Whatever happened to recruiting athletes from the hood?

[TaxCollector13459]

No it's not. First of all in 2021 pure talent ain't getting you anywhere. There's a shyt ton of talent. You better have some kind of work ethic and skills. And if a "talent" is stuck in the hood then it's likely because he ain't got the work ethic or skills.

Unless by "talent" you mean a 6'7+ nikka with crazy athleticism and even that type of nikka ain't getting overlooked in the hood because some coach/scout/father figure would have scooped him up and been training him early.

The criminal system eats alot of talent too

 

[TaxCollector13459]

This is exactly how Wall got to the league, went to that Reebok exposure camp that anybody can pay to go to and killed, got invited to the top 100 camp and came out that number 1 player in country when was unranked before that..shyt had all of us in awe how fast he ascended after that lol

To be fair John was on the AAU circuit here too with the G-road bulldogs. And he played at Word of God too, a solid hoop school

 

[getmoney310cpt]

To be fair John was on the AAU circuit here too with the G-road bulldogs. And he played at Word of God too, a solid hoop school

I remember, I went prep in the area..he was know locally but he wasn’t ranked nationally until that camp, I remember being at Nationals the same time as that camp he was at and seeing Dave Telep write how John was dominating and is now the top player in 09 when before that he was at best a two star prospect on scout after he reclassified at WOG

 

[TaxCollector13459]

I remember, I went prep in the area..he was know locally but he wasn’t ranked nationally until that camp, I remember being at Nationals the same time as that camp he was at and seeing Dave Telep write how John was dominating and is now the top player in 09 when before that he was at best a two star prospect on scout after he reclassified at WOG

It's crazy though because alotta hoppers went to schools like southeast, enloe, millbrook, they get caught up in the gang shyt. That's why I laugh when cats be thinking John faking. Bra really made it out

 

[getmoney310cpt]

It's crazy though because alotta hoppers went to schools like southeast, enloe, millbrook, they get caught up in the gang shyt. That's why I laugh when cats be thinking John faking. Bra really made it out

Facts

 

[Yogi]

I was going to say, it seems like South Florida has kept the athletes in city better than others.

Do the private schools recruit hard in the urban areas of So. Fla?

Our private schools take a backseat to suburban public schools but in other places, the private schools eat off big time talent.

Yeah, the private schools hit the urban areas hard. Some schools like St. Thomas are so loaded that they have 2nd stringers go on to get D-1 scholarships for football. I just think there are so many raw athletes coming through the pipeline that it’s hard for the privates to identify them all and scoop them up. Also, there is a certain football culture in Miami that results in kids dreaming of playing for Central or Northwestern in the city.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

It’s also a small town and Jerry Stackhouse puts in a lot of work with the youngings there

Reggie Bullock is from there. Shocking amount of talent in all sectors for such a small population.

good article on this

How the tiny hometown of Brandon Ingram became the greatest per capita producer of NBA talent in America

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

The criminal system eats alot of talent too

I was just having this conversation last night.

 

[get these nets]

The criminal system eats alot of talent too

It had Iverson in its belly, until two Black men gave him a chance.
Gov. Wilder and Coach Thompson

He was an MVP and Hall of Famer, but he would just been a street legend/myth if he didn't get those breaks.

Iverson was a unique talent, but I have to believe that there are potential all star caliber players who slip through the cracks all the time.

 

[TaxCollector13459]

It had Iverson in its belly, until two Black men gave him a chance.
Gov. Wilder and Coach Thompson

He was an MVP and Hall of Famer, but he would just been a street legend/myth if he didn't get those breaks.

Iverson was a unique talent, but I have to believe that there are potential all star caliber players who slip through the cracks all the time.

Facts, nikkas support systems are just as important as talent and all that shyt. Look at delonte west

 

[L&HH]

TNT just did a feature on this little girl basketball player who has crazy handles. I'm posting this here because although this is a girl I think this is sort of a microcosm of the future of basketball. It's clear her and her sister come from a well off family. I think that court they practice on is in their crib. They're 10 years old and have elite trainers working them out 5 hours a day. This is happening all over America where the upper class and middle class are going to be able to afford this kind of regiment that your average kid from the hood isn't going to have.

But this is what I meant in my post above about being able to afford "marketing". She went viral by going to an event hosted by that basketball youtuber Brandon Armstrong. What she did there then got her on TNT.

Salute to her and not taking anything away from her cause no matter what you have access to you still have to put in the work which she's doing.



Also as time goes by there are going to be more and more pro ball players and they have the means to have 3, 4, 5+ kids all of which will have access to elite training and young ages plus the genes of their parents.

The class disparity in America is going to be really real in the upcoming decades.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Draymond



Before D-Rose I think the last one was Pierce at Inglewood High.

Saganaw pride awwwwwe rightttt

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Draymond



Before D-Rose I think the last one was Pierce at Inglewood High.

Chris Bosh went to Lincoln HS in South Dallas

 

[How Sway?]

A lot of you guys are mentioning kids being taken out of the hoods and put into prep schools young and that's definitely true. But what I think also is going on is a lot of these top prospects straight up aren't hood kids at all. They're the kids of middle class and up former athletes. These people have the genetics, know how and means to provide top notch training, couching, and marketing to get their kids to the next level.

It seems like every recruiting cycle there's a child whose mother was a former ball player or father was a former ball player or father was a Lavar Ball type (with less notoriety).

RJ Barrett's mother was a former pro ball player. Andrew Wiggins folks were in the NBA and Olympics, Ja Morant's pops was a high school teammate of Ray Allen and played semi-pro, Marvin Bagley pops played in the AFL, Cole Anthony is Greg Anthony's son, Ball brothers, Ben Simmons father the NBL

I haven't been paying attention but I really don't know who the last Lebron single mother with no father around get out the mud type. I'm sure there is some but on draft night it seems like most these dudes have both parents in their lives and seems to come from stable homes.

Derrick Rose, KD and John Wall?

And that was 10+ years ago lol

It's like some informal neopotism going on in the NBA right now.

But you cant call it full blown neopotism b/c like you said these kids are talented due to their genetics from their parents and of course the resources that they receive due to they're parents lol...

 

[How Sway?]

Lot of these hoopers at Whitney young, Simeon, Curie, Bogan not even city kids. It was a couple dudes I went to elementary & junior high with in the south burbs that went to hoop in CPS cuz they’d get more shine. This was, of course, before AAU got real hot. @Offthegrid

Patrick Beverly went to Waubonsie valley in Aurora before transferring to Marshall

there were a few suburb schools with clout in the basketball world though like Proviso east, ST Joesephs (private school ) thornwood and Homewood-flossmoor etc.

Maybe OPRF