Kentucky recruiting: K.C. Ross-Miller and Team Texas bites the dust in the Peach Jam, Athletes First misses the quarters
The oft-maligned K.C. Ross-Miller, a UK 2010 commitment playing for Team Texas, had a very strong tournament at Peach Jam. While not dominating the scoring, he went up against several more highly rated point guards like Josh Selby and Kendall Marshall and performed extremely well.
But last night, Team Texas lost a close one to BABC in the quarter-finals, and so are out of the tournament.
Congratulations to K.C. Ross-Miller for a great tournament. This is just one more of many scout service notices of his outstanding play:
Point guards Kendall Marshall and K.C. Ross-Miller both ran their respective teams well. The class of 2010 guards patiently ran the offense and chalked up important wins on Sunday night.
In other news from the Peach Jam, Daniel Orton's Athlete's First team made a strong comeback after struggling to a 1-2 record in Pool A, and managed to force a tie-breaker with California Supreme. Unfortunately, they missed out on the quarter-finals by two points in the plus/minus tie breaker. Orton got scout service plaudits for his solid play and excellent passing, although I don't think this will go down as one of his best tournaments.
Orton's teammate, Terrence Boyd, has blown up recently and his name has been on the lips of most UK fans. Boyd had a very strong tournament and is now on everybody's radar. Here is what Rivals had to say about him Sunday morning:
Terrence Boyd decided he was going to be that guy. All the middle linebacker look-alike did was scored 24 points and challenge anyone that wanted to step into his way inside the paint. His physical brand of basketball is certainly intimidating.
It may not be pretty but Boyd's game seems to amp up when it is needed the most. He embodies the warrior role quite well.
John Wall winds up his Peach Jam as the fourth leading scorer at 21 points/game, leading assist man at 6.3/game and 4th leading rebounder at 8/game. Not a bad performance, but his team struggled a bit.
Another guy you might have heard of performed well at the Peach Jam -- Marlon Brown. Brown is an elite, 5-star football prospect, but he is also an outstanding basketball player. Andy Staples at SI.com has the scoop, and Daniel Orton also manages to get a mention. Check it out.
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Nice To See Ross-Miller Playing Well Against Tougher Competition
His HS team doesn’t play a very strong schedule but he is a very fine player.
Ultimately he may wind up ranked Top 50 or higher and do well at UK.
by FortyYearCatFan on Jul 15, 2008 9:41 AM EDT 0 recs
Slow day on the forum here... need to spice things up!
Seriously people… its been over 5 hours since this was posted!
Tubby couldn’t recruit and destroyed the program!
Billy Gillispie is an alcoholic who stalks little kids and causes injuries with his overly tough practices!
Dick Vitale and Billy Packer would make the greatest commentating duo the world of basketball has ever seen!!!
Discuss.
(There… that ought to spice things up… Tru you can thank me for the increased post count later.)
Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."
by chirop1 on Jul 15, 2008 1:23 PM EDT 0 recs
Oh yea?
Well I think it’s time we get rid of Billy G. I mean good Lord, it’s been almost four months since the man has won a basketball game!! I’m on my way to his house with a “for sale” sign, who’s coming with me?!
Marc Maggard for the next UK coach!!
Still not a crook!
by TrickyD26 on
Jul 15, 2008 1:47 PM EDT
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Nice try chirop,
but I think you have pretty much already established yourself on this site as someone who doesn’t actually believe a word of what you just wrote. ; )
Now, if you really want to stir up some shit, create another login for yourself, that way you can basically create a whole new person with totally different beliefs. Use your alter-ego on slow days, use chirop when you want to be taken seriously. : )
But, I sure do hope business isn’t quite that slow for you!
by BigSkyCat on
Jul 15, 2008 2:20 PM EDT
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Hoping
Maybe he’s already doing that. You never see chirop and Paris in the same place at the same time. Hmm.
Just kidding, chirop. ;)
by Acdixon on
Jul 15, 2008 3:15 PM EDT
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Curses!
You’ve found me out! ;-)
But look… more posts! Mission Accomplished!
Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."
by chirop1 on
Jul 15, 2008 3:33 PM EDT
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Here U Go
Rupp > Pitino > Hall ~= Tubby > Sutton > Gillispie (in terms of career W-L % record and NCAA results).
by FortyYearCatFan on
Jul 15, 2008 7:46 PM EDT
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Not Yet!!!
Don’t fire Billy G yet…he just offered my 7 year-old son a scholarship!
(How’s that for stirring the pot?)
by tooblue on Jul 15, 2008 3:18 PM EDT 0 recs
Ill play the role of the ignorant guy who cant take a joke (or spell).
Caoch Gilluspie IS NOT A DRUNK.
TUBBY was better than Rupp. Just lkook at the numbers.
They havent even played a game in 4 months SO HOW DO YOU THING THAT THEY CAN WIN A GAME.
Your as smart as MM.
by KingKentucky on Jul 15, 2008 3:46 PM EDT 0 recs
hahahaha--good one King
I love the misspellings and the use of ALL CAPS. Gives such an authentic look!
How bout these: Why didn’t Tubby recruit Lofton? Why didn’t Pitino put a man on Hill on the inbound pass? Is Richie going to start tonight??
by blue kentucky girl on
Jul 15, 2008 8:23 PM EDT
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Those are EASY to answer.
Tubby thought that Chris Lofton didnt play enough like Saul, and therefore wouldnt have been a good player.
Pitino WANTED to lose the game.
Richie Farmer never had an athletic bone in his body.
Those should keep the conversation going.
by KingKentucky on
Jul 15, 2008 8:58 PM EDT
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And oh yea....
Kentucky doesnt have enough fans to keep a little museum open.
by KingKentucky on
Jul 15, 2008 8:58 PM EDT
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I have to give all the guys and gals here a big high five!
I had not checked in for the last 3 days because I was having monthly social with my three sisters and it took me almost 3 hours to read all the comments over that time.
The Sea of Blue was crazy active for a weekend!
Awesome job all you members out there and I noticed some new ones too!
by kykat51 on Jul 15, 2008 4:04 PM EDT 0 recs
Kudos...
to Tru and Ken for getting these “few” UK fans so riled lol :-)
I have yet to see a response from Dickie V. on his site, but is no more than I expected.
Check the site…the Marshall coach and Huggins have snubbed their noses at the NABC also recently as did Donovan.
by kykat51 on Jul 15, 2008 4:17 PM EDT 0 recs
Ahh ...
... sorry folks. Busy day today.
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