Tennessee basketball fans already drooling over the impending signing of Scotty Hopson have more reason to drool.
Hopson, the outstanding shooting guard from University Heights Academy in Hopkinsville, Ky., is a firm commitment to UT but his actual signing is Wednesday in Hopkinsville.
Part of the reason for the delay in signing was his participation in the Jordan Brand Game on Saturday night in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
“Participation” is an understatement after Hopson scored 21 points and pulled down four rebounds as the Blue Team pulled away in the second half to beat the White Team 124-114.
“We came out with a different attitude in the second half,” Hopson told ESPN.com. “We had fun; it was Madison square Garden after all.”
Vols signee Renaldo Woolridge had a quiet showing at the adidas Derby Festival Classic in Louisville. The small forward scored 2 points on 1-of-5 shooting for the Gold team in a 128-121 loss to the Black team. He missed on two 3-pointers.
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volwalk writes:
Scotty, you are going to have a great time wearing the orange. Can't wait to see you sign and make it official.
bshone#598776 writes:
I've been trying to find highlights to this game - apparently Hopson threw down a pretty nasty dunk on somebody. Anyone know where to look (other than the obvious youtube)?
Brama writes:
Hope you stay longer than 1 yr. Might as well go to Juco if you are planning to stay for 1 yr.
billnewton#588776 writes:
For some reason I've never felt like his commitment was firm. I know all the Big Orange fans are sitting with fingers crossed. He can make the difference for us next year. Please, Scotty...please don't fold under the pressure.
tennesseePhatz writes:
Stop, Stop, Stop the phooey!!!!!!! I heard Hopson is thinking about signing w/ Louisville. that is the real reason for the delayed signing and there are also reports that pitino has visited Hopson's house when he was in New york. Where are you getting all of your information bflynn2 dude? billnewton relax, the guy is tired, I've been there before. Mentally he needs to rest and sign on Wednesday as planned. Don't rush the guy, he won't put himself through another Miss State situation. Peace
BADGES0413 writes:
How can he visit Hopson's house in New York when Hopson lives in Kentucky?
Basketball_Jones writes:
Panic has set in......I guess we'll see how good peoples source are come Wed?
bugman (Inactive) writes:
buncha tards
IBleedOrange444 writes:
bshone-
The dunk was nasty!! I can't remember who he threw it down on but he came in from the wing, got way up and took the contact from the defender across the face, and jammed it home with one hand with authority!
You also can't find a box score anywhere. I think Hopson was the second leading scorer and he only played what seemed like about 12 minutes. Demar Derozan, the USC commit, was getting all the minutes and he wasn't doing much with them.
knoxvegas75 writes:
Box Score for the game.....took me a little bit but heres the link.
The Lousiville Rumor better just be that a rumor.
http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/classic...
Volchaz writes:
Hopson is going to have a great opportunity to jack up lots of threes with lofton and Jajuan both gone, he'd be crazy not to wear Orange next fall...
MrBamSeydu writes:
UTfan4life: He committed weeks ago, you mean his is SIGNING.
johnlg00#206211 writes:
Badge, I think it meant that Pitino visited Hopson's house in Kentucky while Hopson was in New York, talking to Scotty's parents. That's only a guess, and the only one that makes sense to me. I would be shocked if he backed out on his commitment to us after all this time, but, as I have said before, no one knows what goes on in the minds of teenage boys. I've got my fingers crossed!
overatedvols writes:
I heard somebody has been trying to talk some sense into him and get him to reconsider the Tenn. situation. Memphis's Tyreke Evans was the star of the game. We will probably get 2 more from that game, Ebanks and Witherspoon. Will be another great year for the Tigers.
IBleedOrange444 writes:
knoxvegas-
Thanks for posting the box score. I was looking for that for a while and couldn't find it anywhere. I guess Hopson got a few more minutes than I originally thought.
Overated-
Hopson would've had a better stat line than Evans had he not played 7 fewer minutes. You should go share your Memphis enthusiasm with some other Tiger fans on one of their boards 'cause no one here gives a poop. It'll be another great win for the Vols when we beat ya'll in K-town this year.
knoxvegas75 writes:
Actualy Evans and Hopson were and Scottie got 21 in 18 min and Evans had only 2 more in 25 min sounds like who was better?
"I don't care who memphis gets they will always now be the second best team in tennessee coached by the second best coach..."
call a time out calapari next time you idiot.....
