then let's get this shit poppin G
start the party white boys
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start the party white boys
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how bout something more up to date
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All he does is post winners.
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Was leaning this way....when i saw this post it made me pull the trigger...Good Luck Brock
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Already liked Butler...2 Units on Butler. No bigger. Mich St. hungry for the finals again, but I think Butler cleans the floor with them.
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get that money brock
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Boston has MSU for "a large amount". Brock has his rubberbands on Butler. Two elite cappers clash. Gl Brock.Comment -
brock im already on butler so you know just as well as i do when were on the same page it cashesComment -
is getting so much attention
i bet the kid will **** it all up tomorrow
i have butler -1 and i odnt feel so good about it
great story about Gordon Hayward
Living a dream: Butler's Gordon Hayward mapped his success
Butler's Gordon Hayward is greeted by a throng of fans after the team returned home to Indianapolis after beating Kansas State to win the West Regional last week.
Enlarge By Gary Moore, The Indianapolis Star 
Butler basketball player Gordon Hayward returns a shot during tennis practice at Brownsburg High School in 2005.
By Marlen Garcia, USA TODAY
INDIANAPOLIS — Gordon Hayward tries to remember how old he was when he and his father mapped out his goals in basketball.
"I was too young to write," says Hayward, a 6-9 Butler sophomore. "My dad had to write them."
Hayward figures he was about 5. That's when he told his father, also named Gordon, he wanted to play in the NBA.
His dad made a checklist titled "Dream — Play NBA" that for years was on a bulletin board in their home in Brownsburg, Ind., 19 miles from Butler. The paper is tattered and the ink fading but the check marks are visible.
The first step: become a starter for the sixth-grade team. The next: earn starting roles for the seventh- and eighth-grade A teams.
Hayward needs to check off the goal near the top that says be a "major contributor" on a Division I team.
He leads Butler into its first Final Four this weekend at Lucas Oil Stadium, 7 miles from campus. The Bulldogs will play Michigan State on Saturday in a national semifinal.
The craziness begins in earnest today. The Bulldogs have been able to stay in their own rooms, go to class and follow a normal schedule all week. But now they are in a downtown hotel. And at noon today, they will have an open practice at Lucas Oil Stadium, where thousands of fans are expected to attend.
"A lot of guys have grown up in Indiana and dreamed about playing in the Final Four," coach Brad Stevens says, "and we're going to enjoy our experience here."
They had just a taste of it last weekend after returning from winning the West Regional.
"It's been an awesome feeling," Hayward said Thursday. "It's like we're rock stars, just (people) wanting to touch us. We think we are normal people, so we thought those people were insane."
Hayward epitomizes Indiana basketball, a high school hero who played in his driveway, where his parents painted free throw and three-point lines measured to regulation lengths. But Hayward, who turned 20, appropriately, in March, contradicts the notion that players at tiny Butler are overachievers who were overlooked by high major schools. Big Ten schools saw his star potential.
Brownsburg Police Chief Michael Dove, who coached Hayward at the youth level, reflects on his trajectory — Hayward nearly quit basketball for tennis, then led his high school team to a state championship, only to get bigger and better nearby at Butler — and says, "You can't write these kinds of stories."
Hayward's parents are Purdue graduates and had wanted their twins, Gordon and Heather, to go there "from Day One," their father says. "We brainwashed our kids to be Boilermakers."
In their living room, there are portraits of Hayward and his sister wearing Purdue outfits. Taken in 2000, Hayward is holding a basketball signed by former Purdue coach Gene Keady.
Butler boasts famed Hinkle Fieldhouse, the school's retro-cool gymnasium built in 1928 where high school championship games were played. The 1954 victory of tiny Milan High against Muncie Central took place there and was the basis for the movie Hoosiers. Yet Hayward's father says until his son visited, the family didn't grasp its history.
"He was enamored with (Purdue's) Mackey Arena," Hayward's father says.
Stevens offered a scholarship, followed by Purdue and Michigan, Hayward's father says.
"I was blown away with him," Stevens says. "And what really stuck out was no matter what he did in high school, it looked like it would translate right to college."
On a balanced team, Hayward is first in scoring and rebounding (15.5 ppg, 8.2 rpg). His ability to play and guard multiple positions sets him apart from his Final Four peers. He combines the skills of a guard, the position he played most of his childhood, with those of a forward, the position he began playing when he shot up from 5-11 to 6-8 in high school.
