As I have made my return back into following high school basketball, tonight was the first event I have been to in years. And even though I have seen critical comments about Prolific, I must say I have much respect now for them.
For starters their game of the many games today is just different. Sure both teams are loaded with talent and some future lottery picks, the size, speed, and leaping ability with a 24 second shot clock is awesome to watch. Dream City has a lefty who can flat out play and he is only a sophomore. And Stokes and AJ are incredible and Winters Grady was fun to watch.
Branson by far runs the best offense. It’s not a surprise they beat more athletic and talented teams. Great coaching staff, great to see Jonas on their bench, and the kid going to Illinois is a joy to watch and Carr, I am sure some good schools must be knocking on the door, but if he could sprout up a tad more, watch out cause the kid can flat out score.
Salesian played a tough game. Got off to quick start. But Millenium played them hard and the sophomore leading scorer for Milkenium is big time. Coach Mellis kept his team in it and they got the win. Was great to catch up with Coach. Being I live so close gonna check out a few more games and would love to see them practice. He runs a great program.
Riordan played solid tonight. Have only seen them play online. Sensley had a big game. Got to catch up and spend some good time with Tofi and talk about some great moments during the state title run. So glad he is coaching. He is such a nice guy, and was one of the nicest high school players to ever be around daily. Nice to see good old Kareem on the Riordan staff as well. Great guy. And I think the only tough obstacle Riordan has is balancing playing time. Got to give Curtin credit for taking on such a challenge. Sometimes having to many D1 players can be tough at times. But they balanced the rotations well and I think it wore down Centennial as they don’t have a very deep bench.
And as for the Clovis game. They play hard as hell. But man would have loved to see more flow in that game. Everytime you turned around whistle after whistle on both Vanden and Clovis, really disrupted the flow.
As for the atmosphere. Great to see the great Leon Powe in attendance. Got to catch up with him and such a nice guy. Glad to see he still works for the Celtics. He said he enjoys living in Boston. Nice to also see some of the Soldiers staff and Mr. Mark Olivier. I said man your Lebron James team I will never forget. He said my team this summer has potential to be the best. This summer he will have the best senior and junior in the country and he said they are gonna be pretty loaded. And two more things.
Kiddman I don’t know how you do it. I didn’t get a chance to meet you but as I watched the game I thought to myself I bet Kiddman would be a great play by play guy. Cause all you type with the game moving so fast, much respect sir.
And lastly and most importantly I met the one and only Ayalar. Great to meet you man. Glad you got to experience the coaching side of one of the best games and be around such talent. Prolific ran a great event. Much credit to one of SH’s finest Phil for running such a great event with a great lineup. Really cool what they did for Sensley before the game and showing on the video screen one of the biggest shots ever made in Prolific Prep History for the national title.
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