Walker played on the same high school team as incoming Duke freshman guard Grayson Allen last season. The link below has a video with highlights of the Providence School - Whitney Young game last year. The center for Whitney Young was Jahlil Okafor (incoming Duke freshman center).
According to the maxpreps rosters, Wyatt is #33 in the white uniforms, his teammate Allen is #1 and Okafor is #22 in red.
Although there's nothing outstanding by Wyatt in the video, he's definitely played with and against some highly regarded talent. In fact Jason McIntyre of thebiglead.com has selected Okafor as the outstanding college player for the '14-'15 season:
1. Jahlil Okafor, C, Duke. First back-to-the-basket big man the Blue Devils have had since Carlos Boozer. Should be instant impact 15-10 guy from November.
Walker played on the same high school team as incoming Duke freshman guard Grayson Allen last season. The link below has a video with highlights of the Providence School - Whitney Young game last year. The center for Whitney Young was Jahlil Okafor (incoming Duke freshman center).
According to the maxpreps rosters, Wyatt is #33 in the white uniforms, his teammate Allen is #1 and Okafor is #22 in red.
Although there's nothing outstanding by Wyatt in the video, he's definitely played with and against some highly regarded talent. In fact Jason McIntyre of thebiglead.com has selected Okafor as the outstanding college player for the '14-'15 season:
1. Jahlil Okafor, C, Duke. First back-to-the-basket big man the Blue Devils have had since Carlos Boozer. Should be instant impact 15-10 guy from November.
All this does is remind me of when Adam Jones was a teammate of Austin Rivers at Winter Park High School. Duke got the blue chipper and we got the red shirt. Let's land the blue chipper for a change and let another D-1 school have our red shirt player. It is all about recruiting.
Walker played on the same high school team as incoming Duke freshman guard Grayson Allen last season. The link below has a video with highlights of the Providence School - Whitney Young game last year. The center for Whitney Young was Jahlil Okafor (incoming Duke freshman center).
According to the maxpreps rosters, Wyatt is #33 in the white uniforms, his teammate Allen is #1 and Okafor is #22 in red.
Although there's nothing outstanding by Wyatt in the video, he's definitely played with and against some highly regarded talent. In fact Jason McIntyre of thebiglead.com has selected Okafor as the outstanding college player for the '14-'15 season:
1. Jahlil Okafor, C, Duke. First back-to-the-basket big man the Blue Devils have had since Carlos Boozer. Should be instant impact 15-10 guy from November.
All this does is remind me of when Adam Jones was a teammate of Austin Rivers at Winter Park High School. Duke got the blue chipper and we got the red shirt. Let's land the blue chipper for a change and let another D-1 school have our red shirt player. It is all about recruiting.
Yeah and Adam Jones was also a teammate of Andre Drummond the next season at St. Thomas More! Also, Lincoln Davis was a teammate of Noah Vonleh. Such is life with programs like the Stags (and BTW many other similar schools).
seems like always 2 star recruits are being offered, come on sid lets see u land a higher rated kid!......
Duke got the blue chipper and we got the red shirt. Let's land the blue chipper for a change and let another D-1 school have our red shirt player. It is all about recruiting....
Go to one of the perennial top college basketball programs in the nation at ACC Duke and play on national tv before sell out crowds of 9,300+ including the "Cameron Crazies" at the Cameron Indoor Stadium or go to MAAC Fairfield and play on MAAC.tv webcasts before 1,700 fans including mostly a handful of "Stags in the Stands" at the 9,500 seat hockey rink Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, CT. Hmmm? Tough choice?
Such is life with programs like the Stags (and BTW many other similar schools).....
Mid-major (not even a Top 20 Mid-Major) Stag Basketball is what it is and the chances of getting 3 star prospects is extremely difficult and mostly unrealistic considering the lack of success that the Stag Basketball program has had (only 3 NCAA Tournament bids in 31 years with the last NCAA appearance in 1997 and no at-large bids). The Stags have yet to become the "big fish in the little pond" or even one of the top 3 MAAC "big fishies" (Siena, Iona and Manhattan).
Until the program achieves consistent and repeated NCAA bids (the last time was 1986, 1987) and at-larger NCAA bids, the chances of 3 star prospects playing hoops for the Stags or averaging 4,000+ fans at the WBA or the die-hards' dream of moving out of the MAAC to a higher ranked conference is not going to happen.
Post by ctghostman on Jul 25, 2014 10:14:53 GMT -5
We had a chance for the 3 star type recruits when SJ was coming in based off of his and Cooleys momentum. Last season killed. With rare exception, it's going to be a 2 star kid early and hope he develops.
Does anyone consider that the way to get better players, until you get established, is the junior college route. Sydney has done that. We'll see how it turns out.
I think in Malcolm's case and like a lot of real "big" guys on the scholastic level, they get a major boost in rating based on their "potential " and "upside" that scouts feel might come out at a later time when their skills match their potential as their collegiate years move along. This is in contrast to regular type kids (guards, small forwards, etc.) whose skills might be already there but yet might not be projected to have the physical ability to step up in to the exhalted 3, 4, 5 star rating by the experts. Classic case in point right now is at Norwalk with Steven Enoch, the 6'8-9" PF-C who at this time last year was no more than a 2* but whose stock now has risen to a 4* and a major national recruit based on certain skills and physical build he has, but certainly not in his play for the Bears (he was good but not exceptional last season). Part of this of course is that apparently he has had a breakout spring and summer AAU season, but yet the jump in his rating and stature in one short period has certainly been dramatic.
Does anyone consider that the way to get better players, until you get established, is the junior college route. Sydney has done that. We'll see how it turns out.
The main reason we are going after JUCO's this year is that we have no seniors ...... all those recruits 4 years ago contibuted Zero. We should have gone after JUCO's a year ago too, as that class from 5 years ago left us very little. Recruiting JUCO's should not be a long term Strategy, but a short term Tactic to fill a hole. Getting a JUCO a year is not a bad idea..... along with getting a Division I transfer yearly . Many of those transfers are above a 2-star.
Players choose leagues just as much as they choose a school. There are exceptions, but the only players I remember that were above a consensus 2-star were (5 of 9 of them were Transfers):
Malcolm Gilbert Rakim Sanders Ajou Deng Deng Gai Shannon Bowman Richie Wejnert Joe Desantis Mark Young Richie O'Conner
Was Greg Keith or Steve Balkun more thatn a 2-Star
Post by nashvillestag on Jul 25, 2014 16:40:12 GMT -5
Don't know about Keith or Balkun JS. Quite frankly I didn't pay attention to this star system so many years ago. I mean going way back certainly Mike Branch and Billy Jones among others should have been if they indeed had a rating system in place at that time. How about (say) George Groom, John Ryan, etc.? More recently, Tony George, A.J. Wynder? Even more recently maybe Yorel Hawkins, maybe Derek? I don't know, but it seems to me that since 95% of all high school prospects seem to be stuck with a 2* next to their name that tells me that the system is a little too broad in what it says about a player and his ability. For instance I just saw that two of the best players in the MAAC right now in David Laury of Iona and Ousmane Drame of Quinnipiac both are no higher than that mark. Shouldn't some early rating of their play suggest they would be better than the average MAAC performer? Maybe a number position within the "2* would be helpful to really differenciate. And BTW, the departed Sean Grennan is still listed as a 2.3. So who knows what you are getting in a new player. And since there is such little to differenciate I guess the big thing at this level is that the players who come in with the best attitude, work ethic, and ability to work with teammates and buy in to the coaching system, it should be that combination of players that should help a given team to be successful no matter how many stars are next to their name.
