hhcmatt Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Under the radar 6-3 PG Bakari Evelyn verbally commits to the Huskers and plans to make it official when the spring signing period opens. This post has been promoted to an article jaimes2000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hal9000 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Welcome Bakari!! jaimes2000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverbacked1 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Welcome will be ready to cheer you on this fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhusker Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Welcome to Bakari! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
49r Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 He's a good lookin' kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rome4Lyfe Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Nice build on a kid coming from high school! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Don Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Welcome Bakari. Looking forward to watching you play for Nebraska. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Peterson Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 He's a good lookin' kid. He'd look a lot better if he was 6'10". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoops_Legend Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 We need a true center getting another guard does not help right now. He maybe a good player I hope he is but we need size very badly..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huskerbaseball13 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 We need a true center getting another guard does not help right now. He maybe a good player I hope he is but we need size very badly..... We need both if we are being honest...assuming Petteway is gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb5856 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 I know we are thin inside. Keep hearing that Miles needs to be able to land freshman bigs that can be developed into serviceable players in the interior. Are most convinced that there is zero chance that Hammond could be one of these if he sticks around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb5856 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 And I have a hunch that most are basing their opinion of Hammond on the fact that he didn't see much time this year. Might I suggest that something else was going on when Kurkowski enters the game and Hammond didn't. Maybe Hammond will be slightly more ready to go, ready to get a few more minutes in year 2. AuroranHusker, husker11 and Silverbacked1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GATA Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 I know we need bigs, but we need good players. If he's a good player, I'll be thrilled because we lacked quality depth last season. Silverbacked1 and AuroranHusker 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb5856 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 I know we need bigs, but we need good players. If he's a good player, I'll be thrilled because we lacked quality depth last season. Agree here. Some are focusing so much on what we lack and who left rather than the brand new load of ball players coming in and who we still have left on the roster. The help we have coming is quite impressive. AuroranHusker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbacksympathy Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 I think this kid has a solid game. Good shooter, good passer, good size. We could use all of those things at PG/SG next season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverbacked1 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 We have at the least 2 open scholarships and we do need a point for the future so this is not a bad thing. Also as other have stayed earlier he was looked at by some bigger and better schools up until his move to be close to his grandfather. I think we got another diamond in the rough much like Tarin was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GATA Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 The big schools stopped recruiting/looking at him for a reason. I doubt they simply forgot about him. So, did he not develop as expected? Too much time off the court? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKamdyMan Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 The big schools stopped recruiting/looking at him for a reason. I doubt they simply forgot about him. So, did he not develop as expected? Too much time off the court? He missed quite a bit of time his junior year before coming back before their state championship run and then basically missed his senior year with the transfer. I honestly feel his case is similar to a guy by the name of Jordan Tebbutt in terms of small school players. He went to a small christian school like Evelyn. He was a star scoring like 30+ a game as a freshman and sophomore. He was getting interest from KU, UNC, etc. but he was still an unknown against the creme de la creme. He finally decided to transfer to Oak Hill to garner more than interest and gain offers. He ended up being a bench player and kind of disappeared. Its like he went from phenom to flop and decided to never play again. Now I'm not saying Evelyn is a flop before he gets his chance but by comparison its hard to gauge players at that level and schools dont want to take the gamble. I feel like thats kind of what we are doing here but I see a lot of good qualities in his game that make him a serviceable backup which every team needs. I wish we werent in that predicament but I dont like to see the schollies go unused anymore like the first two years. trickey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichHusker Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 I just wanna chime in and say he played on one of the better AAU teams in the state of Michigan hhcmatt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazzie22 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Will he be better than T. Smith? Get the best players available. I'd rather give the scholarships to players that can play than take a chance on a big who doesn't pan out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb5856 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 I just wanna chime in and say he played on one of the better AAU teams in the state of Michigan So I guess a better gauge would be how he fared on his AAU team and against that competition. Did he start for his AAU team? We know his HS numbers were inflated but what kind of performances did he put up against more talented AAU guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskerpapa Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 He's a good lookin' kid. He'd look a lot better if he was 6'10". No hair on his legs...he is still growing Welcome to the fold Bakari! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handy Johnson Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Hopefully this kid is a Gunner, obviously we need shooters. Let's get a Big Guy now Coach, I've got a gut feeling once things quiet in his life, we'll see Petteway back on the team... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan88 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 We know his HS numbers were inflated Actually, his high school performance was not truly inflated. As shown more specifically in the Recruiting thread, his high school is about the size of Wahoo but his team played each year five-or-so Class-A-size (in Nebraska) schools--and usually beat them. His Junior year, for example, his team won against a school about the size of Omaha Central! Bakari Evelyn looks to be a Tarin Smith equivalent but with a better outside and three point shot. Silverbacked1 and AuroranHusker 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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