Las Vegas summer tournament

[Nevada Hoya]

There were a bunch of basketball games going on in the UNLV wellness center (aka rec center) and college coaches were walking around. Does anybody know what this tourney is and is anybody of merit here?

[Nevada Hoya]

www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/22/prep-basketball-continues-flourish-each-summer-las/

Besides the preps, we have the USA team (with Jeff) starting practice this week. I believe the open scrimmage is Saturday.

[JS]

According to Dana O'Neil's Twitter feed, Coach Thompson is/was in Nevada.

1st gym of day, packed house. JT3, Coach K, Bob Huggins, Jeff Capel and Isiah Thomas in house
3:40 PM Jul 22nd from txt

[HeartAttackHoya]

Isiah Thomas..........looooooooooooooooool!

[Nevada Hoya]

There are various venues all over town, mostly high schools, but some at UNLV, mainly the rec center. I have seen coaches from Kansas, Texas, UCDavis, Santa Clara (looking for another Steve Nash), Texas-Pan Am.

[hoyawoodhoopster]

While I couldn't get there -- wedding in (a very hot) Denver this week-end -- Eric Sondheimer ( the lead high school writer for the L.A. Times) is in Sin City to report on both the Adidas and Reebok tournaments, which run through tomorrow. He reported that JT III is in the house, along with the other usual suspects (Brey, Coach K., Ben Howland, Huggins, Jamie Dixon, and Kevin O'Neill, who has been given the job of resuscitating either Michael Jackson or the USC basketball program, whichever seems more feasible). Main focus of the piece is on Howland's attempts to pry Josh Smith away from Washington (the State guys, not our campus), and Coach Romar. He (Sondheimer) makes it sound like it's a toss-up, but as the recruiting gurus on this board often note, who knows. Terrence Jones is mentioned; as I'll note in a minute in that thread, we are not. Now if we could just spank UW in the Wooden Classic on December 12......

[DanMcQ]

Long Beach Press-Telegram: Squads in Vegas crap out

The Compton Magic Black squad fell behind by 10 points in the early going and never caught up before losing to the New England Playaz, 72-64, in a quarterfinal of the adidas Super 64 in North Las Vegas Sunday morning.

The New England squad has a roster dominated by big, physical and mature players - led by 6-foot-8 Nate Lubick, who is committed to Georgetown.

[DanMcQ]

www.lvrj.com/sports/51776622.html

Super 64 title goes down to the buzzer - Memphis team rallies from 50-34 deficit to win

Nate Lubick, a 6-7 forward, dunked four times and led New England with 19 points.

www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/27/jackson-crawford-spark-memphis-magic-elite-adidas-/

Joe Jackson insists he could have hit the 30-foot 3-pointer while double-teamed along the left sideline to defeat the New England Playaz Sunday night in the adidas Super 64 title game.

But in true point guard fashion, the Memphis Magic Elite star found a way to fire the ball cross-court to teammate Chris Crawford, who hit a floater from 10 feet out on the right side to clinch the tourney title, 64-62, at Rancho High.

Trailing 50-34 a little past the mid-way point in the second half, both teams looked sluggish, showing the effects of a non-stop game schedule since the tournament’s start on Wednesday. Following pool play, the title game was the sixth in three days for each team.

“I don’t feel tired, but I know I am,” Jackson said. “That’s how we like to play, I guess. We know we can come back, so we never get down.”

With the deficit at 14 points, the Magic began applying full-court pressure, forcing three consecutive New England turnovers to spark a 12-1 run.

“They like to stall the ball and run their offense,” Jackson said. “If you pest them and get up in them, make them change their minds and do different things, they’ll turn it over, do crazy stuff and take bad shots.

“We didn’t give up, came back, gave it our all and got rewarded for it.”

[DanMcQ]

www.newenglandrecruitingreport.com/news/article/927/Playaz-Fall-at-Buzzer-in-Super-64-Finals.php

[DanMcQ]

Coaches told to stay away from GBOA banquet in Vegas:

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4359729

[DanMcQ]

sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/basketball/mens/news/story?id=4361148