This year’s exciting Reebok Summer Championships held this week in Las
Vegas, Nevada, has been an event filled with high anticipation each day.
With a talented Super Pool of teams facing off each day in front of a large
number of college coaches, the pressure has mounted exactly as planned. On
Wednesday, superstar scoring machine Kenny Boynton once again led a scoring
onslaught as he knocked down an excursion of three-point bombs and
transition baskets to carry his Team Breakdown (FL) group past the Franchize
All-Stars (TX), 64-51.
Team Breakdown, widely recognized as the nation’s premier AAU/club program,
saw defeat for the only the second time this AAU season, as they were
defeated on Wednesday by D-One Sports (NC), 71-78. The nation’s top ranked
player in America’s 2009 class, 6-foot-4 dynamic senior guard John Wall
leads this very talented group of performers. Wall is as talented and
skilled that I have seen play the game in recent memory …
6-foot-10 senior Ryan Kelly of Raleigh (NC) Ravenscroft School is the real
deal. This ultra-talented post player has the skill level and promise to
become one of the great ones one day. His big time performance Wednesday
evening for D-One Sports in a narrow, 81-86, loss at the hands of DC Triple
Threat puts him in the category of the nation’s select big men. Kelly’s
ability to score around the painted area as well as from the perimeter with
ease are worthy of the price of admission. His fluidity with the basketball
seems almost unnatural, but is what makes him so special …
14 year AAU/club coach Rock Johnson is always fun to watch coach his
I-American All-Stars team in these events, and he did not disappoint
Wednesday, as his team faced a tough and finely tuned and oiled machine
known as the Illinois Wolves. The Wolves, coached by Jeff Carpenter and led
by 6-foot-4 senior guard Joseph Bertrand and 6-foot-3 senior Diamond Taylor
cruised past I-American in fine fashion, 70-52.
The well-coached and disciplined version of this year’s Wolves are one team
that needs to be wreckoned with sincerely, as they make their push towards
winning this year’s Reebok event. This team has a very good mix of players,
including very steady guard play, wings that put pressure on the opposing
team’s transition defense and also post players that possess very good
length and athleticism. This is my darkhorse team that will make noise in
this year’s tournament.
July 24, 2008
Anthony Ray
Arizona Preps
Tags: Ryan Kelly
(3 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5)
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