O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
Kentucky is not invincible. I saw how Ole miss was giving it to them. They not going undefeatedLOL #2 in the SEC at best is in your future, and thats only if Billy don't decide to stop fukkin around
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ReturnOfJudah
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Lets just say Ben is already hard at work to make LSU great
http://zagsblog.com/articles/arizona-transfer-craig-victor-hopes-to-decide-this-weekend/
Arizona Transfer Craig Victor Hopes to Decide This Weekend
LSU: “LSU always recruited him and he’s good with Johnny Jones. [LSU commit] Ben Simmons actually gave him a call and he and Ben know each other from camps. And Jarell Martin was his AAU teammate and Jarell played for me. Familiarity is a big pattern with some of the schools he’s looking at.”
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ReturnOfJudah
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http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas.../arizona-transfer-craig-victor-commits-to-lsu
Arizona transfer Craig Victor commits to LSU
Arizona transfer Craig Victor has committed to LSU, sources told CBSSports.com.
The 6-foot-9 power forward will be eligible beginning in December of 2015 and has two and a half years of eligibility remaining.
A former Top-50 recruit out of high school, Victor averaged 3.1 points and 1.1 rebounds in eight games this season for the Wildcats.
The addition of Victor gives LSU insurance up front in case it loses either Jordan Mickey or Jarell Martin to the NBA following this season.
Johnny Jones' team is currently 11-3 overall in 14-15.
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Ben Simmons highlights from last night tourney in New Orleans
Arizona transfer Craig Victor commits to LSU
Arizona transfer Craig Victor has committed to LSU, sources told CBSSports.com.
The 6-foot-9 power forward will be eligible beginning in December of 2015 and has two and a half years of eligibility remaining.
A former Top-50 recruit out of high school, Victor averaged 3.1 points and 1.1 rebounds in eight games this season for the Wildcats.
The addition of Victor gives LSU insurance up front in case it loses either Jordan Mickey or Jarell Martin to the NBA following this season.
Johnny Jones' team is currently 11-3 overall in 14-15.
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Ben Simmons highlights from last night tourney in New Orleans
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O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
The gift just keep on coming
bra we lost last night, i blame coachingThe gift just keep on coming
O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
Yea I saw that. Things bout to start getting real. Our next two games is Georgia who's pretty good at home and Ole miss who played Kentucky hard.
I dont know why we didnt call timeout when we had 3 seconds left on the clock after Mickey got the rebound smh..this is a wakeup call to the staff and players to stop celebrating what we will have next year and get back on our grind
ReturnOfJudah
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Another 5 star?
http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/basketball/recruiting/player-Jaquan-Lyle-119840
https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1723793
JaQuan Lyle's national recruiting rankings
(Note: These are from 2014 before Lyle reclassified to 2015.)
Rivals | 24
ESPN | 42
24sports.com | 40
Scout | 39
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One school that Lyle did take an official visit to recently, LSU, received a verbal commitment from five-star shooting guard Antonio Blakeney last week but remains hot on Lyle's heels
"Oh yeah, they're still in the mix with me," he said. "Coach DP (David Patrick) is coming this weekend, I spoke with him Wednesday. I feel like Tone (Blakeney) and Ben (Simmons), we're real close friends. They think that me and Tone can co-exist and me and Tone think the same thing, so they're real high on my list right now."
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http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2015/01/lsu_in_the_mix_to_go_3-for-3_w.html
You know the old saying that two out of three ain't bad? Know what's even better, though? Three out of three.
nd it's starting to seem more and more conceivable that LSU could nab the latter part of that equation on the recruiting trail.
The Tigers have already landed their two high-profile recruits -- Benny Simmons, who signed in November and Antonio Blakeney who verbally committed to them late last week.
Now, the third player who visited LSU in November and remains without a dance partner is casting an eye toward Baton Rouge.
Well-traveled point guard JaQuan Lyles was with the Tigers' new dynamic duo the weekend the LSU football team played Alabama and he has a decision to make between now and the spring signing period in April.
That decision very prominently involves LSU (11-2), which opens SEC play at Missouri on Thursday (6 p.m. | ESPN2).
Lyle is playing this season at IMG Academy in Florida after his freshman season was unexpectedly derailed. A native of Evansville, Ind., the 6-foot-5 combo guard played three seasons at Bosse High in his hometown and then went to Huntington Prep in West Virginia as a senior in 2013-14.
During a long and winding recruiting process that included early commitments to Indiana and Louisville, plus persistent attention from heavyweights Kentucky, Kansas, Memphis and Oklahoma State, Lyle committed and signed with Oregon.
He was poised to head to the Great Northwest, but the NCAA disqualified one class that he took at Huntington and ruled him ineligible in mid-September, two weeks before fall semester classes began in Eugene.
Instead of rolling the dice and appealing the NCAA decision, Lyle enrolled at IMG, one of the higher profile prep-school programs in the country.
