About // Advertise // Archives // Contact
RSS Facebook Twitter

Archive for August, 2011

Garrett Green chooses San Diego State

by in Recruiting | August 6th, 2011

Garrett Green is headed to San Diego State for his final season of college basketball.

Edward Lewis from the San Diego State Rivals affiliate, AztecSportsReport, was the first to report the news and Green confirmed his decision with Inside the Hall on Saturday evening.

“This decision was so hard,” Green said. “It was so hard on me. But I had to base everything off of grad school. That’s the reason why I left (LSU) was for my education.”

Green, who graduated from LSU on Friday, chose San Diego State over Indiana, Long Beach State and Wichita State.

The 6-foot-11 center averaged 6.3 points and 5.1 rebounds in 18 minutes per game last year for the Tigers.

Green said his visit to Bloomington on July 22 and 23 was almost enough to sway him towards the Hoosiers.

“Coach (Tom) Crean absolutely blew me away,” he said. “I think he’s an amazing coach. He’s a really, really good guy. When I came down there on my visit, he was helping me out so much. I couldn’t ask for more.”

Green will join a San Diego State program that finished 34-3 a season ago but will be tasked with replacing four starters, including the No. 15 pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, Kawhi Leonard.

While the Hoosiers finished as his runner-up, the California native had nothing but positive remarks for the IU program.

“I still believe in Indiana. I know how bad they want it,” he said. “From playing pick up and talking with them, just talking basketball, they all want it.”

Related:

– Garrett Green commits to San Diego State (Hoosier Scoop)
– SDSU basketball lands 6-11 LSU transfer (San Diego Union-Tribune)
– Garrett Green takes final visit to Wichita State (August 3, 2011)
– The latest on LSU transfer Garrett Green (July 28, 2011)
– Q & A: Garrett Green talks about Indiana visit (July 23, 2011)
– A look at Garrett Green’s potential impact at Indiana (July 22, 2011)
– LSU transfer Garrett Green will visit Indiana (July 19, 2011)

Tags:
214 Comments »

Updates from adidas Nations, Nike Global Challenge

by in Recruiting | August 6th, 2011

A pair of Indiana commitments — Hanner Perea and Trey Lyles — had successful outings at adidas Nations on Friday in Harbor City, California, while IU’s top 2012 recruiting target, Gary Harris, shined in the Nike Global Challenge in Hillsboro, Oregon. Some notes from day one at each event below:

ADIDAS NATIONS

All Friday morning contests at adidas Nations were exhibitions and Lyles’ USA Blue 2013 team got the better of Perea’s Latin America group, 84-72. According to Michael Barnett, Lyles finished with 14 points and nine rebounds while Perea had 23 points and 12 rebounds.

The teams met again Friday night in their first pool play game and the USA Blue 2013 team prevailed again, 87-85. Lyles finished with four points and three rebounds and Perea had 16 points and six rebounds.

2012 commitments Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell and Jeremy Hollowell, who was a late addition to the event, are expected to participate beginning today. The CBS Sports Network will broadcast an adidas Nations highlight show at noon (ET) on Sunday and will also show the championship game live at 7 p.m. (ET) on Monday.

The adidas Nations schedule is available here.

NIKE GLOBAL CHALLENGE

Harris’ USA Midwest team cruised to an easy 103-58 win over Germany and the five-star guard led all scorers with 17 points in just 19 minutes. Harris was 7-of-12 from the field, 3-of-5 from the free throw line and also had nine rebounds, three steals and an assist.

The Global Challenge continues today for Harris as the USA Midwest team will meet the USA West team at 8 PM local time at Liberty High School. USA West, led by 18 points from five-star 2013 power forward Aaron Gordon, beat Puerto Rico 105-74 on Friday.

The Nike Global Challenge schedule is available here.

Tags: , ,
11 Comments »

R.J. Curington ready to see Bloomington

by in Recruiting | August 4th, 2011

Update: Following his visit, Curington offered the following comment via his Twitter account: ” I absolutely enjoyed my visit! It was a great experience. The coaches & IU fans are great & very supportive.”

—

The Indiana coaching staff will welcome R.J. Curington to campus for an unofficial visit on Friday morning and the 2013 Oak Hill Academy guard says he’s ready for some Hoosier Hysteria.

“When I was younger I went to camp (at IU),” Curington told Inside the Hall. “But I didn’t really get to see many of the finer things. I’m expecting to see a lot of the basketball monuments, the practice facility and I’m looking forward to seeing the players also to see how they live on campus.”

Curington lists Dyer, Indiana as his hometown, but didn’t move to the Hoosier state until he was 10 and enrolled at Oak Hill as an eighth grader. The Mouth of Wilson based boarding school has produced 22 NBA Draft picks.

The adjustment living away from family was initially difficult, but is helping to prepare him for the next level.

“Since it’s like a college (at Oak Hill) and with all of the traveling, we’ll be somewhere one day and the next day we’ll be somewhere else,” Curington said. “You’ve gotta get your homework done and that’s how it is in college. I’m just thankful I have the chance to get that early so when I’m in college, I’m not foreign to what I have to do.”

The month of July was a successful one for Curington as his C.I.A. Bounce team won the AAU Super Showcase in Kissimmee, Florida. The final game was televised by ESPNU. That exposure only added to a long list of schools that Curington says have expressed interest.

