7'2 as a 15 year old. Holds multiple offers already from Illinois to Clemson. Pretty good hands already, runs the court well. Sent from my SM-G986U using Butler Hoops mobile app
Has to be related to Manute Bol based on his body. I wonder if his father is Chris, Bol or Madut......(Manute's three sons)
Evansville just hired Bol's legal guardian, Marcus Wilson, who is a former Aces player, as one of their assistant coaches. So that's interesting ...
Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up at Evansville considering Ragland's relationship with his guardian and that he was already recruiting him before he took the Evansville job. Wilson was definitely a fan favorite pick in an assistant role, so I don't think it was solely because of his relationship with Bol that he was offered the job, but icing on the cake.
I see that, but if he stays a 5-star recruit the NIL money, exposure, etc. that he'd get going to P5 conference would be too much for Evansville to overcome. The only one I can really think of that did this successfully was Mitchell Robinson who was #9 nationally and went to WKU (but never played for them).
I think there's an element to this where if you want to be a professional basketball player, it's probably in your best interest to go to a college where you are consistently playing against professional-caliber talent. If you go against people who are better than you day-in and day-out, then you can figure out what you need to do to become better than them. If you go against inferior talent day-in and day-out, you might be in for a heck of a wake-up call once you attempt to go pro because you didn't adequately challenge yourself to become better than you were the day before, simply because you didn't have to.
Hmmm. You’re picking a Unicorn to compare to Bol’s situation? Plucky of you, but maybe not the best analogy.
Or anyone who went to Gonzaga over the last 20 years. They have had a lot of good NBA players. Also didn’t hurt Gordon Hayward
I might've gone with Ja Morant for recency and to avoid the "but Gonzaga is a special case" argument.
I tried not to sound too dogmatic in my original post because I do realize that there are many exceptions. If you are naturally gifted (Morant), have a legendary work ethic (Bird), have great coaching (anyone who goes to Gonzaga - they also play a very hard non-conf. schedule and compete against their own teammates in practice), or a combination thereof, you will in all likelihood be just fine in your attempt to go pro. I just speak from my very limited experience. I never got better by playing against inferior talent. As frustrating as it was at times, I mainly got better by going against players better than myself because they exposed my weaknesses and I had to learn how to thrive (or survive in most cases) against them in other ways. I think at least an element of that has to be true in college basketball as well.
I'll raise you a Steph Curry with a CJ McCollum kicker Sent from my SM-G986U using Butler Hoops mobile app
I'll throw Paul George in there and Kawhi Leonard (SDSU is borderline). I'll pepper it with some Bill Russell, Scottie Pippen, and David Robinson.
