Expo Team 1 Evaluations
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PICTURED: Eli Gaines Eli Gaines 6'1" | SG Chattanooga Prep | 2025 State TN . Mid-September Bartlett High hosted the annual PrepHoops 250 Expo with wonderful talent. The following evaluations are exclusively focused on Team 1 players. Jacobi Morris (Goodpasture)…
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Continue ReadingPICTURED: Eli Gaines Eli Gaines 6'1" | SG Chattanooga Prep | 2025 State TN .
Mid-September Bartlett High hosted the annual PrepHoops 250 Expo with wonderful talent. The following evaluations are exclusively focused on Team 1 players.
Jacobi Morris (Goodpasture)
A little bounce. Unafraid of contact. Needs to bulk up a bit. Spotted the most dangerous teammate, in terms of angle to the basket or closeness relatively well.
Highlights
Tyshaun Dewayne Poore Tyshaun Dewayne Poore 6'0" | CG Cane Ridge | 2026 State TN (Cane Ridge) dominated offensively. His team was severely undermanned in their opener, playing with just six total players while other squads dressed 7-8 guys. Team 1 took a drubbing, but Poore recognized the need for his assertiveness. Poore showed off some handle and wizardry. Creative. Tactical. Clever. Prideful.
Poore challenged one of the best leapers, Andrew Ford Andrew Ford 6'2" | CG Lausanne Collegiate | 2024 State TN , at the rim. Ref called foul, but it looked ferocious, nonetheless. Like a volleyball spike.
Great speed with the basketball.
Eli Gaines Eli Gaines 6'1" | SG Chattanooga Prep | 2025 State TN (Chattanooga Prep)
Eli Gaines Eli Gaines 6'1" | SG Chattanooga Prep | 2025 State TN hit the open shot. He was forced to defend a 6-foot-9 player in spurts and did ok. Gaines is a natural 2-guard. His game is comfortable at that position and yet he can still improve his dribbling and break-down maneuvers. Getting faster with the dribble. He burned by a couple within one play.
Finished with left hand smoothly at the rim. Highlight.
Connor Browning Mancell Connor Browning Mancell 6'2" | PG Briarcrest Christian | 2024 TN (Briarcrest Christian)
Connor Browning Mancell Connor Browning Mancell 6'2" | PG Briarcrest Christian | 2024 TN was gritty and devoted. His team struggled in the opening game mightily. Mancell did not let up or give up. The intensity continued until the final horn. Skilled as a wing guard. Capable on-ball defender, though Boyce Jr. blew by him with ease once. He was one of the few to give Kendrick Lloyd Kendrick Lloyd 6'2" | SG Red Bank | 2024 State TN a challenge. Lloyd was scoring on everybody in their opening game, except Mancell. Made sharp passes with either hand. His left-handed crosscourt pass gave Tyshaun Poore an open corner three-pointer.
Abe Reinbold Abe Reinbold 6'4" | SG Cleveland | 2026 State TN (Cleveland)
Cut sharply away from the basketball. Showed off a smooth turnaround jumper, though it missed. Defensively, he is a half-step slow guarding short, quick guards. He will be taller than most point guards, but his value to college teams will climb if he can keep 1’s and 2’s in front of him consistently.
Fantastic cutting without the basketball. Consistently.
Dillon Butler Dillon Butler 6'2" | SG Tipton-Rosemark Academy | 2025 State TN (Tipton-Rosemark)
Wonderful passer. Dillon was part of one of the most exciting plays. Watch. Didn’t commit turnovers often at all. Eager to make an unexpected pass demonstrating ideal unselfishness.
Solid user of the backboard from those angled jumpers from short-mid range.
Two-foot leaper. Rebounds with both hands.