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re: Alabama Basketball Recruiting and Offseason Talk
Posted on 9/23/18 at 6:15 pm to Cobrasize
Posted on 9/23/18 at 6:15 pm to Cobrasize
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INDIANAPOLIS — Kentucky coaches have compared him to De’Aaron Fox. He’s lit up the Nike AAU circuit this spring. New scholarship offers arrive daily. So how is Kira Lewis just barely considered a top-100 recruit by most of the major services?
Simply put, it was an industry-wide oversight, and it will be corrected very shortly.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t have an opportunity to evaluate him prior to this spring,” said 247Sports scouting director Evan Daniels, whose site currently ranks Lewis the 96th-best prospect in the Class of 2019. “Now that I have, it’s safe to say he’s due a big bump.”
The 6-foot-3 Lewis ranks sixth in Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League in points per game (21.8) and fourth in steals per game (2.6) to go with 3.4 assists per game and 40 percent 3-point shooting through two weekends against some of the best players in America. Kansas just offered him a scholarship, well behind most of the SEC.
Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi, Tennessee and Vanderbilt have already thrown their hats into the ring for the Hazel Green, Ala., native — as have Baylor, Clemson, Connecticut, Indiana, among many others — and now Kentucky is calling.
Wildcats assistant coach Kenny Payne dialed Lewis after a breakout first weekend in the EYBL last month and “was telling me about how he liked my game, my speed, which kind of reminded him of De’Aaron Fox a little bit and John Wall,” Lewis said. “So that was great to hear from him. He puts guys in the league — Coach Cal does and Coach Payne does — and it’s a guard school. They just let their guards play fast, up tempo. It’s great hearing from them.”
Posted on 9/23/18 at 6:15 pm to Cobrasize
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Payne told Lewis that Kentucky plans to keep monitoring him this spring and summer. The Wildcats could be forgiven for jumping into his recruitment later than most. John Calipari has been busy trying to hoard all of the 5-star guards in this class.
Ashton Hagans, Tyrese Maxey and Jalen Lecque, all top-15 overall recruits, have UK offers and some interest in reclassifying to play college basketball this fall.
Hagans is already committed to the Cats and widely expected to make that move to 2018. Maxey is considered a heavy UK lean — he’s announcing his commitment Wednesday — and might also enroll early. If both do that, there’s a good chance Lecque goes elsewhere.
Point being, Kentucky will still want to sign a point guard from whatever is left in the 2019 class when the dust settles. Lewis looks like an increasingly good option.
“He has game-changing speed, is a playmaker in transition and has the tools to be a good defender,” Daniels said. “He’s one of the breakout performers of the spring.”
So far, Kentucky has offered 10 players in the Class of 2019: No. 1 James Wiseman (center), No. 2 Vernon Carey (power forward), No. 4 Matthew Hurt (power forward), No. 7 Bryan Antoine (shooting guard), No. 8 Scottie Lewis (small forward), No. 9 Lecque (combo guard), No. 10 Hagans (point guard), No. 13 Maxey (point guard), No. 27 Keion Brooks (small forward) and No. 31 D.J. Jeffries (small forward) — with Hagans and Jeffries committed.
Posted on 9/23/18 at 9:50 pm to A-TOWNUAFAN
Of course not. We don’t have any reporters that care about basketball. It’s fricking ridiculous
Posted on 9/24/18 at 7:07 am to Cobrasize
It's an SEC Country article from May that they just reposted for some reason.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 5:56 pm to Bamafan15
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Story to be added later Tuesday night.
Injury info is at end of video but Freshman Diante Wood is expected to be out four months with ankle surgery. Likely to redshirt.
Redshirt junior guard Dazon Ingram is day-to-day with a left ankle sprain.
Maven
This post was edited on 9/25/18 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 9/25/18 at 9:00 pm to Cobrasize
But if you go to the site, it'll show the article was posted 5 months ago.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 9:07 pm to Panthers4life
We have a new walk-on named Britton Johnson. White guy that played at Mountain Brook......with Trendon Watford. Avery is a smart man
Posted on 9/25/18 at 9:12 pm to Bamafan15
Levi Randolph signed with the Cavs Training Camp Roster
Posted on 9/25/18 at 9:18 pm to Panthers4life
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But if you go to the site, it'll show the article was posted 5 months ago.
I went to the site and it says it was posted 2 days ago.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 9:21 pm to Cobrasize
Posted on 9/25/18 at 9:26 pm to Teague
I swear it seems like Dazon has been hurt at some point in every season he’s been here
Posted on 9/25/18 at 10:03 pm to Bamafan15
Diante wasnt gonna get much playing time anyways I guess.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 10:03 pm to mistaken4193
Also Herbs Mom made him cut his hair cause she didnt like how it looked. poor kid.
Posted on 9/26/18 at 12:03 am to Bamafan15
He does. His ankles must be pretty bad. From what I’ve heard he’s always going to the training table.
Posted on 9/26/18 at 12:12 am to mistaken4193
Avery has let it be known that he wants to sign the top in-state talent every year; even during down years if possible.
I think it’s good practice for the most part. You develop a good reputation with the high school coaches and I like having a young developmental guy on the roster. It’s not like anybody really has a 13 man rotation anyway.
I think it’s good practice for the most part. You develop a good reputation with the high school coaches and I like having a young developmental guy on the roster. It’s not like anybody really has a 13 man rotation anyway.
Posted on 9/26/18 at 11:08 am to mistaken4193
I'm a little sad that we're not going to have the All Hair Team this year.
Posted on 9/26/18 at 4:19 pm to Teague
2020 5-Star wing Brandon Boston will use an official visit on Bama the weekend of November 9th
Posted on 9/27/18 at 11:14 am to Bamafan15
Jared Butler got an NCAA waiver to play immediately at Baylor. Would be interested to see what the whole story was on his deal at Bama.
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