Nothing against TP….. TP did fine as a back up…A few rebounds , some good D….but could not finish at the rim……This kid is light years ahead of TP at that….Thats why I said PJ is a major improvement in that area alone….Also constant practice against CZ everyday will really bring this kid along even quicker……TP didn’t have that advantage.

We really don’t need any more scorers.  We are already one of the most efficient scoring offenses in the nation, AND we are adding Yogi and Hollowell, who are scoring machines.

Jurkin can help us in team D, rebounding and blocked shots.  We could use help in all of those areas.

* We were 10th in the B1G in scoring Defense.
* 8th in blocked shots
* While we were +4 in rebounding margin, we still need to improve on the glass.
* 8th in defensive rebounding percentage, etc.

Jurkin and Perea are going to be HUGE assets (literally) in helping the team in each of those areas.

I am as excited to see him on the court next year than any of the 2012′ers

+ If PJ blocks, changes, and deters shots next year I am all for it
+ Playing for an NBA coach has helped his game and it is obvious he has worked on his body.
+ I never put him in the same class as bawa and tijan given PJ has much experience as Hanner, given they both played with Indiana Elite for quite a few years. 
+ Red Shirting him would not be a good idea given we are thin at the 5 spot. You want Jeff Howard backing up Cody?

How about some alley-oop to PJ from Jogi

What if… just what if, you are drunk.  Just kidding with you.  I highly doubt that will happen.

I won’t say I’m not excited for this kid, but when you consider big guys we got excited for that IU recruited in recent memory – Bawa, Tijan, and to a lesser extent Guy-Marc Michel (I say lesser extent because he turned out to be ineligible anyway) – I can’t get TOO excited. Other than the top flight big guys, most are projects. However, PJ does look a lot more polished than Bawa or Tijan. Who knows, he could be another Uwe Blab.

Seeing Zeller and Jurkin on the floor together is certainly what I’m hoping for (see my post in “That’s A Wrap: Defense”), but as I said above in response to rgd213, it’s hard to get too excited for a true college center when you consider we haven’t had one pan out in recent memory. I don’t really consider Cody Zeller to be a true center in the college game, though he obviously does a tremendous job playing the center position.

PERFECT use of italicization here. “The other Indiana school” is really going places in academics. I hear it’s really going to be a focus of the school now…probably because IU will be kicking their asses year in and year out in basketball getting recruits like PJ. I’m not really sure why I’m talking crap about PUke…really just bored at work I guess, but hey, if 14,000 PUke fans can chant “IU sucks!” and “F*** IU!” in games that IU has nothing to do with, I guess this this is perfectly fine.

I was shocked by how well he ran the floor in this video. His free throw form is fantastic. He really looked to score here too. IU has the potential to score 85ppg next season, and with the stoppers they’ll have on defense, the potential to allow only 60ppg. The more I see Peter Jurkin, the more sold on him I’m becoming.

PUke isn’t terrible at everything … just most things.

 I would actually like to see more than 10-15 combined minutes out of PJ and HP.  If we could get more like 10-15 minutes out of each of them that would be great.  If we could go to a bigger front line (PJ, CZ, CW or CZ, HP, CW) that would allow for CW to guard the point and JH to slide to the off guard.  Also having PJ or HP on the back line to block shots could help if JH gets beat.

This kid is more polished than Bawa, and more athletic than Blab.  Think his presence in the paint won’t help CZ and CWat?  This kid will be a defensive stopper and looks like a monster on the boards.  Amazing class coming in….he is much stronger and polished than the last video of him….

After a few tall beers with my friends at Applebee’s, we came up with some hilarious dirty stuff that you can say with his name that’s actually not dirty because it correctly pertains to basketball and is properly used. Oh that was a good night haha.

Not since Haston as far as I can remember.

I wonder if Muggsy had any “friends” come in and work with PJ.

I was just getting ready to make that comparison.  Dieng was all right his freshman year, but he made huge strides this season and is probably on track to be a first-round pick in a year or two (if not a lottery pick.)

I remeber tp scored 2 in the Kentucky-Ohio allstar game…..

you don’t have to worry about Nix at all, he was arrested for possession of pot and suspended indefinitely

Based on what I saw at Saturday’s game, that isn’t going to happen. He needs to put some muscle on and he’s going to have to get more assertive.

Your Kidding right?….As the talent has improved every year since TP arrived, His stats,his playing time, his ability to compete with that talent has went down every year….That’s just a Fact…I love TP for what he has contributed to this IU rebuilding job…But I’m sorry to say again with the talent rise,TP is the most offensively challenge player on the team now……I’m sorry if that riles you….But thats not even going out on a limb to say … I maybe the only person on here that fells that way or  will admit it and thats fine, and you can fry me on here as much as you like..But would be a tough argument to prove any other way……So like I said I will take my chances on PJ being a big improvement in that back up role