Armstrong is a redshirt Jr and played in the SEC, and we have a couple other 6-9/6-10 players, so he goes against legit talent and size every day in practice here. His teamates see him everyday and are the ones saying he is going to âdo big thingsâ here. Also one of the assistant coaches said he had the best hook shot, especially with his off hand, of any big man heâs ever coached and heâs been at Auburn, Wake and South Carolina. 6-10 18 year olds that contibute much at all beyond fouls are rare at this level. All it would take is seeing one game to know heâs way beyond that.
[quote=âNiner National, post:20, topic:27125â]Mike Thorne was pretty awesome against DII competition too.
let me know when he plays a team with legit talent inside. Chances are it wonât be until you play us.[/quote]
No thanks to Major. You need to send Lutz a thank you letter with his monthy check for leaving Braswell behind because it would be bad without him.
[quote=âStillJonesing, post:22, topic:27125â][quote=âNiner National, post:20, topic:27125â]Mike Thorne was pretty awesome against DII competition too.
let me know when he plays a team with legit talent inside. Chances are it wonât be until you play us.[/quote]
No thanks to Major. You need to send Lutz a thank you letter with his monthy check for leaving Braswell behind because it would be bad without him.[/quote]ummm Thorne was entirely a Major recruit.
I canât wait until the day after the EZU game when we wonât have to hear from SJ for at least a couple weeks. It will be glorious!
[quote=âNiner National, post:23, topic:27125â][quote=âStillJonesing, post:22, topic:27125â][quote=âNiner National, post:20, topic:27125â]Mike Thorne was pretty awesome against DII competition too.
let me know when he plays a team with legit talent inside. Chances are it wonât be until you play us.[/quote]
No thanks to Major. You need to send Lutz a thank you letter with his monthy check for leaving Braswell behind because it would be bad without him.[/quote]ummm Thorne was entirely a Major recruit.[/quote]
Let Braswell go down with an injury and see how well that works out for you. Pretty clear from the first game youâd be starting a 6-7 center and Thorne would still be on the bench most of the game.
Yeah ignore this because your MaxPreps mindset canât come up with a stat that deals with this.
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/146/p5
We return basically everyone from a team that was 114th out of 345 teams in scoring defense last year. We added more size down low and moved 6-8 Kemp to the wing exclusivly which will not only help our post defense from last year, but cause other wings a lot of problems.
UNCC was over 100 spots lower at 225 in scoring defense. Neat story though.
[quote=âStillJonesing, post:27, topic:27125â]http://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/146/p5
We return basically everyone from a team that was 114th out of 345 teams in scoring defense last year. We added more size down low and moved 6-8 Kemp to the wing exclusivly which will not only help our post defense from last year, but cause other wings a lot of problems.
UNCC was over 100 spots lower at 225 in scoring defense. Neat story though.[/quote]
Its gonna be a âneat storyâ when the Niners beat the crap out of EZU on Dec. 1st also! Of course, you wonât post here for 3-4 months after that though.
[quote=âStillJonesing, post:27, topic:27125â]http://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/146/p5
We return basically everyone from a team that was 114th out of 345 teams in scoring defense last year. We added more size down low and moved 6-8 Kemp to the wing exclusivly which will not only help our post defense from last year, but cause other wings a lot of problems.
UNCC was over 100 spots lower at 225 in scoring defense. Neat story though.[/quote]
is this guy serious? which one of you guys are actually stilljonesing? nice comeback home win against uncg though.
[quote=âStillJonesing, post:22, topic:27125â][quote=âNiner National, post:20, topic:27125â]Mike Thorne was pretty awesome against DII competition too.
let me know when he plays a team with legit talent inside. Chances are it wonât be until you play us.[/quote]
No thanks to Major. You need to send Lutz a thank you letter with his monthy check for leaving Braswell behind because it would be bad without him.[/quote]
im pretty sure we beat a team that is picked to make the ncaa tournament without him, mayfield and braswell. at least we have a star. who on ecu is a star?
[quote=âStillJonesing, post:18, topic:27125â][quote=â2k, post:15, topic:27125â]Guilmette loves Nond1 comp, good for him.
Also, Iâve never seen a team offer a scholarship and then back off.[/quote]
Keep telling yourself that, just like when you tried to tell me about how you had your PFâs (undersized at that) committed before him and did need a 6-10 guy like him. This when Guilmette had commited to us 2 weeks earlier than the earliest one you got a commit from, and you still had a scholarship available you were out offering it to other guys with legit size to. You wanted and really needed him, and still really need a 6-10 center even now. Good luck finding one of those as good as him in the spring. Majorâs track record of spring signings isnât very good.
Word was he owned Howell from NC State in the scrimmage. You will get to see him at least 7 times so youâll see. Iâve already seen enough and heard enough from the coaches and his teamates to know he is going to be a big time player here. Heâs already good, he can be great.[/quote]
o. my bad. you heard from coaches that he is going to be good. that seals it. what do you think they are going to say? he sucks. lets see, thorne was higher ranked, had better scholarship offers but we wanted guilmette more. i have no problem with you hyping your team. but to say that your recruits are better or that you ever outrecruited us is ridiculous. btw, we are still in the running for atewe who has offers from us, kansas state, memphis, marquette as well as blakely who has offers from us, northwester and tennesse. they are 6â10" and 6â9".
