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Malik Dime---Indian Hills (reported UW commit)

Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

It is his brother. He was at a Florida juco last year. He had an "unfortunate" event with a couple of teammates.
 
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sweetwater said:
Indian Hills, in addition to being a powerhouse, is sort of a unique place. Of the top of my head, I believe Hogue only averaged like 17 mpg as a soph there, and McKay only 23 mpg.
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IHCC seems to spread the wealth and the fighting.:rolleyes:
 
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ChrisMWilliams said:
From what I've heard, Dime is basically a poor man's Jameel McKay. Frankly I'd take that. Isn't meant to be a negative if Jameel turns out to be as good as advertised. Not a great fit for Fred's system but certainly a guy who can be used as a chess piece too.
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I can handle that. If he could be a 8, 8 & 2 type player by his senior year, he would be worth it.
 
Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

swarthmoreCY said:
Diallo is in another class as Dime IMO, but Dime not being a juco AA like McKay means little IMO. Hogue averaged better numbers in the postseason at ISU, and played a bigger role IMO than he did at IHCC.
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Plus Dime is the #1 rated juco prospect at PF same as McKay was. From our perspective this is a more relevant assessment to transferable skills. Though, many recruiting experts have said that had Williams played this year he would have been the #1 prospect at that position and likely the #1 overall juco prospect and we a l ready have him signed. If we have Niang, McKay, Williams, Dime and Diallo we would have thee top returning front court player thee 3 top juco front court prospects and one of if not thee top HS prospect all in one year (Not to mention Nader and the Greek). Remember when folks said Hoiberg couldn't recruit big men? We are solid with or without him for the foreseeable future in the front court.
 
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Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

DandyCyclone said:
I think what CloneinWDSM was trying to say is Hoiball is all about spreading the floor and bigs being able to play on the arc. It looks as though (according to his highlight tapes which include only dunks and blocks) Dime does not have an outside game which will mess with the spacing and mismatch opportunities.

Building on that, McKay didn't necessarily show he had the ability to play on the arc but he also had his transfer year to sit out and develop an outside game with Hoiberg's help.

There is someone else on our team that can dunk, block shots and play defense and doesn't have an outside game. He doesn't play too much. I would love to have Dime on our team but he doesn't fit the match-up nightmare mold that we need our bigs to be.
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I think we learned last year that Hoiball is actually about 3 pointers and layups/dunks (shots inside 3 feet) and it appears that blocked shots are about to be added in to the Hoiball stew with some of the bigs that we've been recruiting. If Dime can add to the team in 2/3 of those areas then he's a fit in my book.
 
Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

I view Dime as:

Worst case: Replacement for Edozie, as a guy who can come off the bench and defend the post if injuries or fouls pop up.

Best case: A poor man's McKay, running rim to rim, blocking shots and rebounding at a high rate.

While Fred certainly likes to have 5 guys who can shoot the 3, I think his offense will work just fine with 4 guys who can shoot and a post who doesn't. There are lots of ways (screen and roll for example) to create a mismatch in that case too, especially if they are athletic as McKay or Dime.
 
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It blows my mind people are dumb enough think Dimes decision would effect Diallos. You realize schools like Kansas and Kentucky have recruits a lot better than Dime right?
 
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IAStubborn said:
Plus Dime is the #1 rated juco prospect at PF same as McKay was. From our perspective this is a more relevant assessment to transferable skills. Though, many recruiting experts have said that had Williams played this year he would have been the #1 prospect at that position and likely the #1 overall juco prospect and we a l ready have him signed. If we have Niang, McKay, Williams, Dime and Diallo we would have thee top returning front court player thee 3 top juco front court prospects and one of if not thee top HS prospect all in one year (Not to mention Nader and the Greek). Remember when folks said Hoiberg couldn't recruit big men? We are solid with or without him for the foreseeable future in the front court.
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JUCO U. Transfer U. Highschool U. Winning U.

All of the above.
 
Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

bawbie said:
I view Dime as:

Worst case: Replacement for Edozie, as a guy who can come off the bench and defend the post if injuries or fouls pop up.

Best case: A poor man's McKay, running rim to rim, blocking shots and rebounding at a high rate.

While Fred certainly likes to have 5 guys who can shoot the 3, I think his offense will work just fine with 4 guys who can shoot and a post who doesn't. There are lots of ways (screen and roll for example) to create a mismatch in that case too, especially if they are athletic as McKay or Dime.
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100% agreement here.
 
Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

RustShack said:
It blows my mind people are dumb enough think Dimes decision would effect Diallos. You realize schools like Kansas and Kentucky have recruits a lot better than Dime right?
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I do not think it would have a big influence, but you must recognize that the assurance of PT is likely to be a selling point when non-bluebloods are recruiting against bluebloods. You are not dumb enough to believe that what sells at KU and UK sells just as well elsewhere, are you?
 
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I think someone in this thread said that Washington was bringing something like 4 4-star recruits next year. Is this true?

If so, why? I think TJ is a great recruiter, but it isn't like he was getting 4 star recruits to come here much under McDermott or Hoiberg.

I'm obviously really, really biased, but I can't understand why a lot of players aren't just begging to come to Iowa State.
 
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jsb said:
I think someone in this thread said that Washington was bringing something like 4 4-star recruits next year. Is this true?

If so, why? I think TJ is a great recruiter, but it isn't like he was getting 4 star recruits to come here much under McDermott or Hoiberg.

I'm obviously really, really biased, but I can't understand why a lot of players aren't just begging to come to Iowa State.
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Three of the 4 are from Seattle and the 4th is from California. A lot easier to get a kid from a large city on the West coast to Seattle than a kid from a Midwest city to Ames. There are a lot of good players with far less regional competition IMO.
 
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Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

@TravisHines21: Sounds like the official announcement from Malik Dime is coming at 2 p.m.
 
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Not getting my hopes up for this one. Gut says Washington all the way. Mostly because Otz has been successful recruiting IHCC, minus McKay first go around.
 
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With the early commitment coming, i like our chances - he will the ability to get up to Ames when he has free time and hang with his future teammates and kick it in Rockin' Hilton.
 
Re: Malik Dime---Indian Hills

Different position, but it is too bad Brooks reclassified to 2014. Between him and Benjamin, Oregon has two SF that would have looked good in Hoiball.
 
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