Hoops recruiting - Isaiah Briscoe & Antonio Blakeney

Blakeney is ours you meth smoking fricks. Stay the frick away. Jk, but srsly stay da frick away.

Lol at Cal trying to sell Newman and Blakeney that they compliment each other. Two sub 6-4, ball dominant, shoot first SG's would work great together. Lol, no. fricking greasy bastard.

Will be interesting to see what comes of Blakeney's LSU visit...he mentioned that LSU has been selling him on the "immediate playing time" angle, which I always have mixed feelings about coaches doing. It seems to give the player a sense of entitlement before he ever suits up for you that automatically creates major potential chemistry problems on the team with the guys who are already there.

Mizzou for its part would have every right to say Blakeney would get immediate PT in our backcourt which is sorely lacking in established shooters/scorers....but I've yet to hear anything about our Mizzou coaches saying that. Kim Anderson our new coach is making it very clear to everyone on the roster that your defense will dictate your playing time. Ultimately that might make it difficult to sign the blue chip scorer Blakeney types for our program under this staff, we'll have to see.

Part of me says LSU has the right idea when going after blue chips, just say whatever it takes to get them signed and then deal with their actual PT later. On the other hand, if you build a program culture saying we are a place that preaches hard nosed defense in order to get PT and if that's not OK with you don't come here, well at least you'll know for sure the guys who do sign with you are gonna buy in and won't be headcases/divas.

Briscoe most likely will end up at St. John's. I think Cal lands either Newman or Blakeney. IMO there's no way Cal lands both with Charles Matthews already committed and Booker returning.

quote:

---

IMO there's no way Cal lands both with Charles Matthews already committed and Booker returning.

---

This is what gives me hope that we'll get Blakeney. UK gets Newman, and Blakeney's the odd man out.

I think we get Newman to go along with Booker, Ulis, Hawkins and Matthews. Not sure about Blakeney.

quote:

---

I think we get Newman to go along with Booker, Ulis, Hawkins and Matthews. Not sure about Blakeney.

---

I support this

I heard that over on KSR. Between Briscoe and Newman who do you like?

Ulis-Newman would be a pretty good combo.

Let us have this one, you guys have enough 4/5* SG's, lol.

From what I've been hearing, Blakeney had a good time at UK but the coaches may be backing off a little on Blakeney. He will be at the LSU exhibition game this Friday as well as the LSU vs Bama football game.

Will be interesting how he takes it all in. Doubt there are even 4k in the PMAC friday, but you could sell him on the fact that those football fans want to like basketball as soon as they have a good team to follow.