I've watched all his videos. The kid is a bulldog on the court. He really gets after it. Offensively and Defensively. This kid is going to be a major player in CBB.
Harris is the kind of guy we are missing.
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You go to Chapel Hill, the money is great, the weather is much better than Bloomington, The fans on social media aren't crazy and don't threaten you with bodily harm. That's what I would be telling myself.
'Ol Roy's health is looking frail and not doing too good. Fake class scandal is a dark cloud over the program at UNC. Trendon grew up watching his brother play ay IU Assembly Hall. His family knows Bloomington, IN. They went there for 4 years watching Christian play. The Wat shot is framed and on the wall at Assembly Hall. Indiana is THE Basketball state. Come home young man and be a Hoosier for life! Greatness awaits Trendon Watford at IU!
Trendon we'd love to have you come, get a real education, and play some great basketball.
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And if your aren’t interested in getting an education - we can steer you to some easy courses to keep you eligible while you play basketball - because mostly we just want to get back to being a winning program
Reminds me of a skinny version of Buckner.
If he plays D and passes the ball the way Buckner did, I can live with the occasional errant shot..., although the way that kid runs the floor and slashes to the basket he might end up shooting 90% (because everything he takes will be layups)...
I like him!
Looks like our last two will be he and Quinones and that's a really nice pair of Guards in my book...
I'm just worried about shooting because we didn't have anybody last year and this class besides Franklin teams are going to pack the paint and make us shoot from the cheap seats. I like adding Brunk to go with Jackson, just hope we add two more shooters.
We do need shooters but you can create a lot of easy shots in transition with great Defense...
Since when can Indiana claim to be THE basketball state?
That is nostalgia drummed up by the senior citizen crowd at the local Hardee’s on a Saturday morning.
Let’s get real:
When it comes to crazed AND successful basketball at the college level, go to the state of North Carolina. It’s no contest. Duke and UNC or IU and Purdoo? Are we kidding ourselves?
Hell, Michigan is more a basketball state than Indiana with Michigan and MSU steering the ship.
Put down the rotary phones and get with the current state of affairs.
Indiana is THE basketball state because of our high school talent. Not sure I ever heard that discussion pertaining to college.
Reminds me of a skinny version of Buckner.
If he plays D and passes the ball the way Buckner did, I can live with the occasional errant shot..., although the way that kid runs the floor and slashes to the basket he might end up shooting 90% (because everything he takes will be layups)...
I like him!
Looks like our last two will be he and Quinones and that's a really nice pair of Guards in my book...
A little Victor in his game. Hounds them on defense..
North Carolina is nowhere to close to Indiana in their love for HS Basketball and as a Basketball state. Counting Duke and North Carolina for basketball is like counting Notre Dame for Indiana football and calling Indiana a football state, which it is not. Duke and North Carolina get a majority of their players from outside of North Carolina. Indiana has 9 of the top 10 largest HS basketball gyms in the world. North Carolina is not on the same page
Do you guys believe Indiana’s high school basketball tradition should be a selling point for Trendon Watford?
When I hear "basketball state" its as much about high school basketball as college.
You realize there around probably 10-15 states that consistently put out more talent than IN right?
Definitely not 10 to 15. Certainly there are a few because of higher state populations. I expect that Indiana would be #1 on a “per capita” basis.
Off the top of my head, the elite players the state has produced in the last 10 years:
- Keion Brooks Jr. (consensus 5-star)
- Trayce Jackson-Davis (consensus 5-star)
- Romeo Langord (Indiana/lottery pick)
- Kris Wilkes (UCLA/NBA Draft selection)
- Caleb Swanigan (Purdue/Sacramento Kings)
- Yogi Ferrell (Indiana/Sacramento Kings)
- Cody Zeller (Indiana/Charlotte Hornets)
- Jaren Jackson Jr. (Michigan State/Memphis Grizzlies)
- Gary Harris (Michigan State/Denver Nuggets)
- Trey Lyles (Kentucky/Denver Nuggets)
Indiana produces a TON of talent.
Indiana outproduces Dallas/Fort Worth for example both with over 6.5 million people.
https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals150/2019
3 in the top 75. 6 in the top 150.
Look at states like FL, TX, CA, OH, VA, NC, TN, OH, etc.
The game isn’t scored on a per capita basis though. That’s why southern football teams are so much better.
No argument it would be top 5 per capita though.
If we're talking purely "elite" as in prospects/college players:
Michael Conley(12 years but still).
Greg Oden(see above).
Kyle Guy.
Mason/Miles Plumlee.
Tyler/Luke Zeller.
Jajuan Johnson.
E'Twaun Moore.
Robbie Hummel.
Gordon Hayward.
You include Hummel and JaJuan Johnson but not Yogi or Eric Gordon?
I'd also definitely add in Deshaun Thomas, Gary Harris, Trey Lyles, Jaren Jackson Jr., Kris Wilkes, Romeo Langford, George Hill, Josh McRoberts, Glen Robinson III, the Teagues, and so on.
I hate the fact that you're right. Indiana is a situation that should be successful, but for various reasons we've been stumbling over ourselves for the better part of 20 years.
OK let’s look at the year prior. In 2018 Indiana produced 1 top 100 player (Romeo).
FL produced 11, NC, VA, GA, MI all produced at least 5. CA, TX, OH produced a bunch.
IN is a good basketball state but it’s nowhere near the top. Not even top 10. We just focus on it being IU fans.
CA
FL
TX
OH
IL
NY
VA
NC
GA
PA
MA
NJ
MD
All of these produce consistently more players than IN. Some people just live in the IN bubble.
It was off the top of my head and took a grand total of like four minutes of thinking - sheesh. The original poster I quoted had Yogi Ferrell and most of the guys you listed already on his list.
There are 55 million people in California.
Does NYC consume more ears of corn than people in Des Moines?
Just a question, you mention FL, CA, NY, VA, MA, Jersey, etc, and yes there are more kids in the top 100 of the rankings going to school in those states. Does that really tell us anything though? I am sure the kids are at Montverde, IMG, Oak Hill, the big preps in the NE, Prolific Prep, etc. Just because they go to school there, does not mean they are from there.
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