re: Alabama Basketball: 2013 Recruiting

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Poop. Did the 7-10 days come from Johnson, or is that just what they think?

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From Johnson's mom. A teammate is announcing Thursday, and they want to do theirs a different day, so looking at a day or two after.

From one of the BOL recruiting guys, "Better than 30% chance. We touched on it in Nuggets, but 2 sources close to different programs recruiting Johnson felt it was UA heading into the Marquette visit. Not sure I'd be confident enough to take UA over the field, but if picking one, it would be UA."

Here's an article he did with Zagoria: LINK

I was asked the other day to send a friend of mine some good videos of Bama commits/targets. Figured I might as well post them on here as well.

Shannon Hale: Not much gametape of him on youtube, but since we all know of his deadly midrange and 3pt stroke, here's some display of his athleticism. Hes in the latter half of the highlights.

Jimmie Taylor: This shows his incredible length and defense down low. Unfortunately it also shows how unfluid and deliberate some of his offensive moves look.

Jajuan Johnson: Here you can see where Telep got the Jeremy Lamb comparison from. Deceivingly athletic, excellent shooter, and crafty finisher to go with it.

Jarrell Martin: Surprisingly, for a top 15 prospect there's not much of him on Youtube. This was the only highlight video of him, but there is also a video of him doing an in-game between-the-legs dunk. Intensity, blue-collar effort on the boards, and extreme athleticism would describe his game best.

Troy Williams: IMO Troy is the player with the most upside of any player we have went after in this class, including his teammate Barber. Main problem with this kid is consistency. In this video you see his overall bball ability highlighted by his athleticism. Good shooter, but this kid primarily lives around the rim.

Rysheed Jordan: Athleticism is Jordan's best quality as well. In the video the thing that sticks out to me with him is his spin move which is just unbelievably deadly. Don't think we have a shot in hell with him though.

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Sounds like Mom is going to be helping him make a decision, which probably helps us. Tuscaloosa is a relatively short drive from Memphis. Miami and Milwaukee not so much.

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I agree with this. I think/hope distance plays a factor. Plus we do have plenty of playing time for him available. I only see good reasons to choose us. He'll get on the court and his family can come watch as many games as they want to.

Splendid. Surprises me to hear Miami is still our main competition though.

I still think Marquette is.

Big bird I don't think you were on here yet, or might've been lurking, but I helped Bryant out about 2 or 3 weeks before Pollards announcement that he had filed papers to attend Bama, and I'm sure you remember Bryant so that being said we should know within a couple days at the most middle of next week, will likely be Friday or sometime over the weekend though

Pollard also filed papers to attend Georgetown, Texas, and Missouri.

That was the shittiest day ever...


Anyone know what the TideSports Jajuan Johnson article said?

Gotcha.