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It's Shea's right now. So no more left, essentially.
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It's Shea's right now. So no more left, essentially.
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I like Lykes. He gotta learn when to pull off the gas if he ain't hittin tho
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I had a feeling Coby didn't wanna leave Chapel Hill just yet.
Considering it wasn't a secret that he saw Roy as a father figure.. probably wanted to stick around for a bit longer.
Coby, Cole Anthony and Platek
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I had a feeling Coby didn't wanna leave Chapel Hill just yet.
Considering it wasn't a secret that he saw Roy as a father figure.. probably wanted to stick around for a bit longer.
Coby, Cole Anthony and Platek
With those 3 guards it would be trouble. Cole would be 6th man of the year.
Love seeing that tweet. Might bookmarknit for that vocal minority of “Roy holds back his guys”
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Context. When you have an upgrade coming in(Cole Anthony) you can afford to be so magnanimous.
Roy not so quick to push them out when he doesn’t have a backup plan.
Context.
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Context. When you have an upgrade coming in(Cole Anthony) you can afford to be so magnanimous.
Roy not so quick to push them out when he doesn’t have a backup plan.
Context.
Obviously.
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Looks like Heels just offered Bryce Thompson. Player of the year in Oklahoma? I don’t know nothing about him. Someone enlighten me.
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NC youngins 
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Super late but I’m bummed about Boogie decommitting from Duke
Actually thought he would’ve worked with Tre as a scoring combo guard
Actually thought he would’ve worked with Tre as a scoring combo guard
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Tri State cats used to run NC ( HURLEY , Hodge , Jason Williams , Elton Brand , Laettner )
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Penny Hardaway Is The Hottest College Coach In America, And He Wants A Super Team At Memphis
Penny Hardaway is red-hot with many of the nation's top uncommitted recruits, and he's looking to build a super team at Memphis. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamza...e-wants-a-super-team-at-memphis/#2c2ffa586bb1
Penny Hardaway is red-hot with many of the nation's top uncommitted recruits, and he's looking to build a super team at Memphis. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamza...e-wants-a-super-team-at-memphis/#2c2ffa586bb1
As he sat courtside at the Nike EYBL stop in Cartersville, Georgia, this past Saturday evening, the Division 1 men's basketball coach wore a black hoodie with a Memphis Tigers logo, a camouflage Memphis baseball cap and a fresh pair of blue Memphis Tiger Foamposites.
It’s safe to say no other Division 1 head coach in the gym—a group that included Hall of Famers and would-be Hall of Famers like Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Kentucky’s John Calipari, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Villanova’s Jay Wright and Virginia’s Tony Bennett—looked like Penny Hardaway.
His accessories even caught the eye of young fans. One young boy approached Hardaway and said, “I like your backpack.” Hardaway responded by telling the kid he could have it if he beat him in a game of one-on-one.
In some regards, the college basketball world belongs to Penny Hardaway right now, and everyone else is just living in it.
After coaching in the high school and AAU ranks in Memphis, Hardaway is looking to form a super team as he heads into his second year at the helm of his alma mater. Having played in the NBA after being drafted by the Golden State Warriors, Hardaway wants to build a college team reminiscent of the NBA’s reigning superpower.
“We really want to finish this class off with our last four scholarships being studs, and hopefully we can do that,” Hardaway said during a courtside interview Saturday evening. “And then the expectations go way high because you give yourself an opportunity to be mentioned in the breath of one of the teams that’s up and coming and in the right direction.”
Hardaway and his main recruiter, former NBA player Mike Miller, have already beaten out Calipari and Kentucky for James Wiseman, the 7-foot-1 left-hander who is the projected No. 1 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, and onetime Kentucky commit D.J. Jeffries.
But he’s far from done.
Memphis remains a hot school with several uncommitted five-star recruits, including R.J. Hampton (who this week reclassified to 2019 and cut Duke from his list), Precious Achiuwa, Trendon Watford and Lester Quinones. Depending on how things shake out in the next few weeks and months, Memphis could have two or three projected lottery picks in 2020 in Wiseman, Achiuwa and Hampton.
