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[QUOTE="nocohalo, post: 5612407, member: 9709"]
All of this has run downhill into the high school ranks too, at least in NY. High school basketball is completely different than it was 10 years ago.  When I was growing up and going to the NYS final four every year I got to watch some incredible talent in person.  All of the Mount Vernon and Peekskill teams with players like Elton Brand, Hilton Armstrong, Ben Gordon, Jonathan Mitchell. The Niagara Falls teams with Paul Harris and Jonny Flynn, JD teams with Rautins and then Triche and Coleman.   One year I went to the federation tournament (where NYC champions play the public school champions) and watched Kemba Walker play against Lance Stephenson, and then Stephenson's team lose to Mount Vernon.  I took a hiatus going to the final four since they took it out of Glens Falls for a while.  Went back in 2023 and was completely astonished at the level of play.  Not even recognizable in terms of talent and skill.  Nowadays all of the talent goes to prep school starting their junior year because they are all now chasing the money from power conference scholarshps even when most of them aren't at that talent level.
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