Post by less1brain on Jul 10, 2021 17:10:18 GMT -8
6-5 CG Isaiah Elohim won't play college.
Will they let him turn pro after his JR year of high school?
I guess CG is right. But Amari Bailey wasn't this good at this age.
He'll likely be called a PG, but in the NBA he can play 3 or 4 positions.
He's with Paul George Elite 16 (NIKE) and, quite frankly, this team should be in the invitational bracket with the stars of 22 and 23 before they face real competition.
Elohim can pretty much do everything. 3, mid-range, dunk, up and under, floater, dish dimes, rebound, defend, with his remarkable body control and grace combined with athleticism, he reminds me of Michael Jordan when Jordan was already at North Carolina. Always on balance, never out of control, doesn't showboat and when he leaves the ground, even for a J, he hangs around in the air longer than most. I think that's an optical illusion created by perfect balance.
Jason Richardson II 6-3 2024 (father is, um, Jason Richardson of NBA) maybe will play college. He's at Bishop Gorman High School so likely he'll have grades. It's possible that he'll play college. Maybe.
Manesse Itete, 6-8 255 2024 Modesto Christian, isn't Zion Williamson. But I asked a D 1 coach if "he'd be a Zion Williamson in your league." The answer was "Yes."
Jamari Phillips, 6-4 W 2024 Modesto Christian, shoots way too much. Unlike any of his teammates, he takes bad shots and leaves his feet before he knows what's going to happen afterwards. Obviously, just going into his SO year of high school next year, but Elohim not only knows what's going to happen before he leaves his feet, he knows what's going to happen after he lands and steals the in-bounds pass.
Jayden Harper, 6-8 W 2024 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Noah Williams, 6-7 W 2024 Village Christian Schools, looked like excellent multidimensional players who will be High D 1 even if they don't grow, but more often than not players who are already this tall at 16 or 15 do grow and get stronger.
On the Rockfish side of things, they were playing a team of pros... all of them NIKE prep school with a lot of foreign players. Seemed like a loss for sure as Rockfish got into a hole three times every time Jay'len Carter got pulled out of the game.
A 7-0 C with High D 1 offers, 6-8 Fs with High D 1 offers. Lots of High D 1 offers v Rockfish with no D 1 offers at all.
In the second half, and I was discussing this with three D 1 coaches who were watching, Rockfish began the second half using Carter to run the half court offense (as opposed to having him stand in a corner waiting to hit an open 3 while 3 of his teammates just dribbled and passed among themselves until one took a bad shot or made a turnover) and he went to work driving past the defender and either hitting the 12-footer and just exploding to the rim. 9 of his teams first 14 points and two teammates, including 7-0 2023 C Pierre Gneste, who never plays for Ribet Academy because the coach doesn't believe in low post Cs except for when they had to play Harvard-Westlake and Sierra Canyon in the playoffs, scored dunks and got and ones (but missed one) off his misses. 14-7 in just 6 minutes in a game that was 43-39 down at half and that changed the game.
The whole Rockfish team turned up the defensive intensity and might've gotten 15 steals in that second half, beat them to every loose ball and rebound and out-rebounded a much bigger and more professionally trained team. And the guys taking bad shots in the first half were taking perfect shots and draining him down the stretch.
The final score was Rockfish 66, Elev8HoopsElite 17 60. 17 points in the second half for the NIKE team of prep school students.
To be fair, 7-0 Christian Oliver 2021 turned his ankle in the first half and didn't return until the second half. But 7-0 is as 7-0 does and if Gneste wasn't in front of him, his teammates were too busy turning the ball over or getting beat out for loose balls and rebounds to throw the ball into him.
Those 3 coaches started recruiting Carter and Gneste on the spot. At least inso far as using the coach's packets to get the contact info and calling to their head coaches to say they needed to shift their schedules as they should be watching Rockfish for the rest of the tournament.
Cool. And there will be two more events at MAP this month with more practice in-between and all of the games will be on Baller TV.
Oliver already has High D 1 offers.
