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That is awesome about Valentine. He's the guy I'm most excited to see play. I'm hoping he gets serious PG minutes by the end of the season.

On a scale of 1-to- 10 how was Valentine's defense?

I love the confidence shown in Costello's quotes and the chemistry forming between he and Valentine.

Could you imagine...come March!?!
PG: Appling/Valentine
SG: Harris
SF: Dawson
PF: Costello
C: Nix/Payne
D-specialist: Kearney
Bench: Trice, Byrd, Gauna

Just a word of warning- It was this same time last year when there was a glowing review of Byrd's play

Byrd played zero basketball last summer. Try again.

are you thinking of Chris Allen? I remember Allen going off for like 30 or something in one of these games the summer he came in as a freshman. We all got super excited. To bad that never materialized.

I highly recommend checking out the money ball games. Last summer I checked out a couple and saw all I needed to know Dawson was big time, Kearney could play a roll and Trice was going to struggle against more physical guards. The competition was better last year but the games are decent.

Thanks, duffy. I think State fans have good reason to be excited about this class. Plenty of versatility and loads of talent. Costello was really impressive again today, guarded Nix in the post and didn't look out of place doing so at all. And Valentine threw down an unbelievable dunk in traffic, took off a just a step inside the free throw line. Walk-on Keenan Wetzel also told me after the games today that they're a ton of fun to be around as teammates.