OT: After the weekend, I found this
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:09 amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1anL6i7BybU
Check it out if you got an hour and are bored, the guy was unreal. I was pretty lucky to see him quite a few times, my high school made it down to state a couple years that he was playing, I was still in 8th grade when he was a senior so I wasn't playing yet but obviously would be down there for the state tourney.
The guy was ridiculous, he also played up here in Toledo a few times in the regular season/state tourney. One little caveat that I find pretty funny, SVSM was DIII in Ohio, aka small school basketball. There's 4 divisions and it's based on class size (number of boys), D1 being the biggest. Anyways, during his years they were DIII and there was another small farm school in this area that was had a pair of twins (Pollitz twins) that went on to play their college ball at Miami (OH). State tournament works, 2 sectional game, 2 district games, 2 regional games, state semi, state final. This team was loaded every year and two or three years straight they got knocked out in regional finals by LeBron's team. LeBron graduated in '03, the team that always got beat finally won state in 2004 in the twin's senior year. Always thought it would've been cool to say I played LBJ but I can only imagine how happy those guys were that he finally graduated haha.
Anyways, if you watch that game, how unreal was he in high school? Secondly, how much of his game today is identical to his senior year? It's crazy how similar he played in high school and they rolled the #1 HS team in the country (Oak Hill Academy) before SVSM was #1 for the rest of the year. Little off-topic thought of the week and something to watch after SMU blows the doors off Rutgers and people are antsy for the next game.
It's also funny to listen to the announcers debate whether he'd be good or not in hindsight. Wasn't even a question after he poured in 52 against #7 Westchester out of NJ that year, chewed Trevor Ariza up and spit his [deleted] back out.
Check it out if you got an hour and are bored, the guy was unreal. I was pretty lucky to see him quite a few times, my high school made it down to state a couple years that he was playing, I was still in 8th grade when he was a senior so I wasn't playing yet but obviously would be down there for the state tourney.
The guy was ridiculous, he also played up here in Toledo a few times in the regular season/state tourney. One little caveat that I find pretty funny, SVSM was DIII in Ohio, aka small school basketball. There's 4 divisions and it's based on class size (number of boys), D1 being the biggest. Anyways, during his years they were DIII and there was another small farm school in this area that was had a pair of twins (Pollitz twins) that went on to play their college ball at Miami (OH). State tournament works, 2 sectional game, 2 district games, 2 regional games, state semi, state final. This team was loaded every year and two or three years straight they got knocked out in regional finals by LeBron's team. LeBron graduated in '03, the team that always got beat finally won state in 2004 in the twin's senior year. Always thought it would've been cool to say I played LBJ but I can only imagine how happy those guys were that he finally graduated haha.
Anyways, if you watch that game, how unreal was he in high school? Secondly, how much of his game today is identical to his senior year? It's crazy how similar he played in high school and they rolled the #1 HS team in the country (Oak Hill Academy) before SVSM was #1 for the rest of the year. Little off-topic thought of the week and something to watch after SMU blows the doors off Rutgers and people are antsy for the next game.
It's also funny to listen to the announcers debate whether he'd be good or not in hindsight. Wasn't even a question after he poured in 52 against #7 Westchester out of NJ that year, chewed Trevor Ariza up and spit his [deleted] back out.