These schools aren't High D 1, but that's how coaches at lower levels move up: By staying awake when the big boys are asleep.
Will they let him turn pro after his JR year of high school?
I guess CG is right. But Amari Bailey wasn't this good at this age.
He'll likely be called a PG, but in the NBA he can play 3 or 4 positions.
He's with Paul George Elite 16 (NIKE) and, quite frankly, this team should be in the invitational bracket with the stars of 22 and 23 before they face real competition.
Elohim can pretty much do everything. 3, mid-range, dunk, up and under, floater, dish dimes, rebound, defend, with his remarkable body control and grace combined with athleticism, he reminds me of Michael Jordan when Jordan was already at North Carolina. Always on balance, never out of control, doesn't showboat and when he leaves the ground, even for a J, he hangs around in the air longer than most. I think that's an optical illusion created by perfect balance.
Jason Richardson II 6-3 2024 (father is, um, Jason Richardson of NBA) maybe will play college. He's at Bishop Gorman High School so likely he'll have grades. It's possible that he'll play college. Maybe.
Manesse Itete, 6-8 255 2024 Modesto Christian, isn't Zion Williamson. But I asked a D 1 coach if "he'd be a Zion Williamson in your league." The answer was "Yes."
Jamari Phillips, 6-4 W 2024 Modesto Christian, shoots way too much. Unlike any of his teammates, he takes bad shots and leaves his feet before he knows what's going to happen afterwards. Obviously, just going into his SO year of high school next year, but Elohim not only knows what's going to happen before he leaves his feet, he knows what's going to happen after he lands and steals the in-bounds pass.
Jayden Harper, 6-8 W 2024 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Noah Williams, 6-7 W 2024 Village Christian Schools, looked like excellent multidimensional players who will be High D 1 even if they don't grow, but more often than not players who are already this tall at 16 or 15 do grow and get stronger.
On the Rockfish side of things, they were playing a team of pros... all of them NIKE prep school with a lot of foreign players. Seemed like a loss for sure as Rockfish got into a hole three times every time Jay'len Carter got pulled out of the game.
A 7-0 C with High D 1 offers, 6-8 Fs with High D 1 offers. Lots of High D 1 offers v Rockfish with no D 1 offers at all.
In the second half, and I was discussing this with three D 1 coaches who were watching, Rockfish began the second half using Carter to run the half court offense (as opposed to having him stand in a corner waiting to hit an open 3 while 3 of his teammates just dribbled and passed among themselves until one took a bad shot or made a turnover) and he went to work driving past the defender and either hitting the 12-footer and just exploding to the rim. 9 of his teams first 14 points and two teammates, including 7-0 2023 C Pierre Gneste, who never plays for Ribet Academy because the coach doesn't believe in low post Cs except for when they had to play Harvard-Westlake and Sierra Canyon in the playoffs, scored dunks and got and ones (but missed one) off his misses. 14-7 in just 6 minutes in a game that was 43-39 down at half and that changed the game.
The whole Rockfish team turned up the defensive intensity and might've gotten 15 steals in that second half, beat them to every loose ball and rebound and out-rebounded a much bigger and more professionally trained team. And the guys taking bad shots in the first half were taking perfect shots and draining him down the stretch.
The final score was Rockfish 66, Elev8HoopsElite 17 60. 17 points in the second half for the NIKE team of prep school students.
To be fair, 7-0 Christian Oliver 2021 turned his ankle in the first half and didn't return until the second half. But 7-0 is as 7-0 does and if Gneste wasn't in front of him, his teammates were too busy turning the ball over or getting beat out for loose balls and rebounds to throw the ball into him.
Those 3 coaches started recruiting Carter and Gneste on the spot. At least inso far as using the coach's packets to get the contact info and calling to their head coaches to say they needed to shift their schedules as they should be watching Rockfish for the rest of the tournament.
Cool. And there will be two more events at MAP this month with more practice in-between and all of the games will be on Baller TV.
Oliver already has High D 1 offers.
These schools aren't High D 1, but that's how coaches at lower levels move up: By staying awake when the big boys are asleep.