Post by less1brain on Jul 27, 2021 7:11:01 GMT -8
As far as I can tell, the Compton Magic event in Corona was never broadcast on Baller TV or anywhere else or at least none of the games have yet been posted.
In addition to that, scans of various scouting sites indicate no one thought the event important enough to attend.
I'm still getting over a summer cold and will watch some relevant games on Baller TV over the next two weeks.
basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/five-hot-takes-from-the-peach-jam
Here's Jamie Shaw on Rival's take on Team Why Not, the NIKE EYBL team featuring Corona Centennial players.
Note his takes:
Kylan Boswell is the best PG in the class of 2023.
Jared McCain is the best guard on Team Why Not.
My takes: I don't see any reason to pin a label on Kylan Boswell. PG? SG? CG? Who cares?
If people think of a "PG" as someone who can run a fast break really well and create for his teammates by penetrating and dishing, Kylan Boswell isn't a PG at all. But he's only played 2 years of high school, is just 16 years old and has improved a great deal just over the past year in every aspect of his play. Also, he plays with just such a PG: Donovan Dent. Dent's ball dominance might be keeping some of Boswell's skills in shadow.
I agree that Jared McCain is the better player and I honestly don't think it's that close because McCain is taller, has change of speed moves that do enable him to both score and create for his teammates off the dribble penetration into the lane, is better able to finish through contact (he's at least an inch taller than Boswell and stronger) and he does more on defense, the glass, setting picks off the ball, etc. He's also 16.
Both Boswell and McCain can hit the 3 from about 27 feet in without pressing. Despite this, they're both very unselfish players. You can see in the highlight footage that all of Boswell's assists come from someone kicking the ball out to him and then he very unselfishly passes it to the open McCain.
mh recently linked some footage from 24/7 of a Team Why Not game and if you're wondering who #13 is, that's 6-7+ Aaron McBride of CC. He's also 16 and like Boswell and McCain will be a JR next season.
I'm going to watch full games because I want to see if McBride is doing any of the things I saw him do on KDOC as last season wore on: Beating people off the dribble from the high post to throw in dunks or get and ones and also pulling up and hitting the 17-foot jumper.
I see him as a high major combo forward who will likely get a lot of Pac-12 offers.
So far not seen in footage: 6-11 JR to be Devin Williams of CC or 6-2 SR to be Donovan Dent CC. Or any of the returning bench players.
Compton Magic with Dylan Andrews and Kijani Wright can be seen on Baller TV in events from July 16-18 and the weekend before that, I just type in the team name in the search engine.
Koat Keat, 6-9 F (though UCLA will call him a G), likely has been playing for Dream Vision unless he's focused on summer school. Again, I'll find Dream Vision games from various events in July and I'll check him out if he's there (you can't miss him if he is). News on Keat has been strangely muted. Only two schools have offered: UCLA and USC. Apparently, he favors UCLA according to 24/7's rating system: He's warm on UCLA, cool on USC.
I have no personal knowledge of the situation, but I note that he transferred to a much better academic high school after his SO year. I'm guessing he'll go to UCLA if he makes the grade academically and again I have no reason to believe he won't. In my experience, that's the only way to explain this type of recruiting scenario.
Unless one of Jules Bernard, David Singleton or Cody Riley enter graduate school and take advantage of the extra year of eligibility, UCLA has 4 rides for the class of 2022 barring early departures.
Two scholarships have been snapped up by Amari Bailey and Dylan Andrews. Koat Keat has received an offer. Matt Mitchell, 6-8 F, has UCLA as one of his 4 finalists and has announced he won't make a decision until at least November. He wants to check his 4 finalists out (the other 3 are Duke, Oklahoma State and Missouri).
I suspect this is what he will be checking out for UCLA: Johnny Juzang and Peyton Watson.
My take: Barring injury, Johnny Juzang will be playing his last year at UCLA in 2021-22, which opens up a 5th ride in this class... unless one of Jules Bernard or David Singleton decides to stay. Mick Cronin in a public interview posited that Bernard might take that extra year. He's the best student on the team and will get into graduate school if he goes that path. My best guess is, neither Bernard nor Singleton (nor Riley, who will turn 24 in December) will stay at UCLA after next year.
My take: Peyton Watson has a lot of potential and a lot of skills. He's also very team-oriented and deferential to veterans. He's more of a "I'll blend in and do whatever I'm asked to do to help my team win" type of player than a "I need to be showcased for my one year of college" sort of player. If he scores 5.3 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 2.3 APG, 1.3 SPG and 1.3 BPG in 18.3 MPG and his team wins big, he'll be happy.
