Re: tOfficial MSU Basketball Recruiting Thread: Class of 2016 (Part I)

by Herbie Green 2015-09-18, 14:58

Nice!

by **Giant Moose** 2015-09-18, 15:02

NigelUno wrote:
Giant Moose wrote:So are we going to win another national championship in hoops before Izzo retires or no?

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I just hope we get to hear what Byrd thinks of both national championships when they happen. I would love to hear from him about the team's successes instead of the players on the team who are actually doing the accomplishments.

by **Code_Warrior** 2015-09-18, 15:03

Turtleneck wrote:
Giant Moose wrote:So are we going to win another national championship in hoops before Izzo retires or no?

Getting pretty close to a recruiting championship. Does that count?

Only in AA and most Walmarts within 100 miles of Detroit, and only if the colors aren't green and white.

by **InTenSity** 2015-09-18, 15:04

Does he get to send in a letter right away? Or is this just a non binding verbal?

by **Giant Moose** 2015-09-18, 15:04

Giant Moose wrote:So are we going to win another national championship in hoops before Izzo retires or no?

The correct answer is yes, as long as we don't play a team from Carolina whose primary color is a shade of blue.

(sorry for responding to myself, but you know)

by Herbie Green 2015-09-18, 15:10

Think we are going to get Manly Miles Bridges?

by **Robert J Sakimano** 2015-09-18, 15:11

Herbie Green wrote:Think we are going to get Manly Miles Bridges?

I think if Furlong Overpass puts in a good word for us, he's ours.

by Guest 2015-09-18, 15:21

Herbie Green wrote:Think we are going to get Manly Miles Bridges?

Miles Bridges retweeted
tOfficial MSU Basketball Recruiting Thread: Class of 2016 (Part I) - Page 14 NnFsQMkV_bigger

Prep Hoops Michigan ‏@PrepHoopsMI 17m17 minutes ago
CONGRATS to 2016 UD-Jesuit PG Cassius Winston on his commitment to Michigan State. MSU now w/#1 ranked 2016 class.
NextUpRecruits.com, Cassius Winston, Jeff McKinney and 7 others

by Guest 2015-09-18, 15:27

Our highly rated guys are going to get a bang up of a start:

Kevin Pauga ‏@KevinPauga 14m14 minutes ago
The first two @MSU_Basketball games to start 2016-17 have already been released:

Nov 11 vs Arizona (Pearl Harbor)
Nov 15 vs Kentucky (MSG)

by **InTenSity** 2015-09-18, 15:29

MSU is playing in Pear Harbor? On another Aircraft Carrier?

by **Robert J Sakimano** 2015-09-18, 15:31

InTenSity wrote:MSU is playing in Pear Harbor? On another Aircraft Carrier?

I think we're gonna play on George Perles..

and I'm not saying the SS George Perles.. I'm saying that George Perles will lay down and we'll play basketball on him.

by Herbie Green 2015-09-18, 15:37

LooseGoose wrote:
Herbie Green wrote:Think we are going to get Manly Miles Bridges?
Miles Bridges retweeted
Prep Hoops Michigan ‏@PrepHoopsMI 17m17 minutes ago
CONGRATS to 2016 UD-Jesuit PG Cassius Winston on his commitment to Michigan State. MSU now w/#1 ranked 2016 class.
NextUpRecruits.com, Cassius Winston, Jeff McKinney and 7 others

Did JWeibs get locked out of this one?

by **Tim Wakefield** 2015-09-18, 15:42

Highlights were a bit of a buzzkill to be honest... Looked kinda slow and has a weird jumper. I'll trust Izzo on this one

by **Robert J Sakimano** 2015-09-18, 15:43

Tim Wakefield wrote:Highlights were a bit of a buzzkill to be honest... Looked kinda slow and has a weird jumper. I'll trust Izzo on this one

clearly you don't fully appreciate the talents of a 17-18 year old kid to the degree you should.

Go to your room and don't come out until we tell you to.

by **Tim Wakefield** 2015-09-18, 15:44

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
Tim Wakefield wrote:Highlights were a bit of a buzzkill to be honest... Looked kinda slow and has a weird jumper. I'll trust Izzo on this one
clearly you don't fully appreciate the talents of a 17-18 year old kid to the degree you should.

Go to your room and don't come out until we tell you to.

Get a life, Bob tOfficial MSU Basketball Recruiting Thread: Class of 2016 (Part I) - Page 14 328670334

by **Robert J Sakimano** 2015-09-18, 15:49

Tim Wakefield wrote:
Robert J Sakimano wrote:clearly you don't fully appreciate the talents of a 17-18 year old kid to the degree you should.

