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Keaton was ranked much lower than Lee. I'm not say either will be remotely as good as Keaton. Just that rankings don't mean as much as many think, especially when you get past the top 20 or so guys. People latch on to the rankings like they are gospel and they clearly aren't. FWIW I've...

Painter has had a few of them over the years. Maybe more than the rest of the conference combined.

Like just for the James Brown.

This. There are just too many players to legimately rank them. It's not too hard to see say a Lebron and recognize that there're elite, but after those obvious types it's almost impossible.

Bulls announcers called him the “passing big man in the NBA” - which didn’t mean much in those days.

100%. Huge talent.

So true!

The video I've seen he's impressive. That said, the bolded applies to every player you recruit. A couple inches more makes any prospect look more promising. And any 17/18 y.o. might grow a couple inches (though most don't).

Are Big Ten fans just more intense or what? Six of the top 10. Of those 6, 4 are traditional Big Ten.

Often quoted but quite misleading. He was rated #1 by one publication (Streeet & Smith) after his Junior year of H.S. By the time he finished his SR year of H.S., he had dropped quite a bit (to around the teens which is still very high). In the state of IL alone, Ed Horton was ranked ahead...

Seems like almost every highly-regard IL High school player ends up at a prep school out of state.

Musselman will always have lots of talent. The guy is a beast on the recruiting tail - with or without NIL.

Why stop at 6'8?

I remember watching Keaton's high school videos and thinking his low release could be problematic!

4/5 of our projected starters are very good outside shooters (for their position). Andrej should have a lot of space to drive to the bucket.