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noticed that too. Shields doesn't turn 19 until June.

Wow. Atewe turns 19 in 2 weeks.

Surge was initially compared to Gasol before he landed on campus

Miles is going to put the best players on the court regardless of how big they are. Atewe could turn out to be just as big of a project as Sergej has been. Atewe's film does not suggest he will be starting next year.

Sergej= Shaq I'll be more realistic Pau Gasol.

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This news kind of bothered me. It makes me think he really hasn't made up his mind yet. I figured he already knew where he wanted to go and would just cut his list from 6 to 1 on march 7th. That being said, I still think Atewe is most likely going to pick Nebraska.

I think Miles will be around a while as long is he is bringing in at least 1 top 150 recruit per year.

I'm not expecting much next year unless NU gets a 6'10 transfer/juco that can help right away.

Does he want to be a role player though? Those are the types of things we just don't know. I can't see Benny being more than a role player. I don't feel like he does anything extremely well, and I think being 5'9 will limit his upside. He's already peaked physically where guys like Shields, Rivers, and Vucetic have room to get bigger. I could be wrong, but this is just how I see it.

Parker is probably the player that would most likely leave. He will have to compete with webster, biggs, hawkins, and gallegos for minutes next year. You could argue that Vucetic might be most likely to leave, but we have no big men that it probably wouldn't make sense for him to leave. He also has a higher upside than Parker in my opinion. Players leave for many different reasons, so I have to think there is a decent chance of 1 player leaving.

So Washut reads this board then? In all seriousness, If Washut or Brian haven't tweeted about NU offering someone, it probably is not official.

I'm not sure how official that is. I haven't heard from anywhere else that he has an offer from NU. verbal commits lists that Thurman has received an offer per rivals.com, but Rivals.com doesn't say anything about Thurman getting an offer.

I'm not going to read into anything. I learned a lot from the Agau recruitment. One day he would love Nebraska, the next day he would curse Nebraska out, and the next day he would be on campus scrimmaging with players. The final day he went to Louisville.

Your probably right about Pierce being a better athlete. I still think they have a lot of the same offensive moves, are comparable in size, and both use their bodies well to get position. If Shavon does keep getting taller, this comparison may not be very accurate at all.

He's more athletic than Anderson, but not by much. I'd say he's slightly more explosive than Anderson but he's certainly not as quick with his hands or feet. Overall very slight edge to Shavon. McCray could get to the rim and finish - we just didn't see him have the aggression to do it. Toney was also a much better athlete. Obviously we know a lot of Toney's issues were between the ears. Didn't have a high basketball IQ and and didn't have a motor at all. Shields is way ahead of McCray in those two areas. He plays with intensity and fire. If anything I'd say that's where he'd actually compare somewhat to Pierce. I would say McCray is more comparable to Rivers than Shields. Anderson is similar to Shields, but wasn't Anderson only 6'4? I think Shields will be 6'7 by the time he's a senior.

the point of this topic was that I felt Shield's game reminded me most of Pierce out of the great players in the nba and to also point out that they put up similar numbers as a freshman in college. I don't think Shavon is actually going to be the next Paul Pierce. It is nice to know that we have a legitimate 4 year starter though in Shields.

A lot of people also forget that Shavon only played about 5 non-conference games. His number would be even better if he had been playing all season.

Rivers and sheilds yes, Gallegos not so much....just hope Biggs and Webster can bring it. I said this yesterday, but Gallegos and Rivers will be much better players with a point guard that can create shots for others. Hopefully Biggs or Webster can do that because Parker has not been able to so far.

I made the comparison between shields and pierce in the game thread yesterday. I see a lot of similarities in their games: - Both are very good at the step back jump shot . - Both about 6'6. same body type - Both are good athletes but not great. - both use their body very well to create space. Pierce was probably a slightly better shooter and ball handler in college, but I think Shavon has all the tools to develop into at least a paul pierce light. Pierce freshman stats: min fg% 3pt ft reb ast to blk st pts 95-96 Kansas 25.4 41.9 30.4 60.6 5.3 1.8 2.4 0.8 1.3 11.9 I think shields's stats will look very similar to that at the end of this season. pierce averaged 16 pts and 6.7 reb in 28 minutes his sophomore year.

Not sure law of averages?

he likes that catch, step back jumper. that's gold in college. Also roughly the same size, and both are good athletes but not great.

finally figured out who Shavon's game reminds me of: Paul Pierce

hard to believe Sergej couldn't contribute more than Andre.

shields o-3 andre 0-4