BP VS JC
TENNESSEE 2 MEMPHIS 0
Next @ Tennessee
BADGES0413 writes:
We have had no problem beating Memphis the last 2 years with their supposed better talent. The next 2 years should be no prolbem with Willie Kemp and four freshman starting for them next year.
overatedvols writes:
Like I said, Evans was the best player out there. You can try to change it around all you want but it doesn't change anything. He was the MVP and your Hobson was not. Ha ha..you guys really make me laugh how you try to twist things around to make it better for the Vols. We are getting the top recruits in the nation and you aren't.
Move on to football. You do good there (with the exception of Florida always beating up on you) but leave the basketball to the Men (Memphis) and not your boys. We were in the national championship game this year. You weren't.
On your counts knoxvegas you have
tenn 2 and memphis 0
You only went back 2 years. Let's go 3.
Tenn. 2 Memphis 1
After this years game:
Tenn. 2 Memphis 2 So what then? You will have just lost your bragging rights. It will be even and we will have the better team and gone to the national champ. last year while you faded away to nothing.
After next years game, the following year.
Tenn. 2 and Memphis 3 oh no..
I don't see Tenn. winning again for many years. You better enjoy things while you can.
wjackson#226202 writes:
Do they not like you on your own site overated??
You spend alot of time on here. It is funny that you gloat over one aspect of your school. You guys were number 2 in the final poll of mens basketball. We were #7, And our ladies were #1. Were were yours? And our football team ended at #14. Were were yours? ok. I guess you can keep talking about the only part of your school that is worth phooey then. Should we come to your board and ask when the last time you have won a championship is. In anything. Maybe when you are older than 12, you will have some intelligent responses. You will not even acknowledge this post will you? Thought not.
GreerVol22 writes:
Pitino to Hopson's grandparents, "Come to Louisville and I will shower your family with love, affection, and gold jewelry. Cross me, I'll break every brittle bone on your Fin' body."
And after he leaves his assistant puts $5k on the coffee table and kills the dog. Batta Boom Batta bing!
IBleedOrange444 writes:
Hopson shot a better percentage, scored more points per minute, had more rebounds per minute, and turned the ball over 5 less times than Tyreke, so all awards aside, Hopson did more to help his team win in the time he was on the court than Evans did. I'm sure if you asked Evans he would probably agree.
cjraney writes:
overrated/Mark Ward-
Try to twist this: you lost 2 games this year, that colossal choke job in the Nat'l Championship, and to your big brother UT costing you the #1 ranking, on nat'l TV, on your home court. cough,cough. Tough to swallow huh?
VolGraduate writes:
There's a couple of articles about the game on espn.com...
I believe one is titled "Hopson (not Tyreke Evans)Powers Blue to Victory in Jordan Game"
IBleedOrange444 writes:
Oh yeah, that brings up another good point, Hopson's team actually won the game. Tyreke lost just like Memphis does when the go up against UT.
knoxvegas75 writes:
I dont count the first year because BP didn't recruit them....
Calapari will never lead you to a championship because he can't handle the pressure of big game situations. He doesn't call a TO to set up the foul ok...but then not calling one after the 3 to set up a play and get it in to the hands of a shooter not dozier.
You class is not better then ours and it all depends on returning players. You lose CDR and your not as good, we lose T Smith and were not as good. If either of us keep them we are above the other.
END of 2009 season
TN 3 Memphis 1 Fine!!
BADGES0413 writes:
Hey Greer Vol, According to Marcus Camby Mr. Calapari uses similar tactics to get his recruits. Camby made more money at UMASS during the Calamari regime than he makes in Denver now.
Merv writes:
This is a young man with lots of opportunities, and he's had to endure a barrage of media pressure. It's probably best to wait to see what he does on Wednesday. ...
http://mvn.com/ncaa-mississippistate/...
tmccullo writes:
Does anyone know when the deadline to declare for the NBA draft is? Just wanting to know in regards to Tyler Smith.
knoxvegas75 writes:
tmccullo after typing "deadline to declare for the NBA draft" into google April 27th pops up a few times. NBADRAFT.NET Has him 18th to Washington and he said he wanted to be a mid round 1 and BP said 15 or above, so hopefully he stays.
brownsvillevol: do you know where that video is? i wan't to see the dunk.
dfreeman writes:
Overstated - you need to go home!! Your Tiggers have lost to us 2 of 3, and 12 of last 19! You need to go to a board and talk smack to a team you beat on a regular basis! Talking it here just shows lack of intelligence and or jealousy!!
dfreeman writes:
Overstated - not to mention you couldn't beat us this year WITH an NBA team. What makes you think it's going to happen without them?
volguy writes:
Tiger High "fans" are the worst.
overatedvols writes:
Whew..it really tears you boys up that Memphis has the better program. As I have said in the past. We'll give you football, no questions there. Will give you ladies basketball. Certainly no question about that and we'll give you badminton if you want it but the Memphis basketball progam has you. It's better ..always has been. Probably always will be.
