and picked Cal over them, too. That defeats the "location" explanation.
Something smells up at Berkeley....
and the hippies it is not.
Something smells up at Berkeley....
and the hippies it is not.
UM fan here: The most amazing thing to me is that JB had a chance to play at UCLA
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That's about how I feel. Cuonzo Martin is at Tennessee, is terrible at recruiting, and ends up at an abysmal Cal program. Last season, under Cuonzo, Cal is still abysmal. Now they're abysmal with two 5 star recruits? I must have been sleeping under a rock or something.
L.A. is much better than the Bay Area. Better weather and more beautiful the UCLA campus is amazing and borders Beverly Hill, over the mountain and your in Malibu, Down Sunset your on the Pacific or in Hollywood depending the direction you turn. Santa Monica is a few minutes away along wirh Venice and Manhattan Beach is close incredible area, Berkeley is a dump by comparison.
Brown is a moron all around . I know that sounds sour grapes but if you chose losing at Cal , Miss St , or UNLV over winning at UK , ZOna ,. Michigan , ect you are A total idiot and care nothing about winning . YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME .not these kids . They play to show off to the NBA .
Honestly it could very well be. It does matter to some recruits, whether people like to hear it or not. Some kids will tell you this openly. I personally know of a kid on tennessees roster that was recruited out of my hometown and this was a factor.
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The showcase for the NBA is the trend for elite college basketball players now in their college careers. Honestly Cal has a lot to do with this the last several years with his players first program and come to Ky, play for a year and you will be on TV a lot and fast tracked to the NBA.
The showcase for the NBA is the trend for elite college basketball players now in their college careers. Honestly Cal has a lot to do with this the last several years with his players first program and come to Ky, play for a year and you will be on TV a lot and fast tracked to the NBA.
Actually, I respect Jaylen Brown's choice. Cal-Berkeley is absolutely the greatest public university on the planet and Brown gets to experience that for free. Likewise, San Francisco is just an amazing city with a wealth of unique and genuine cultural opportunities that are completely different from the fabricated tourist trap that is LA. Obviously, Brown believes there is more to life than a beach.
Are you kidding me? The kid is one-and-done and doesn't give a crap about Cal-Berkeley being absolutely the greatest public university on the planet.
Are you kidding me? The kid is one-and-done and doesn't give a crap about Cal-Berkeley being absolutely the greatest public university on the planet.
Yep. True that. You know who else didn't care about cal being the greatest public university on the planet? Shareef Abdur Rahim. Which is why he left cal for the nba after only one year.
And then later came back to cal and graduated. And later said it was one of the more important things he did in life. That shareef, what an idiot. It's all about basketball dawg. Or at least That's what he should have been advising brown.
You can almost perfectly split down peoples' political affiliations ITT by what they're saying about Berkeley.
I can see why someone who is liberal (like very liberal - like full scale drag-rich-people-from-their-houses-and-redistribute-all-possessions-forcefully type liberal) would love it there.
I can see why someone who is conservative would want to stay far away.
Myself, I think it's great that people like that have their own place to congregate. But you can keep your smelliness (joke) and ivory tower bubble-think and tendency to scream "bigot" at anyone who would like to discuss their disagreement with you.
I can see why someone who is liberal (like very liberal - like full scale drag-rich-people-from-their-houses-and-redistribute-all-possessions-forcefully type liberal) would love it there.
I can see why someone who is conservative would want to stay far away.
Myself, I think it's great that people like that have their own place to congregate. But you can keep your smelliness (joke) and ivory tower bubble-think and tendency to scream "bigot" at anyone who would like to discuss their disagreement with you.
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Some of this might have to do with USA Basketball. Ever since the age group teams started up, you've had kids from diverse part of the country meeting and deciding they might want to play together. Top recruits have always tended to know each other, often from a very young age, but usually from playing against each other. With USA Basketball, they get a chance to find out what it's like to play with each other, and certain guys are deciding to extend that experience to college.
Duke never gets Okafor, Jones, and Winslow without USA Basketball. Newman and Diamond Stone made some noise about playing together. On the reverse side, Jaylen Brown allegedly did not like playing with Malik Newman.
I suspect, whatever other stuff was going on, that Ivan Rabb is what clinched Jaylen Brown to Cal (Berkeley). Maybe Brown decided that he wanted to go west, and all other things being equal, maybe the choice would have been UCLA. But he knew Ivan Rabb, had already played with him on USA Basketball squads, so he went that direction.
Duke never gets Okafor, Jones, and Winslow without USA Basketball. Newman and Diamond Stone made some noise about playing together. On the reverse side, Jaylen Brown allegedly did not like playing with Malik Newman.
I suspect, whatever other stuff was going on, that Ivan Rabb is what clinched Jaylen Brown to Cal (Berkeley). Maybe Brown decided that he wanted to go west, and all other things being equal, maybe the choice would have been UCLA. But he knew Ivan Rabb, had already played with him on USA Basketball squads, so he went that direction.
Is cal an Adidas school? He knows he will be in school one year and then to the nba. I think he probably liked California and the idea of being on a team that has a decent shot at winning. Maybe cunzo Martin pulled a Tennessee as well, and had girls fly to his highschool to flirt with him. That way his decision would be a lot easier.
Could be money, could be the black coach thing, could be he truly loved the feel of the university and its basketball program. All are possible, and adults shouldn't be on here saying "well I know for sure it was this because why else...." You don't know. Why did you pick your school?
Good luck to the young man! I hate that he chose not to come to UK! Regardless, with the benefit of hindsight, more emphasis should have been placed on the fact that JB apparently spent his own money to fly across the country---to one of the most expensive cities in the country--- to see Cal Berkeley. Obviously, they were a serious contender to him. Also, this visit was pretty secretive too---relatively speaking. Well, does that leave Murray as the only real option left?
No use trying to make sense of it. It defies logic. He made the decision for reasons we won't understand.
Wellllll - I picked graduate school (University of Maryland) because I'd met this girl who lived in Baltimore.......
and this was after four years of undergrad education, a couple of years in the workforce, and three years in the Army so you would think that I would have had more sense in picking a college than the typical 18-year old kid, huh?
I don't care for San Francisco at all and Jaylen Brown may end being drafted much lower as a result of this ridiculous decision.
