Sound Off piece on 2019 target Issa Samake

[tobya8]

LIKE!!! Hopefully he's not done growing. Get him locked down before he gets noticed!

 

[WIB]

Little off topic here, but does anyone recall that 6"11 kid we were recruiting either last year or the year prior. I can't recall his name, but he had come to the States from Africa and everyone kind of thought he had a high potential. I was wondering what he's up to now and where he went.

 

[IASTATE07]

Little off topic here, but does anyone recall that 6"11 kid we were recruiting either last year or the year prior. I can't recall his name, but he had come to the States from Africa and everyone kind of thought he had a high potential. I was wondering what he's up to now and where he went.

Didn't he go to UNLV?

 

[IASTATE07]

http://www.unlvrebels.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/cheickna_dembele_1022583.html

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Are you saying and North are bad school academically, or that they couldn't handle someone who is not a native english speaker? I can tell you from experience that Hoover has a very high percentage of ELL students.

I could see them wanting to have him in a smaller school environment to help his transition though.

The first one, mostly. A school the size of Grand View Christian can give a lot more attention to Issa than a school like North, where resources are stretched very thin.

I do recognize that the number of ELL students is significant at those schools, but that doesn't mean that they are successful or adequate .

 

[CyArob]

Little off topic here, but does anyone recall that 6"11 kid we were recruiting either last year or the year prior. I can't recall his name, but he had come to the States from Africa and everyone kind of thought he had a high potential. I was wondering what he's up to now and where he went.

Malou?

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Malou?

He was from Australia

 

[NoCreativity]

The first one, mostly. A school the size of Grand View Christian can give a lot more attention to Issa than a school like North, where resources are stretched very thin.

I do recognize that the number of ELL students is significant at those schools, but that doesn't mean that they are successful or adequate .

Des Moines North actually got a B- in academics on Niche.com, Des Moines Hoover a C+, not as high as some schools but I would hardly qualify them as bad academic schools. Good students are going to perform at whatever school they are attending.

 

[srjclone]

Little off topic here, but does anyone recall that 6"11 kid we were recruiting either last year or the year prior. I can't recall his name, but he had come to the States from Africa and everyone kind of thought he had a high potential. I was wondering what he's up to now and where he went.

Emmanuel Malou? had to forgo due to eligibility issues with the first Prep School he went to. Last I saw he was trying out the G-League, but haven't seen much since.

Edit: beat me to it. I remembered he grew up in Australia, but for some reason I thought he was a Kenya native?

 

[cyhiphopp]

Emmanuel Malou? had to forgo due to eligibility issues with the first Prep School he went to. Last I saw he was trying out the G-League, but haven't seen much since.

Edit: beat me to it. I remembered he grew up in Australia, but for some reason I thought he was a Kenya native?

He has a link to the Rio Grand Valley Vipers, but he's not on their current roster, so that probably didn't work out.

 

[srjclone]

He has a link to the Rio Grand Valley Vipers, but he's not on their current roster, so that probably didn't work out.

He is in Estonia. It looks like it just got announced he will be playing with BC Tallinna Kalev

http://sport.delfi.ee/news/korvpall...es-proovis-katt-ka-nba-suveliigas?id=81026747

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Des Moines North actually got a B- in academics on Niche.com, Des Moines Hoover a C+, not as high as some schools but I would hardly qualify them as bad academic schools. Good students are going to perform at whatever school they are attending.

And Grand View Christian got an A-

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Des Moines North actually got a B- in academics on Niche.com, Des Moines Hoover a C+, not as high as some schools but I would hardly qualify them as bad academic schools. Good students are going to perform at whatever school they are attending.

North got a C

https://www.niche.com/k12/north-high-school-des-moines-ia/

 

[NoCreativity]

And Grand View Christian got an A-

They also got an A+ in diversity and are 2 of the top baskeball programs in the biggest class in the state of Iowa. Two things that would also be important to me if I was the guardian.

 

[cyhiphopp]

And Grand View Christian got an A-

I won't argue that Grand View Christian has better academics than the public schools, but it will be hard to assess his talent against 1A competition. Is he on an AAU team? If not, he needs to be in order to get that experience.

 

[NoCreativity]

North got a C

https://www.niche.com/k12/north-high-school-des-moines-ia/

You'e right, I was looking at Sioux City North. My point is, academics are fine and all, but if he's going to play college ball, might be better to get an idea of how he performs against better competition. Maybe that's what AAU will prove?

 

[cyclonespiker33]

I won't argue that Grand View Christian has better academics than the public schools, but it will be hard to assess his talent against 1A competition. Is he on an AAU team? If not, he needs to be in order to get that experience.

I would hope he plays AAU, otherwise the small school thing is a huge issue.

 

[Dandy]

Then Dandy is correct. She doubted he was a 2018 prospect as the thread title stated.

This. Except for the whole "she" part.

 

[cyhiphopp]

This. Except for the whole "she" part.

Such a shy gal.

 

[FinalFourCy]

You'e right, I was looking at Sioux City North. My point is, academics are fine and all, but if he's going to play college ball, might be better to get an idea of how he performs against better competition. Maybe that's what AAU will prove?

The CIML isn’t that great of metric either. In terms of accessing a recruit from an Iowa high school it’s all about AAU.