CUMMING, GA – Moving through my notes so far this season, we look at still more non-senior backcourts that I’ve seen that have work still to do this season, but will be providing us thrills beyond. We’re into Part 2, and we’ll keep going until I run out of exemplary pairs (in no particular order). By: Keith Agran Jalen Lee and Orion Champion | both 2024 | Solid Rock Academy Lee has become a must-see headliner off of an impressive fall performance with his prior school as well as on the Showcase......
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CUMMING, GA – Let’s not take anything away from the Class of 2022 and the backcourt gems we all know and love, but as we get toward Region and State playoff time, let’s take a look at some guard combos (that I’ve seen) who may well have a lot to say about who hangs banners this year, and those who’ll be back next year to either win another or get another shot at one that got away. As I roll through my season notes, we open this series (in no particular order)......
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DOUGLASVILLE, GA – J-4 Sports put on its 6th Annual MLK Holiday Basketball Classic, this time at Chapel Hill HS, and though we only got in 3 of the 5 games scheduled (as the prior day’s weather played a role), we still got 3 excellent games between some teams I was seeing for the first time this year. We look at some standouts from the 6 teams: By: Keith Agran Mason Lewis | 6-3 | SF | Woodland-Stockbridge | 2024 The Wolfpack entered the game with a record of 14-3 (now 16-3......
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ATLANTA, GA – Atlanta Xpress and Sports 4 Champions combined once again this past Saturday to bring to Mays HS the Georgia Hardwood Classic, following up their excellent UA Hard in the Paint Give Back Classic from late November. The event brought in some more of the ATL-Metro’s quality programs to match each other as well as vs. some out-of-state visitors as well. We look at guards who played well from the first 5 of 6 games total on the day: By: Keith Agran Aaron Brooks | 6-2 | SG | Cumberland......
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CUMMING, GA – Let’s take a look at some really talented 2022’s who populate areas outside the ATL-Metro, but have showed off skill, strength and versatilty and have made big impressions both on the summer circuits as well as for their HS teams. By: Keith Agran TJ Grant | 6-7 | SF | Veterans | 2022 The Mercer-signee has been an easy standout to spot whether it’s over the summer with WR All-Stars or Team GA Magic or tearing up the mid-range for the WarHawks down just south of Warner Robins, the......
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LILBURN, GA – We move to Part 2 from last Saturday’s Grayson New Year’s Classic, with more eye-catchers from the 5 games. By: Keith Agran Kendall Walker | 5-9 | PG | South Gwinnett | 2023 The likes of Maalik Leitch, Jet Horne or Jacob Washington usually draw backcourt headlines for the Comets but Walker stood out Saturday, plays a little like Horne in the way he penetrates with speed and daring, like all SGHS guys he defends like his next meal depends on it, the kind of guy that fits and......
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LILBURN, GA – The folks at Grayson HS put on another first-class event in a string of good ones we’ve had in the ATL-Metro over the last 4 weeks or so, and from it emerged a crew of names who’ve been making statements all season long, and some others who had big Saturday’s out in Rams country. By: Keith Agran Cris Carroll | 6-4 | SF | Osborne | 2022 Carroll first caught my eye in a big way playing in the CTC Fall League out at East Paulding in August where......
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CUMMING, GA – We move to the next 6 categories, as we cover Midseason Superlatives (of players I’ve seen this season) to this point in the first week of January (listed alphabetically). By Keith Agran TOP UNDER-PUBLICIZED Kenny Brayboy, SF, Eagle’s Landing, 2023 Qua Brown, SG, Newton, 2023 Cris Carroll, PF, Osborne, 2022 Paul Djobet, SG, Solid Rock Academy, 2023 Jordan Edmonds, SF, New Manchester, 2022 Mason Etter, SF, Etowah, 2023 Jalen Forrest, SG, Greenforest, 2022 Markel Freeman, SG, Grovetown, 2023 Keenan Gagen, SG, Lambert, 2023 Stephen Lewis, SG, Stephenson, 2022 Jalal......
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CUMMING, GA – We got going into the season’s 2nd half this week with Region play heating up, but still a few Showcases across town ahead to look forward to. So let’s look at some of the top guys I’ve seen in a variety of categories (players listed alphabetically), we’ll cover the first 6 of 12 different ones in here Part 1. Again, players I’ve seen in person or streaming, with apologies to those I haven’t yet, but I cover a fair amount of ground and online content week to week: By:......
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TYRONE, GA – We covered guards who couldn’t be missed from last week’s Big South Shootout at Sandy Creek HS, we move to the frontcourt now with eye-catchers from the first 5 games: By: Keith Agran Aidan Bevrotte | 6-6 | SF | Sandy Creek | 2022 (pictured above) With Micah Smith out still tending to a wrist/hand injury Bevrotte has been offered the space to show off his versatility and hasn’t disappointed, loved the variety of mid-range to interior work he put in vs Heritage-Newnan, has always had the jump-shooting and......
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