Bush Wamukota 7 Foot C 2014 - is a Shocker!

[wu_shizzle]

Maybe he was injured the first half of the season? Homesick? Just madly confused at the American college pace and game?

This dude is an enigma.

If you read Shockwaves, he didn't fit well on a team that presses full court for 40 minutes.

[WuDrWu]

I take comfort in the fact that our coaching staff are better evaluators of talent than anyone on this board.

Outside of @tropicalshox: of course.

[ShockTalk]

Either the article said, or someone else pointed out that, there were two seniors playing in his position.

I did some figgurin' and he ended up playing about 14.31 mins per game over the last 9 games, and his per 40 ppg and per 40 rpg did not change ... they were still about 17 ppg and 15.8 rpg per 40. That 14.31 was only missing a couple of games data, but I doubt it would change much.

So he ended up taking some significant playing time away from a couple of seniors that were playing ahead of him and put up pretty solid numbers for the PT he was getting, really.

From Shockwaves and RoyalShock's post: Wamukota, Payne said, came to his school in the summer of 2012 with a long road to eligibility (as Ehimen Orukpe can attest) after growing up in Kenya. He did not get eligible until mid-November. By then, Wiley had two seniors playing ahead of him in a full-court pressing system.

“Our system wasn’t designed for him,” Payne said. “We’re trapping and running all over the court. I hadn’t seen him play. We didn’t know how good he was.”

http://blogs.kansas.com/shockwaves/2...#storylink=cpy

[Kung Wu]

From Shockwaves and RoyalShock's post: Wamukota, Payne said, came to his school in the summer of 2012 with a long road to eligibility (as Ehimen Orukpe can attest) after growing up in Kenya. He did not get eligible until mid-November. By then, Wiley had two seniors playing ahead of him in a full-court pressing system.

“Our system wasn’t designed for him,” Payne said. “We’re trapping and running all over the court. I hadn’t seen him play. We didn’t know how good he was.”

http://blogs.kansas.com/shockwaves/2...#storylink=cpy

I saw the eligibilty comment but can't reconcile it because he has some stats in the first 12 games and the stat pages I looked at showed him as playing in the game. I'll go back and look at the box scores and recalculate when at my computer.

[ShockTalk]

Bush didn't play until the 4th game of the season. Not knowing when he may become eligible, the coach may have built his playbook around what he knew he had and not what he may have sometime, if ever. I also noticed that their roster doesn't give heights, but one of their top players, a senior forward (they listed no centers) didn't play after 12/6/12 and a sophomore forward, not after 1/21/13. I don't know how they work it at that level, but Bush may not have been involved in official practices until eligible either.

[WSUwatcher]

I'm guessing if I removed those games he would look like Wilt Chamberlain. lol

Speaking of guys who couldn't shoot free throws...

[Aargh]

With the new rules, a 7' "Eraser" hanging out around the basket is a good thing.

I'm not buying that a legitimate 7' D1 player didn't get minutes at the NAIA level because there were 2 Seniors in front of him at his position.

[WSUwatcher]

And I'm not buying that Marshall and his staff would push to recruit, or give a visit to -- or have to beat out St. Louis, Houston, and Utah State to get -- someone who ISN'T a legitimate D-1 prospect.

[RoyalShock]

Kilgore played it's first game against a Stephen F Austin club team (yes, really).

No mention of Wamukota in the game recap.

Kilgore is ranked #6 in the pre-season NJCAA poll. And based on their scores and schedule page, you can watch their games live.

[RoyalShock]

I finally found a box score for Kilgore vs. SFA Club.

Wamukota started, playing 15 minutes. 5 points (2/2 FG, 1/1 FT), 5 boards, 2 blocks, 2 TOs, 1 steal, 1 foul.

[ShockTalk]

Kilgore played it's first game against a Stephen F Austin club team (yes, really).

No mention of Wamukota in the game recap.

Kilgore is ranked #6 in the pre-season NJCAA poll. And based on their scores and schedule page, you can watch their games live.

It appears that 4 guards and a wing (no one over 6'4") played the most and were the top scorers. Kilgore does have another 6'11" freshman and three 6'7" forwards, yet none were that involved in the scoring. Wondering if this was somewhat of a "mercy" approach by Kilgore given they were playing a club team. Those 5 big men were 10-13 FG.

[RoyalShock]

And I bet that club team didn't have anyone who could come close to matching up with juco post players, either by ability or size.

For reference, EO averaged 5 pts, 6 rebs, 3.3 blocks and 1.5 TOs his one year at TRCC.

[kcshocker11]

Sounds like a another EO to me

[RoyalShock]

Well, looks like he's a Shocker!

Brad Winton @JucoRecruiting
Bush Wamukota (7-0/C/2014) of Kilgore JC has committed to Wichita St.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

Holy smokes. This might go down as the most under the radar/surprise commitment in recent shocker history. This guy came out of nowhere.