NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
They stay converting any kid that's 6"6 into a PF, even if the kid has perimeter skills, nah you're on the low block. I mean eventually that's going to work and one of these kids is going to have a growth spurt that shoots them up to 6"10 to 7"0 but for the most part these coaches fukking suck.
Even with foreign blacks you should still be able to produce talent, Ben Gordon and Drummond are Jamaican, and the majority of black people in MV are Jamaican yet they continue to churn out prospects despite having a population of 60,000. That just tells me it's all coaching, I know the MV head coach doesn't like/let his players do national AAU circuits in the offseason. They start having tryouts for their Junior Knights in like 4th gradeand the middle school & JV team basically play the same type of system as the HS squad, they have program built to make & develop players from a young age.
The same thing is happening in Upstate NY with the Jamesville-Dewitt HS, they have a small black population yet they just had a McDonalds All American and won something like 4 state titles straight, 4 or 5 different D1 prospects.
My wife's nephew is now playing ball for a boarding school in White Plains. He's 6'5 and is getting coached MUCH better than what he was playing for his HS team out here coached by some dude who looks as if he belonged on the sideline with Kenny King.
