SWC75
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Everybody is talking about next year’s team, which figures to be heavily impacted by no less than six newcomers. Improvement by returning players will probably be at least as important, (I think DaJuan Coleman, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney will be significant factors next year). But I decided to take a good look at the six new guys and see what I could determine by viewing their highlights on U-Tube. Some of these have been posted before, I’m sure but this is the first time I’ve decided to extensively comment on them. I’m not putting this on the recruiting Board because we’ve already recruited these guys.
Our board only lets a poster link one highlight tape per post so I’m going to make a separate post on each guy. If you look to the right hand column, (on U-Tube) there may be other highlight posts on the same player. Don’t forget that you can make the video full screen by clicking in the box in the lower right hand corner of the viewing screen.
I’m a sucker for a good highlight tape, (see Mike Jones in football and Deshonte Riley in basketball), so I need to remember and to stress that these highlights are against high school competition, (and they only show the good plays). These guys may not be ready to play like this against college competition when they get here.
B.J. Johnson
I love this tape, done when Johnson was a 6-4 guard. He’s now 6-7. BJ shows some dead-eye outside shooting and some spectacular one-handed dunking and some “where the heck did he come from?” dunks. Physically he looks a bit like CJ Fair. He’s painfully thin, (and must look even more so at 6-7) but he’s such a spectacular talent it doesn’t matter. He seems to soar over the, (high school), opposition. He’s not an inside guy so not being bulky and strong may not matter so much. If CJ comes back then with him, G and Buss, I don’t know how much playing time BJ will get. He’ll have the chance to put some pounds on. But he doesn’t need more talent. One video asks if he’s Lower Merion’s “next Kobe”. (Bryant attended the same high school years ago.) I’ll be satisfied if BJ is the next CJ.
Our board only lets a poster link one highlight tape per post so I’m going to make a separate post on each guy. If you look to the right hand column, (on U-Tube) there may be other highlight posts on the same player. Don’t forget that you can make the video full screen by clicking in the box in the lower right hand corner of the viewing screen.
I’m a sucker for a good highlight tape, (see Mike Jones in football and Deshonte Riley in basketball), so I need to remember and to stress that these highlights are against high school competition, (and they only show the good plays). These guys may not be ready to play like this against college competition when they get here.
B.J. Johnson
I love this tape, done when Johnson was a 6-4 guard. He’s now 6-7. BJ shows some dead-eye outside shooting and some spectacular one-handed dunking and some “where the heck did he come from?” dunks. Physically he looks a bit like CJ Fair. He’s painfully thin, (and must look even more so at 6-7) but he’s such a spectacular talent it doesn’t matter. He seems to soar over the, (high school), opposition. He’s not an inside guy so not being bulky and strong may not matter so much. If CJ comes back then with him, G and Buss, I don’t know how much playing time BJ will get. He’ll have the chance to put some pounds on. But he doesn’t need more talent. One video asks if he’s Lower Merion’s “next Kobe”. (Bryant attended the same high school years ago.) I’ll be satisfied if BJ is the next CJ.
