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Rougarou4lsu 
LSU Fan
New Orleans
Member since Oct 2003
790 posts
| Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 6:59 pm)
Was the Big baby, Tyrus Thomas, Temple harvest a
fluke or is BR developing more ballers.
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GM19 
Alabama Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2010
794 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 7:02 pm to Rougarou4lsu)
Not saying that many aren't being produced now because I have no clue, but that year was definitely special.
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3xlsugrad 
North Carolina Fan
Atlanta area
Member since Feb 2012
8030 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 7:13 pm to Rougarou4lsu)
BR will continue to develop players, but that year was certainly not the norm.
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Tiger Nation 84
LSU Fan
Lake Chuck
Member since Dec 2011
5794 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 7:16 pm to Rougarou4lsu)
watch out for Martin next year dude might be great
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lsutgrfan10
LSU Fan
Member since Jun 2011
122 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 7:18 pm to GM19)
All from the Baton Rouge area and went to LSU:
2003: Brandon Bass, Darnell Lazare
2004: Glen Davis, Tyrus Thomas, Garrett Temple
2005: Tasmin Mitchell
2006:
2007: Bo Spencer, Marcus Thorton (from JC)
Since then we have had 5 total commits from LA. I would say Trent Johnson happened. Plus that 2004 class was amazing.
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Tiger Ugly
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
3494 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 9:37 pm to Rougarou4lsu)
I'm hearing there are some ballers in B.R. in the 9th grade. Wayne Sims son among them, but 1 or 2 others in that class with him at U-High that can also be good college level players, and some others in that same age group in town.
The good thing there is that not only is Sims a legacy but Johnny Jones is enrolled at U-High as an 8th-grader. So we may have another Temple-like pipeline through both U-High and the local AAU circuit.
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Paul Allen
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2007
19237 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 10:49 pm to lsutgrfan10)
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2005: Tasmin Mitchell
Wasn't he supposed to be "Lebron" like in high school? What happened? I heard about him in 8th grade as the next big thing and was merely an above average role player in college.
This post was edited on 2/12 at 10:50 pm
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Scoob
LSU Fan
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
1863 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/12/13 at 11:32 pm to Paul Allen)
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2005: Tasmin Mitchell
Wasn't he supposed to be "Lebron" like in high school? What happened? I heard about him in 8th grade as the next big thing and was merely an above average role player in college.
I actually got into a rather nasty email argument with Randy Rosetta (I think) about him. Big story in the Advocate when he graduated (something about him being an alltime great in the history of the program), I sent an email saying I felt the kid was a nice guy but a fairly mediocre baller. The sportwriter basically had an embolism about my comment that he wasn't a top 10 at his position here, much less in the top 10 overall; his responses were rude as shite and not very convincing either.
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jimithing11 
Texas Fan
Dillon, Texas
Member since Mar 2011
13400 posts
| re: Baton Rouge basketball ...................... (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:59 am to Scoob)
Rosetta can be very douchey at times so I'm not surprised
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