Go to your room and don't come out until we tell you to.
Get a life, Bob

I can't help it if you aren't into basketball..

by Guest 2015-09-18, 16:44

Herbie Green wrote:
LooseGoose wrote:
Miles Bridges retweeted
Prep Hoops Michigan ‏@PrepHoopsMI 17m17 minutes ago
CONGRATS to 2016 UD-Jesuit PG Cassius Winston on his commitment to Michigan State. MSU now w/#1 ranked 2016 class.
NextUpRecruits.com, Cassius Winston, Jeff McKinney and 7 others

Did JWeibs get locked out of this one?

Looks like he's not locked into the BB recruiting.

by Guest 2015-09-18, 16:44

Tim Wakefield wrote:Highlights were a bit of a buzzkill to be honest... Looked kinda slow and has a weird jumper. I'll trust Izzo on this one

Izzo and virtually every other analyst and coach out there.....

by **Tim Wakefield** 2015-09-18, 17:11

LooseGoose wrote:
Tim Wakefield wrote:Highlights were a bit of a buzzkill to be honest... Looked kinda slow and has a weird jumper. I'll trust Izzo on this one
Izzo and virtually every other analyst and coach out there.....

I know. Glad to have him aboard

by **NigelUno** 2015-09-18, 17:16

Tim Wakefield wrote:Highlights were a bit of a buzzkill to be honest... Looked kinda slow and has a weird jumper. I'll trust Izzo on this one

The jumper is a little...ummmm...I'm not going to say Klevon Trobert...but...

by Guest 2015-09-21, 09:51

Cassius Winston: ‘In it to win it’ with Izzo, Spartans

DETROIT – The ball was tipped, and there he was. It fell right into Cassius Winston’s hands.
The second grader caught it and started moving, partly out of excitement, partly on instinct.

It’s something he’d been doing since he was 2 years old, when his mother said he was dribbling a basketball better than he was walking.

Immediately, Winston looked like a natural in his first real game. No one was guarding him.

He zoomed in and made the layup, his first points ever.

For the wrong team, in the wrong basket. Far from his one shining moment.

“I almost quit. I really did,” Winston recalled Friday. “I almost stopped playing.”

Thankfully, for Michigan State fans and coach Tom Izzo, he didn’t. Instead, it became Winston’s passion.

by **Robert J Sakimano** 2015-09-21, 10:40

LooseGoose wrote:Cassius Winston: ‘In it to win it’ with Izzo, Spartans

DETROIT – The ball was tipped, and there he was. It fell right into Cassius Winston’s hands.
The second grader caught it and started moving, partly out of excitement, partly on instinct.

It’s something he’d been doing since he was 2 years old, when his mother said he was dribbling a basketball better than he was walking.

Immediately, Winston looked like a natural in his first real game. No one was guarding him.

He zoomed in and made the layup, his first points ever.

For the wrong team, in the wrong basket. Far from his one shining moment.

“I almost quit. I really did,” Winston recalled Friday. “I almost stopped playing.”

Thankfully, for Michigan State fans and coach Tom Izzo, he didn’t. Instead, it became Winston’s passion.

a basketball player with intentions to win games. That's refreshing.

by **Turtleneck** 2015-09-21, 13:23

Huntington Prep guard - teammate of Bridges - picks IU. Interesting given IU is among the last three in play for Bridges.

He took his official visit to Indiana at the end of August, but the Hoosiers' pursuit dates back further than that. Five-star Huntington Prep teammate Miles Bridges is also a priority target for Indiana in 2016, and he took his official with Jones. The Hoosiers are one of three suitors remaining in Bridges' recruitment.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2015/09/19/curtis-jones-huntington-prep-guard-picks-indiana-hoosiers-2106/72467316/

by Guest 2015-09-22, 10:00

Kentucky radio host: Miles Bridges likely headed to MSU

EAST LANSING – It’s all hearsay and tea leaves these days with Miles Bridges and may be until he announces Oct. 3, but Michigan State is said to be in a stronger position after his official visits to MSU and Kentucky.
The 6-foot-7 small forward from Flint, a consensus top-15 player in the class of 2016 who plays for Huntington (W.Va) Prep, visited MSU for its Sept. 12 football game against Oregon and basketball alumni event. He visited Kentucky over the past weekend, moving that up from an original plan of seeing UK’s “Big Blue Madness” on Oct. 16.
Bridges, who also lists Indiana as a finalist, has yet to speak publicly on his visits. But Matt Jones, a radio host in Lexington, Ky., whose kentuckysportsradio.com is one of the most popular recruiting sites for UK fans, tweeted Monday that he thinks “Michigan State may be in the driver’s seat” for Bridges after both visits.
Jones wrote on his blog that Bridges “at one time was a near certainty to go to Kentucky.”

