Redford's successor???

[PeterG]

Got this recruit off of the Dayton board, but....in looking at this guy's high school stats, it reminded me of Brad's stats in high school, i.e., 47% 3-pt shooting, 90% FT average, averaging 33 pts per game. A senior next year, so he could transition in, just as BR transitions out. Supposedly, because he's from the Pittsburgh area, the Millers, Archie and Sean, have an inside track to this guy. Anyway, just for fun...
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Micah Mason

Highlands Junior

Ht: 6-2, Pos: Guard

The skinny: A prolific shooter and scorer. In one game had 64 points, second-best in WPIAL history and the most since the 1950s. Averaged 33.3 points, made 47 percent from 3-point range (82 of 173), 64 percent overall and 90 percent from the free-throw line. Also averaged 8 assists and 3 steals.

College talk: Drake and Colgate have offered scholarships. NCAA finalist Butler also is interested along with some other Division I schools
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11100/1138281-361.stm

[Cheesehead]

Not a really impressive list of schools considering the kid's numbers. No offense to Butler.

[HuskyMuskie]

I second the above statement with offense to Butler.

[PeterG]

...averaging 8 assists and 3 steals a game is not too shabby.

[XUFan09]

Duquesne apparently is recruiting him.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=420&f=1319&t=6954354

[XUFan09]

Richmond is in the mix to some extent too. I can't find a decent recruiting profile on him, sadly.

[PeterG]

Sounds like he has an over-bearing father...hope he doesn't burn out because of this. Appears to be a lot like Sean Miller who gave a dribbling exhibition at the age of 5 on the Johnny Carson Show. His father started taking Micah to clinics at the age of 5 put on by Sean Miller's father, John. And John Miller has coached him on AAU travel teams.

'When he was 2, he figured out how to dribble those two balls at once. By the time he was 5, he was putting on ball-handling shows at halftime of Highlands games. In third grade, he was playing on fifth-grade youth teams and Amateur Athletic Union teams. By the time he was in fifth grade, he was on the 70-foot long court his father built in the backyard, shooting 500 shots a day on an electric shooting machine called "The Gun."'

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11027/1120966-361.stm

[Title_BU]

I second the above statement with offense to Butler.
You can take this with as much offense as you want, but Xavier wouldn't have the slightest chance in hell of getting him, if Butler offers anyway.

Anyway, Stevens flew out to see him yesterday after seeing Nolan Berry in the morning.

He shot 66 for 70 from 3 and 95 of 100 from the FT line

[xavierj]

You can take this with as much offense as you want, but Xavier wouldn't have the slightest chance in hell of getting him, if Butler offers anyway.

Anyway, Stevens flew out to see him yesterday after seeing Nolan Berry in the morning.

He shot 66 for 70 from 3 and 95 of 100 from the FT line

Yeah Butler gets everyone they offer. Xavier has no chance.

[bobbiemcgee]

You can take this with as much offense as you want, but Xavier wouldn't have the slightest chance in hell of getting him, if Butler offers anyway.



funny, BU must be the new recruiting powerhouse. Must've missed that somewhere. ha.ha.

[XUFan09]

You can take this with as much offense as you want, but Xavier wouldn't have the slightest chance in hell of getting him, if Butler offers anyway.

Anyway, Stevens flew out to see him yesterday after seeing Nolan Berry in the morning.

He shot 66 for 70 from 3 and 95 of 100 from the FT line

My, how delusional. Brad Stevens is a great coach, but there's a reason he and every single D1 coach in the country make a lot more scholarship offers than spots they have available. The guy doesn't walk on water.

[bobbiemcgee]

If Drake and Colgate want him, BU should probably offer - same competition most of the yr.

[Muskied]

You can take this with as much offense as you want, but Xavier wouldn't have the slightest chance in hell of getting him, if Butler offers anyway.

Anyway, Stevens flew out to see him yesterday after seeing Nolan Berry in the morning.

He shot 66 for 70 from 3 and 95 of 100 from the FT line

I guess I'll give you the chance to explain yourself BU...no chance because of why? Do you know of a special connection they have? Do you feel that a shooting specialist would be attracted to BU because of the way they run their offense? Do you feel like he prefers to play in smaller venues and to replicate his HS experience?

I can say that Butler would have no chance if Xavier offered certain players...so can see if you have reasons...but if it's just because you think Stevens is now perceived as Moses and BU is more attractive than XU, you couldn't be more off your ass, and you're setting yourself up for major disappointment the next decade.

[Title_BU]

Since having more information on a player that potentially will be among those beating you annually...

He didn't play AAU before this summer, hell he's never been on a plane before. He averaged 33 last year with a game high of 64, which got him in SI's Faces in the Crowd.

Schools like Boston College and others have nosed around, but I doubt you'd see much of a push unless it was Pitt or a Villanova. It would be pointless to try and move in on a player Butler may very well offer and have been looking at for 5-6 months. Staffs don't have the time resources to invest in lost causes.

All he has to do is come out and play this summer and he'll move into the Top 150s. Every year someone comes out and torches teams in Vegas or Orlando and moves in. I've never even heard of someone shooting at that rate.

He's also clearly not just a just shooter, there's DOZENS of skills and game films floating around the net. The person he immediately reminded me of with the way he moves was Aaron Craft. Maybe Aaron Craft playing pop-a-shot at Dave and Busters

[Title_BU]

I guess I'll give you the chance to explain yourself BU...no chance because of why?

Because Butler has been looking at him for quite a while and given the profile of the program, a program like Xavier's (which is very good, btw) just isn't going to be able to move on, specifically this "type" of player.

[Muskied]

Since having more information on a player that potentially will be among those beating you annually...

He didn't play AAU before this summer, hell he's never been on a plane before. He averaged 33 last year with a game high of 64, which got him in SI's Faces in the Crowd.

Schools like Boston College and others have nosed around, but I doubt you'd see much of a push unless it was Pitt or a Villanova. It would be pointless to try and move in on a player Butler may very well offer and have been looking at for 5-6 months. Staffs don't have the time resources to invest in lost causes.

All he has to do is come out and play this summer and he'll move into the Top 150s. Every year someone comes out and torches teams in Vegas or Orlando and moves in. I've never even heard of someone shooting at that rate.

He's also clearly not just a just shooter, there's DOZENS of skills and game films floating around the net. The person he immediately reminded me of with the way he moves was Aaron Craft. Maybe Aaron Craft playing pop-a-shot at Dave and Busters

OK, so you're saying Butler is in there to close at this point to be able to compete....That's a reasonable assumption. However, we both know how those relationships can play out when bigger fish come calling. I'm not saying BETTER fish, just ones who sell more of what the recruit is buying.....Good luck with him, hell need it if he's going to guard Dee Davis and Dez Wells.

Oh...and FWIW...Brad Redford shoots it at that rate. You haven't seen much of him, but he's as good a shooter as I've ever seen-including from Butler