Recruiting looking good for me. I maxed 4 players every week (I know, not the best strategy), and they came in at a 3/3, 0/0, 0/0, and 1/1. At this point, should I back off the two 0/0s a bit to find a replacement for the 3/3?
How many players are you contending for in your net? Are you a large program? Your best strategy would be to put 8-10 points on your maxes each week and keep maxing your 3/3 and 1/1. That gives you room to max one other player in your net, two depending on how many points you have left.
Banner day for the Duluth Bullish Deacs. The only blemish was that we lost to Boca 75-72 in a scrimmage. The other two scrimmages and the regular season game went very well. Duluth is back folks.
We beat 5-4 Pueblo 104-41 in what has to be my biggest margin of victory against a team with a winning record. We held them to 17-54 shooting and doubled them up on rebounds and FTAs.
We also beat Dearborn 76-60 and Flagstaff 94-69.
The big stars were my starting SG and SF Soph Ernest Morin and Sr Adam Cox. Here are Morin and Cox' scoring totals against Pueblo, Dearborn, Flagstaff, and Boca.
Morin - 29, 36, 28, 21
Cox - 39, 16, 30, 22
Morin is 9th in the league in scoring at 23.2 pts. Cox is 23rd with 21.1.
But the Duluth boards are really buzzing about recruiting.
Oh yeah. I went all in on three net guys. I could either have 7 good players at 0/0 or I could have 7 players at 1/1 and 2/2 and only enough points to max 4 of them. It's a big risk.
The risks paid off big time. First the maxes.
Dan Lash and Aaron Leadbetter came up 1/1. I have them as two of the top 5 PGs in the class. Only 5 of my net were maxed.
Lash is Fair+ Scouted GeeFe and I think he'll end up GEGFFG. Averaging 19.8 pts and 2.8 ast, the 1.9 turnovers probably scared some people off, but he's a lock down defender. Opposing PGs averaged around 4 turnovers per 30 min against him. It may have actually been more. Can't see him giving up the PG position if I get him. I'm in a toss up with New Haven. He's Good+ Win, but New Haven is pretty similar.
Leadbetter is Fair- Scouted eeGfg. I think GGGF_G is reasonable. Solid scorer and assist man in scrimmages. He's Exc+ Win and I have an edge on Glendale.
Duluth HS 6-9 C Warren Donnelly came out 0/0. This is a guy averaging 17.2 pts, 9.0 reb, 1.2 blks. Now he is only Fair+ Scouted gFFeF, but I think he'll probably end up GFFFEF which I could definitely use at PF. Sadly, I lost my hard drive with all my scrimmage results on it, but I think he averaged 17/7 even against some of the elite bigs in the class. If he can be a consistent 12/6 guy next year playing 25 minutes at PF, that would be huge. Originally I was going to high net him since I didn't think I NEEDED a big, but I'm very happy he's in the bag.
6-3 PG Fritz Curran isn't as much of a surprise 0/0 as Donnelly. Although he averages 23.4 pts and 2.2 stl, his 2.8 turnovers probably turned a lot of people off. But I just need a poor man's Morin at bSG. He's Poor scouted ggFfF. His scoring is pretty strong in scrimmages and his defense was solid as well. I think there's a decent chance he comes up EGFF_G. I'll take GGFF_G if he is the player he is in scrimmages. Of course, he isn't my 2nd choice and may be my 6th choice depending on how my net players look in scrimmages.
I high netted three of my net players and only Elwood Douglas was maxed, ironically by New Haven. I now have a 0/x lead for both of them. I can't talk too much about them yet but both are tweeners who are strong post scorers in HS and had great numbers in scrimmages. I may pref them over Curran if they look good at SG or SF in scrimmages. Both will probably be EFFFFG. Having a post scorer would allow me to play one of them at PF with Donnelly at C.
I'll max 4 and hold my 0/0s and figure out prefs after some scrimmages. I have some decent guards at 0/0 in my net. I'll pass on names by Friday to any who are interested.
