SMU Gets BB Commitment

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:56 pm

WOW! That was worth the wait!!!!!!!!!!!
http://smu.scout.com/2/859081.html

Blvd_Stang · Post by **Blvd_Stang** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:08 pm

Kid's name is Myles Luttman. He averages 5 and 5 last year. Here's a couple links that might be helpful:

http://www.sdcity.edu/athletics/default.asp

http://jcscores.com/basketball/reports/ ... =2008-2009

He looks like he has good size, but is unproven it seems stats wise. I wouldn't mind picking up the sophomore F Thomas Malcolm who averaged 21 and 13...

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:12 pm

He also averaged 2 ppg as a Freshman at an NAIA school San Diego Christian College. The stats above were from San Diego City College a JUCO. And he's a Brit!

RGV Pony · Post by **RGV Pony** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:15 pm

man...glad we went all the way to California to get him. Seriously, I'm sure Northlake or Clarendon or Panola or Angelina had a tall guy who averaged 5 and 5 that we couldve signed without having to drag someone all the way back from California.

Oh how our recruiting has gone into the tank. I thought we were gonna see improvement, what with the changes to our model etc. And the Crum Center. And the biga$$ scoreboard in Moody.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:18 pm

I think Doherty just wanted to take a Spring break trip to San Diego and a European vacation to England and Croatia rather than recruiting the DeSoto, Duncanville, and South Dallas areas

RGV Pony · Post by **RGV Pony** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:20 pm

Stallion wrote:I think Doherty just wanted to take a European vacation to England and Croatia rather than recruiting the DeSoto, Duncanville, and South Dallas areas

yeah, how many NBAers come out of south Dallas county anyway.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:23 pm

here's a picture-see the Center in the Second Picture

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:27 pm

He did make the list of the Top 300 JUCOs in California(Honorable Mention which means he wasn't one of the Top 100 JUCOs in California).

http://www.angelfire.com/sports/jc/top100of09.html

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:33 pm

Here's his Stats at San Diego Christian(NAIA) as a freshman-

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:cUH ... clnk&gl=us

expony18 · Post by **expony18** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:38 pm

this is why i dont pay attention to smu basketball... say what you want about PB, but Doh is 10x worse

smufan630 · Post by **smufan630** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:44 pm

Stallion wrote:I think Doherty just wanted to take a Spring break trip to San Diego and a European vacation to England and Croatia rather than recruiting the DeSoto, Duncanville, and South Dallas areas

between that and the top 300 players in cali you have me belly laughing out of my chair. how long before this story gets pulled?

The XtC · Post by **The XtC** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:34 am

Blvd_Stang wrote:Kid's name is Myles Luttman. He averages 5 and 5 last year. Here's a couple links that might be helpful:

http://www.sdcity.edu/athletics/default.asp

http://jcscores.com/basketball/reports/ ... =2008-2009

He looks like he has good size, but is unproven it seems stats wise. I wouldn't mind picking up the sophomore F Thomas Malcolm who averaged 21 and 13...

Definitely has good size, he was on campus last weekend, and there is no denying he's a big kid. He looks ALOT like Chief Kickingstallionsims, if you remember him from the games with Alabama State.

He played for a pretty good jc team, they had a strong season and sent several kids on to lower level 4-year schools. Their best player signed with San Diego State (Thomas Malcolm, mentioned above). What worries me a bit is that Luttman was 3rd on the team in rebounding, and the guy in front of him was only 6'0" tall. He shouldnt be outrebounded by the point guard on his own team (Marquintice Davis, signed with Cal State- Dominguez Hills, a D2 school).

Honestly dont know anything else about him, but he did have some size.

PonyDoh · Post by **PonyDoh** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:36 am

I'm so embarrassed I follow this program fairly religiously

bagice · Post by **bagice** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:30 am

Well, obviously not much is known about this guy, other than he looks the part, his size and build is pretty much what you want your center to look like, and we have not had someone built like this at SMU in a long time, we have had some tall guys, but they did not have the body muscle to go along with it.

Having said that, his stats obviously do not match his physical appearance and you would think that a guy built like that should dominate and that has not been the case, not sure if he is just learning the game, gets 3 fouls in the first 5 minutes each game, or they ran some kind of funky offense where he wasn't around the basket, or despite his looks, he is uncoordinated and simply cannot play.

I still feel Doherty is a great evalutor of talent and there had to be something about this guy that he liked, so I am going to give it a shot.

Doh knows this is his make or break season, he needs to challenge for the top of the conference or he will be replaced, lets see how it goes, and if it doesn't, I will hold the door for him as Orsini kicks him out of it, until then though, I am giving him his shot to see what he can do and really hope he succeeds.

George S. Patton · Post by **George S. Patton** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:33 am

I am so underwhelmed by this commitment.

We will have a new coach in 2010-2011