The biggest unknown and most interesting piece is what kind of player will we see in Mehkel when he is no longer in the shadow of Nate and Andy. Despite the limited playing time, it has to have had a big development impact going against those two in practice everyday. It is his time finally. Will he embrace it and emerge? Don't imagine he stuck around for two years on the bench, clear across the country from home, solely because of a W&M degree.

CAA COMMITS:
Charleston: D’Avian Houston 6’1 Bellaire, TX; RJ Ogom 6’5 Chicago, IL; Keegan Harvey 6'11 Newcastle, Australia
Delaware: Andrew Carr 6'9 West Chester, PA; Gianmarco Arletti 6'6 Bologna, Italy
Drexel: Lamar Oden Jr 6’6 Atlanta, GA; Xavier Bell 6'4 Andover, KS; Amari Williams 6'10 Nottingham, United Kingdom
Elon: Brandon Harris 6'7 Savannah, GA; Darius Burford 6'0 Bolingbrook, IL; Michael Graham 6'8 Brooklyn, NY; JaDun Michael 6'5 Burlington, NC
Hofstra: Zion Bethea 6’3 Wayne, NJ; David Green 6'7 Ocoee, FL; Vukasin Masic 6'4 Belgrade, Serbia
JMU: Justin Amadi 6'7 Simpsonville, SC; Terell Strickland 6'0 St Petersburg, FL
Northeastern: Coleman Stucke 6'6 Burlington, Canada; Alex Nwagha 6'8 Milton, Canada; Jvonne Hadley 6'6 Mahtomedi, MN; Jahmyl Telfort 6'7 Boucherville, Quebec
Towson: Cory Barnes Jr. 6'1 Lewes, DE; Darrick Jones Jr. 6'6 Glen Allen, VA; Chris Biekeu 6'8 Montreal, Canada
UNCW: Jajuan Carr 6'2 Rocky Point, NC; Jamahri Harvey 6'5 Fayetteville, NC
William & Mary: Connor Kochera 6’4 Arlington Heights, IL; Jake Milkereit 6’5 Dallas, TX; Yuri Covington 6'1 Germantown, MD

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OFFERS
Player info (date offered by WM)
Chronological list of offers according to VC
Player interactions with schools that have offered:
("c" = followed coach, "t" = followed team, "l" = liked tweet, "v" = visited campus, "r" = followed team related account, "p" = followed team's player or recruit)

(Currently no offers)

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Timeline of coaches' INTEREST (starting with the most recent).
Key:
“[WM coach’s name]” - coach followed player on twitter
“WMTribeMBB” - followed by WM official account
“Team,” “coach,” and/or “parent” -WM coach followed an account related to the player
an asterisk * means the account followed back
“Visit” - player took an unofficial visit to WM
“Gym” - WM coach saw player play in either a tournament or an open gym
“Like” - WM coach liked a tweet about recruit
'Tweet" - WM's interest was tweeted by account related to player

Multiple Twitter interactions and/or in-person visit:
- Eduardo Andre 6’10 London, United Kingdom (Kemp, team* 2/22/20, team 2/23/20)
- Michael Jefferson 6'6 Sulphur Springs, TX (Kemp*, Like 10/6, like 2/19/20)
- Isaiah Richards 6'10 Brooklyn, NY (Kemp, team* 2/7/20)
- Emmanuel Bonsu 6'2 Montreal, Canada (gym 2/7/20)
- Johnny Vrdoljak 6'11 Georgetown, Canada (Howland* 7/29, Kemp* 11/4, coach* 11/4)
- Nathan Kania 6'1 Danville, VA (visit 10/19)
- Mohamed Wague 6’9 Mali (Kemp, coach* 9/22)
- Luka Erdtmann 6'8 Berkeley, CA (Howland 5/4, gym 9/19)
- CJ Anthony 6'0 Columbus, OH (Kemp* 4/28, Boatner* 9/11, gym 9/12)
- Ethan Price 6'9 Ipswich, England (Boatner, coach* 9/8)
- Niko Bossinakis 6'4 Colleyville, TX (Kemp 6/19, team 8/9)
- Mark Sears 6'0 Muscle Shoals, AL (Kemp 4/29, parent* 7/21)
- Mounir Hima 6'11 Tillaberi, Niger (Boatner 7/6, team 7/6)
- Djordje Orcev 6'6 Rockville, MD (Kemp* 5/31, like 6/29)

One Twitter interaction:
Graham Alphson 6’4 Los Angeles, CA (tweet 3/7/20)
Gavin Thompson 5'11 Bronx, NY (coach* 2/5)
Chad Venning 6'10 Brooklyn, NY (Kemp 10/9)
Felix Kloman 6'4 South Hamilton, MA (Kemp 6/19)
Declan Porter 6'6 Canton, NY (Kemp 6/19)
Dylan Branson 6'5 St. Louis, MO (Kemp 6/5)
John Adams 6'8 Douglas, MA (Kemp* 5/27)
Ben Callahan-Gold 6'8 Manhattan, NY (Kemp 5/27)
Karson Sharar 6'1 Iowa Falls, IA (Kemp 5/25)
Chris Grubbs 6'5 Fishers, IN (Kemp 5/24)
Jack Wetzel 6'5 Cedar Rapids, IA (Kemp* 5/24)
Anthony Washington 6'3 Madison, WI (Kemp* 5/24)
Will Berg 6'9 West Des Moines, IA (Kemp 5/24)
Sincere Parker 6'3 Rockford, IL (Howland 5/14)
Alexis Antetokounmpo 6'7 Milwaukee, WI (Kemp 5/10)
Nate Tabor 6'6 Brooklyn, NY (Kemp 5/2)
Ariel Bland 6'7 Eden Prairie, MN (Kemp 5/2)
Jordan Battle 6'2 Norfolk, VA (Kemp 4/28)
Cameron Stitt 6'8 Indian Trail, NC (Kemp 4/27)

