I have an 8th grade grand son starting on the HS varsity that grew up in my house, a Jayhawk fan until 2 years ago. Now all of a sudden he's a Louisville Cardinal fan? A baby Pinto bean ?:shake:

It's usually just kid's visions change for some stupid reason, a friend,team's logo, etc. In this case, a friend that moved away back to Louisville where the boy says he wants to go and hang out with him again.

I have another 4 years to change his mind, that friend is living a hard life now and separation may come easily or could draw him near.

I hope he goes to Louisville wins them 4 titles :)


Then becomes a millionare in the nba.

8th grader playing Varsity? How goes a MS kid play HS ball?

I was wondering that as well.

As for Ellis ?

Some talented kids have the ability to excel at the next level after HS BB. Some do not, they hit a rut, after not playing against elite competition in HS, getting lazy within their game thinking they are already good enough for college to find they are lacking the mind set as much as skill set.

The good part is , they are talented enough and can be taught the next level if they are interested in doing so. Their attitude makes the difference in getting to the next level of competition.

That's cool. A coworker was raving about the one in Topeka. I'll definitely have to check it out.

From everything I've heard, Ellis has a great attitude. I really like this kid and I'm hoping he comes around. I'm pretty sure he will.

Ellis is going to be good.

Great coaching ( Me, Seriously, I just had a small part of this ) :D,He is a very gifted kid, the talent level is there. We had to bring him along slowly to start the year off, get the skill set & mind set together with a faster pace of game. He's adjusted well, been starting now the last 7 games. The last 4 he has averaged a double double.

He dominated the Fr. level games, averaged double doubles on JV games.

He's 6'4",takes 1 step and dunks it, plays the 4 & 5 right now.

In KY, they let you play up in HS if you are good enough and can keep the grades up. Currently we have 3 kids off of our AAU team we travel with that are starters at their H S's and 2 others are playing Fr & JV games as starters. We have another 3 others that are Fr. starters & JV back ups, while 2 more are playing 8th grade.

Once you play up, you stay up all year, both AD's have to agree with the kid playing up.

This is BB only, the state will not allow you to play up in football.

LMAO

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He does have NBA dreams, I tell him 1 day at a time, it's still a pipe dream for a kid of his talent. Div I ball , Very good chance, he already has Div II scouts watching him since last year.

The kid has ability to play football at Div I level as well.

If your son's parents both played basketball and met at KU, your comparison would be a bit stronger. X was free to do what he wanted, but there were zero compelling reasons not to choose KU. Which he eventually did, thanks to Cal's departure.

Agreed, the only thing I can add to it was, he lived RCJH for the first 10 years of his life, the 2 years later other kids influence started to mettle his way of thinking. He started joking around about it with me as a dig telling me was going to go to Louisville. Now his BF moved away and moved back to Louisville and now Louisville has another calling reason to him.

A lot can change between now and 4 years later, I can live with just about any place but a few. It's not my call, it's his, but let me tell you, it would be hard as HELL if his choice is a few of them. :shake:

http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/web..._on_3p_defense

KU's been the best by far at 2PT defense over the last five years. Pomeroy also shows that they've been 7th best at 3PT defense over that time as well (although that's mostly a product of their 2 PT defense). His old conclusion about defenses having much more impact on 2PT% than 3PT% doesn't change in this analysis, though.

Basically, if you're a team that wants to upset KU, you'd be best served to just jack up a bunch of threes and hope for the best (or just hope they're sleepwalking like at TCU). But that shouldn't be much of a surprise to anybody here.

I'll bet it will be a surprise to certain KU fans (Laz).