classic reports please

[doom]

treysolid's "never-wrong, absolutely-indisputable, i-am-god-and-you-will-shut-your-whore-mouth-when-men-are-talking" analysis and observations from day 3 of MHKC.

frank williams is the most dangerous player on MOKAN.  shot is always on.  i mean, i really don't think i saw a MOKAN game where he hit less than 4 treys.  fantastic at getting into open space for the pass.  plays pretty salty defense.  just very skinny - a season in a college program with a good S&C coach will do wonders for this kid.  would absolutely love to see him in some purple and silver nike ELITEs, but i don't think frank & 'te are going to think he's worthy of a scholly and he's definitely going to be getting schollies from the mid-majors after his summer so far. 

spradling's shot was falling with more consistency today.  he averaged about 2 treys a game today.  he also was getting better penetration today and once he got into the lane, one of the forwards was getting a bucket.  i was really looking at his individual defense a bit more today, and i gotta say that i think it's a bit better than i let on previously.  yeah, quicker guards will still get by him, but they don't drive it on him very often.  he's pretty smart in that he gets into his defensive stance at a distance where its just the right amount of space to discourage his man from taking the shot AND driving.  also knows which direction his man likes drive and shades appropriately. 

fitz was just all over the place today.  fracking embarrasing.  can't the guy be banned from campus?

while never having understood all of the Underwood hate, I feel that if we ever do fire him we should replace him with Jake Sullivan, the head coach of All-Iowa Attack.  dude knows his crap.  he game-planned the 17U championship game perfectly, his team just didn't execute.  for instance, AIA starts out in a 2-3 zone, which must be their staple since they ran it alot in the game i saw vs. team texas elite yesterday.  genius defense for an AAU squad really when you think about it because how many AAU teams have good enough shooting to take advantage of the 2-3?  anyway, after frank williams hits his first 4 or so three pointers and MOKAN is up by 10, Sully decides to switch over to a triangle and 2.  now you can tell that this is a defense AIA has never run before because he's teaching it to them in the TO.  and, it turns out it was a really smart decision.  he has donivine stewart and trevor hook act as the 2 rovers and just has them glue their asses to spradling and williams while the other 3 guys play the zone.  AIA stays in this and battles back to tie the game at 38 apiece at halftime.  things started slipping for them in the 2nd half, but you really just gotta credit MOKAN with that.  superior organization.  at one point, sully looked at his asst coach and said "i wish we could practice more often so we could run plays like they do."  i mean, MOKAN has 5 set inbounds plays, they run a motion offense and their full-court press is better most college teams.  if i was an opposing coach, i'd just be like "frack me". 

anything you want to know?  can't give info about games i didn't attend.

Did you see Tre Walker play?
Did you see Spradling's mom? 
What did you think of Nino Williams? 
How did Ellis' team do?

*sidebar* Terry, Why the frack don't was have anyone covering this with cameras and interviews?  Seriously. 

i did see Tre Walker, but not while he was playing.  solid-looking dude.

saw many women cheering on MOKAN.  have absolutely no idea which one his mom was.  however, i did see spradling's younger brother.  they look alot alike and he was wearing a red nike UNLV t-shirt (dead giveaway).  prolly handed down since Sprad didn't want any of that loser crap in his closet once he committed to EMAW.  

nino williams will make a nice SG/SF for some mid-major out there.  scrappy player.


Ellis' team ended up losing their first or second game in the playoffs so i only got to see him play once the whole tournament.

I thought the same thing and noticed him last year too.  Saw gopo interviewing him after a game.  Do you think we have interest or would try to keep a line on him in case other options crap out on us?

[treysolid]

fitz was just all over the place today.  fracking embarrasing.  can't the guy be banned from campus?

cookie diet update?

looking as rotund as ever.  surprised i actually never saw him eat anything.  you want to know who's really fat?  -----> the people that run KSUFans.com.  

[treysolid]

I thought the same thing and noticed him last year too.  Saw gopo interviewing him after a game.  Do you think we have interest or would try to keep a line on him in case other options crap out on us?

i would have to think that underwood is keeping tabs on alot of the MOKAN players.  in terms of players we could have real interest in, nino's gotta be further down on the list than frank is.

[sys]

while never having understood all of the Underwood hate, I feel that if we ever do fire him we should replace him with Jake Sullivan, the head coach of All-Iowa Attack.  dude knows his crap.  he game-planned the 17U championship game perfectly.

yeah, 'cause that's exactly what martin is looking for in a 3rd asst.



good report on williams though, very nice to hear.  probably the best classic report thus far.

[sys]

Royce Woolridge: The Kansas commit had zero points.

going to give tony mitchell a run for his money in aau blowing up.

[michigancat]

I'd guess most college coaches hate AAU coaches that play zone.

[Kat Kid]

Just remembered:

Overheard some dudes talking about the money getting cut back in the AAU game.  Guy was bitching to another about the Nike packages full of shoes and jerseys and what not getting shipped out every month.  Said he hasn't got a shipment in almost a year.  Said he figured in this economy that Nike was re-fixing their business plan.  Said he also got cut in doing the camp circuit because of declining numbers.  Both guys agreed it was tough out there.