Wow, so according to these posts Tyreke Evans just stunk in that game. Not a good word for him. Ha.. he was the mvp people..come on now.
I really don't see Tenn. beating Memphis again for a long long time. I mean two flukes is enough. This time they'll take the game serious and bye bye vols. Still, you might as well join in and root for us as we once again make a run for the national championship. Maybe with your 'star'? recruits you can get past the sweet 16 but i'm not betting on it. I think you will have a major drop off this year. Won't even be compettive in that exposed weak SEC conf. Wish we had more SEC teams on our schedule so we could pad our wins with those teams too. My prediction is that Tenn. will not see a win against memphis for the next 5 years we will become your football florida. Always better.
knoxvegas75 writes:
wow your an idiot.....enough said
knoxvegas75 writes:
thanks i will continue to look.....i know they should post it it seams stupid to show only live.
bigbluevol writes:
knoxvegas, you're right. The fact that he has overated misspelled as his name should have been our first clue. The fact that he refers to our wins the last two years as flukes is the other. We blew Memphis away in K-town two years ago and played tougher in their own building this year. Let the troll come on here and spout his "wisdom." Meanwhile, reality shows that we have won 2 in a row and will make it 3 next year.
BADGES0413 writes:
I saw our schedule for next year and we play MTSU 2 days after Memphis. It is good to know that we can rest most or our top line players against Memphis to get ready for MTSU. They should be the 3rd best team in the state next year behind UT and Vandy.
IdahoVol writes:
overrated - the name is appropriate to your team. You continue to post how Memphis State has always had the better program. I used to live in that rat hole and jumped at the chance to get out. I used to hear how great Memphis State was and how UT couldn't match up any time they played. And yet when I see the overall record as UT 12 wins, Memphis State 7 wins I just can't figure out your logic.
As a previous poster said, at the end of the day the Tiggers lost two games this year - one of those was to the Vols that you will have to live with forever! Keep bringing in these great players and we will continue to beat them with our mediocre ones!
IdahoVol writes:
By the way, our football record against Memphis State is 20-1 and womens basketball is 26-1. We appreciate you conceding that we have the better teams in these two sports. I guess the Tigers losing 63% of the games played in men's basketball just doesn't allow you to concede that one yet.
IBleedOrange444 writes:
I didn't see anyone posting on here that Tyreke "stunk it up" in the Jordan game. He just didn't out-perform Hopson given the fact that he got 7 more miutes of playing time and only outscored him by 2 with 2 more RBs and he wasn't on the winning team.
Overated-
Your posts are the same every time and so are our responses. You are a loser. I don't even think that you come across a lot of resistance when you argue that Memphis has historically had the better program, but yet you act as if none of us will "admit" it so you can continue to post your childish garbage. On the other hand, you can't cope with the fact that we beat you two years in a row and counting, we've got a 2 to 1 all time advatage and even though memphis has more "tradition" and has gone farther in tournament play, they don't get it done against the Vols. The best you can do is to count wins that your team hasn't gone out and earned yet. You can't talk poop for a game you haven't played yet; it's just that simple. I bet you were talking trash about the whuppin memphis was goning to put on us this past year right up until the game proved you wrong. Bottom line is that we don't care about your recruits. We don't care about your "tradition". We don't care about your success or lack thereof. I would imagine that most of us actually liked to see memphis succeed when they weren't playing the Vols before you started posting. I know I did. You're on our site trying to spark a rivalry where there isn't one. If you guys have so much tradition then why do you care so much about UT and what UT is doing? Bottom line, I've said it before and I'll say it again, you guys are second rate. You have a good basketball program and everything else about your school sucks. We know that you feel threatened by our newfound success and that's why you feel the need to come on our site and talk trash. it is your own insecurity that is talking the trash. If you guys win the NC next year and we get knocked out in the sweet 16 again, we will still have a million and one other reasons to be thankful that we are Vols and not Tigers.
