Re: Yo '06-- Sammet's team mate, Junior Russll -- Santa Clara U. BRONCO Hoops (and other sports) Forum

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 16:35:13 02/12/05 Sat
Author: RUFFRIDER
Subject: Re: Yo '06-- Sammet's team mate, Junior Russll
In reply to: SCU06 's message, "Re: Yo '06-- Sammet's team mate, Junior Russll" on 12:36:05 12/31/04 Fri

JUNIOR RUSSELL is a great high school point guard who cannot shoot and will over penetrate versus other good players. He looks great against under skilled kids in the Santa cruz league, but cannot dominate guys who can actually play and handle the basketball like at the Division Level. No one would guard him in college and he would be a constant penetrater looking to pass all the time (think, way smaller Jason Gaines from USF)

>Great playmaker at the high school level but he looks

>better than he really is because of the talent
>surrounding him. Also SC has not really played anyone
>with a great pg, yeah they played Serra but Chaz
>Thomas did not play because of an illness, a great
>matchup would be Shiller vs Russell, have to wait for
>CCS championships though. If we wanted a bay area
>point guard who can step in right away then we should
>be looking at Chaz Thomas (best shooter in nor cal
>according to Nor Cal Preps and great playmaker but
>often shys away from contact) from Serra HS or Trae
>Clark from Newark Memioral HS (more of a real pg than
>Thomas, slasher, great passer and can shoot it from 3
>but no mid range game.
>
>Why did we not get involved in the Drew Shiller
>sweepstakes, he could step right in and be a stud? I
>think we need to do a better job or recuriting kids in
>our own backyard.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]