to Indiana? No, it's not official....yet....but he has been spotted inside Assembly Hall wearing an IU sweatshirt.
Howlonghasitbeen, I know you like basketball talk. What do you think about this one? I know he didn't average many points, but dude was pretty solid at defense. He could fit in well in the Big Ten.
Oh, and Celtics fans, he's Doc Rivers' son. You'd have to cheer for IU now manny.
What I've heard about Rivers, Josh, is that he's definitely a defense first, defense second, offense third type player. He's a defensive stopper type...the type you put on the other team's best guard.
I posted a thread about this over a week ago. (FYI, one of our incoming blue-chippers, Chris Braswell, is not going to be eligible to play for us after all, so that means we've lost Macklin, Rivers, and Braswell heading into next year.)
It's not shocking the Hoya nation, but it's disappointing us. Rivers most likely felt as though he'd been recruited around. JTIII has been able to secure better and better recruits, and with a healthy Chris Wright (kid will be our best guard since Allen Iverson), it's almost guaranteed that Rivers would've been used for only about 20 minutes a game.
If IU gets him, they get a very good defender with solid overall basketball prowess (as one would expect given his pedigree). He has precisely zero outside shot; he can occasionally hit an ugly, but effective mid-range jumper (don't count on it, though), and he's always good for a layup, but he'll rarely be the guy leading a fast break. He's a solid addition to any team---primarily on defense, but if he works on his shot, he could turn himself into a 10-15 point per night guy on the right team.
It's definitely a loss for Georgetown, who, though talented, is looking very, very thin. We're going to resemble last year's Syracuse team.
He sounds to me a lot like Dane Fife, poor on offense but a strong defender who gets everybody else to play smarterSounds like a Chris Kramer wannabe to me.
Syracuse fans are glad to see him bolt, because he was the one player this year that really put a lid on Johnny Flynn.
Not like it's an essential attribute of Rivers' game or anything, but he has quite possibly the most awkward foul shout you ever have seen. He spins the ball to the side.
Crean likes to build his program around guards, but Rivers isn't in the mold of the type he usually nabs. If he can get a shoot-first, shoot-second, ask-questions-third type of guard like the ones he's had at Marquette, one who can create off the dribble, he'll have a solid tandem.
