re: Alabama Basketball: 2013 Recruiting

Darius Thompson said that Tennessee leads. He still wants to take other visits though.

I'm not really worried about being 2 under this year. We will be fine depth-wise next year without them and the 2014 in-state class has plenty of depth for us to fill those extra vacancies. However if we sign Algie Key we will have 4 starter-quality guards to replace in the 2015 class.

We'll have five true bigs, Pollard, and five guards. That sounds like a pretty good roster to me especially considering most schools don't use all 13 scholarship. If we can get a quality player in the Spring that would be great. 2014 needs to be a nice haul especially considering we have enough instate talent to make a decent class.

Well with the emergence of Retin I guess we really dont need to use the scholarship. What we really need is for the guys that we have is to develop. IMO Lacey and Randolph more than anyone. If not Lacey needs to be coming off the bench. Quick question what would you guys like our starting 5 to be next year?

If anyone has 247, there's an update on William Lee. And if anyone has espn insider, there's an update with josh Langford.

Langford's article mainly just talked about his season and how he's up for Mr. Basketball as a freshman. It did mention he was at the UGA game.

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“It was a great game,” Langford said. “Coach [Anthony] Grant, he always makes me feel welcome down there, and they always make it a great environment down there.”

“I kind of called the shot when he shot it,” Langford said. “When he let it go, I kind of saw it. I was like, ‘this is going in.’ It was a big shot for Trevor.

“After the game, he was saying that he and one of the walk-ons, they were practicing that shot before practice the other day. He said he wasn’t even making it then, but he ended up making it in the game. He was surprised.”

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Rivals updated their rankings if someone wants to post our targets and their new rankings.

Pretty much this. But Haas not only jumped to 4-star but jumped up to take over the #1 spot... of 7 foot-plus players and is now at the 58th spot. One in front of Trayvon Reed. Kind of thought if anyone made that kind of jump it would be Coleman. Size must really be scaring recruiting sites off (5'10" is very generous).

Just noticed ESPN updated William Lee's profile. He's now a 4-star and sits just outside of the ESPN 60. My guess would be in the low 70s. Yet to update Coleman's and any other player in Alabama (Haas is still a 2-star)

#142
C.J. Turman C
#141
Philip Cofer F
#124
Demetrious Houston F
#122
William Lee F
#98
Elijah Staley F
#91
Justin Coleman G
#77
Tadric Jackson G
#58
Isaac Haas C
#30
Jalen Lindsey F
#26
Ahmed Hill G
#25
Jakeenan Gant F

Hope we snag them