Bought BB magazine today
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Sounds like a less than credible magazine....he's obviously in the pictures and his dad is posting pictures of both here on this board....so....
There was another article posted on here discussing the upcoming year and they totally forgot to even list Kris among the reserves. Probably written by the same guy.
I probably have 20 years of Street & Smith's down in the archives, but haven't bought one in years. Don't know if they even publish an annual mag, but I sure used to look forward to it.
I remember when they gave props to Iowa for being the only team in the country to have both a "Street" and a "Smith" on the roster.
It's fun to look back at some of those old S&S's and see how badly the "experts" missed on some of the high schoolers they predicted to be big time college players. Some came through as predicted where others just simply disappeared off the face of the earth.
I religiously bought Street & Smith CBB magazines for years, back in the day. I meticulously pored over and kept track of the ratings for 400+ (?) high schoolers, and then subsequent commitments- obviously that info was more difficult to find back then. Two items that I vividly remember- Seton Hall, seemingly out of nowhere, getting 2 or 3 recruits from the S&S top 25 list, then 2-3 years later making the NCAA championship game. The other memory was that Shaq wasn't listed- at all- in their long list of top high school players- completely off the S&S radar- which was a fairly large omission, in more ways than one!
Listening to so-called experts is a crap shoot. IMO, most are just "good" at writing/talking, and don't really know much about individual teams or players, beyond those most publicized. Paying money to read their expert opinions is waste.
To me the only one worth buying is Blue Ribbon Basketball yearbook, which I buy every year. I like to read about our opponent before every game because you don’t get that info from the newspapers anymore. They will write some story about how this Iowa player likes to play frisbee but won’t give us a synopsis on the other team.
Forty (!) years ago, we didn't have the abundance of information at our fingertips and those of us who were really more than casual basketball fans used those magazines for information that wasn't readily available. Street & Smith's were the best available on the news stand. (Hell, do they even still have news stands? There was a store in my town when I was growing up that had just about every periodical you could ever want. That was all they sold except cigarettes and candy bars.)
Iowa b-ball hasn’t been worth buying a preseason mag in 30+ years. Save your money and enter “shit” in google. The first result is “see Iowa men’s basketball”.
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