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He's already made people aware that if the HS season over here looks to be heading towards cancellation he'll move up his timetable.

I didn’t realize that Hopkins went to the Justin Smith School of I-really-really-want-to-be-a-2-though-I’m-obviously-not. Makes me even less interested in this kid than I was before.

The frame on that kid. That’s about as prototypical as it gets.

Have now seen at least part of every Georgia game so far and I just don’t get this: Georgia, one of the absolute elite programs and smack in the middle of some of the best recruiting in the country, has a QB who’s basically Peyton Ramsey. In fact, I’m not sure Bennett’s as good. How is it possible that Georgia would end up with just a guy? They should be going from big time to big time to big time. Can’t figure out how that would ever happen to them.

So, 6’6”, 220, +7 wingspan, 40+ vertical and he JUST turned 18. That looks absurd in print. The kid is a lab experiment.

Adidas got themselves one helluva return on that particular investment.

My Soph year at ORU we had 4 captains. But there was zero question who the leader was. Imagine this will shake out the same way. Will be shocked if this isn’t Durham’s team.

Durham's stroke is night and day over that pretzel body position he had as a Fr. Never gonna be JBJ, but that looks like a shot you expect to go in.

Well, if he follows the Jalen Washington path to upward mobility he should be a top 5 kid by this time next year.

Herro had a great rookie year, but that kid was in a mile over his head tonight.

That’s correct on Georgetown. Forgot about the grad transfer they took late.

Correct

Not sure it’s true, but if his primaries really are Indiana, Georgetown and Georgia, Georgia is full, Georgetown has an open ride from the McClung transfer and obviously IU has an open ride.

Interesting comp. I watched Liddell several times in in high school and my comp for him was a more athletic, hyper-intense Juwan Morgan. Haven’t watched Hopkins. Is Morgan a reasonable ceiling for him?

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/13996675/5e668a9ed45ff01bf4b64634 if you don’t want to watch the entire clip, fast forward to :36, watch the blocks/run out/finish and ask yourself how many young bigs you’ve ever seen who make that play? My Lord, can he run.

Thanks for posting this one. An old friend of mine who lives that direction, and knows what he’s watching, mentioned to me in a text from an event in Dayton last winter that he’d seen this kid and was really impressed. I’d forgotten completely about it.

Man, I can think of way worse lives than playing basketball for a living in Ireland. Good for De’Ron.

Yeah, that’s not nothin’. That kid is one long, switchable wing defender.

I’m guessing Mohammed’s stat line will look a little closer to those this season than the video game numbers of the last couple. Greenwood has a 6’8” mid-major kid, a 6’3” wing shooter getting mid-major looks and a 6’6” Soph that Mo St has already offered. In other words, they’re gonna beat down everyone in their class. They probably won’t play more than a half dozen competitive games all year. Combine that with the fact that they have been conspicuously working the kid as a facilitator all summer and I imagine he probably averages something like a triple double and just takes over games when necessary. I like it from a skill development and game management standpoint, but ultimately the kid’s ability to score it is why he’s a pro.

Good for Steve Forbes. Always like seeing really good mid-major coaches get it rolling when they get a chance. But I’m not fond of Whitt either. Don’t like his physical traits and I think he could be a major defensive problem. Not a OG defensive problem, a JBJ defensive problem.

Stroke both off the bounce and the catch looks almost exactly like Michael Jordan’s. The way he squares up, launch point, everything. And you’re right about getting in early. This kid is going to explode and everyone’s gonna want in.

Very good. Have never seen this site before. Thanks for posting it.

I know I’m not being entirely fair, but whenever a kid has LSU in his list I reflexively think less of him. It just happened.

https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/2021-NBA-mock-draft-Cade-Cunningham-Jalen-Green-Jonathan-Kuminga-151486333/Amp/?__twitter_impression=true Jackson-Davis listed #9 in this 24/7 guy’s top 30 for the ‘21 draft. He sprinkled some hot take material throughout. TJD strikes me as 1 of those. But nice to see the kid recognized.

Coaches will find him eventually, but I doubt any '22 kid was hurt more by missing out on AAU exposure than Troutman. He's a top 100ish kid on projection alone.