Lots of great basketball news!!
One of the college head coaches in attendance at the King of the Bluegrass Classic was Louisville's Rick Pitino and a couple other members of his staff...who, according to some on the Kentucky prep message boards were heard grumbling about what's it gonna take to pry Remy Abell loose from his commitment to Bradley, after Remy dominated the game against Pitino's future star Chane Behanan!!
Whoa......this is cool.........but it stems from an impressive display of talent by the 2011 BU-LOI signee Remy Abell of Louisville Eastern High School!
There's a couple hot new articles on Remy Abell...
http://bradley.scout.com/2/1033288.html
Here's a little blurb...
"LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Chane Behanan started to steal
the show at the King of the Bluegrass, but it was
Bradley signee Remy Abell who scored at will and led
his squad to the championship.
Remy Abell, SG, Eastern – Early on it was the
Behanan show, but slowly Abell, a 6-foot-3 guard
headed to Bradley, began to impose his will on the
game. Abell is a terrific driver and he found his way
to the hoop in both the half court and in transition.
What impressed us the most was his middle game. He
knocked down pull-up jumpers and floaters, as well
as a three-pointer. Abell seemingly scored at will on
his way to 30 plus in a win over Bowling Green.
Jeffersontown and Eastern will play for the King of
the Bluegrass championship on Wednesday. The
finale tips at 7:30."
Rivals also has a full article centering almost exclusively on Remy as the superstar of this event!
http://www.louisville.com/content/wrap-tuesday-nights-action-king-bluegrass-high-school-basketball-tournament-sports
HERE'S THE TOURNEY BRACKET WITH EASTERN VS. JEFFERTOWN in the Finals...
http://www.kingofthebluegrass.com/2010%20Sunday%20KOB.pdf
In fact, Remy's picture is plastered right on the front page of KentuckyPreps.com
http://kentuckypreps.rivals.com/
In a key semifinal tournament game...Remy's team went head to head with Chane Behanan and Bowling Green...
Behanan is a 5-STAR, TOP-25 Louisville signeee...and yet --Remy dominated that game...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Chane-Behanan-75344
"The stars were out once again Tuesday night at the
30th annual Canfiled Development King of the
Bluegrass. Several players had outstanding games,
including Eastern's Remy Abell."
"Behanan, a 6-foot-7, 260-pound forward was an animal inside.
Behanan was all over ...and scored at will in the paint.
He finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds in the half...third quarter was a different story.."
..Early on it was the Behanan show, but slowly Abell, a 6-foot-3 guard headed to Bradley, began to impose his will on the game.
Abell is a terrific driver
He knocked down pull-up jumpers and floaters...
.. Abell seemingly scored at will on his way to 30 plus in a win over Bowling Green."
In the very next game Behanan had 40 points, 17 rebounds, and was described as dominant...but in a post game interview dodged any comment about the game they lost to Remy's team saying..
duh...they just didn't "play up to their potential"...
Remy's team, Louisville Eastern, is ranked #2 in the state, and Remy looks to be the top player and best all-around player on the squad -- moving him up the ranks in consideration for Kentucky's Mr. Basketball.
some more Remy comments..
"Remy Abell best player I've seen in KY"
http://twitter.com/#!/dukefan805/statuses/16650579040280577
http://twitter.com/EvanDanielscout/status/17422195273768963
http://twitter.com/TheRealTbyrd/status/17437052408700929
Hmmmm...as good as Walt Lemon has been doing -- here are a couple of further points about Walt...proving he's doing as well if not better than any Valley freshman despite hardly getting any mention by anyone outside of Peoria!
First...many fans flat-out stated he was going to redshirt or should redshirt...here are just a few of the dozen or more such comments I have seen..
"it looks as though Lemon will more than likely redshirt"
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=177727&postcount=3
"the chance that WL will redshirt is pretty good"
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=178077&postcount=16
"Would be great if Walter Lemon Jr and Andrew Davis accept redshirt status this coming season"
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=194789&postcount=15
Projected..."No minutes: Andrew Davis, Walt Lemon.."