That's a good thing for UCLA, but if Jaime Jaquez decides to come back for his SR year and Watson is also coming back for his SO year where he'll be more of a leader, I suspect Mitchell will not take that 4th scholarship.
I'm also not convinced that he's actually a much better player/prospect than Koat Keat despite the disparity in rankings that are likely very stale. The rankings of players for the 2021 and 2022 class are still very suspect due to Covid-19 and for no other reason (if you just don't get a chance to see everyone play a lot, how can you be expected to have enough info for a good analysis?) and are likely going to change a lot over the next year, just as the scouts are really getting their first real looks at 2023 and 2024 (and to some extent 2025).
So, Cronin might find himself with 3 players signing NLOIs in November, Andrews, Bailey and Keat, with two rides to give in the Spring (the one already open and the one that opens when Johnny Juzang turns pro for sure).
Cronin has to recruit defensively at this point: Jaquez might also turn pro. Although Mac Etienne has never stated that he will be unhappy if he's behind Myles Johnson for the next 2 years (nor has Myles Johnson expressed similar doubts regarding playing behind Etienne for the next 2 years), one never knows.
In the backcourt, if the 2022-23 team has Campbell, Andrews, McClendon, Bailey and Clark, that seems like a pretty full load especially considering that Jaquez, Watson and Kyman have the ability to advance the ball with a pass or a dribble. But experience has no doubt taught Cronin 4 things: 1) Injuries happen; 2) FR sometimes play like FR rather than how many stars have been assigned by scouts; 3) sometimes talent trumps experience and sometimes experience trumps talent and 4) stuff happens.
4: What if Campbell re-injures his ACL? What if Campbell gets his degree this next year, improves his 3, UCLA wins a NC... and Campbell gets offered a 3-year, $5 million contract by Alba Berlin? With some endorsement money too?
Stuff happens.
So I suspect Cronin will be offering scholarships to a wide range of players for the 2022 class: Guards, forwards and even though many people assert such players no longer exist, even Cs (according to UCLA, Riley, Nwuba, Hill and Etienne were all Fs last year; everyone else was a G; i wonder if Myles Johnson will be listed as an F).
Gonzaga and Duke had the same sort of rosters, as did USC and Arizona and Kansas. The way of the world.
In addition to that, scans of various scouting sites indicate no one thought the event important enough to attend.
I'm still getting over a summer cold and will watch some relevant games on Baller TV over the next two weeks.
basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/five-hot-takes-from-the-peach-jam
Here's Jamie Shaw on Rival's take on Team Why Not, the NIKE EYBL team featuring Corona Centennial players.
Note his takes:
Kylan Boswell is the best PG in the class of 2023.
Jared McCain is the best guard on Team Why Not.
My takes: I don't see any reason to pin a label on Kylan Boswell. PG? SG? CG? Who cares?
If people think of a "PG" as someone who can run a fast break really well and create for his teammates by penetrating and dishing, Kylan Boswell isn't a PG at all. But he's only played 2 years of high school, is just 16 years old and has improved a great deal just over the past year in every aspect of his play. Also, he plays with just such a PG: Donovan Dent. Dent's ball dominance might be keeping some of Boswell's skills in shadow.
I agree that Jared McCain is the better player and I honestly don't think it's that close because McCain is taller, has change of speed moves that do enable him to both score and create for his teammates off the dribble penetration into the lane, is better able to finish through contact (he's at least an inch taller than Boswell and stronger) and he does more on defense, the glass, setting picks off the ball, etc. He's also 16.
Both Boswell and McCain can hit the 3 from about 27 feet in without pressing. Despite this, they're both very unselfish players. You can see in the highlight footage that all of Boswell's assists come from someone kicking the ball out to him and then he very unselfishly passes it to the open McCain.
mh recently linked some footage from 24/7 of a Team Why Not game and if you're wondering who #13 is, that's 6-7+ Aaron McBride of CC. He's also 16 and like Boswell and McCain will be a JR next season.
I'm going to watch full games because I want to see if McBride is doing any of the things I saw him do on KDOC as last season wore on: Beating people off the dribble from the high post to throw in dunks or get and ones and also pulling up and hitting the 17-foot jumper.
I see him as a high major combo forward who will likely get a lot of Pac-12 offers.
So far not seen in footage: 6-11 JR to be Devin Williams of CC or 6-2 SR to be Donovan Dent CC. Or any of the returning bench players.
