At one time, in my mind, he was kind of the afterthought. I would have to apologize to him, because after watching a couple of his high school games and now these AAU games, the kid is an absolute stud, who plays with quiet rage. He is a killer. I hope we land him.
Or that Symir can pull him in.
I said Dame earlier, I am sticking with that.
The best parts of that video is not the made shot: it is 1) that he wanted the ball, and 2) his teammate wanted him to have it.
Yep, and he knew exactly how far he could get and it wasn’t a heave. He has so much poise.
I gave this a like because it says bag work with a bag of $ emoji and I feel like that kind of subtlety really should be acknowledged.
That's what she said.
JJ has attitude and I like that in a guard
I like the idea of a Westry/Starling backcourt. Both good sized combo guards.
I’ll take Taylor over any two guard we‘re looking at. If Chance and JJ can play point, either will be great.
And based on that order of events, I suspect she said it with a lot of disappointment...
I like Taylor, as well. I am greedy. I want a class of Westry (1/2), Starling (2/1), Taylor (2/3), Lands (3/2) and Filipowski (4/5). Before everyone tells me why it won’t happen, I get it. This is just what I want. There was a time Copeland was in there in place of JJ, but The more I see JJ, the more I realize the kid is a straight up winner. I still like Copeland, he is a bad man. I would be really happy if he chose Syracuse.
It fluctuates at times over the years.. while these kids typically grow up rooting for and loving the Orange as their team, the reality is it has not always worked out good for local guys to play hoops on the hill. Some kids just need to get away from Syracuse, the pressure on local kids when there's no game and their back out in the community is crazy. Like really crazy! The same with football to a point, although there are more success stories. I think JJ would do well on the hill (ala the Triche boys) and his family will shield him from a lot of the crazy BS, plus... he's just a super focused kid.
Agree all around. Good points. But, man, who is the last local or even upstate guy to come in on the football side and make a huge impact? Chandler Jones (Union-Endicott, Section 4)?
