Basketball Recruiting: ISU offers MCC big man

**reignofthetiger** · 06-08-2011, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by CyinCo

200 lbs?? And 50% free throw shooter??

I usually am supportive of offers but I don't like this one.

42% his senior year in high school! yeah, those free throw numbers are kinda scaring me right now.

**madcityCY** · 06-08-2011, 10:13 AM

He's fairly new to the sport. "polish is not what we would be getting here - rather a "project" with upside. The yin to Niang's yang. Hah. Haha. Hehehe....

**nallen34** · 06-08-2011, 02:20 PM

sounds like a mixture of royce white, justin hamilton, and laron dendy. in trouble at previous school, new to game, bad free throw shooter.

**acgclone** · 06-08-2011, 02:29 PM

Free throw shooting isn't that big of a deal when your head man is Hoiberg, who will improve that in short order. If he can play D and rebound, then I want him if Fred does.

**JVAR** · 06-08-2011, 10:53 PM

I wonder if he will be a late entry to the Capital City League? Would be fun to watch him play because so little is known about him.

**ISUCyclone06** · 06-09-2011, 06:43 AM

Diamond in the rough kind of guy. If he doesn't develop we aren't out all that much a couple years scholly worth a try. We need to take some of these risks and hope they pan out, as we know some won't.

**Peter** · 06-09-2011, 09:29 AM

Needs polishing like Kelvin Cato needed polishing or like L. A. Pomlee needed polishing? Seems a touch risky to offer a "project" in Juco since they have fewer years to develop. However, Hoiberg seems to know talent, and I'm a random guy in Wisconsin...so who knows.

**Rural** · 06-09-2011, 09:50 AM

If they offered already, I doubt the coaching staff has used the word "project" in any of their conversations.

**ChrisMWilliams** · 06-09-2011, 10:14 AM

Talked to him yesterday. Here's an update.

Iowa State Basketball Recruiting: Marcus Bell talks Cyclone offer | Cyclone Fanatic

**isufan** · 06-09-2011, 10:20 AM

Thanks for the info Chris.

**Go2Guy** · 06-09-2011, 10:28 AM

“He’s cool. I like him a lot,” Bell said of Abdelmassih. “He’s fun to talk to. He has a personality. Most of the other coaches are quiet. Matt will talk about off the court stuff as well. I like him.”

“I want to go somewhere else and do my own thing,” Bell said.

Well alrighty, probably why he didn't get along with his first coach.