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Weekly Whispers 3/17/2010: Duke and Kentucky Do the Chomping
Posted by Ballerjunkie on March 17th, 2010 under Basketball, Recruiting
In the first installment of Weekly Whispers, we have some big recruiting news involving three of college basketball’s super-powers to whet your appetite before the Dance.
Check back in often for more recruiting “Whispers” from the AAU circuit and beyond, which will be posted no less than weekly. However, when there’s something big that needs an instant update, you’ll find it here ASAP.
On to the first installment…
Well, it is not official, but reading the palm tree leaves in Florida, shooting guard Austin Rivers will be a Duke Blue Devil in 2011.
I know most of you Florida Gator fans are buying up Swampland like it’s beach-front property with the hopes Rivers stays committed (he’s that good), but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.
The bad news here for Florida is that Coach K needs a combo guard. And he usually gets what he wants. In the end, Coach K out-draws Billy the Kid in this high noon showdown for Doc’s kid.
You see, it never hurts when your future college coach is one of the most recognized and respected names in all of sports.
Along those hall of fame lines about Coach Krzyzewski, here is some food for thought:
Do not be surprised to see Kyrie Irving and Rivers BOTH representing the Red, White, & Blue somewhere down the line on the national front.
Membership has its privileges.
Switching gears to the Blue Grass state.
Superstar lead guard Brandon Knight will be going to play for the Kentucky Wildcats and John Calipari. Obviously it’s not official yet, but mark it down. Everyone in Florida is trying to get this young man to stay in Florida, but that’s not going to happen.
Mainly because Kentucky has this ace in the hole: Wall will be gone. Patterson will be gone. Cousins? Adios.
As a Kentucky fan, if you were to tell me that each of those guys were not going to be there, I would still have good reason to be excited knowing I can pull a talent like Knight.
Because that means Coach Calipari is moving them around like cattle and sending ‘em straight to the NBA. And if I were a Kentucky fan I could roll with that because it guarantees a steady stream of talent. Coach Cal has already proven it’s a formula that works for him.
Two number 1 seeds in three years is ballin’. Does it matter whether your players are 18 years old or 22 years old? Nope.
Wonder who else will be following Brandon Knight on the cattle drive to the ranch at Rupp Arena … perhaps hybrid forward CJ Leslie or small forward Terrence Jones? Smart money would say CJ will be on his way to Lexington to pick up where Demarcus Cousins left off.
See you next Wednesday!
–Ballerjunkie
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Patrick Bateman said:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Calipari will have Kentucky rolling until other forces stop him. Kentucky wanted to win games again and he’s just a monster on the recruiting trail.
Good stuff. Thanks.
Triston27 said:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:52 am
With Knight going to Kentucky does that take them off Josh Selby’s list? Both Selby and Doron Lamb are announcing at the Jordan Classic in month. Hear there’s talk about them going together someplace.
Sean t said:
March 17th, 2010 at 11:52 am
K really needed Patrick Patterson, and Monroe, and Barnes, and Brandon Wright too.
Sean t said:
March 17th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
My bad, K did get the likes of Boozer, Brand, Battier, Dunleavy, Williams, Duhon, Ewing, Redick, Shelden Williams, Luol Deng, Shaun Livingston (went early), McRoberts (who Roy wanted badly), Paulus (who Roy also wanted badly), and most recently Hairston, Irving and now Michael Gbinije.
mark t said:
March 17th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
K got “the likes” of those-lol…and they are doing WHAT in the league? LOL. Boozer/Brand and the rest are no doubt scrubs or overseas.
William F said:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
@mark t
Its obvious you know nothing about players in the NBA. Duke has the most players in the NBA from any school, and their players have the highest average salary of any school.
JL said:
March 17th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
LOL at Boozer/Brand? Yeah, Boozer is an allstar and one of the best power forwards in the league and Brand until his injury was a HOF lock. Do you have a clue?
March 18th, 2010 at 7:07 am
Triston, we’re efforting an answer for you.
Ballerjunkie said:
March 18th, 2010 at 8:13 am
Triston. I doubt if it takes Kentucky off of Selby’s list. But while Wall and Bledsoe played well together, how would Knight, Selby, and Bledsoe play together? Kansas could be a very strong possibility for Selby.
BigAaron said:
March 19th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Is this article based on one mans prediction, or factual information?
Trips Right said:
March 19th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
BigAaron, it’s what Ballerjunkie has been hearing in his circles. The information is certainly not an opinion, but what is out there at this time.
We’ll have more on a weekly basis.
Nate said:
March 24th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Let’s imagine the now instead of the future…
What if Duke and Kentucky meet in the Final Four, that’s what we really have all thought about at least for a second, but don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves:
John S John Wall (Doubt S can cover Wall)
Nolan Smith Eric Bledsoe (Nolan Smith shuts down Bledsoe, like he did that Cal Guard)
Singler Miller (Singler dominates)
L. Thomas P. Patterson (Thomas is nothing on O, but Thomas doesn’t let up on D)
Zoubek Cousins (Z gives Cousins fits on Defense, but Cousins shuts down Z)
What yall think?
Sailor Ripley said:
March 25th, 2010 at 11:50 am
RE: Austin Rivers
http://twitter.com/goodmanonfox/status/11047835573
Evan Daniels reports that North Carolina could join Duke and Florida as legit player in the Austin Rivers chase.
Vasherized said:
March 25th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Rivers also mentioned an interest in Texas here.
He likes how Barnes lets our guards play.
We’ll try to get a comment from J’Covan Brown.
March To March — Blog — Weekly Whispers: April 9, 2010 said:
April 9th, 2010 at 11:25 am
[...] de-committing from the University of Florida a few days ago, (we were the first to break the news three weeks ago), Austin Rivers is currently in Hampton, Virginia playing with his AAU team, Each One Teach One [...]
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