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.
Chinonso Obokoh
It’s hard to find much in the way of a highlight tape on Chinonso. Most of the stuff on him is new stories and interviews. He’s another big man from another country that grew up playing soccer. He was only 140 pounds when he started playing basketball but he’s up to 220. The brief highlights on the tape above look pretty good. We shouldn’t pigeonhole him as BMK2 just because he comes from Senegal. There may be some similarities but I suspect Chinonso will have more of an offensive game. I also suspect with three centers coming back, that Chinonso will be redshirted. But don’t forget about him. He may become a key player in the future.
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.
Chinonso Obokoh
It’s hard to find much in the way of a highlight tape on Chinonso. Most of the stuff on him is new stories and interviews. He’s another big man from another country that grew up playing soccer. He was only 140 pounds when he started playing basketball but he’s up to 220. The brief highlights on the tape above look pretty good. We shouldn’t pigeonhole him as BMK2 just because he comes from Senegal. There may be some similarities but I suspect Chinonso will have more of an offensive game. I also suspect with three centers coming back, that Chinonso will be redshirted. But don’t forget about him. He may become a key player in the future.