Stevens initially won over the family with repeated handwritten correspondence. Butler had other intangibles in its favor: Hayward and his sister were a package deal, tightknit siblings set on attending the same college. Heather won a partial tennis scholarship and an academic scholarship at Butler. She is a reserve for the 5-9 tennis team.
Butler practices at 6:30 a.m. That allows Hayward to study computer engineering, which seemed nearly impossible at Purdue because of its afternoon practices. He says his grade-point average is about 3.3.
"It kind of sucks waking up at 5," Hayward says, "but it's nice to get it out of the way."
Almost quit basketball
The funny thing is after his freshman year of high school, he nearly gave up basketball.
His parents say he prepared a speech to tell his coach he would stop playing to focus on tennis. He stood 5-11 then and figured he would be too short to play basketball in college.
His mom, Jody, says she told him to give basketball more time. He shot up to 6-8 by his senior year, a surprise because both parents are 5-10. And he capped Brownsburg High's season with a buzzer-beating layup for a state championship in Class 4A.
For a short time, his team brought back vintage Indiana basketball pride to the one-time small town that now has a suburban feel, except for the street signs, which are Brownsburg High purple and display the school mascot, which happens to be a Bulldog — the same as Butler.
"That game was right out of a movie," says Dove, who has a large framed photograph of the team in his office. "Off-duty cops volunteered to help get them back to town with a 20-car escort. There were people lining the streets at midnight."
By then Hayward had signed with Butler. After finishing high school, he signed the check list of goals as if to say he had completed his work.
Now, the NBA is a realistic goal.
The night Stevens offered the scholarship, he privately told Hayward's dad he thought Gordon would play at the next level.
"I was taken aback and didn't put a lot of stock in it," the dad says. "I did say, 'If he can play at the next level, it doesn't matter where he goes. The NBA guys will find him, right?' "
His parents say they had no idea their son would so soon be a standout. As his first season neared, Hayward's mother asked her son if he'd be good enough to be the second or third player off the bench. His father wondered if he should redshirt.
Hayward started all 32 games and averaged 13.1 points and 6.5 rebounds. Last summer he played for the under-19 gold medal-winning FIBA world championship team.
"He got to measure himself against some of the best," says teammate Ronald Nored, a sophomore. "He finally knew he was good. Toward the end of the year last year people were talking about Gordon hitting a wall.
"If we were going to be successful, Gordon had to be more assertive. After (last summer) he was one of the best."
By early this season the NBA talk began in earnest. Agents started calling his parents; Hayward started appearing on mock drafts. Aran Smith, president of NBADraft.net, says he is likely a first-round pick if he declares. That would be a first for Butler.
An NBA prospect
Hayward's parents needed time to let reality sink in. The NBA dream check list was meant to be a life lesson about pursuing goals, not an expectation.
"I'm always a planner," says his father, a software engineer. "You've got to figure out what the steps are to reach your goals."
The NBA buzz moved his mom to tears — with worry.
"He's so young," his mom says. "I want him to be spiritually strong so he can handle decisions and temptations and the lifestyle. They're given so much money."
If an agent called the house, his mother cried. His father eased her concerns by doing homework on the draft and meeting with agents outside the home.
Hayward says he's putting off thinking about it until after the season. But being an NBA prospect "is something I never would have seen myself doing," he says.
Now, he'll only think about a national title and soak in the moment. That means standing ovations when he arrives for class. "A little embarrassing," he says.
The team is staying downtown but Hayward is one of a handful of players who will be shuttled to class today.
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Good call rubber band manThe Good Lord" Gave you a Body that can stand Almost Anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
Once you learn to Quit It Becomes A " HABIT"
Im so far behind i actually think im in First.
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Brock...u r full of shit..u know u r a broke-ass biatch...only money u can wager is monopoly $$$ !!!!
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Bump this motherfukker up till its seared into your brains!
BUTLER -1 1/2!!!!!!!!!!Comment -
brock why are you still laying a bad number?Comment -
Let's remember another thing here, this does have BIG TEN implications.
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How much money you got on Butler? GLComment -
Cash it, amazing how close their campus is to this siteComment -
Go Home Team! Butler to Final Four
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And when Butler loses, send the points to me.Comment -
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GL Brock