Hardaway believes the NBA super team concept launched by LeBron James and the "Big Three" in Miami has now filtered down to college.
"I see it because just like in the NBA, you recruit your best friend, you recruit the guys that you played with, the guys that you like," Hardaway said. "The college kids are recruiting each other. When they go to a school, they start recruiting each other. Like last year at Duke, Coach K did his job, the assistants did their job, but the kids were kind of pulling on each other to make it work."
Memphis coach Penny Hardaway during a game against Cincinnati on March 2. (AP Photo/Gary Landers)
Of course, with players of that caliber come expectations and pressure. Pressure not only to make the NCAA tournament—Memphis hasn’t been since 2014—but to go to a Final Four.
LSU failed to make the NCAA tournament in 2016 with eventual No. 1 pick Ben Simmons, and Washington did the same with No. 1 pick Markelle Fultz in 2017—and both were openly mocked and ridiculed.
Duke featured a historic recruiting class this season highlighted by projected No. 1 pick Zion Williamson and came up short of the Final Four, something the Duke haters haven’t failed to point out virtually every day since Duke lost in the Elite Eight.
So does Hardaway understand the pressure that's to come?
“I think that we want the pressure,” Hardaway said. “Being in the position that all of us, me, Mike [Miller] and Sam [Mitchell], we had pressure to get to where we got to, to get to the league. So the pressure of having really good players and then putting that on us, and say, hey, you need to get here, we understand what that means, and we want that. That means that you have a great team and you have the opportunity to win a national championship when they start putting that type of pressure on you."
Still, Memphis is hot right now; there’s no denying that. Just listen to Wiseman.
“When I committed to the University of Memphis, there was an old lady that started crying,” Wiseman told The Undefeated in April. “I didn’t know it was that serious. She told me that she was truly blessed to see me play next season and that I brought a lot of hope back to Memphis.”
And listen to Greg Brown of Austin, Texas, the top power forward in the Class of 2020.
"[Hardaway] is one of the all-time greats, and it's a blessing for him to show up to one of our games to just sit there and watch because it's like, 'It's Penny Hardaway there.' Dang, it's nice," Brown said.
Of Hardaway's burgeoning recruiting class, Brown added: "They have a goal; they're trying to win a national championship. They're trying to build a team of five-stars, four-stars, just a good team."
Hardaway may be 47, but he knows his appeal is unique to a younger generation.
“I think not only being a former NBA player, but I think having my own shoe line, but the blessing is still one of the most popular shoes lines in the country,” Hardaway said.
People of a certain age remember the Spike Lee/Li’l Penny ads and the days when Hardaway and Shaquille O’Neal teamed up in Orlando.
Asked if L’il Penny might make a return, Hardaway said, “I’m sure it will be coming back.”
Tim Thomas, another former NBA player who is now coaching, with the NJ Playaz AAU program, believes Hardaway appeals to what today’s kids want.
“It means the world especially to be in Memphis,” Thomas said. “It means the world to that city and that state. You’re talking about a guy who’s been through every phase of it all and his experience playing in the league, just having a full understanding of the game, it means the world to those guys, and I’m pretty sure they look up to him. Just the knowledge that he can give those youngsters is everything."
Let’s face it, young players want to get to the NBA. Calipari has sent dozens of players to the league and boasts that former Kentucky players have combined NBA salaries of $1.5 billion (excluding endorsements). Hardaway may not have anything close to Calipari’s coaching résumé, but he has played in the NBA.
"I think it’s twofold, off the court and on the court,” Hardaway said. “Playing the game at a high level, understanding what it’s like to get to where I’ve already been and where they want to go. I tell those kids that we’re going to develop you, we’re going to teach you, and we’re going to have you ready off the court and on the court to be an NBA player.