Compton Magic with Dylan Andrews and Kijani Wright can be seen on Baller TV in events from July 16-18 and the weekend before that, I just type in the team name in the search engine.
Koat Keat, 6-9 F (though UCLA will call him a G), likely has been playing for Dream Vision unless he's focused on summer school. Again, I'll find Dream Vision games from various events in July and I'll check him out if he's there (you can't miss him if he is). News on Keat has been strangely muted. Only two schools have offered: UCLA and USC. Apparently, he favors UCLA according to 24/7's rating system: He's warm on UCLA, cool on USC.
I have no personal knowledge of the situation, but I note that he transferred to a much better academic high school after his SO year. I'm guessing he'll go to UCLA if he makes the grade academically and again I have no reason to believe he won't. In my experience, that's the only way to explain this type of recruiting scenario.
Unless one of Jules Bernard, David Singleton or Cody Riley enter graduate school and take advantage of the extra year of eligibility, UCLA has 4 rides for the class of 2022 barring early departures.
Two scholarships have been snapped up by Amari Bailey and Dylan Andrews. Koat Keat has received an offer. Matt Mitchell, 6-8 F, has UCLA as one of his 4 finalists and has announced he won't make a decision until at least November. He wants to check his 4 finalists out (the other 3 are Duke, Oklahoma State and Missouri).
I suspect this is what he will be checking out for UCLA: Johnny Juzang and Peyton Watson.
My take: Barring injury, Johnny Juzang will be playing his last year at UCLA in 2021-22, which opens up a 5th ride in this class... unless one of Jules Bernard or David Singleton decides to stay. Mick Cronin in a public interview posited that Bernard might take that extra year. He's the best student on the team and will get into graduate school if he goes that path. My best guess is, neither Bernard nor Singleton (nor Riley, who will turn 24 in December) will stay at UCLA after next year.
My take: Peyton Watson has a lot of potential and a lot of skills. He's also very team-oriented and deferential to veterans. He's more of a "I'll blend in and do whatever I'm asked to do to help my team win" type of player than a "I need to be showcased for my one year of college" sort of player. If he scores 5.3 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 2.3 APG, 1.3 SPG and 1.3 BPG in 18.3 MPG and his team wins big, he'll be happy.
That's a good thing for UCLA, but if Jaime Jaquez decides to come back for his SR year and Watson is also coming back for his SO year where he'll be more of a leader, I suspect Mitchell will not take that 4th scholarship.
I'm also not convinced that he's actually a much better player/prospect than Koat Keat despite the disparity in rankings that are likely very stale. The rankings of players for the 2021 and 2022 class are still very suspect due to Covid-19 and for no other reason (if you just don't get a chance to see everyone play a lot, how can you be expected to have enough info for a good analysis?) and are likely going to change a lot over the next year, just as the scouts are really getting their first real looks at 2023 and 2024 (and to some extent 2025).
So, Cronin might find himself with 3 players signing NLOIs in November, Andrews, Bailey and Keat, with two rides to give in the Spring (the one already open and the one that opens when Johnny Juzang turns pro for sure).
Cronin has to recruit defensively at this point: Jaquez might also turn pro. Although Mac Etienne has never stated that he will be unhappy if he's behind Myles Johnson for the next 2 years (nor has Myles Johnson expressed similar doubts regarding playing behind Etienne for the next 2 years), one never knows.
In the backcourt, if the 2022-23 team has Campbell, Andrews, McClendon, Bailey and Clark, that seems like a pretty full load especially considering that Jaquez, Watson and Kyman have the ability to advance the ball with a pass or a dribble. But experience has no doubt taught Cronin 4 things: 1) Injuries happen; 2) FR sometimes play like FR rather than how many stars have been assigned by scouts; 3) sometimes talent trumps experience and sometimes experience trumps talent and 4) stuff happens.
4: What if Campbell re-injures his ACL? What if Campbell gets his degree this next year, improves his 3, UCLA wins a NC... and Campbell gets offered a 3-year, $5 million contract by Alba Berlin? With some endorsement money too?
Stuff happens.
So I suspect Cronin will be offering scholarships to a wide range of players for the 2022 class: Guards, forwards and even though many people assert such players no longer exist, even Cs (according to UCLA, Riley, Nwuba, Hill and Etienne were all Fs last year; everyone else was a G; i wonder if Myles Johnson will be listed as an F).
Gonzaga and Duke had the same sort of rosters, as did USC and Arizona and Kansas. The way of the world.