EZU barely squeaked by an absolutely putrid UNCG team by three points. THREE.
We have intramural teams that would have won by more than that.
Niner55 the guy that said weâd never be able to land a player as talent as Nickerson. The reality is he wouldnât play 5 minutes a game on our team behind Kemp and Straughn. Niether would Thorne or most of the other guys Major has brought in. Thorne BTW wasnât in the same class as Guilmette, he is in his 2nd year and heâs still not going to make much of an impact either.
If you want to talk about rankings that arenât JR year high school rankings from years ago, Iâve not seen anyone picking UNCC to go to the NCAAâs this year. Iâve not even seen anyone picking you to be in the top 100. All our top players are Lebo recruits at this point, and Iâve seen us predicted pretty highly several places. I also saw a list last week that had Miguel Paul as the #2 best non BCS PG in the nation. Thatâs what 270 teams? Kemp might actually be our best player so itâs tough to pick who our star is. Majorâs not brought in players like either of them or much in the way of size and shooting like Guilmette, Bowden, Richmond etc that we have to compliment them. Heâs lucky Lutz left him Braswell to ride for 3 years.
I assume you are not referring to EZU. How many times has EZU played in the NCAA? Tell us. We canât wait to hear.
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No, actually I was refering to the ACC, SEC, etc. Guilmette is good enough to play for about anyone. We were very fortunate to have got him early.[/quote]
You forgot to tell us how many times EZU has played in the NCAA Tournament.
Weâve been to the NCAAâs 2 times. Historyâs just that at this point though. You seem to think it matters but I donât see Lutz or any of your players of a decade ago on the court anymore. They have little bearing on your program today or moving foward just like our coaches and players of the past have little on ours. I wouldnât trade the players, staff or incoming recruits we have in place. Recruits see whatâs going on and guys like Guilmette and Stith are choosing us now over you. Our program is pretty clearly on the rise from where we were before Lebo. Donât think you can make that same argument.
again. they are choosing you because of playing time. a guy like stith or guilmette would receive limited playing time here. stith also had an offer from vcu, a program that just went to the final four. do you think it is because ecu is on the rise? no, it is because he can crack the lineup. program prestige means a lot to some recruits so to say it does not matter is silly. again, what have you guys done to show that you are getting better? you beat two d3 teams and barely beat uncg at home. do i think you guys are recruiting better than you have previously? maybe. but you are not at our level so quit thinking you are.
[quote=âStillJonesing, post:25, topic:27125â][quote=âNiner National, post:23, topic:27125â][quote=âStillJonesing, post:22, topic:27125â][quote=âNiner National, post:20, topic:27125â]Mike Thorne was pretty awesome against DII competition too.
let me know when he plays a team with legit talent inside. Chances are it wonât be until you play us.[/quote]
No thanks to Major. You need to send Lutz a thank you letter with his monthy check for leaving Braswell behind because it would be bad without him.[/quote]ummm Thorne was entirely a Major recruit.[/quote]
Let Braswell go down with an injury and see how well that works out for you. Pretty clear from the first game youâd be starting a 6-7 center and Thorne would still be on the bench most of the game.[/quote]
Seriously, did your mom drop you on your head as a child? We are 3-0 vs D1 competition, something you might not ever know about. Shamwow has shot like garbage all season, and we need him back? Lolololololol. Now you brag about his assists? Lololololol. Whatâs his PER this season? I mean thatâs what you like to jerk off to right? And how would we do without Braz? Oh wait, already did that and won by double digits. :o. You almost lost to UNCG⌠Yeah UNCG. Let that sit and marinate for a second. UNCG.
By the way, donât forget to come back this time when we whip your team all over the court again. We donât need someone like Morrow to go 0-8, shamwow already got that covered.
Do u really believe any of this yourself? I have by no means been a BIG Major âhyperâ but the freshmen from last season and this season are looking very good actually and I think Major is doing a much better job himself (in game) as he gains experience. So, I do think our program is back on the rise now and I would NEVER trade our current roster for ECUâs. No way, no how.
The recruits are really beating your doors down to come these days.
if you had the opportunity to recruit any of the kids we are recruiting you would be on here bragging about it. just because you signed some guys in the early period does not mean that your recruiting has improved. i saw the recruits you have coming in and other than stith(who i am not that impressed with) i am not impressed. one guy averaged like 6.5 points per game. no one with any big offers. the recruits that we want are holding off on committing. unlike ecu, we do not just jump on any recruit that we can get. we try to get players who can play at a high level, not just castoffs from other programs and guys who were being recruited by northeast conference schools. i was on the ecu message board and they do not even have a thread for the uncg game. they do not care about basketball there. recruits know that.