Comments on: Q & A: Bloomington South’s Matt Carlino

By: JerryCT

JerryCT — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:05:37 +0000

I saw Okafor tons of times live and on TV. For his first 2 years he did not start or play alot of minutes but what he did was run the floor like a deer, set picks, defend and block shots. He only scored on garbage………..In his last 2 years he developed all of that into an art form.

Yes its an extreme wish but by Bawa's junior year he could do those things.

By: GFDave

GFDave — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:16:17 +0000

No question. Its more aspirational than anything else.

But I do think he'll develop and see minutes by his junior year. I'm pretty confident in that. He moves well and is so strong, the basic athleticism, combined with size will get him that far. Scoring points consistently? Probably not, but there's time.

Not eligible yet.

By: stevealford

stevealford — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:18:19 +0000

Comparing Bawa to Okafor is pretty extreme.
I'll be surprised if he gets any significant minutes this year… or any year.
Is he even eligible yet?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:10:24 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into optimizing the load time on the site.

By: BFowler

BFowler — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:36:42 +0000

I think definitely especially if you look at recent champions, you could point to one inside guy who was a real player (Hansborough '09, Arthur '08, Noah/Horford '06-'07, Sean May '05, and Okefor '04), but to me the team was not great until they had great guards/wings (Lawson/Ellington, Collins/Chalmers, Brewer/Green, Felton/McCants, Gordon/Anderson). I think the great players are (any more) the great guars and wings.

By: BFowler

BFowler — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:23:22 +0000

Explorer 8. It could just be me because I have 5 or 1,000 apps running all at the same time, but I have noticed this site laods slower than others.

By: GFDave

GFDave — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:18:41 +0000

Totally agree. If Bawa gets to the Okafor level, watch out!

By: JerryCT

JerryCT — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:53:48 +0000

To your point. UCONN won had some championship seasons with exactly that combo. Scoring guards/wings and Emeka Okafor running the floor, defending and rebounding . This is what we can hope for Bawa to deliver…………………. the missing ingredient to a Calhoun/Boeheim/Nova type Big East offense

By: BFowler

BFowler — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:28:07 +0000

I am looking forward to a Matt and Austin backcourt in about 3 years. I have never seen Austin play, and only highlights of Matt, but I am excited to know they are coming and they want to be here and they are Indiana High School basketball kids (now for Matt). There has always been something I have enjoyed about following a kid's high school career right to IU. If they can come close to the backcourt of Thomas-Whittman, we will have something big going there.

On the Zeller front, it would be nice to have another talented big from Indiana on the team, and I hope the three of them want to continue their careers together. Hopefully, the Spiece kids joining Indiana Elite next AAU season will feel the same way. I still believe that the way to win in college is to have outstanding guards with blue collar (rebounding, stuffing the lane, blocking shots) bigs is the way to win in college. I am hoping Elston-Capo-Pritch-Miniru will provide us that. Hopefully the backcourt of Carlino-Etherington will take us to the top.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:58:08 +0000

Are you in Firefox or Internet Explorer? If Internet Explorer, which version? Might have something to do with it.