2024 Recruiting

[Juice Stand]

Womp womp. I won't spend a single second following this kid's career. This is an uber-talented elite prospect that is going to play for one season and then go straight to the NBA, why not do it at Maine and be interesting. Do we really think that he's "committed" to Duke and just dying to get to the Final Four? Not a chance, his only goal is the NBA, college ball is just a stop over. I don't have any hate towards the kid or wish him bad luck, it's just boring and I will not be watching.

[DoctorJ]

I only care about UMass hoops and the Celtics. Don't care too much about this cooper guy.

[InnervisionsUMASS]

Ha, if he was coming here you'd all have dirty draws.

[Floyd]

Womp womp. I won't spend a single second following this kid's career. This is an uber-talented elite prospect that is going to play for one season and then go straight to the NBA, why not do it at Maine and be interesting. Do we really think that he's "committed" to Duke and just dying to get to the Final Four? Not a chance, his only goal is the NBA, college ball is just a stop over. I don't have any hate towards the kid or wish him bad luck, it's just boring and I will not be watching.

Huh? C'mon Juice. #1 rated recruit and he should play at Maine? Every top recruits goal is to get to the league and cash in. Playing against vastly inferior talent at Maine doesn't prepare you or develop your skills to play against the worlds best. Kid is good. Good for him and his family.
Prepare for the best

Bet you watch and see how he does

[Quann]

Womp womp. I won't spend a single second following this kid's career. This is an uber-talented elite prospect that is going to play for one season and then go straight to the NBA, why not do it at Maine and be interesting. Do we really think that he's "committed" to Duke and just dying to get to the Final Four? Not a chance, his only goal is the NBA, college ball is just a stop over. I don't have any hate towards the kid or wish him bad luck, it's just boring and I will not be watching.

Huh? C'mon Juice. #1 rated recruit and he should play at Maine? Every top recruits goal is to get to the league and cash in. Playing against vastly inferior talent at Maine doesn't prepare you or develop your skills to play against the worlds best. Kid is good. Good for him and his family.
Prepare for the best

Bet you watch and see how he does

Should have stayed in New England and played for us He's probably gone after one year no matter where he ended up going. Him playing in Orono for a year would have been an awesome story.

[natwam2547]

Womp womp. I won't spend a single second following this kid's career. This is an uber-talented elite prospect that is going to play for one season and then go straight to the NBA, why not do it at Maine and be interesting. Do we really think that he's "committed" to Duke and just dying to get to the Final Four? Not a chance, his only goal is the NBA, college ball is just a stop over. I don't have any hate towards the kid or wish him bad luck, it's just boring and I will not be watching.

It was that or Uconn. Would you have preferred that? He would have stayed in New England at least. And I wouldn't exactly call it boring anymore now that he could have just went to the G League Ignite or any of those other non-collegiate options.

[Uminuteman]

The ONLY time talking about recruits like this was interesting was when Cal was here and we actually had a legitimate shot at landing them. Now it is boring. He never glanced our way and he's not even from Mass, so who cares what he does.

When the Celtics draft him he's back on the radar.

[69MG]

I can't find that he has any offers yet, just interests. There must be something going on behind the scenes.

By CHARLIE PARENT
Former Pittsburgh star center Bobby Martin, who put up 1,282 points for the Panthers between 1987 and 1991, is now working with class of 2024 big man Kesean Shillingford.
Shillingford is a 7-footer out of The Newman School (MA.) and The House That We Built AAU. He previously played for Christ the King (NY.) before transferring to Newman for his prep year.
He has received early interest from Iona, Ohio, UMass, UMBC, Radford, Fairfield, Bucknell, and Stonehill, among several others.
“He’s just emerging,” The House That We Built coach Alfred Chan said in a phone interview. “This is just the beginning for Kesean. He’s going to rise and he’s going to rise quickly and we expect him to take that well.”

Here are his "interests" from 247Sports:
https://247sports.com/player/kesean-shi ... -46110448/

EDIT: I didn't realize we had talked about him in May, when he took an unofficial visit.

[inthescoop]

^Here's the most recent article on Kesean - unfortunately, it is behind a paywall.

https://nychoops.rivals.com/news/shilli ... ew-england

[Jackson96]

This kid is a lock as I believe Cal recruited Bobby Martin to Pitt back in the 80s.

[DoctorJ]

You think he's already a lock because his coach knows Cal?

I hope you are correct!

[Jackson96]

I was just kidding about the lock part. I have no idea.

[Jackson96]

The Walker kid committed to us today.

Really intrigued by him. Plays for good high school and AAU programs. Kind of sounds a bit like a David Roddy-type of player - strong and skilled but not incredibly long and athletic. Those kinds of players — where they aren’t really easy to pigeonhole into a position because their size/build doesn’t lend itself to that but rather are just good basketball players — can be really successful in college.

Not sure if it was one or the other, but it seems like it came together pretty quick once Abdullahi chose Princeton.

First couple of 2024s seem like really good pieces.

[69MG]

The Walker kid committed to us today.

He and Nate fill the 2 open roster spots. I can almost guarantee we'll lose a player or three, so let's get some depth at the 4 and 5.

[inthescoop]

Like Frank Martin said, we got another dawg on the team. We need players that will help us win at the end of the day, plain and simple. Definitely intrigued with Lewis Walker! WELCOME TO UMASS