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Rock Chalk Talk: Basketball
Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Graham is clutch!!!! nfm
8 years 1 month ago #5391
by Bayhawk
The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet
RC. 
The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet
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8 years 1 month ago #5426
by HawkErrant
Back on the old board I posted an article about Tom Konchalski. I can't find the exact article today, but here is what I can find and what I remember.
On Tom Konchalski and High School Basketball Illustrated:
A player who receives a five-star rating in HSBI is projected to be “a major contributor” by his sophomore season for “the average nationally ranked [Division I] team”; a player given one star will be the same for “middle-of-the-road Division III programs.” More often than not—much more often than not—Konchalski’s projections pan out. “If Tom says a kid’s going to be a star, you can mark it down,” says Howard Garfinkel, a co-founder of the famed Five-Star Basketball camps. “He’s a very keen judge of talent.”
nymag.com/news/sports/66474/
A “5+” player is the highest rating HSBI gives. Think Kyrie Irving.
Tom rated Graham a 5, according to Graham's coach at Brewster Academy.
I'm not at all surprised at Devonté's progress, and am in fact very glad to see that he is a little ahead of schedule!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
murphyslaw wrote: Yes! Our baby-faced little guy with the heart of a lion!
What a wonderful surprise he has been, and what a wonderful future he has as a Jayhawk!
Back on the old board I posted an article about Tom Konchalski. I can't find the exact article today, but here is what I can find and what I remember.
On Tom Konchalski and High School Basketball Illustrated:
A player who receives a five-star rating in HSBI is projected to be “a major contributor” by his sophomore season for “the average nationally ranked [Division I] team”; a player given one star will be the same for “middle-of-the-road Division III programs.” More often than not—much more often than not—Konchalski’s projections pan out. “If Tom says a kid’s going to be a star, you can mark it down,” says Howard Garfinkel, a co-founder of the famed Five-Star Basketball camps. “He’s a very keen judge of talent.”
nymag.com/news/sports/66474/
A “5+” player is the highest rating HSBI gives. Think Kyrie Irving.
Tom rated Graham a 5, according to Graham's coach at Brewster Academy.
I'm not at all surprised at Devonté's progress, and am in fact very glad to see that he is a little ahead of schedule!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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8 years 1 month ago #5433
by konza63
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
Love the kid's game. LOVE it! 
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
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