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Blak4rest: Sports, Media and Vegas:  Growing Pains

FanHouse:  Jeremy Tyler's European Detour Isn't Going Too Well

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The Dagger - NCAAB - Yahoo! Sports:  Jeremy Tyler's Israeli experience thus far a failure

Ball in Europe - European Basketball Blog:  To Europe or Not to Europe? Jennings and Tyler headlines enliven debate

Ballin' is a Habit:  The Jeremy Tyler experiment is not off to a good start

BallerBlogger.com:  The Fundamentals

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The Sporting Blog:  Jeremy Tyler's Israeli Vacation: Not So Good

RedsArmy.com - The Voice Of Celtics Fans:  Shocker: Skipping your senior year of HS is a bad idea

The Big Lead:  Jeremy Tyler is Struggling in Israel, so His Agents Send Makhtar Ndiaye to Help?

Deadspin:  The Handwringing Over Jeremy Tyler's Foreign Adventure Has Begun [Basketball]

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Pete Thamel rides again. (Then again, did he ever stop? Nah.) http://bit.ly/4oJz2a 19 days ago

HS basketball star moves to Israel for some reason, thinks he and Eazy-E's daughter will be the next US power couple: http://bit.ly/4oJz2a 19 days ago

RT @AdamZagoria Great story by Thamel on Jeremy Tyler's struggles in Israel http://bit.ly/1be15R 20 days ago

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Growing Pains
Blak4rest: Sports, Media and Vegas — [image] Jeremy Tyler, the 18-year-old San Diego kid who skipped his senior year of high school to play overseas, is struggling after playing with an Israeli team for three months. That much is to be expected. Ask Brandon Jennings. What concerns me about Tyler is the people around him. No one told him he needed a passport to travel outside the States? He lives in f reaking San Diego, which borders Mexico, and his father never told him this? Not a good sign. And you'd think someone (Dad?) might be in his ear about how much he needs to work on his game. You can't baby the young fella. Humble his young ass and let him know now nothing comes easy in life. It's all ...

Jeremy Tyler's European Detour Isn't Going Too Well
FanHouse — by Tom Ziller Filed under: Euroleague, NBA DraftAnd now for the flip side of the smiley Brandon Jennings narrative. Jeremy Tyler, a stand-out big man from San Diego, followed Jennings's European plan with a twist: Tyler decided to not just spend one post-high school season overseas before entering the NBA draft, but to spend his senior season of high school there as well. Tyler signed on with Israeli club Haifa. Experts agreed that Tyler lacked the maturity or social structure to make it work in a foreign land. And lo! Pete Thamel of the New York Times, after a visit to Tyler's team, writes that the worst fears are being ...

Jeremy Tyler's European Detour Isn't Going Too Well
FanHouse — by Tom Ziller Filed under: Euroleague, NBA DraftAnd now for the flip side of the smiley Brandon Jennings narrative. Jeremy Tyler, a stand-out big man from San Diego, followed Jennings's European plan with a twist: Tyler decided to not just spend one post-high school season overseas before entering the NBA draft, but to spend his senior season of high school there as well. Tyler signed on with Israeli club Haifa. Experts agreed that Tyler lacked the maturity or social structure to make it work in a foreign land. And lo! Pete Thamel of the New York Times, after a visit to Tyler's team, writes that the worst fears are being ...

Jeremy Tyler's European Detour Isn't Going Too Well
FanHouse — by Tom Ziller Filed under: Euroleague, NBA DraftAnd now for the flip side of the smiley Brandon Jennings narrative. Jeremy Tyler, a stand-out big man from San Diego, followed Jennings's European plan with a twist: Tyler decided to not just spend one post-high school season overseas before entering the NBA draft, but to spend his senior season of high school there as well. Tyler signed on with Israeli club Haifa. Experts agreed that Tyler lacked the maturity or social structure to make it work in a foreign land. And lo! Pete Thamel of the New York Times, after a visit to Tyler's team, writes that the worst fears are being ...

Celebrate the New Dark Age
freedarko.com — [image] The New York Times recently ran an interesting article checking in on Jeremy Tyler , the 6-11 eighteen year old who one upped Brandon Jennings by not only bypassing college, but also his senior year of high school, to play professionally overseas. Tyler landed in Israel, where his experience has made Jennings's time in Italy look like a vacation by comparison. Indeed, the most striking thing about the article is how Jennings, now five games into his NBA career, is already perceived as a success story. Much was made last year about Jennings struggling with the transition and playing sparingly for Lottomatica Roma, but everything’s changed now that he's locked down the ...

