The Morning Haul
By Mark Knight
Good Morning!
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"First, let’s give some credit to Washington for scheduling a pair of tricky road tests in St. Louis and Reno. Sure, SLU (Lorenzo Romar’s old team) and Nevada aren’t Kentucky and North Carolina, but they could present challenges."
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"Banner revealed this week he is probably going to decide in the next month or two but is only going to tell the coach of the school he is committing to and then wait to make the announcement at Lakes High probably right before the Army All-American Game (which is on Jan. 7). Garnett doesn’t have an official timeline but he is definitely going to take his time and take his visits until he is going to make an announcement, so that’s kind of why it’s been so quiet."
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"Also in that 2013 game (and on the same team as Hopkins and Watson) wereBasha teammates Torren Jones and Maurice Kirby. Jones is a 6’8″ forwardwho has the athletic ability to play in an up-tempo system and run thefloor, and when the effort’s there he’s a tough player to keep in check.The schools that have shown the most interest are Colorado and San JoseState (offers), Arizona State, Auburn, Penn, Oregon State and Washington.But the five schools he’d like to receive offers from are Arizona, Kansas,Kentucky, UCLA and USC.As for the 6’9″ Kirby, he could be a solid big man for a high-levelnon-BCS team by the time he graduates from high school. Formally anArizona State verbal, Kirby is sound fundamentally and has no problem withworking out of the high post or down low. Boise State, Saint Mary’s, Utah,Oklahoma and Texas have all shown varying levels of interest whileStanford and Washington State have been by the gym to watch him work out.He hopes to narrow things down by the end of the summer."
NOTE: UW is now rumored to be in the mix for Kirby
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"Does your school’s student section, in a sign of solidarity, wear matching T-shirts? Oregon’s student section, The Pit Crew, has shirts, while also benefiting from its natural advantages by having its own Nike shoe."
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"Just working on more of the mental aspects of the game. You can’t get down on yourself. You got to play through certain stuff. Everything is not going to go your way starting out because obviously you’re coming out of high school and you’re playing with grown men."