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** 2015-09-22, 10:04

by Guest 2015-09-22, 12:21

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Boom

And if the Jackson news is good? BOOM won't even begin to describe it.

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** 2015-09-22, 12:24

LooseGoose wrote:
Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Boom
And if the Jackson news is good? BOOM won't even begin to describe it.

Is there a legit shot there? I haven't heard much about him.

by **Turtleneck** 2015-09-22, 12:29

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:
LooseGoose wrote:
And if the Jackson news is good? BOOM won't even begin to describe it.

Is there a legit shot there? I haven't heard much about him.

I am not going to get too excited about Jackson, but as Goose said, if it happens "BOOM" would not even come close to describing the excitement surrounding the 2016 class.

by **Turtleneck** 2015-09-22, 12:48

Nice pick-up for the Gophers. Amir Coffey stays in state and chooses Minnesota over MSU, Arizona, Wisconsin, and others.

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_28852914/gophers-secure-commitment-from-four-star-recruit-amir

by Guest 2015-09-22, 12:56

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:
LooseGoose wrote:
And if the Jackson news is good? BOOM won't even begin to describe it.

Is there a legit shot there? I haven't heard much about him.

Well according to him and his Mom we're in the final 4 for him - Arizona, Kansas, Maryland and Us. Josh Jackson talks visits

His Mom has had high praise for Izzo in the past and there is the fact that East Lansing is the closest of those schools to Detroit.

by **Giant Moose** 2015-09-22, 13:04

LooseGoose wrote:Well according to him and his Mom we're in the final 4 for him - Arizona, Kansas, Maryland and Us.

His Mom has had high praise for Izzo in the past and there is the fact that East Lansing is the closest of those schools to Detroit.

Even if he picks one of the other schools, I will always consider him a great Spartan. I love rooting for our transfers and former recruits. I hope we have a banquet for all of them at the end of the year where we can share pie and orange juice. And when they are seniors, we'll have to make sure they kiss the logo before the banquet.

by **Turtleneck** 2015-09-22, 13:07

Giant Moose wrote:
LooseGoose wrote:Well according to him and his Mom we're in the final 4 for him - Arizona, Kansas, Maryland and Us.

His Mom has had high praise for Izzo in the past and there is the fact that East Lansing is the closest of those schools to Detroit.
Even if he picks one of the other schools, I will always consider him a great Spartan. I love rooting for our transfers and former recruits. I hope we have a banquet for all of them at the end of the year where we can share pie and orange juice. And when they are seniors, we'll have to make sure they kiss the logo before the banquet.

If I leave this board for Rivals, will I be remembered as a great Swill poster? Can I come back and kiss the home page?

by **Giant Moose** 2015-09-22, 13:09

Turtleneck wrote:If I leave this board for Rivals, will I be remembered as a great Swill poster? Can I come back and kiss the home page?

Once a Swill poster, always a Swill poster. tOfficial MSU Basketball Recruiting Thread: Class of 2016 (Part I) - Page 14 1833121890

by Guest 2015-09-22, 13:29

Giant Moose wrote:
LooseGoose wrote:Well according to him and his Mom we're in the final 4 for him - Arizona, Kansas, Maryland and Us.

His Mom has had high praise for Izzo in the past and there is the fact that East Lansing is the closest of those schools to Detroit.
Even if he picks one of the other schools, I will always consider him a great Spartan. I love rooting for our transfers and former recruits. I hope we have a banquet for all of them at the end of the year where we can share pie and orange juice. And when they are seniors, we'll have to make sure they kiss the logo before the banquet.

God damn, when it comes to you and that fucking logo you're a kissing cousin to BobS on the annoying scale.

by Guest 2015-09-23, 20:33

I count this as a good sign for us....

tOfficial MSU Basketball Recruiting Thread: Class of 2016 (Part I) - Page 14 53yodvas_bigger

Miles Bridges ‏@MilesBridges01
My announcement will be at Mott Community College on Oct. 3rd from 12-2

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** 2015-09-23, 20:36

Are we a sister school with Mott Community College?

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2015-09-23, 20:41

He goes to school in W VA and is coming home to Flint to make his announcement? Yeah, that would seem to be a good sign.

bounce

by **Turtleneck** 2015-09-23, 20:46

Maybe he is committing to UM Flint.

by **NigelUno** 2015-09-23, 20:54

Turtleneck wrote:Maybe he is committing to UM Flint.

Or Mott? Since...it's at Mott?

Steve Schmidt is a great coach.

by Guest 2015-09-23, 21:16

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Are we a sister school with Mott Community College?

WBH nailed why it's probably a good sign. Coming home to announce.

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