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=194764&postcount=1
And let's compare efficiency...
-Walt Lemon, 10 games, 21.1 mpg, 9.2 ppg, 92 pts in 211 minutes, 77 shots
......stats work out to 0.44 pts/min and 1.2 pts/shot
Then compare to the other two top freshmen in the league...the ones getting all the accolades...
-Doug McDermott, 11 games, 28.5 mpg, 12.5 ppg, 137 pts in 313 minutes, 121 shots
......stats work out to 0.43 pts/min and 1.1 pts/shot
-Rayvonte Rice, 10 games, 27.8 mpg, 12.7 ppg, 127 pts, 278 minutes, 114 shots
......stats work out to 0.456 pts/min and 1.1 pts/shot
Thus...if you note the efficiency-- Walt Lemon on a per minute basis and a per-shot basis, is not only as efficient but even more efficient that any other freshman in the league...he could well be the best freshman that nobody outside of Peoria and Durham, NC has heard much about...so hopefully our local press can help remedy that situation!!
BTW -- I looked very carefully to see who was and who was NOT wearing any red at the game Monday night...
Here is just a partial list of those who wore ABSOLUTELY NO RED...not even a tiny bit of red in a tie or a logo on their clothing...
-Willie Scott, Sam Maniscalco, Taylor Brown, Dyricus Simms-Edwards, and numerous people at the scorer's table and the stat crew.
Here's proof -- check these pictures out.....
and I might have even put Coach Les on this list as well...but I will give the benefit of the doubt -- even tho (as can be seen in the pictures in this link) Coach Les' tie really had maroon - not red..
http://www.brosher.com/2010/12/bradley-jackson-state-basketball/
...so I think it's time to give this silly argument a rest...
Speaking of shooting efficiency...
This is a comparison of efficiency of shooting among ALL the top scorers in the MVC...
...through all the games to this point in the MVC
In other words...which players' scoring totals are simply a fact of launching way more shots than they should...
Player, avg, #shots, pts/shot attempt
Warren, 18.2, 130, 1.4 points/shot
Weems, 16.4, 116, 1.4 points/shot
Ryan, 16.0, 105, 1.37 points/shot
Lathan, 15.2, 121, 1.38 points/shot
Young, 13.4, 114, 1.29 points/shot
Kyles, 13.4, 94, 1.56 points/shot
Creekmore, 13.0, 83, 1.56 points/shot
Rice, 12.7, 114, 1.11 points/shot
McDermott, 12.5, 121, 1.13 points/shot
Wedel, 12.3, 90, 1.37 points/shot
Lawson, 12.1, 101, 1.32 points/shot
Murry, 11.9, 91, 1.44 points/shot
Kelly, 11.2, 1.24 points per shot
So, you see, not all scoring averages are comparable...and some production comes at the expense of taking shots away from other players!!
Guys like Murry, Kyles, Weems, and Andrew Warren are scoring great but don't take an inordiante numbers of shots launched to get those points...
Guys like McDermott, Rice, Jake Kelly & others are getting their numbers simply by the sheer numbers of shots jacked up....something that as their team's records may show, is not really anywhere near as valuable or helpful in winning games as one might suspect!
Tyler Les was 2-2 from 3-pt (in just 8 min of playing time) to help his UC Davis beat Southern Utah 74-65.
He's not getting much playing time but his 3-pt shooting pct is 47%..and 75% over the last FOUR Games!!
In other college basketball topics....
Northern Iowa plays Indiana in Las Vegas tonight --GO Panthers!!!
Talk about bad losses...
Drake loses at home to a very, very weak Dartmouth..(draws only 3000)
and Penn State loses at home to a very, very weak Maine..(draws only 4000)
And ISU's RPI takes a huge hit as one of the teams they lost to, Arkansas-Little Rock, lost last night to a mediocre Akron squad!
A couple more results from last night...
Long Beach State loses to Arizona State 72-55..
