ATTENDED THE PHILLY HS ALL STAR GAMES LAST NITE AT GIRARD COLLEGE......THREE GAMES INCLUDED THE BEST RISING SOPHOMORES JUNIOR AND SENIORS IN THE GREATER PHILLADELPHIA AREA.......ALTHOUGH VILLANOVA JUST WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, NOT SURE IF PHILLY IS CURRENTLY A FUTURE HOT BEAD OF FUTURE HI MAJOR RECUITS........CLASS OF 2017.........DA DA ROUNDTREE AND QUADE GREEN DID NOT PARTICIPATE...THEY
ATTENDED....PANGOS EVENT IN CALIF..........LONNIE WALKER...NINE POINTS.....PLAYED WELL...STARTED OFF WITHA SMOOTHE ATHLETIC DRIVE TO THE BASKET, HANGING IN THE AIR TO CONVERT........SCORED ON A STEAL NEAR HALF COURT IN WHICH HE ALMOST TORE DOWN THE RIM ON HIS DUNK TO CONVERT.......SCORED ON A PERIMTER JUMPER......MADE SOME OF THE BEST PASSESS , YOU WILL SEE IN TRANSITION.....OUTSTANDING THREAD THE NEEDLE BOUNCE PASSESS......TO TEAMATES FILLING A LANE........MISSED ON A FEW OUT OF CONTROL DRIVES INTO TRAFFIC......SCORES IN BUNCHES AND CAN DISAPPEAR FOR STRETCHES......OUTSTANDING PASSER......GREAT ATHLETE........LONNIE.....GAVE THIS LIST OF SCHOOLS.....SYRACUSE.....VILLANOVA....MIAMI.... I THINK VA .........SAID THERE WERE MANY OTHERS.......VERY GUARDED TALKING ABOUT RECUTING.....DIDNT MENTION KENTUCKY AT ALL UNTIL HE WAS PROBED......SAID CAL CALLED.......SAID HE WILL ATTEND VILLANOVAS TEAM CAMP..LATE IN JUNE........DIRECTLY SAID THESE WORDS....."...I PLAN TO DECIDE IN OCTOBER......".......NICE KID......MATURE AND POLISHED....INTELLIGENT......................CLASS OF 2018.....SAT WITH ALLAN RUBIN , NORM EAVERSON...TOM KONCHALSKI.....MOST AGREE THAT THE CLASS OF 2018....IS VERY WEAK IN PHILLY AREA......ONE OF THE WORST IN YEARS FOR QUANTITY OF .HIGH MAJOR PROSPECTS.........THERE IS ONE GUARANTEED PLAYER......CAM REDDISH, WHO DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT. ......REDDISH IS OBVIOUSLY BIG TIME...TOP TWENTY PLAYER MICKEY D....ALMOST FOR SURE...........THEN THERE IS.......MARCUS LITTLES.......TOP 150 PLAYER.....AND SETH PICKNEY FROM ARCHBISHOP WOOD.....WHO ARE TWO BIGS TO KEEP AN EYE ON.......IM TOLD LITTLES COULD END UP AT GORETTI, ST JOES PREP, OR ST BENS.....BY A SOURCE.....SETH PICKNEY...SIX TEN....DEFENSE IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF OFFENSE......BUT ONE TO KEEP AN EYE ON.......NOT SURE IF EITHER ARE VILLANOVA GOOD ENOUGH......AND THATS ABOUT IT IN THAT 2018 CLASS........NOVA STAFF BETTER HEAD OUT OF THE AREA NEXT YEAR SINCE THERE SIMPLY IS NOT A DEARTH OF TALENT.......BUT......CAM REDDISH MAKES UP FOR IT ALL.....WHOEVER GETS HIS COMMITMENT.....................CLASS OF 2019............IT ALL BEGINS WITH MIKEAL JONES FROM ROMAN CATHOLIC.......SIX FOOT SEVEN.....VERSATILE , SLASHER, CAN PLAY INSIDE OR THE PERIMTER VERY ATHLETIC, A TOP SEVENTY FIVE OR HIGHER PLAYER,.....MVP OF GAME, SCORED 18 POINTS......POWER DRIVES TO THE BASKET.......GOOD KID IM TOLD ... A MORE ATHLETIC VERSION OF LAMAR STEVENS........DONTE SCOT, IMOTEP......VERY ATHLETIC....SCORED NINE POINTS....LOTS OF POTENTIAL .......ERIC DIXON FROM ABINGTON....... SIXTEEN POINTS IN THIS GAME......VERY VERY SKILLED......NEEDS TO LOSE WEIGHT...STRONG.....SIX FOOT SIX....IF HE GROWS HE WILL BE A MAJOR RECUIT.....VERY SKILLED...A LITTLE CHUNKY.......A LITTLE JENKINISH BODY TYPE......CAN HIT THE THREE....POST YOU UP......INTRIGUING PLAYER.........COULD END UP A STEAL FOR SOMEONE....AND EASILY A TOP HUNDRED TYPE PLAYER........JAMIEL RIGGINS ...SIX FIVE,ANOTHER IMOTEP PLAYER, MORE OF A PF....SKILLED.....COULD BE A TOP HUNDRED KID WITHLOTS OFWORK.........CHRISTIAN INGS...FROM GORETTI...GUARD...VERY QUICK....REAL GOOD DEFENDER.....HAS SOME ATHLETIC TOOLS......COULD EASILY END UP A TOP HUNDRED PLAYER IN THAT CLASS......I LIKE HIM......ANOTHER IN A LONG LINE OF QUALITY GORETTI GUARDS.....A WAIT AND SEE.......BUT LOTS OF POTENTIAL...
