****Official 2017-2018 Missouri Tigers Basketball Thread****

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Back up in your ass with the resurrection. Follow the Cuonzo Martin era here.

Recruiting Commitments:

2017:
Michael Porter Jr., SF, *****, Gatorade National Player of the Year
CJ Roberts, PG, ****
Blake Harris, PG, ***/****
Jeremiah Tilmon, F/C, ****
Kassius Robertson, Grad Transfer
Jontay Porter (possible re-classification from Class of '18), ****

Departures: No one that matters
Returning Players: No one that matters

Overall class ranking: #6 nationally.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

2017 4-star PG Jemarl Baker, Jr. has informed me that he has asked out of his LOI with #Cal.

— Ben Parker (@slamdunk406) March 27, 2017

Seems like he wants to stay in California, though.

Could be wrong, but I'd guess that he's still more likely to land at UCLA or something like that. I think he's a Cali kid that wants to stay there if he can find the right fit. Shouldn't be hard for a top 100 recruit to get plenty of in-state attention.

[Beerthirty]

Bring them all in. We need all the talent we can get even if they are all guards. Anybody that has to be let go can go to Pitt State with Kim.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by Beerthirty

Bring them all in. We need all the talent we can get even if they are all guards. Anybody that has to be let go can go to Pitt State with Kim.

Lol that'd look good to future recruits

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I'd be fine with pushing one of the columns outside of Jesse Hall onto Cullen VanLeer.

[Titty Meat]

I wish you all the best of luck. Wasn't tryna troll you with the Porter stuff wish he would have gone to OU so they could have ended that dumbass KU conference title streak. I think you guys could have a Kstate turn around when they hired huggy and pulled in Beasley, Walker, Pullen etc.

Good luck next year Tiger fans.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballBillay

wish he would have gone to OU so they could have ended that dumbass KU conference title streak.

Nah, we won't win a title when you want to, but we also likely won't lose a conference title when you want us to either.

It's what KU has at this point.

Hope the SEC-Big 12 challenge pits MU and KU against each other next year. Hard to think that the hype from that wouldn't force KU into continuing the series.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Lol that'd look good to future recruits

It's funny that people think they'd give a shit.

"Why'd you chase Jordan Geist, Reed Nikko and Cullen VanLeer off the team?"

"Because they were Division II caliber players brought in by a Division II caliber coach who you'd have never bothered speaking with. Make sense?"

"Yeup"

I'm betting you thought Kermit deserved another year. You just have that sound to you.

Seriously - the Tigers could broom all but 3-4 of these guys and unless it put them back in APR trouble (and it could), nobody worth having would care one whit. Game recognizes game and the kids that might be a part of an actual tournament team will look at the chaff that got run out of there and they'd absolutely understand it.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

It's funny that people think they'd give a shit.

"Why'd you chase Jordan Geist, Reed Nikko and Cullen VanLeer off the team?"

"Because they were Division II caliber players brought in by a Division II caliber coach who you'd have never bothered speaking with. Make sense?"

"Yeup"

I'm betting you thought Kermit deserved another year. You just have that sound to you.

Seriously - the Tigers could broom all but 3-4 of these guys and unless it put them back in APR trouble (and it could), nobody worth having would care one whit. Game recognizes game and the kids that might be a part of an actual tournament team will look at the chaff that got run out of there and they'd absolutely understand it.

Don't know why youre getting so butt hurt over that comment? And no I never liked Kermit and you can tell from one comment that I thought Kermit needed another year? Are you spazzing out at the moment or just completely hating your life?

[duncan_idaho]

I'm in.

My NCAA tourney expectations would be based on getting Porter, Tilmon, smith, Jontay Porter and retaining the role player types (Puryear, Phillips) and solid high major starter (Barnett).

Expectations will be based on the final roster. They add enough around Porter, and it should be an NCAA tourney team.

Fun to debate, at least.


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[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

It's funny that people think they'd give a shit.

"Why'd you chase Jordan Geist, Reed Nikko and Cullen VanLeer off the team?"

"Because they were Division II caliber players brought in by a Division II caliber coach who you'd have never bothered speaking with. Make sense?"

"Yeup"

I'm betting you thought Kermit deserved another year. You just have that sound to you.

Seriously - the Tigers could broom all but 3-4 of these guys and unless it put them back in APR trouble (and it could), nobody worth having would care one whit. Game recognizes game and the kids that might be a part of an actual tournament team will look at the chaff that got run out of there and they'd absolutely understand it.

I would change "could" to "would" if that many were sent packing.

[Beerthirty]

PG Alex Lomax out of Memphis 2018 offered from Mizzou. 3 star.

[duncan_idaho]

Re: APR, pretty sure they've got room to get rid of 3 without APR trouble. As long as Cullen VanLeer is one of the three.

You need your guys to go to a Four-year school, and you need them to have a 2.6 GPA or better.

They can't afford to have more than two guys who fail to meet those qualities transfer.

So you could easily bounce VanLeer, Kemp, and one of Geist/Nikko.

Problem is... are those guys willing?

I've heard there are some players on the team that are so happy just to be a member of the Missouri basketball team, they don't care how little they play.

I suspect VanLeer is one of those.


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[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Don't know why youre getting so butt hurt over that comment? And no I never liked Kermit and you can tell from one comment that I thought Kermit needed another year? Are you spazzing out at the moment or just completely hating your life?

You intend to back up your comment at all? Do you really think potential scholarship players are going to be upset that a bunch of MIAA caliber players were 'encouraged' to follow their MIAA coach?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

I would change "could" to "would" if that many were sent packing.

Depends on who.

And if Kim Anderson was the 'developer of student athletes' that his backers claim, the 2.6 GPA threshold shouldn't be that tough. I mean it's Mizzou. It's a state school with any number of Underwater Basketweaving kind of courses that should allow somebody to keep that GPA at a reasonable level.

If the transfers are 2.6 or better (yes, I'm looking at you, VanLeer), they should be fine. And it's my understanding they have a little bit of latitude (maybe 2 players) that are under that mark that can move out as well.

I mean if this is a team that can't win 10 games OR manage to keep a 2.75 GPA, just exactly what the hell was Anderson recruiting? Bad AND stupid? That's a tough combo right there.


EDIT: It would appear Duncan has already spoken to this.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

You intend to back up your comment at all? Do you really think potential scholarship players are going to be upset that a bunch of MIAA caliber players were 'encouraged' to follow their MIAA coach?

I guess I just didn't think it through and honestly I didn't think the comment was that big of a dea or that it would rile anyone up so bad. I haven't followed Mizzou basketball at all the last couple of years, so I didn't know that all of our guards were MIAA junk.