Not sure if they were coaches handlers or whatever, but I just thought I'd let everybody know that some thugs need hugs and if we can scrape together some money we might be able to make some things happen.

'Te you listening?

[sonofdaxjones]

Did Coach Bumps ever find his kids game or did he just keep walking back and forth in front of the Ellis contingent??

[yosh]

frank williams is the most dangerous player on MOKAN.  shot is always on.  i mean, i really don't think i saw a MOKAN game where he hit less than 4 treys.  fantastic at getting into open space for the pass.  plays pretty salty defense.  just very skinny - a season in a college program with a good S&C coach will do wonders for this kid.  would absolutely love to see him in some purple and silver nike ELITEs, but i don't think frank & 'te are going to think he's worthy of a scholly and he's definitely going to be getting schollies from the mid-majors after his summer so far. 

How tall?  Is he a Josh Carter type of player?

[sys]

frank williams is the most dangerous player on MOKAN.  shot is always on.  i mean, i really don't think i saw a MOKAN game where he hit less than 4 treys.  fantastic at getting into open space for the pass.  plays pretty salty defense.  just very skinny - a season in a college program with a good S&C coach will do wonders for this kid.  would absolutely love to see him in some purple and silver nike ELITEs, but i don't think frank & 'te are going to think he's worthy of a scholly and he's definitely going to be getting schollies from the mid-majors after his summer so far. 

How tall?  Is he a Josh Carter type of player?

listed as 6'5", so he needs to be able to do more than just shoot.  would make a great walkon, but is probably too good to be willing to do that.  also a missouri resident i believe, which makes it harder.

[raquetcat]

frank williams is the most dangerous player on MOKAN.  shot is always on.  i mean, i really don't think i saw a MOKAN game where he hit less than 4 treys.  fantastic at getting into open space for the pass.  plays pretty salty defense.  just very skinny - a season in a college program with a good S&C coach will do wonders for this kid.  would absolutely love to see him in some purple and silver nike ELITEs, but i don't think frank & 'te are going to think he's worthy of a scholly and he's definitely going to be getting schollies from the mid-majors after his summer so far. 

How tall?  Is he a Josh Carter type of player?

listed as 6'5", so he needs to be able to do more than just shoot.  would make a great walkon, but is probably too good to be willing to do that.  also a missouri resident i believe, which makes it harder.

Sounds like he has a lot of EMAW from the first couple of sentences of the Robert Cassidy article on gopo (a full recap would be great if anyone can read it). He just lives in raytown, is there any way he could transfer high schools, graduate from a kansas one and then he'd get in state tuition

[steve dave]

frank williams is the most dangerous player on MOKAN.  shot is always on.  i mean, i really don't think i saw a MOKAN game where he hit less than 4 treys.  fantastic at getting into open space for the pass.  plays pretty salty defense.  just very skinny - a season in a college program with a good S&C coach will do wonders for this kid.  would absolutely love to see him in some purple and silver nike ELITEs, but i don't think frank & 'te are going to think he's worthy of a scholly and he's definitely going to be getting schollies from the mid-majors after his summer so far. 

How tall?  Is he a Josh Carter type of player?

listed as 6'5", so he needs to be able to do more than just shoot.  would make a great walkon, but is probably too good to be willing to do that.  also a missouri resident i believe, which makes it harder.

Sounds like he has a lot of EMAW from the first couple of sentences of the Robert Cassidy article on gopo (a full recap would be great if anyone can read it). He just lives in raytown, is there any way he could transfer high schools, graduate from a kansas one and then he'd get in state tuition

He's coming to the elite camp.  He really wants a KSU offer.  'bout it.

[treysolid]

i feel i should be a little bit more specific about frank's shot:  he doesn't need alot of daylight because he has a very quick release.  feet certainly don't need to be set either.  about 1/3 of his made 3's at the classic were off of curls where he came up right to the top of the key, caught it and shot it immediately.

[sys]

i'm surprised michigancat hasn't chimed in about lusting for this new kcstyle chris babb.  must be out golfing with _fan (traverse city).

[catzacker]

frank williams is the most dangerous player on MOKAN.  shot is always on.  i mean, i really don't think i saw a MOKAN game where he hit less than 4 treys.  fantastic at getting into open space for the pass.  plays pretty salty defense.  just very skinny - a season in a college program with a good S&C coach will do wonders for this kid.  would absolutely love to see him in some purple and silver nike ELITEs, but i don't think frank & 'te are going to think he's worthy of a scholly and he's definitely going to be getting schollies from the mid-majors after his summer so far. 

How tall?  Is he a Josh Carter type of player?

listed as 6'5", so he needs to be able to do more than just shoot.  would make a great walkon, but is probably too good to be willing to do that.  also a missouri resident i believe, which makes it harder.

taller Fred Brown?