 player in those JUCO rankings, Raynere Thornton. He's out of Gordon State in Georgia, and he had an interesting stat line:

10.9 ppg
11.4 rpg
5.9 apg

He can't shoot much, though - .474 from the floor, only 23 percent from 3 and 57 percent from the foul line. And at 6-6, 230 he's a little small for the post. That said, he's got Kansas State, Iowa State and Nebraska along with Memphis.

They also have a couple of guards listed, one of which is Chris Darrington from Vincennes (20.7 ppg), who is #13 on that JUCO list. The other is Ron Freeman, who's a 6-5 swingman out of Northwest Florida State. He only averaged 8.2 ppg this year; I don't see why we would be interested in him.

The top player on the JUCO list is Shakur Juiston (6-7), who led Hutchinson to the national championship. He's uncommitted. Averaged 17.3 ppg and 12.1 rpg, 3.9 apg, 1.8 bpg and 1.5 spg, and shot 60 percent from the floor. Wade was recruiting him at VCU, but he's also got Kansas on him as well as Illinois, St. Bonaventure, Rhode Island and Seton Hall.

And here's another guy I wouldn't be surprised to see Wade take a chance on. His name is Tony Farmer, and he goes 6-7 or 6-8 and 235 pounds. He's out of Lee College, which is where Jenkins and Reath played and where Hamdy played when Wade found him. Benford also recruited that school at North Texas.

Farmer had a big year at Lee...

17.4 ppg
9.5 rpg
3.2 apg
.484 FG
.354 3PT
.689 FT

...but he's not all that highly-recruited. Why?

This is why.

He's a risk. He spent 3 years in jail out of high school for kidnapping and robbing an ex-girlfriend and nobody would take him to play college ball when he got out. But apparently he straightened his life out and hasn't caused any trouble at Lee. It might not be a good look for Wade to sign him right after coming here, but on the other hand, this guy is a grown man and could be a difference-maker at the 4 for somebody.

I agree, but I doubt a new coach wants to take that burden and risk. An established program like Wichita may roll the dice.

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I agree, but I doubt a new coach wants to take that burden and risk. An established program like Wichita may roll the dice.

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It's a dilemma, to be sure. Signing him sends a signal that other programs will use to recruit against you, that you're a "thug" program and so on, and doing it as a new coach here is a risk.

That said, the kid can play at a very high level and Lord, does he fit within Wade's concept. If he's past the stuff that put him in jail and proves it, moreover, it's an outstanding story and Wade looks like Mother Theresa for having brought him in and managed him.

And if you could get Farmer in here to put with Blakeney, Sampson, Mays, Reath and Corey Davis and either of your freshmen Jones signed turn out to be good, you might actually turn up with a competitive club that can crawl onto the bubble if things go right.

I'll be interested to see how this goes, because Farmer is absolutely on Wade's radar (and Benford's, since he's recruited the hell out of that league) being at Lee.

College 4 yes, nba 3 yes

Five-star big and Duke freshman Marques Bolden is transferring

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I don't think it rolling the dice, dude should have never done time for what he done, I see what he did happens all the time and its probation to time serve with probation. They used him as a explain, he is not a street dude at all lol

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Did you not watch the video of him hitting his ex? It was premeditated and apparently another video shown in court of him stomping her head multiple times. He was waiting on her and when she sees him, she immediately is afraid trying to get away. I will be severely disappointed if Wade took Farmer. Yes he has paid his debt to society but no way in hell would I want my daughter at a school around someone like him. I'm pulling for the guy to turn his life around, just not at LSU.

Whether you want him at LSU or not, don't pretend that a campus with 40,000 plus students, faculty and staff, don't have a bunch like him and much worse.

Agreed

Going 10-21 again because your scruples tell you you can't give a kid an opportunity looks worse.

Now - if he's a constant problem at Lee and they're putting up with him because he can play, I doubt any of us would support bringing him in. But that isn't the impression I get from the reading I've done.