MARIETTA, GA – We move to Part 2 from Wood Elite’s Top 100 Showcase at Kell from a week ago, with 4 guys who were just too good to miss. By: Keith Agran Jaiun Simon, 6-6, SF, Pebblebrook, 2023 (pictured above) Had the most impressive showing overall to me, just a monster at times at both ends as he can dictate whatever he wants in spots with an offensive game that has both skill and edginess, showed more of a face-up handle than I’d seen to this point and combined that with......
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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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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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