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Purdue recruiting Purdue Recruiting Notes: Sunday at Nike EYBL in Westfield

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WESTFIELD — This will be a quick final report to go along with our stories just now on Jaden Ivey (link) and Hunter Dickinson (link), but didn't want to leave any loose ends ...

• His numbers weren't overwhelming — 14 points and six rebounds, 6-of-15 shooting — but I thought Caleb Furst was very good in Indy Heat's win today over AOT, because when he got opportunities on the block, with his back to the basket, he made strong moves and scored it, showing a really nice post game, to go along with his ability in the open floor and facing the basket. He can make jumpers.


Last night, I thought he loomed large in a really hard-fought, really physical win over Team Why Not in an 18-and-eight showing.

Remember, he's playing up a year against the best competition the grassroots scene has.

• It might speak to how much Jaden Ivey cares about winning that he was as elated as he was after that AOT game today. If he were a child, you'd describe him as bouncing off the walls. Indy Heat got two big, big wins to close this thing out, and fought like hell to get them.


• Honestly, I think it's pointless watching Ethan Morton in this setting, because he's just window dressing basically. He doesn't get the ball in his hands much, which seems mind-boggling because he's, you know, a point guard, but the reality is his team runs with two point guards, the other being a gunner, and they play with a bunch of other top-100-type guys who, when they get the ball, it's going up.


It has to be maddening for Morton and you can see it in his face sometimes, the irony being that the player who just wants to involve everyone else can get involved himself.

If it were me, and it's not, nor will it ever be, that called the shots, I'd have the ball in Morton's hands, with Davis playing off the ball looking for threes, and let him make the majority of the decisions and keep all those studs around him happy, because that is literally what he wants to do. I've never seen a player in AAU like this, a kid who just wants to pass.

I think the setting he's playing in now is wholly irrelevant to projecting what he's going to be at the next level, in college structure. As awkward a fit as it is now, it might be equally ideal later.

Please watch this if you haven't already.

 
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