* Dre Henley is a 6'6 small forward and considered one of the top players in Illinois in 2011, the Hoops Report has him as the second best player in the state in 2011. According to the recruiting guy blog Henley is playing well at the Arkansas elite camp. The photo at the right is from NY2LA's web site. http://recruiting.arkansasonline.com/index.php/2009/08/07/late-night-camp-tidbits/
* Former Indianapolis Lawrence North forward Dominique Fergeson has committed to coach Zeke Thomas at Florida International. Fergeson should be one of the most talented recruits ever to go to the Sun Belt. If Thomas gets him to stay for a few years he could really pay dividends.
* Indianapolis native Deven Williams claims offers from Indiana, Marquette, Oregon State, IUPUI, Indiana State and Southern Miss. He played this summer with the Naptown Ballers but is going to a prep school. http://w3.nbebasketball.com/2009/08/08/illinois-wolves-16-u-team-has-big-east-targets/ Williams drew some great reviews in Merrillville at the End of Summer Slam when the Naptown Ballers made it to the championship game. Here is a description quoted from the link that follows from a report on him from an NC Tech game this February. "Devin Williams (NC Tech) - Led NC Tech to the victory. Williams is a 6' strong, athletic point guard. He handled the ball very well, and attacked the rim all game long. He was able to find open teammates off his dribble drives and was capable of knocking down three pointers (needs to improve consistency). Williams best asset was his combination of strength and breaking his defender down off the dribble; he displayed a nasty cross over and is a D-I lock.
" http://www.scoutsfocus.com/Articles/pattersontourney.html
* The above NBE blog link has video from several of the 16U Illinois Wolves including Nana Egwu, Jacob Williams, and Chasson Randle.
* The Nike Global Games are ongoing in Portland, Oregon and the Adidas Nations event is ongoing in Dallas, Texas. Both events have several players either from our neighborhood or being recruited by key schools. I haven't tried to keep up for the blog because most of those kids are top 50 national type of players and that isn't my focus here but check Oregonlive, Portland's wonderful newspaper the Oregonian has a web site and has box scores, updates, and video from several of the games. Kyrie Irving, Doron Lamb, and other players of local interest had big games yesterday at the Global Games.
http://highschoolsports.oregonlive.com/news/article/-1054256946684675396/the-nike-global-challenge-day-one-recap/ The Adidas Nations has its own website and will be posting the championship game live this evening at 6:30 PM. The semi-final game is at 3:30. http://www.eastbay.com/promotion/promoId:5003919/adidas-nations/?SID=6206&cm_mmc=Redirects-_-eastbay-_-adidasnations_-null/ USA 2010 will be playing Team Canada in the final. Several kids of interest to local schools and some local players are in the event including Marquis Teague (USA 2011), Devontes Smith-Rivera (Latin America), Cody Zeller (USA 2011), Mason Plumlee (USA 2011) and others.
* I have received word from someone that I normally trust that the above offers for Deven Williams to Marquette and Indiana might not be accurate, but unfortunately I still have no direct knowledge if they are accurate or not. The good Mongrel loves to dig up obscure links and rely on some regular sources such as NBE for hot off the presses updates on offers, school lists, visits, etc but just in case it isn't clear I want to underscore that when I say "so and so claims an offer" or "so and so tells so and so in this link they have an offer" I am not vouching for the accuracy of the information. Even if no kids exaggerated their offers, they are often so ambiguous that especially younger kids mix up "I want you to play for my school" and "I'm offering you a scholarship" and things like that. But when a kid claims an offer even if he is wrong you at least know that the school is recruiting him hard enough so that he thinks he has one and kids get offers all the time that the wisest observers didn't think they would so without direct knowledge to contradict a report I'll just pass them on and let people do what they want. If the Mongrel says "so and so has an offer" then the Mongrel believes they do. If the Mongrel says "so and so claims an offer" or "so and so told blog x he has an offer" then that's just what it is.
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