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Hindsight aside, there's a pretty good core back next year. Danielak, Hutton and Glover will be seniors. Cobo and Dante enter their junior year and Malik becomes a sophomore. Milo Luciano is supposedly a Dante-style guard and Nkumsah projects as a slightly bigger version of Tevin Hanner.
Obviously the one thing missing on that list is anybody to match-up defensively against Sleva and Haywood Highsmith. IUP doesn't play Shippensburg in the regular season next year but it's highly unlikely to avoid them beyond that point. There's also not a ton of elite speed or shut-down defenders in the six players coming back.
I know most are really focusing on that 2018-19 season. This soon-to-be-announced (highly classified) class is going to tell the tale for 2017-18. My opinion: this is one of Joe's most important incoming classes of his tenure -- not only for this upcoming season but the big 2018-19 season as well.
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Ship was awful when he signed there. I could see some resentment. I'd assume Ryan Luther getting the Pitt deal and him ending up at a then lowly Ship didn't sit well, either.
But ... that's not that uncommon. Joe gets every teams best shot.
Ship was the hungrier team despite them blowing huge leads in both IUP games.
In Sleva's defense he took a beating during warmups in that second game. That was a rare jacked up student section and they rode him hard for all 30 minutes of warmups.
His behavior in the first game was very respectful.
Hindsight .... Shame on Joe if he didn't recruit him.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View Post
I'm going to pose an honest question here... Does anybody think Dustin Sleva was never recruited by IUP and he resents that? Could the underlying meaning behind those comments mean that the "big, fancy gym" and the "basketball school" reputation never came calling for his services? He was a great player in high school, and I remember posting links to his highly videos on here saying Joe should be all over him.
Maybe he wasn't..
It just makes sense. I watched Sleva in other games. He didn't act the same way he did in those as he did against IUP. He was emotional and played hard, but that extra curricular stuff and the gestures to the crowd, that stuff wasn't even close to being there.
We posed this question a few months ago... "How did Joe let Sleva out of his backyard?"
Maybe this should have actually been the question...
"Why did Joe not try to keep Sleva in his backyard?"
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Interesting comments last week from Dustin Sleva ...
On Shippensburg being picked to finish fourth in the preseason:
"We knew we were better than that, ... it was really us being snubbed for not being recognized as a good basketball school," Sleva said. "IUP has a big, fancy gym and all this money, but they can have all that and we rode out with our five guys looking to use that chip on our shoulder and move forward as underdogs."
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Randy Bell has committed to Lynn per VC.
That stinks.Leave a comment:
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Former Jeannette star point guard Julian Batts is transferring from LIU Brooklyn.
Call it a "hunch" (and hope) he's going to land in Jimmy Stewart-ville.
Many of us on here wanted him out of high school. He'd really be a perfect fit.Leave a comment:
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Glancing at the list of top scorers in D2 it seems only one guy fits all those criteria. Is his current school in the eastern part of the state?Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostLeave a comment:
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Continuing to hear about nothing but guards ... and at best I'd call some of it second-hand information.
Joe somehow manages to keep recruiting news locked up tighter than the vaults at Fort Knox. In this age of kids having Twitter press briefings with every offer they receive ... I don't know how he does it.
The D2 transfer in the mix is confirmed still in the mix but not committed yet. He is a guard and averaged nearly 25 ppg this past season. He is not from the PSAC or MEC. He has multiple years eligibility remaining.Leave a comment:
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Some of you may remember Lamont Paris from his days as an IUP assistant ...
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IUP has offered Leechburg (PA) junior Mikayla Lovelace.
She's going to be tough to sign. IUP is her first offer but the the D1s are emerging quickly.Leave a comment:
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That would be fantastic but other than on this board I haven't heard anything 'newsworthy' on that subject. Well, besides Joe's strange post-game interview in January.
The D2 transfer I keep hearing about is not from the PSAC (or the MEC).
The current D1 transfer list is fast approaching 400 names and the D2 list is growing fast. It's quite a trend.Leave a comment:
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