definitely sounds like a mature kid who you want on your team. A tough year on him, as it has been on a lot of kids, but hopefully Davis, in general, and the MBB, specifically, will provide him a place to continue his healing.

From a basketball perspective, I’m wondering if he will continue to a prep school and not come to the Ags until 2022, or if he was able to pivot and get into UCD for this coming fall? If it’s this year, it’s pretty unusual to get a player of his skill level so late in the recruiting process. Either way, as BGA said, he’ll be a great addition.

Couldn’t find senior year highlights but here’s from a year ago.

Looks like another freshman signing. PG out of WA who has big time range.

Good to hear. Always a fun time to get some food downtown and watch the Ags dominate!

. Probably not a bad idea to have the faculty athletics rep having a son on the BB team. — 69aggie

it was about to be two sons in the program...not sure what will happen now.

That’s fair. I’m sure there is a winning it all expectation in the locker room. But, like them or not, guys like Dame and KD and Draymond don’t strike me as players who expect to steamroll everyone without putting in the work. Of course I could be completely wrong as I’m not there at the practices or seeing if extra work is being put in. But I just think that players at this very top level can’t make it on talent alone. It has to be combined with high work ethic.

So I'll be a little contrarian here. Since 1992, the USA has won every Olympic gold medal except for 2004. Talent is of course spreading out, as evidence by the fact that NIGERIA started 5 guys with NBA experience, but the US is still the dominant team. Now I didn't see either of the Nigeria or Australia games, so I can't say exactly how/why the US lost. But I do know they've had only a couple of practices (because most of the players were in the playoffs until recently). No matter how good your individuals are, it takes court time to really start to play well together. That's why they play these exhibitions, to see who can play with whom. I am currently watching the US vs Argentina (ranked #4 in the world) and I don't see guys who are being out worked or in it just to cruise. Are other teams hungrier than the US??? Maybe they are hungrier to win an exhibition game in Las Vegas, but I guess we'll see when the Olympics actually start.

I’ve been looking for a box score to see how Chima did but no luck. I did see that tweet about his defense. Good day for former BW players.

nice gets for the Ags. EWU had a good run last year, though I think they lost their two best players to the portal.

Just checked the 21-22 roster and it looks like Hogland is no longer in the program. He wasn’t healthy enough to make an impact last year.

I guess if I was Gonzaga I’d think the same way. It’s just an unfortunate byproduct of the current system

If I remember the story correctly, the Black Bear founder worked at the Davis location when he was in school here. I want to say it was a sambo’s at the time but don’t quote me on that. So when Bakers Square was leaving the location he jumped at the chance to put a Black Bear there, sort of coming full circle for him.

Makes perfect sense.

Definitely making the trip

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hall initiate a lot of the offense.

Samoa Cookhouse was definitely a highlight of the annual Humboldt trips.

From what I hear it was a close call for de Veres coming back. Glad it did. I think Raising Canes is going in next door. It’s a fast food chicken place that is popular in the south (and So cal too I believe). Kind of a strange place to put a fast food place but we’ll see how it works out.

De Veres opened last week on a limited basis as they ramp up operations. I plan to head there this week.

So three new faces for the coming season. One, Milling, will see a lot of time and may even start, while the two freshmen, Lose and Niles, will probably take some time to develop but seem to have high ceilings. All 3 are very athletic and listed between 6’4” and 6’6, which will fit nicely into Les’ scheme. Losing Squire and Koehler hurts but the future looks bright. Go Ags!

New HS commit per verbal commits. Sione Lose is a 6’4” local kid from Sac. Had an offer from suc st. Looks like he’ll need to develop a bit physically but his tape show a pretty athletic player with a good all around skill set.

This is from last year so I don’t know how he has developed.