Post by less1brain on Sept 9, 2021 8:47:03 GMT -8
From Dinos Trigonis:
nbnmagazine.com/2021-pangos-best-of-socal-league-august-session-report/
Southern California Academy has even more players? Ridiculous.
Hopefully, UCLA isn't sleeping on Oladokun or Gardner.
I definitely agree with him on Ochoa.
I haven't seen Xavier Edmonds, though I'd like to. Doug Mitchell at Bishop Montgomery is arguably the best coach in So Cal and his players tend to be very sound fundamentally and good students. David Singleton of UCLA and Gianni Hunt and Isaiah Johnson of Oregon State are from there.
Shamar Jones is a very good prospect. I like him better than Lewis, actually, if I have to pick my favorite of SCA's 15 player roster.
Mater Dei has brought in some new size: Tee? We know we won't see Tee at UCLA. At least we have a walk-on from Mater Dei.
Dinos' Pangos FR-SO Camp will be on September 25-26 (I think; I don't think it's the weekend before) and I'm going to check it out.
Nel Washington is bringing 6-6 2025 PG Dallas Washington down to play in that event. UCLA coach Darren Savino has a pre-existing relationship with the family and is trying to get Dallas to commit before he starts high school, but that ain't gonna happen and I think they did start classes at Mountain View St. Francis. He's now supposed to end up between 6-10 and 7-0 and still be a PG (he has a great stroke from 3 and he's a very good FT shooter, so he won't be another Ben Simmons, not that being another Ben Simmons is a bad thing).
The family will be relocating to So Cal next year. Nel played at Long Beach Jordan and San Jose State and Heather was the best player on the San Jose State women's team when they met there and later had 4 very tall children; the two daughters are both 5-11 and budding ballet stars (both are on track to join the Alvin Ailey Dance Company after they graduate from college; they were both offered jobs there and with the NYC Ballet out of high school but the parents said "No"). The elder daughter, Dylan (all 4 kids have first names that start with D, were they named in honor of Darren Savino?) is also a choreographer.
Dallas will then attend Rancho Santa Margarita, where UCLA's Jake Kyman and USC's Max Agbonkpolo were teammates (with Nevada's Nick Davidson before he and his two younger brothers all transferred to Mater Dei).
Dallas will not transfer to Mater Dei.
And the Washington family is very strict: Dallas has to maintain a 4.0 GPA (or higher) to play basketball in high school and no, he can't turn pro before he gets a college degree.
Of course, if he shows up at UCLA as a 6-10 PG in 2025 and averages 18 PPG, 8 RPG and 8 APG, how are they going to stop him?
I believe Isaiah Elohim, who has to be the best 2024 player in the state and one of the top 10 in the country (I honestly don't care what anyone else says), will likely be there along with Shamar Jones and others, so it should be a great weekend of watching players who, in most cases, we'll all have no clue how they'll eventually turn out or where they're going to go to college (I doubt Elohim goes to college; the one and done rule will be gone by then and he'll be a lottery pick right out of high school).
Oh: I bought a winning Powerball ticket! I won $4!
nbnmagazine.com/2021-pangos-best-of-socal-league-august-session-report/
Southern California Academy has even more players? Ridiculous.
Hopefully, UCLA isn't sleeping on Oladokun or Gardner.
I definitely agree with him on Ochoa.
I haven't seen Xavier Edmonds, though I'd like to. Doug Mitchell at Bishop Montgomery is arguably the best coach in So Cal and his players tend to be very sound fundamentally and good students. David Singleton of UCLA and Gianni Hunt and Isaiah Johnson of Oregon State are from there.
Shamar Jones is a very good prospect. I like him better than Lewis, actually, if I have to pick my favorite of SCA's 15 player roster.
Mater Dei has brought in some new size: Tee? We know we won't see Tee at UCLA. At least we have a walk-on from Mater Dei.
Dinos' Pangos FR-SO Camp will be on September 25-26 (I think; I don't think it's the weekend before) and I'm going to check it out.
Nel Washington is bringing 6-6 2025 PG Dallas Washington down to play in that event. UCLA coach Darren Savino has a pre-existing relationship with the family and is trying to get Dallas to commit before he starts high school, but that ain't gonna happen and I think they did start classes at Mountain View St. Francis. He's now supposed to end up between 6-10 and 7-0 and still be a PG (he has a great stroke from 3 and he's a very good FT shooter, so he won't be another Ben Simmons, not that being another Ben Simmons is a bad thing).
The family will be relocating to So Cal next year. Nel played at Long Beach Jordan and San Jose State and Heather was the best player on the San Jose State women's team when they met there and later had 4 very tall children; the two daughters are both 5-11 and budding ballet stars (both are on track to join the Alvin Ailey Dance Company after they graduate from college; they were both offered jobs there and with the NYC Ballet out of high school but the parents said "No"). The elder daughter, Dylan (all 4 kids have first names that start with D, were they named in honor of Darren Savino?) is also a choreographer.
Dallas will then attend Rancho Santa Margarita, where UCLA's Jake Kyman and USC's Max Agbonkpolo were teammates (with Nevada's Nick Davidson before he and his two younger brothers all transferred to Mater Dei).
Dallas will not transfer to Mater Dei.
And the Washington family is very strict: Dallas has to maintain a 4.0 GPA (or higher) to play basketball in high school and no, he can't turn pro before he gets a college degree.
Of course, if he shows up at UCLA as a 6-10 PG in 2025 and averages 18 PPG, 8 RPG and 8 APG, how are they going to stop him?
I believe Isaiah Elohim, who has to be the best 2024 player in the state and one of the top 10 in the country (I honestly don't care what anyone else says), will likely be there along with Shamar Jones and others, so it should be a great weekend of watching players who, in most cases, we'll all have no clue how they'll eventually turn out or where they're going to go to college (I doubt Elohim goes to college; the one and done rule will be gone by then and he'll be a lottery pick right out of high school).
Oh: I bought a winning Powerball ticket! I won $4!