“North Carolina, Wake Forest, Clemson, Harvard, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Stanford, Northwestern,” he said. “Some new schools are Michigan State, Florida, UCF, Chattanooga and Florida State.”

With 15 months to go until he can first sign a Letter of Intent, don’t expect a quick decision from the 6-foot-5 guard.

“I’m pretty much wide open right now,” he said.

Tags:
28 Comments »

Getting to know James Blackmon Jr.

by in Recruiting | August 4th, 2011

Throughout the spring and summer we’ve posted updates, scouting reports and video of Indiana’s verbal commitments. Today in our new “getting to know” feature, we go off the court with future Hoosier James Blackmon Jr. to introduce you to IU’s first commitment in the 2014 class:

Everyone thinks of you as a basketball player, but what do you like to do when you aren’t playing basketball?

“I like to hang out with friends and go have fun. Maybe go to a movie with friends or play video games with my brothers.”

Do you have a hidden talent or hobby?

“I can play the drums a little bit, I’m good at percussion.”

If I grabbed your iPod, what kind of music would I find on it?

“Right now, probably some Tyga, but not many people listen to him. Maybe some Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Wiz Khalifa probably.”

What is your favorite movie ever?

“Stepbrothers.”

What’s your favorite TV show to watch?

“I really don’t watch that much TV, but when I do, I usually watch cartoons with my youngest brother.”

If you had to make a team using yourself and any other four people, who would you choose to play with?

“Trey Lyles, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and Monta Ellis.”

Would your little brothers come off the bench?

“Yeah, my little brother Jalen and Vijay.”

How old are they?

“Jalen is 8, and you can check out his video on YouTube. The other one, Vijay, is 14.”

How often do you play basketball with them?

“I play with my 14 year old brother all the time, we just compete. With my little brother I usually just play around with him for fun.”

What is the best advice someone has ever given you?

“Do everything like it’s your last, and that’s from my dad.”

Who is your role model or someone your look up to?

“My mom because she’s just a hard worker and that’s where I get my work ethic from.”

(Photo credit: Jamie Owens of J. Scott Sports)

Tags:
31 Comments »

Q & A: Jaquan Lyle talks improvement, Indiana and his hair

by in Recruiting | August 4th, 2011

Jaquan Lyle’s play last season at Evansville Bosse and with the Eric Gordon All-Stars this spring helped solidify a top 15 national ranking in the 2014 class by ESPN.com and offers from Indiana, Illinois, Purdue and Xavier.

The 6-foot-4, 187-pound guard recently made the switch to Spiece prior to the July evaluation period. Inside the Hall caught up with Lyle at the GRBA National Championships for a Q & A:

Playing with the Spiece Indy Heat 16′s the last couple of tournaments, how has that been? What’s your relationship with James Blackmon Jr. and how’s that growing?

“Me and Blackmon, our relationship is good. We’re starting to get a real relationship like brothers. I’ve been at his house the past two weeks ever since the Best of the Midwest. We’ved bonded real good.”

What are you doing specifically to work on your game this summer? Obviously a game like you just played, winning by 40 points, you’re not really getting the high level of competition.

“Games like this I just try my best to find my teammates. Because in the clutch games, they’re going have to look up to me to step up, take that role and do scoring. So I try find them as much as I can during these type of 40-point blowouts. To work on my game, shooting the shots I need to shoot, passing the ball, handling it a lot better, that’s basically it.”

Do you notice any coaches here watching you today at all or do you try not to pay attention to that?

“Yeah, I noticed them today. It was (Tom) Izzo, (Tom) Crean, a Purdue assistant. I notice them at these type of games. It’s a 40-point blowout. You’re focused on the game, but you’re not really focused on the game like it’s a close one.”

Most important question of the day, what happened to the hair?

“Oh, man. Me and James made a bet. We played downstairs in the basement because he has a court in house. So we played downstairs in his basement and he said if he beat me, I had to get it cut off. He beat me by two, so I had to get it cut off.”

Continue reading this post »

Tags:
26 Comments »

Garrett Green takes final visit to Wichita State

by in Recruiting | August 3rd, 2011


The recruitment process is coming to a close for Garrett Green, who announced he would leave Louisiana State to play his final season elsewhere on July 18.

In the 16 days since that announcement it’s been a whirlwind for Green, who is now on his fourth visit in a little over two weeks. The 6-foot-11 center, who averaged 6.3 points and 5.1 rebounds in 18 minutes per game last year at LSU, confirmed this morning via Twitter that his current trip to Wichita State will be his final visit.

Green visited Indiana from July 22-23, Long Beach State on July 29, San Diego State from July 31-Aug. 1 and started his Wichita State visit today.

According to his recruiting profile on ESPN.com, Green originally considered Wyoming back in 2006, where current IU assistant Steve McClain served as head coach from 1998 through 2007. Green’s high school coach, Derrick Taylor, told Dustin Dopirak of The Herald-Times that he knows McClain well.

The ties to both Long Beach State and San Diego State are likely proximity to Green’s hometown of Woodland Hills, California. The Long Beach State campus is roughly 50 miles from his home and the San Diego State campus is about 100 miles south.

Continue reading this post »

Tags:
93 Comments »

ITH on Twitter

Resources

Recruiting

Comments


Page 7 of 8« First...2345678