DSaVol writes:
Hey ya'll - my wife's uncle graduated from KY and has a friend who lives in Knoxville but knows a secretary that works for Memphis that is married to a guy that went to Louisville who used to live about 6 miles from Pitino's house and had a cousin that drove by every day and the word is that Hopson was seen at a McDonald's last week sippin' a coke with two girls next to him that both had red shirts on and were talkin' to a dude that wore a Miss St hat but had a UT shirt on and orange laces in his shoes. So my wife's uncle by her third stepdad says that Miss St might be back in the picture but it could be that UT is still the choice unless, according to Hopson's niece who lives in Memphis, he can get to wear one of those white suits like Pitino has to his signing press conference and then he might surprise everyone and call it all off and go play in Europe for a year before coming back to the D-League if the NBA adds another year before guys are eligible for the draft. AND THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE GOD'S HONEST INSIDE SCOOP THAT I GOT FROM A FRIEND OF A UT USHER!!!!
jm318 writes:
Interesting article about Hopson recruitment here: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008...
The most interesting part being that the UT coaches cried when Hopson committed.
IBleedOrange444 writes:
DSaVol-
I heard the same thing dude. It must be true!
DSaVol writes:
Uhhh...just for the record jm318 - I know for a fact that the UT coaches did NOT cry when Hopson committed. But I guess it makes for a nice story.
jm318 writes:
DSaVol, im not calling you a liar, but unless you are one of UT's coaches, I don't think you can say that you know for a fact that they did not cry. I don't have any reason to believe that the AAU guy that is close to Hopson (the person quoted in the article) has any reason to make that up. Besides, he encouraged Hopson to commit to UT.
shocker0042#634184 writes:
I keep reading over. talking about all this tradition at Memphis. What tradition would that be? Brawls at the plush club, beating up baby mama's, and weapons charges..... wow what a fine program.
overatedvols writes:
OrangeBleeder..wow..impressive. Still, you are mistaken. I'm not trying to create a rivalry and feel free to support our Tigers. The reason I am here is due to what the Tenn. fans did on our site after the Tenn. Memphis game. You think i'm bad. Oh, i'm good. Those people.. all 200 or so talked really bad and most of their posts had to be removed and some were banned. It went for days... until you lost to Vandy and it stopped. Then evidently so many were just dying to go over and talk trash again but.. we kept winning and they couldn't Finally when we lost the national championship many came back... talking trash due to a national champ loss when you guys looked ugly in your two wins. Also, you state that nobody is denying that Memphis has had a better program/team.. Oh really now. Sure they are. Vol fans can't stand to admit that about memphis. So, it makes it a bit fun.
IdahoVol, you got out of rathole memphis and went all the way to wonderful Idaho. I wouldn't be talking about Memphis potato farmer.
BrownieVol, how about an ice cream sundae.
Thank goodness the Griz season is over. I couldn't stand the misery of that mess any longer. At least Gasol got his first playoff win over the weekend. Why did they trade him? Don't you think that was pretty ignorant ...trade your best player. That heisley.. have to wonder about him. Don't you.
IBleedOrange444 writes:
Overated-
So some people talked trash on your board for a week. You've been here talking trash longer than I've been here posting, at least a good 4 months. That's a pretty grown up way to react to a group of childish losers, by being an even bigger more childish loser.
And if you'd rather be in Memphis then Idaho, you've probably never been to Idaho. It is beautiful country and memphis is pretty much a dump.
volguy writes:
Your star recruit Tyreke Evans should fit in well in Memphis, considering he's already been involved in one gang related drive-by shooting.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008...
overatedvols writes:
You people hurt my feelings some time. You'd think you didn't want me here or something. You just want to over praise your vols. Doesn't it help build your love for your team by having a vol enemy here. Someone that just doesn't agree with all your love. You know..like point-counterpoint.
Still, if nobody appreciates the truth I'll leave. I had left once before very nicely. The trash posters around the time of the championship game came back to the memphis board and brought me out of retirement.
OrangeBleeder if you like Idaho so much why don't you head over that way. I think they have room for you. I don't think too many people live there. Wyoming might be good for you also and let's not forget the Dakota's. I'll take Memphis and it's elite basketball team any day. I try to stay away from the thug/dump redneck/hillbilly stuff but you guys always head back there. It's so hard to have a mature intellegent conversation on here. It's disappointing. Do you want me to leave??? I do enjoy dropping by to distrupt things and i'm only telling the truth. Never use bad language like some of you. Just pleasant truthful information and oh by the way...Memphis is better.
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