Jeremy Tyler's Israeli experience thus far a failure
The Dagger - NCAAB - Yahoo! Sports — On Sunday, the New York Times's Pete Thamel filed a dispatch from Haifa, Israel. Why was a college sports reporter filing from Haifa? Thamel was checking in on Jeremy Tyler, the 18-year-old uber-prospect who, in the wake of Brandon Jennings's now-viewed-as-successful European experiment, decided to forgo his senior year of high school and play overseas for Maccabi Haifa. Thamel reports that Tyler's decision is at this point -- which, to be fair, is very early in the process -- not only regrettable but disastrous. Tyler is clearly immature and distracted by the potential of NBA riches, which he apparently considers a sure thing. His coaches and ...

To Europe or Not to Europe? Jennings and Tyler headlines enliven debate
Ball in Europe - European Basketball Blog — ... But such positivity was mostly lacking from a New York Times piece printed Sunday on Tyler’s first 100 days as a professional. Tyler, writes Pete Thamel, “appears to be worlds away from a draft-night handshake with [David] Stern, the NBA commissioner.” More specifically: ...

The Jeremy Tyler experiment is not off to a good start
Ballin' is a Habit — ... Apparently, he is a bit of a primadonna. Pete Thamel, a college sports writer for the New York Times, recently went to Israel to visit with Tyler. Take a look at some of these quotes from the article: ...

The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com — Gregg Patton of The Riverside Press-Enterprise:  “It’s not just the points with Bryant, which he’s been piling up at a pace just under his career-high average of 35.4 per game. It’s his defense, his offensive grunt work and, well, his attitude. It’s an every-possession-counts thing. It’s captivating, even when it seems counter-productive. Sunday night, as teammate DJ Mbenga took a dribble toward the basket and appeared ready to launch a 16-foot jumper, Bryant yelled, ‘No!’, gestured for the ball, then launched a 25-foot shot that hit nothing but … air. The occasional misfire the Lakers can deal with. What you wonder ...

Monday Links
UM Hoops.com — It’s here! College Basketball Prospectus 09-10 Buy, buy, buy. Hoops is back … with a whimper It’s opening day… but who cares? Seth Davis examines college basketball’s weak opening day RTC Conference Primers: #1 – Big Ten The Big Ten Geeks helped preview the Big Ten for Rush the Court and they had some interesting choices, picking Michigan 5th and placing DeShawn Sims on the all-conference team over Manny Harris. 2010 NCAA tournament bracket prediction Jeff Goodman projects an entire bracket, placing Michigan as a four seed that falls in the second round to ...

Jeremy Tyler's Israeli Vacation: Not So Good
The Sporting Blog — Jeremy Tyler decided months ago that college -- and his senior year of high school -- just wasn't for him. Despite an oral commitment to Rick Pitino and Louisville, Tyler decided to bolt for overseas to get a jump on his pro hoops career. He signed with Maccabi Haifa for $140,000. Whatever short term payoff he got from leaving early might not be worth it if the dire tone of this New York Times piece is any indication. ...

Shocker: Skipping your senior year of HS is a bad idea
RedsArmy.com - The Voice Of Celtics Fans — Jeremy Tyler was a 6'11" high school phenom who, had he continued playing in high school could have played for one year at any college of his choosing and... potentially... spun that into getting paid millions as an NBA lottery pick. I say he WAS a high school phenom because Jeremy skipped his senior year... went overseas to make $140,000... and THEN make the jump to the NBA.  And shocker of ...

Jeremy Tyler is Struggling in Israel, so His Agents Send Makhtar Ndiaye to Help?
The Big Lead — Jeremy Tyler: Tremendous piece in the NYT over the weekend about Jeremy Tyler, the talented but delusional high school basketball player who passed on his senior year to play in Israel. “His coach calls him lazy and out of shape. The team captain says he is soft. His teammates say he needs to learn to shut up and show up on time. He has no friends on the team.” Odd tidbits: His family isn’t over there with him (!), he’s dating the late Eazy-E’s daughter, and his agents sent former UNC lout Makhtar Ndiaye to “help him out.” Ndiaye had a checkered career at UNC, where he was branded a liar and ...

The Handwringing Over Jeremy Tyler's Foreign Adventure Has Begun [Basketball]
Deadspin — ... left high school to play professionally in the Holy Land, where the plan was to do a credible Kevin Garnett impression and expose the folly of the minimum-age rule. The plan was not to play like Oliver Miller. ...