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I think we should probably wait for Prohm to make the hires before we decide the staff is good or bad. After all I'd guess less than 2% of posters was even aware who Isaac Chew was prior to last week.
There are a couple assistant coaches on Texas A&Ms staff that could be interesting but I doubt Prohm wants to raid his mentors team.
Amir Abdur-Rahim was an assistant at Murray State with Prohm when they were under Billy Kennedy. His brother is Shareef Abdur-Rahim who was an NBA all star for the Kings. Downside is that he also recruits the South region, so he's probably not a target.
An intriguing coach at A&M is Kyle Keller. This guy graduated from OK State and was in various coaching capacities with the Cowboys from 1999-2008. He was the video coordinator at Kansas from 2008-2011. Could be looking to jump back to the Big 12.
Amir Abdur-Rahim was an assistant at Murray State with Prohm when they were under Billy Kennedy. His brother is Shareef Abdur-Rahim who was an NBA all star for the Kings. Downside is that he also recruits the South region, so he's probably not a target.
An intriguing coach at A&M is Kyle Keller. This guy graduated from OK State and was in various coaching capacities with the Cowboys from 1999-2008. He was the video coordinator at Kansas from 2008-2011. Could be looking to jump back to the Big 12.
This might be the most blown out of proportion thing ever. Woopity-do. RJ Hunter is going to get drafted from GA St., Steph Curry is from Davidson, Scottie Pippen is from Cent. Ark. It happens, pretty frequently and it's great, but I'm not going to just crown someone because 2 random guys that happened to go to Murray St. that we have no idea about their circumstances of how they got to MSU are potentially going to be in the NBA.
Fair enough, but 2 highly drafted players in 4 years at a low-mid major team is pretty impressive. And RJ Hunter was there because his dad, don't act like he didn;t have other offers, he had at least 6 major conference offers that I know of.
Well one 2nd rounder in the D-League and one most likely 1st rounder this year that could easily end up in the D, too anyway. It's not like these guys are starting. We all know how circumstance and fit and luck come in to making it in the NBA for fringe guys.
And how many has Iowa State Recruited out of high school in the last 5 years?
So now, players being able to make it into the NBA from a particular program is random?
Dang, I must have missed a memo somewhere, I am way out of touch with "the times".
Dang, I must have missed a memo somewhere, I am way out of touch with "the times".
Like I said, it's great. The issue I have is people using it as the be all end all like the original post I quoted acting like we don't need anything or anyone else on the staff because we have a guy that recruited a couple of guys that are going to get looks in the NBA to Murray St.
Putting back to back guys in the NBA at a mid-major is fairly impressive. At the very least, it says you can identify, keep and maximize talent.
More than anything, it's a recruiting tool, that can help us land another stud PG, after he goes 3 straight with Monte.
I agree we need a coach to recruit with the best of em in the midwest. But you cant downplay how impressive it is to bring kids to a S***Hole like Murray, and more so develop them into NBA prospects.
There basically is no staff to have a good/bad feeling about yet. Not sure why you wouldn't wait to see who's hired. Maybe that's just me.
