2018 Basketball Recruiting Thread

[CarmenWallaceWade]

I did actually have a question in my post though: Does anyone know if Zion is interested in Duke? Like I said, Duke isn't listed as a school of interest in his profile.

A few folks at 247 seem to think so.

http://247sports.com/PlayerInstituti...ertPredictions

[kAzE]

A few folks at 247 seem to think so.

http://247sports.com/PlayerInstituti...ertPredictions

Nice, I would love to see this guy in Duke Blue. Then maybe Gottlieb can say we're alarmingly athletic.

[Troublemaker]

I did actually have a question in my post though: Does anyone know if Zion is interested in Duke? Like I said, Duke isn't listed as a school of interest in his profile.

Yes, he is interested in Duke. Scout is wrong if they don't list Duke.

[rhynelander]

I did actually have a question in my post though: Does anyone know if Zion is interested in Duke? Like I said, Duke isn't listed as a school of interest in his profile.

http://247sports.com/player/zion-williamson-85997

Don't know how much stock you put into the CB, but Duke leads at 60% as of now. Obviously it's still early, but I also seem to remember reading he grew up a Duke fan. Not that that means much, but it can't really hurt. He would get a great get, especially if he played D anything like Nate James!

[Troublemaker]

Zion Williamson is drawing huge crowds to see his games. Kinda fun video to see the crowd reaction to him.

[BandAlum83]

I did actually have a question in my post though: Does anyone know if Zion is interested in Duke? Like I said, Duke isn't listed as a school of interest in his profile.

Is Duke interested in Zion?

[Olympic Fan]

Is Duke interested in Zion?

Ahh ... the fact that he's attended several Duke games over the last two years and sat behind the bench ... once making the trek to sit with the Crazies, would suggest, yes.

I found this is a Raleigh N&O article from February:

From the first time Zion could dribble a basketball, Mom was his coach. She was at once a middle-school physical education teacher, boys basketball coach and coach of all of her son’s recreation league teams. In those recreation leagues, she met her current husband, Lee Anderson, who played basketball at Columbus (Ga.) State University.
Anderson ran a basketball program for youth players in Florence during the summer months, and Sampson enrolled her son.
One day, Anderson asked Zion, then 5, the same question he posed to all others in camp.
“What do you want to do when you grow up?”
“I want to go to Duke and play basketball,” Zion replied.

[BandAlum83]

Is Duke interested in Zion?

I see from looking at 247, we offered. I had never seen this site before now.

It seems for 2017, we offered the # 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10 nationally ranked players.

Now I am really wondering, I thought certain players were "Duke" players. If we are offering nearly everyone in the top 10 these days, has the profile of a Duke player changed?

Is the profile a OAD, otherwise a good student in the 20+ range?

Someone out here, please talk me off the ledge to utter cynicism.

[budwom]

I see from looking at 247, we offered. I had never seen this site before now.

It seems for 2017, we offered the # 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10 nationally ranked players.

Now I am really wondering, I thought certain players were "Duke" players. If we are offering nearly everyone in the top 10 these days, has the profile of a Duke player changed?

Is the profile a OAD, otherwise a good student in the 20+ range?

Someone out here, please talk me off the ledge to utter cynicism.

I'll talk you off the ledge by saying that somehow you have misinterpreted what are Duke offers, or you are referencing some bogus data. When I look at 247 (Devils Den), we are listed as
having top targets of the #s 3 (Bamba), 4 (Carter), 5 (Duval),8 (Knox) 10 (Trent) and 62 (O'Connell). Carter, Trent and O'Connell are already in the bag (truck), everyone knows about the wooage of Bamba, Knox and Duval.
The number 1 and 2 guys in the class, Ayton and Porter, are not on Duke's radar, though Porter once was long ago.

And to answer your question about the number of offers, well, the One and Dones, they (by definition) come and go, necessitating annual replacement parts Transfers compound the issue.

[richardjackson199]

Holy Mount Zion!

Check out this dunk:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more...6L5?li=BBnba9I

[kAzE]

Holy Mount Zion!

Check out this dunk:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more...6L5?li=BBnba9I

I agree, that dunk was better than anything that happened in the NBA dunk contest this year.

[MChambers]

Washington Post with a short piece on Williamson:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.9f90bdfa50b3

[kAzE]

More Zion highlights:

https://youtu.be/BusVuoP1TLY

After watching that, all other mixtape dunks seem pretty tame. Pretty sure we haven't seen a guy with this level physicality and athleticism since LeBron.

[Dr. Rosenrosen]

I agree, that dunk was better than anything that happened in the NBA dunk contest this year.

C'mon... nothing could top Gordon's drone dunk.

[Troublemaker]

Cam Reddish yesterday, Zion Williamson today

Chip Miller‏ @BLUEChip_Miller 3h3 hours ago
Duke was three deep on Friday during a visit with Westtown School (PA) 2018 five-star guard Cameron Reddish (@camreddish), per @ASlater247.

Adam Rowe‏ @AdamRoweTDD Apr 7
#Duke coaches visiting 2018's #1 player, Zion Williamson (@ZionW32) Saturday

[BD80]

And ol' roy is happily puttering around some golf course ...

[brlftz]

For once I'd say he's earned it

[topps coach]

http://247sports.com/player/zion-williamson-85997

Don't know how much stock you put into the CB, but Duke leads at 60% as of now. Obviously it's still early, but I also seem to remember reading he grew up a Duke fan. Not that that means much, but it can't really hurt. He would get a great get, especially if he played D anything like Nate James!

Zion plays for my son in the summer.Great kid but it is unlikely that he leaves SC

[FadedTackyShirt]

Zion plays for my son in the summer.Great kid but it is unlikely that he leaves SC

Interesting...South Carolina over Clemson?

[topps coach]

Interesting...South Carolina over Clemson?

SC probably hope I am wrong.