"You don’t just want to get through one contract and get drafted, you want to get to the second and third [contracts], and all these kids want to be a major factor in the league, first-team All-NBA, on the Olympic team, All-Star Game, all those things. I can talk from that sense because I’ve been there.”
Still, Hardaway will very likely coach Wiseman for only six months (and the same with any other one-and-dones, too). How much coaching and development can he actually do in that span?
"Well, you gotta do the best you can," he said. "Every day watching film. You can speed the process up, just with some communication." Hardaway also said his team is working on an August trip to the Bahamas, which would give his young player some extra games before the season starts. "Do what Kentucky did last year," he said.
After coaching Wiseman at Memphis East High School and with Team Penny on the Nike circuit, Hardaway took over at his alma mater last year, signing a three-year deal worth at least $4.8 million,
His team finished 22-14 this season and made the NIT. But one of the highlights (lowlights) was a beef he had with Tennessee coach Rick Barnes after the teams played their annual game. Hardaway told reporters at the time he thought some Tennessee players were coming too close to his sideline. "Rick Barnes, get the (expletive) out of here," Hardaway said at the time.
Penny Hardaway says of Rick Barnes, "It's not even a rivalry yet because Barnes has been successful for many years." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
“It’s not even a rivalry yet because coach Barnes has been successful for many years,” Hardaway said in Georgia of Barnes, whose team was ranked No. 1 for several weeks this past season. “I think what we’ve done is, make it more interesting with us being Memphis playing against Tennessee, who has been a powerhouse, and trying to get our game up to that level, but it’s fun, though.”
He added: “There was nothing personal for me; I just wanted to take up for my team, and it’s a heated battle. It is a war in the state of Tennessee for us because we’ve got to recruit the same kids, but I just wanted to make sure I protected my team, and he wanted to do the same.”
Said Barnes this past weekend of Hardaway: "I didn't say a word. I've never said one word about how Memphis played or anything, and I've said it over and over: Penny Hardaway has done a great job there, and I think it's good for everybody. ... We all end up playing each other. I think if you love basketball, you've got to love it."
On top of Hardaway and Barnes, former NBA star Jerry Stackhouse is now coaching at Vanderbilt. Like Hardaway, Stackhouse had to relinquish control over his Nike team in order to comply with NCAA regulations once he became a college head coach.
The two shared Memphis in recent years while Stackhouse was an assistant with the Grizzlies, although they couldn’t interact much because of NCAA rules.
“It definitely adds another dimension because he’s a former NBA player, played a really high level for a long time," Hardaway said of Stackhouse. "He can give kids that dream as well from Vanderbilt, so it definitely makes it interesting because you have Coach Barnes at Tennessee, Jerry at Vanderbilt and me at Memphis. And then you get coach [Eric] Musselman, who coached in the NBA for years [and is now] at Arkansas. It’s tight now."
It's tight, but now is the time for Penny Hardaway and Memphis. His window to build and mold a super team is wide open, but it won't stay open forever.
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Same eras as dudes you posted homegrown in NC,SC,VA = Brendan Haywood/ Antwan Jamison/Ron Curry (Brand), Donald Williams/Grant Hill (Hurley/Laettner), Julius Peppers/Josh Howard (Jason Williams), Raymond Felton/Reyshawn Terry/Rashad McCants/David Noel/JJ Redick/Shavlik Randolph/Chris Paul/Eric Williams (Hodge)
So I'd say we did aight with the homegrown in our own area.
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That’s impressive
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tri-state guys running NC?
Ronald curry tho, 757 legend
Ronald curry tho, 757 legend
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Julius hodge will always be a bum too
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He rode for Gottfried HARD and I haven’t seen him since
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Jalen Johnson top 4 of Duke, Uk, Zona and Whisky
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Gonna be a big start to the class
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Vandy lands Kenyon Martin jr
Just cleaning up at Sierra with Scottie headed there too
Just cleaning up at Sierra with Scottie headed there too
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Don't sleep on Zona
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Don’t see it.
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Damn so vandy got Pippen, Jordan and Kenyon martin? Nice.
