Fall Ball Shootout Standouts

PH NorCal was at College of San Mateo for the first of our NorCal Fall Ball seasonal events. More standout players from this event that caught our attention with their play on the court.    A seasoned guard, has the ability at this level to effect the game from both guard positions. He brings it up, handles ball pressure, sets the offense in half-court keeping his dribble live, has court vision, and ball movement. He has slick handles, can get aggressive looking to get a bucket in the flow, or in transition. He'll use floaters, paint jumpers finishing, if he's not dishing, and kicking it out. He's an excellent 3-point shooter.     The strong muscular prospect seems to be in the process of expanding his overall skill set. He has size and strength at this level to score, rebound, and defend inside. He'll use power moves, and other ways to get a bucket. At this event we saw ball handling away from the basket, bringing the ball up court, driving from the perimeter, and initiating the offense, had a good stroke from 3. He played with effort defending away from the basket. He's improving     Mans the middle on defense, has lengthy arms for rebounding, led the team with 5.6 last season. He has improving paint presence, awareness and movement on offense end, lots of pass, screen and cuts to the basket shows target hand. He plants, balances himself, then goes up off two feet. He can be a target in the low post, usually finishes. He has the tools to join the double double.     A strong guard with improving handles, goes high and hard to the basket finishing in traffic, crossed the lane a few times using his dribble swoop in from the sides for 2pts. He gets good lift on the paint jumper, made cuts without the ball for traffic layups. Fills and finishes in transition. He'll move the ball, defend multiple positions. A good rebounding guard.     The 6'7 Forward has been playing good basketball the last two events we've seen him in. He was a Top 30 participant at ProWest Camp a few weeks ago. Was one of the better bigs we saw at this event. He's working hard, with continued conditioning, and footwork work he'll be hard to guard in the paint. He played with effort, had patience and balance finishing all around the rim. He used 1 quick hard dribble to balance, then power up. He has the potential to join the double, double club this season.

PH NorCal was at College of San Mateo for the first of our NorCal Fall Ball seasonal events. More standout players from this event that caught our attention with their play on the court.