ATLANTA METRO – Fall Leagues are starting to heat up all over the ATL-Metro, and in my travels I’ve gotten to see a handful of transfers make early notable impacts for their new teams. They’ll be more to see, but here are a few post-Labor Day: By: Keith Agran Jalen “Roc” Lee, 6-5, SG, Riverwood, 2024 (pictured above) Quickly emerging as the talk of the 2024 “transfer market” as he not only made a big impression at OTR’s Breakout Camp last weekend but also had an eye-catching June with Riverwood after moving......
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POWDER SPRINGS, GA – After giving the big guys their due as there was some seriously impressive size on hand for Saturday’s On The Radar Breakout Camp, we head to the guards now in the 2024 and 2025 classes, and it’s a good thing there were several of we OTR scouts in the building because it was hard to catch everyone with over 150 total kids in attendance and give them the coverage they deserve. Here’s a list of those that most prominently caught my eye: By: Keith Agran Katyvon Jefferies, 6-1,......
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POWDER SPRINGS, GA – On The Radar hosted more than 150 2024 and 2025 prospects to McEachern HS this past weekend for its one-day Breakout Camp “Showcase”, and it was a terrific mix of big names already entrenched as players to watch and plenty more who made statements against some of the best those two classes have to offer. Let’s look first at bigs, guys who may look and play like guards and might qualify as hybrids even or end up guards at the next level, but for now as freshmen and......
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EMERSON, GA – Was back at LakePoint for Week 2 of their fall league, and made the rounds to get looks at more of the variety on hand. Some thoughts from the night: By: Keith Agran SCOTS STRAIGHT BALLER One of the area’s great puzzles coming out of the spring/summer season is the clear under-recruitment of special guard Anthony Arrington of Galloway (pictured above). The 6-2 senior stud has been doing nothing but putting up consistent and often spectacular production for the last two years both for a Scots program that has......
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MID-FULTON COUNTY, GA – Moving up through Fulton, we linger in the urban portions of the county, just north of the airport, up the west wall of 285 and across the midtown area to look at players who play in many cases at smaller programs that might not regularly draw in big crowds or heavy media attention. By: Keith Agran Eltramon Smith, 6-6, SF, Tri-Cities, 2023 (Wood Elite) Much was made and rightly so back in June and as recently as this past weekend about Dawg guards Simeon Cottle and Kory Mincy,......
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UNION CITY, GA – A nice field assembled down at Banneker HS this past Saturday for Fall League action on 3 courts, and we got a good look at 7 teams during my stay, here are some of the standout performers: By: Keith Agran Simeon Cottle, 6-2, CG, Tri-Cities, 2022 (pictured above) Cottle is coming off a great summer where he was positively lethal most days out for ABC Elite, he was equally dangerous Saturday with his Bulldog mates as after getting 12 in a defensive clash with Sandy Creek early in......
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EMERSON, GA – LakePoint Sports was buzzing again after a short hiatus as they kicked off their RYZE Hoops Fall League Thursday night. Each week I’m there I’ll try and spread myself around to see as many teams as I can in the 3 blocks, here are some notes on teams I caught on this opening evening: By: Keith Agran KELL IS GOING TO BE JUST FINE You don’t lose a player the caliber of a Scoot Henderson (off the to the G-League) and not feel the loss, but going back to......
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SOUTH FULTON, COWETA, FAYETTE, GA – Coming off of the 75 Corridor, we stay south of Atlanta and peek in on a few guys from the 85 Corridor south of Hartsfield-Jackson and points a little further east as well. My AAU travels again kept me from scouring the south side areas and counties as much as my more commonplace northern ‘burbs exposure, but here are some guys I did see who are well worth a trek to the likes of Fairburn, Newnan, Sharpsburg, Tyrone and Fayetteville. By: Keith Agran Elijah Walden, 6-6,......
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CLAYTON, HENRY COUNTIES, GA – Some love for the south side of Atlanta, as we continue out Metro look at “Must-See” guys from surrounding counties. I traveled a lot out of market for hoops coverage this spring and summer, so my canvassing of teams featuring predominantly players from the south side is at best incomplete, but here are some dudes I did catch and require attention from fans and recruiters alike. By: Keith Agran Yannis Woods, 6-7, PF, Jonesboro, 2022 (Georgia Fire, pictured above) The Fire is a program I got to......
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CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA – We stay in Cherokee County for a part 2 look at “Must-See” 2023’s from the the 10th fastest-growing county in the state (7th in total population): By Keith Agran Mason Etter, 6-5, SG, Etowah (Atlanta All-Stars, pictured above) Got a quick mention in our 2022 spotlight as part of what will be an exciting and dangerous Etowah group, the whole of the key contributors for Coach John Dasinger are bursting with confidence coming off summers where everyone looked awfully sharp, Etter’s older brother Jaxon was before my time......
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