According to Zach, he was raw when Painter first saw him as well. I think that this is something that Painter should be able to sell.
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I feel like Zach was a more polished player with ability to shoot than again I think I’ve only seen Flory dunk the basketball.
I didn’t see Kemp until he was a senior. I just don’t see Flory making that big of a jump to equate to Kemps ability at the same time of their careers. We will see.
In fairness my Kemp stuff was based on his Sr year, he was unbelievable as a player, him and Big Dog were the two best I’ve seen play at the high school level.
At that time the Northern Lakes conference in northern Indiana had…
Kemp at Concord
Rick Fox at Warsaw
Scot Skiles at Plymouth
Kemp could jump out of the gym! I heard a story that Kemp was having a bad game and the fans were letting him know it so he came out after halftime to drop 30+ Lol
Herein read that Kemp didn't give IU a sniff therefore the IU Star withheld the MrBB honors.
I remember that was the conventional wisdom. And I don't recall hearing a better reason.
You mean the media could have a bias? The IU star was an appropriate name.
probably pride hurt to not even be a consideration "and" wanted.
Not sure if IU had much or any interest in Woody since it is too long for me to remember. I know for all the shooting, Woody was one of the worst defenders coming out of high school to go to a major program I was aware. I was shocked when I saw him preseason in a Purdue scrimmage. Course he improved, but Chad came in as a good defender and scorer
Concord was not in the NCC. They were in the Northern Lakes Conference with schools like Plymouth and Warsaw.
And Chad is a hero forever. Twice even.probably pride hurt to not even be a consideration "and" wanted.
The best player I remember playing for FT Wayne Concordia was Andre Patterson. That was probably back in about 2000ish - ended up going to UCLA and then transferred to Tennessee. I think he went to a prep school his senior year so was not eligible for Mr. Basketball.
didn't a kid from Richmond ...maybe a Ball State commit around 6'3" win Mr. Basketball which the kid was good, but Shawn was denied Mr Basketball (Ft Wayne Concordia???) Nobody needs to look it up...just thinking outloud
didn't a kid from Richmond ...maybe a Ball State commit around 6'3" win Mr. Basketball which the kid was good, but Shawn was denied Mr Basketball (Ft Wayne Concordia???) Nobody needs to look it up...just thinking outloud
You implied such on page 1 of this thread. Members were Richmond, Tech, Marion, Laf Jeff, Anderson, Kokomo, Logansport, and Muncie Central.
Woody Austin from Richmond won it in '88.
Ricky Hall wasn't too shabby from Ft Wayne Concordia.....and one of my favorite Boilermakers in any sport.
I got dunked on by Kemp at the Y in Jr High. There was no shame in that. We wore it as a badge of honor.
Man, what happened to comprehension? Seems pretty clear to me you neither said nor implied any such thing
Got dunked on by Kemp also in AAU. My team was Bloomington Red and AAU was just starting at the time. Kemp walked in with so many handlers at the time. Playing in the State finals at the time, my teammate was only 6'5 and dominated him for one day. He went on to play tight end at Michigan and solid NFL career. Tony McGee from TH South. Besides Kemp, Chandler Thompson was no doubt the best athlete in state that year.
No he did. He just did dumb crap that turned the coaches and kids away. Crean f’ed up. It went south when Lyles decomitted. I don’t remember specifics but he did want indiana kids.
Thanks for the input. I thought the story was he didn’t recruit Indiana kids but can see his odd personality running people the wrong way.
Funny thing, a year after he got fired by IU, Crean did an interview on PMT. He talked about some sports reporter calling him to chat about it for an interview and the guy was amazed at how he remembered his kids names etc. He has a personable side just a little weird.
I have a brother-in-law like that. Most socially inept person I've ever met although unlike Crean he doesn't have a personable side.
Do Dah Day, you witnessed Lafayette Central Catholic beat Shawn Kemp team in the Hall of Fame Classic Championship game season 86’/87’ at Jeff’s Crawley gym. LCC beat Jeff in the semifinal and Concord in the Championship after Concord knocked off Bloomington South. LCC was lead by a Dave Barrett, and the school of less than 200 at the time would go on in the following week to be ranked #2 in the state and #13 in the country behind Marion with Jay Edwards and a Lyndon Jones who would be ranked #1 in the state and #1 in the country. No class basketball at its finest. LCC made the final 4 that year losing in the semi state final to Gary Roosevelt.
One of the things my wife "did" for many years was work all the peripherals for Ivy Tech and an IU extension for graduation. In the process of doing that, she worked close with the IU person in Bloomington who by all measures I could tell was a really good person. There were many times he mentioned to Kim how well Purdue was doing or IU dropped another one.
He mentioned how nice a man Crean was and when Tom was let go, Tom brought all his IU clothes etc. to him for his use. We all know a few things he did that was odd, but I have no reason to think he wasn't a nice person. I mean there were a few times he had more raw talent than Purdue and even at Bloomington there were a few times he gave some gifts to Purdue.
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