Recent Commits:
Eric Lee 6’4 Tampa, FL -> Alabama A&M
Curtis Harrison 6'7 Cincinnati, OH -> Miami OH (2021)
Kyler Filewich 6'8 Winnipeg, Canada -> SIU
Ade Jenkins 6'8 Portsmouth, VA -> Fairmont St
Michael Gray 5'11 Baltimore, MD -> Wagner (walk-on)
Mason Grigg 6'1 Rock Hill, SC -> Coastal Carolina (walk-on)

(04-25-2020 12:49 PM)Tribeheart Wrote:  The biggest unknown and most interesting piece is what kind of player will we see in Mehkel when he is no longer in the shadow of Nate and Andy. Despite the limited playing time, it has to have had a big development impact going against those two in practice everyday. It is his time finally. Will he embrace it and emerge? Don't imagine he stuck around for two years on the bench, clear across the country from home, solely because of a W&M degree.

I agree with you about Harvey. I think he can be a good rim protector on defense and garbage player around the rim on offense. If we can get the upside out of Wight at the 4, I think we will have an interesting, but inexperienced team. Assume Loewe and Scott get a lot of minutes, that leaves Blair and this year's recruits and last year's frosh. I'm sure someone will emerge.

In addition to Wake decommit Trey James, Coach Kemp following Wake Forest decommit PF Jaylon Gibson 6'11 188lbs Raleigh, NC. He is a pretty hot commodity and seems to be newly followed by a bunch of coaches at all levels.

(05-27-2019 06:08 PM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  The travels of Coach Kemp continue:

Ben Callahan-Gold 6’8 Manhattan, NY
Offer from Bryant
https://mobile.twitter.com/NYJayhawks/st...1287016449

Callahan-Gold commits to Tulane.

(04-27-2020 06:23 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  In addition to Wake decommit Trey James, Coach Kemp following Wake Forest decommit PF Jaylon Gibson 6'11 188lbs Raleigh, NC. He is a pretty hot commodity and seems to be newly followed by a bunch of coaches at all levels.

Highlights:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JaylonGibson2...1266650113

Not sure how it factors in, but Kemp just started following the Wake Forest AD. That plus the two decommitted Wake players in the last few days makes a whole lot of Wake Forest going on in Kemp's timeline.

(04-28-2020 06:02 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Not sure how it factors in, but Kemp just started following the Wake Forest AD. That plus the two decommitted Wake players in the last few days makes a whole lot of Wake Forest going on in Kemp's timeline.

Leveraging his boss's COY honors to gain recruits?

An independent high school basketball scout in DC wrote a long evaluation of Yuri Covington:

https://www.pointguardeyes.com/yuri-covington

(05-04-2020 06:12 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  An independent high school basketball scout in DC wrote a long evaluation of Yuri Covington:

https://www.pointguardeyes.com/yuri-covington

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

Good read, he seems like a good get. The 57% FT shooting is a little concerning

Big ding is his decision-making, according to the scout. Coaches will work with him on that...can't coach his physicality, effort on both ends, and drive.

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(05-04-2020 09:46 AM)Tribal Wrote:  Big ding is his decision-making, according to the scout. Coaches will work with him on that...can't coach his physicality, effort on both ends, and drive.

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Bingo. Most of his dings are experience and coaching issues. His pros are traits that you either have or you don't. With maturation and development, he has the potential to be special.

A good write-up. I agree that most dings should disappear with better coaching and experience. Native ability should be there. Love comments on aggressiveness and m2m defensive style. I hope that 6' 1" isn't an issue.

My heart sunk when I read shoot-first mentality.

(05-04-2020 04:37 PM)tribeinexile Wrote:  My heart sunk when I read shoot-first mentality.

I'm not sure he's really a point guard. Looks more like a scorer rather than a classic distributor.

Even if he's a natural gunner, learning how to set plays, distribute, rebound and play as 1 of 5 is something our staff can coach up. We just saw the special where Phil Jackson had to teach MJ how to share the ball after Collins basically put the ball in Jordan's hands.

If he resists coaching, has trouble in class, or gets attested, then my heart will sink.

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Depending on the quality of their teammates, a lot of high school PGs won’t get noticed if they don’t have at least somewhat of a score first mentality. That observation doesn’t concern me in the slightest. If he doesn’t learn how to adjust his game with a more talented group of teammates, then I’ll be concerned.


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We're super-analyzing, surely way too early, a 17 year old young man.

All I see is a player with lots of talent...let Coach Fischer and his staff get to work on him. From the videos one sees lots of raw talent.

(05-05-2020 05:44 AM)bubbadog57 Wrote:  We're super-analyzing, surely way too early, a 17 year old young man.

All I see is a player with lots of talent...let Coach Fischer and his staff get to work on him. From the videos one sees lots of raw talent.

You are right, of course. But what else to do on a athletics message board where there are no new sports?