One of the better unsigned prospects that I observed during the NCAA’s spring evaluation period is a player that most basketball enthusiasts in the state have never seen or even heard of. In fact, I had not seen or heard of this young man, until I saw him in action in a spring event in Las Vegas, Nevada. While playing for his club team, the Arizona Magic Red, in this year’s Double Pump Spring Classic, and being coached by Paul Hardiman, I came away very impressed with this young man’s potential as a player and even as a future college prospect. Goldwater…
Author: Anthony Ray
It was a long, long road for Westwind Prep’s 6-foot-4, 205-pound senior guard Glenn Baral, but it has finally come to an end as the talented, sharp-shooting guard prospect has found a college home – and just before the beginning to another summer aau/club season. Baral had planned to play through the summer months in an attempt to boost his college recruitment, but before he would play in his first event next weekend with his club program, the Arizona Magic Elite, Baral decided to end his college recruitment after picking up a scholarship offer from Stetson University – a division-I program that…
Nogales High School seems like many miles away from anywhere but it is actually within the state of Arizona. In fact, the program has produced many talented basketball players over the years and has built a winning basketball tradition in the process. The latest product of the program is Nogales High School’s talented and hard-working 6-foot-1 senior point guard prospect Andres Marquez. Marquez is coming off a terrific senior season of high school where he developed into one of the state’s elite prospects, after leading Nogales to a strong 23-7 overall record on the season. Marquez averaged 19 points and 6.4 assists per/game,…
No high school player in the state last season had a better season from beginning to end than Desert Mountain High School’s talented and elusive 5-foot-11, 165-pound senior point guard Rolando Rhymes. After a season of sitting out due to AIA transfer rules, Rhymes returned to action this high school season and looked better than ever, as he emerged into one of the states elite overall prospects and among the best pure point guard prospects in the state. Rolando has been regarded among the best talents in the state since he was a youngster, but this past season on a loaded Desert Mountain HS team, Rhymes…
A year ago, many basketball enthusiasts in the state did not know his name. Many others had heard the name but had not seen him play much. Now, a year later, as a talented rising senior prospect in the state, Dobson High School’s 6-foot-4, 180-pound senior shooting guard prospect Ryan Richardson has emerged nicely as one of the top prospects in Arizona’s 2014 class. After a solid sophomore season for Perry HS and helping lead the team to a strong 21-9 overall record, Richardson decided to transfer high schools for his junior season and landed at Mesa’s Dobson HS where he played…
One of the top guard prospects in Arizona’s loaded 2014 class has flown well below the recruiting radar for sometime, even though he is coming off an excellent high school season for himself. As a rising senior prospect at Glendale High School, a school not consistently known for producing top-rated basketball talent over the years, Lyrik Shreiner has developed into a serious college prospect. Possessing excellent athleticism as a player and an excellent overall academic profile, the 6-foot-3, 170-pound senior shooting guard prospect is a talented guard prospect that is looking to gain some serious college attention for his future. Shreiner…
Arizona State 2014 commit, Corona Del Sol High School transfer Connor MacDougall is again showing the potential as a college prospect that forced the Sun Devils to utilize a scholarship for their 2014 class on the strong low-post talent. MacDougall gave an early pledge to the Sun Devils in the fall of 2012, after he decided that he wanted to stay home and play for the developing PAC-12 program. After giving an early commitment to Arizona State, a lot changed for MacDougall as he left his high school program, Westwind Prep Academy. The 6-foot-9, 235-pound rising senior left the school – leaving Westwind Prep for undisclosed reasons. …
After years of hard work and dedication to his craft, Millennium High School 2008 graduate and Arizona State Sun Devil graduate Carrick Felix has achieved his dream of, not only playing professional basketball, but reaching the NBA. On Thursday evening, after months of speculation, Felix was drafted as the #33 overall pick (second round) by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Felix’s story was an amazing one, as he earned both his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Arizona State, and also becomes the third Sun Devil to be drafted in Coach Herb Sendek’s tenure, joining the 2009 pair of James Harden (Houston Rockets) and Jeff Pendergraph…
After several moves in the past and finally settling down at Mountain Pointe High School just a year ago, 6-foot-6 senior Chris Davis turned in a strong junior season. As a result, Davis became one of the state’s elite prospects for a talented Pride team that made some serious noise down the season stretch – knocking on the door in the state playoffs this past season. While the team would fall just short in the state playoffs – losing by one point to eventual two-time Division-I state champion Corona Del Sol HS (65-66). While Mountain Pointe would fall short, Davis would cement himself among…
Cesar Chavez High School has consistently ranked among the elite high school programs in the state of Arizona since it’s development in 2004. Still a fairly new school in the valley, Chavez has posted consecutive winning seasons in each of their 9 seasons of existence in Arizona. Behind the leadership of their only high school head coach at the program, Gary Lee, the Champions have played like Champions each season – wining more than 20+ games in each season since the school’s development in South Phoenix. While Gary Lee is not often mentioned among the list of elite coaches in the state,…