Jordan McRae

[Montrell Hardy]

By far the best overall player I saw up here in Cincinnati at the Adidas Take 5 yesterday at UC.

In the game I saw he put up 42 points for the Atlanta Celtics. He was unstoppable and scored every way imagineable.

He has the most complete game of any player that was at the event and not only that but he is also the best athlete out of everyone I saw by a solid margin and there was some good talent there yesterday.

[RoSmitty12]

How'd he look defensively?

[RoSmitty12]

And not to be a jerk but I think it is McRae

[UTDreamTeam#22#25]

sounds great. i really excited about the '10 class. with him and selby, along with a big man, sounds like a winning combonation

[TennTradition]

Sounds great....I hope he keeps on improving. Any chance he improves his defense?

[colvol]

If he scored 42 while playing with atlanta celts thats amazing, those guys are beast everyone of them i knew he could shoot but wow Dwight Howard and Josh Smith came out of that team 42 and some assists that spells ball player

[Midfielder10]

we just have to hope selby gets his attitude in line before he gets here.

[LawVol13]

Hat, have you seen Mcrae play? I know you aren't too high on Selby. Just curious of your opinion of this guy.

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by kiffinator13

Hat, have you seen Mcrae play? I know you aren't too high on Selby. Just curious of your opinion of this guy.

I haven't seen him live in quite some time, so I'd be hesistant to make an evaluation. I'd like to get a look at his game this summer. I will say that a couple of coaches whose evaluation skills I respect really like him. Also, I've never questioned Selby's talent. It's his attitude I've got reservations about.

[LawVol13]

Originally Posted by hatvol96

I haven't seen him live in quite some time, so I'd be hesistant to make an evaluation. I'd like to get a look at his game this summer. I will say that a couple of coaches whose evaluation skills I respect really like him. Also, I've never questioned Selby's talent. It's his attitude I've got reservations about.

Thanks man. Keep us posted when you do see him live.

[zjcvols]

Originally Posted by hatvol96

I haven't seen him live in quite some time, so I'd be hesistant to make an evaluation. I'd like to get a look at his game this summer. I will say that a couple of coaches whose evaluation skills I respect really like him. Also, I've never questioned Selby's talent. It's his attitude I've got reservations about.

wats wrong w/ his attitude?

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by zjcvols

wats wrong w/ his attitude?

DeMata runs the possibly the best and classiest program in all of high school basketball. No one player is allowed to think or act as if they are more important than the team. They threw Selby out on his ass. Connect the dots.

[Midfielder10]

Originally Posted by zjcvols

wats wrong w/ his attitude?

He's definitely a me first player and if he doesn't get what he wants he whines about it. He could also have off court issues.

[volguy0992]

What kind of competition did he face. I'm sure it was good but just curious

[OrangeJuicebox]

Originally Posted by hatvol96

DeMata runs the possibly the best and classiest program in all of high school basketball. No one player is allowed to think or act as if they are more important than the team. They threw Selby out on his ass. Connect the dots.

FYI, Selby was not "thrown out on his ass". He transferred for academic reasons. One, Dematha is an extremely tough school academically. Two, I'll just show a quote from a Scout article on June 3rd:

“I switched from DeMatha because of the traveling issue,” said Selby of his junior year transfer. “What I learned there was to be mentally tough. Catching a train at six o’clock in the morning, not getting home until one sometimes and then being back up at five taught me to be tough.”

THIS was the reason Selby was supsended from the team for a while. It wasn't his "attitude", but because he missed the 6 o'clock train and had no way to get to school. The train was his only way to school because he lived far away from Dematha and had no one to take him. He was supsended for "skipping" school.

Imagine what a pain it would be to have to get up at 5 in the morning, go to school, go to bball practice, and then not get home until after midnight, only to have to get up at 5 o'clock and do it all over again. How many of us would over-sleep ocassionally and miss the train?

Selby also had this to say about the perception people have about him:

“A lot of people don’t know, their opinions don’t really matter to me,” finishes Selby. “As long as the people that really know me know who I am, that’s all that matters. I know that people label me as a problem child but that’s not who I am. So the people who say that’s who I am need to get to know me. They don’t understand me at all.”

I personally think that Selby has a swagger that we need. His fearlessness translates well to his game. He admits that sometimes his emotions get him in trouble, but I see that as something that, as he matures, can be harnassed to make him an emotional leader for us.

Even though the quotes are from a competing site, please leave them, because I think some people really need to see them.