For ASU Brandon Dunson plays a season high 12 minutes, and has 5 pts.
Corey Hawkins got only 3 minutes, while Chicagoan Kyle Cain -- who BU looked at, had 12 pts, 16 rebounds.
For LBSU one kid, Tristan Wilson, a kid from Yuba who plays along the lines of Sean Harris, but who averaged far less at Yuba that Harris did, is playing and doing well...
averging 7 ppg, 4.2 rpg, in limited play...
Tennessee loses again!!
Whoa this team is weird and schizophrenic (kinda like it's coach)...losing another home game to an unranked and frankly average opponent...
How the bonehead media can continue to rank these guys in the Top 25 week after week is beyond me...
Wake Forest loses again at HOME-- this time to lowly Presbyterian!!
What were they thinking when they fired Dino Gaudio???
In UAB's win last night over VCU, 7-footer, Beas Hamga failed to even get in the game again...
he now has socred only 7 pts on the year and has logged 31 total minutes in 11 UAB games ..
Hamga was a highly touted 5-Star, Top 20 recruit out of Decatur Christian.
Iowa's Cully Payne is done for the season and will take a redshirt year due to injury.
In Wichita State's win over Tulsa..one of the Tulsa players in Shane Heirman...from McHenry, Illinois...he is the younger brother of ex-Bradley Brave Montana Heirman..
Shane is averaging 1.6 ppg, and was scoreless last night vs. the Shockers.
Ex-BU recruit Bob Covington at Tennessee State had another monster game last night in their win over EKU...9-13, 22 pts, 13 rebs...
Covington is a 6-8 SF sophomore out of Proviso West averaging 14.3 ppg, 7.2 rpg, and hitting 40% on 3-pointers!
Another great game for Northweastern's John Shurna in a loss to St. John's..85-69.
Shurna was 10-17, and 4-6 on 3-pt, 28 pts, 6 reb
The Wildcats just have so little to go with Shurna so their weakness is glaring -- just don't let anyone else have a good game...
Even with a great non-conference record (10-1) Northwestern still has to finish abopve .500 in the Big Ten to land their first ever NCAA bid...and if anything happens to Shurna -- they are doomed.
Dana's Ducks are struggling -- losing to Idaho...
So what's new -- Top ranked Class of 2011's Anthony Davis of Chicago Perspectives, headed to Kentucky -- had another great game last night of 46 points, 19 rebounds, 8 blocks, 5 steals...but guess what.........
...yup -- his team STILL LOST!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/vaughtsviews/status/17205137311272961
Up 'til now I hadn't wasted effort to talk about the UConn women's basketball streak -- I really don't follow women's basketball much...
BUT -- as long as people are taking huge leaps and comparing the UConn streak to other pro streaks, I will do the same...
Here are some other great win streaks that also make the UCLA accomplishment look paltry... as well as the UConn streak...
-Jahangir Khan's won 555 consecutive squash matches
-Esther Vergeer has won 401 consecutive matches in wheelchair tennis, including..250 consecutive sets won!
-Kenyon College has won the NCAA D-III Swimming National Championship 31 consecutive YEARS!!
-Of course we all know Edwin Moses won his event (Men's 400m Hurdles) 122 consecutive times in International Competition over 10 years!
-Iolanda Balsas won the Women's High Jump in International competition 150 consecutive times (1956-1967)
-Misty May & Kerri Walsh once won 90 consecutive beach volleyball matches
-Men's Freestyle Wrestling Champion Osamu Watanabe won 187 consecutive matches NEVER losing ever in international matches NOR as a pro in 28 years!
-Alexander Karelin won every Greco-Roman wrestling match in International competition for 13 years -- more than 400 matches..and even wrestled 220 in a row without even giving up a single point!!
-there's a high school in Florida whose wrestling team has won 459 consecutive matches!!!
So... if we are going to do direct comparisons between different sports and events, then...
Can you imagine the UConn women winning 220 basketball games in a row without giving up a single point??
Makes their accomplishment look pretty insignificant!
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