That also hit the reset button on Lyle's recruitment and since getting settled in at IMG, he has whittled his final list to Oregon, Mizzou, Ohio State and LSU.
And while the Tigers weren't in the thick of things before, they are very much in the hunt now with David Patrick and Johnny Jones both working on a player who averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 4 steals a game at Huntington Prep after scoring 1,440 points in three seasons at Bosse.
"I met Coach DP and Coach Jones a while ago at an AAU tournament when they were recruiting my teammate, Miles Reynolds, so we talked back then, but there wasn't a lot of interest either way," Lyle said this week. "When things worked out the way they did and they found out I was at IMG, they called me and we started building a great relationship. Me and Ben already had a good relationship, and I've been building one with Antonio too."
That word relationship is one Lyle uses often and could be a major advantage for LSU.
On the weekend Lyle visited Baton Rouge, he spent hours with his two fellow recruits and also got a feel for the current Tigers.
"Everything was a family environment," he said. "There was obviously a lot of love there and I like that a lot. Coach Jones and Coach DP are two great guys who you can look up to as men and not just coaches."
Two other elements also have LSU in the mix:
1) The idea of playing for two former point guards in Jones and Patrick.
"Playing for two guys who know your position, that is definitely something I like," Lyle said. "I watched Coach DP putting some of the guys through a workout and was fired up knowing I could learn a lot from him."
2) The possibility of joining the 6-10 Simmons and 6-4½ Blakeney in a potential powerhouse recruiting class. Simmons is ranked as the No. 1 player in the Class of 2015 by three of the four main recruiting services and No. 2 in the other. Blakeney is ranked from 14-22. Lyle was rated from 24-39 as a high school senior.
Lyle said he expects LSU to be "unbelievably good next season with or without me, but I really love the idea of playing with Antonio and Ben. With the three of us and the guys they are going to have back and could have back, that's a preseason top-10 team."
Where and how Lyle would fit into the mix isn't hard to imagine.
His size allows him to create shots for himself off the dribble-drive and defend bigger guards. His high-level court vision and knack for setting up teammates with pinpoint passes is compatible with playing the point.
In other words, Lyle is capable of playing very similarly to the four current Tiger guards -- without a set position and able to operate as a playmaker from anywhere on the floor.
"Lyle is a big, strong combo guard with terrific passing ability," Scout.com recruiting analyst Evan Daniel said. "He has very good vision and puts his passes on the money. Lyle is also a good scorer when he attacks the rim. He's a physical driver that plays well through contact."
On the court, there doesn't seem to be a lot of doubt that Lyle will make an impact. There is some baggage involved, fairly or not, though.
In a story after Lyle switched his commitment from Louisville to Oregon in September, SBNation.com analyst Ricky O'Donnell wrote that "Lyle has had one of the more tumultuous recruiting processes in the country over the last few years." In the same story, the writer wondered if Lyle had overcome "a reputation as a poor student and difficult personality."
"It has been a long road for Lyle," 247sports.com basketball recruiting analyst Jerry Meyer said. "He's gone from being committed to Louisville to then not qualifying at Oregon. There is no denying his talent but there certainly are questions about his motivation and desire.
"When he is in shape and focused on the task, he is an extremely gifted player who can impact the game in virtually every facet. His instincts and size make him very dangerous with the basketball."
The move from Bosse to Huntington also created a small wrinkle of controversy and when Lyle spoke to reporter Gordon Engelhardt from The Evansville Courier & Press, he said, "Just playing and living the high school life is the thing I most regret. That part, I feel bad. But I felt it was the best decision for myself and it's in the past now."
As is his original freshman season.
Lyle initially considered spending only the first semester at IMG, which features one of the best athletic training facilities in the county, and enrolling in college this month to play right away. Once he got there, though, Lyle realized that reclassifying to the Class of 2015 and re-examining his options was best.
"I just thought it would be better for me to sit out the whole year and get my body ready and in the best shape I could," he said. "It's really made a difference for me and I feel like I'll be ready for the college game when I get there."
Gets where remains to be seen.
LSU is in the picture, and that means Jones, Patrick and Co. could add a third ultra-talented newcomer in 2015-16 to a roster that is already enticing.
@ReturnOfJudah yea we are getting Lyle i forgot to mention that...
Lyle at the 1
Tone at the 2
Jarrell at the 3
Benny at the 4
Mickey at the 5
Tone at the 2
Jarrell at the 3
Benny at the 4
Mickey at the 5
ReturnOfJudah
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Thank GOD we are getting a superstar point guard. Gray is weak and scary. Can't believe that scrub was the leading scorer & JUCO player of the year. Jayln Patterson is the truth though. He aint better than Lyle.
LSU coaches is going to see Lyles this weekend. Them boys are relentless.
Bra if we get one more big man we gone be a scary squad
