PC Recruiting Guide to the Second July Evaluation Period

This will be the second of three live evaluation periods in the month of July where college coaches are allowed to attend and evaluate recruits. These three live periods are so critical as coaches can start to really focus on specific targets and maybe even have a new player catch their eye so they can offer and get involved. I’ll be taking a look at some of the major grassroots events that are in this second live period and giving you a list of PC recruits that will be in attendance at each one. This will be a working document so if/when I see a name that PC is recruiting at one of these events and I don’t have the player listed I will add him. Also, if you want to keep track of where Ed Cooley and the rest of the PC staff is during this live period, click here.

Nike Peach Jam (N. Augusta, SC) 7/16/-7/20

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Peach Jam is the culmination of the Nike EYBL circuit and acts as the playoffs. Only 24 teams qualify and there is a play-in game Wednesday to determine that 24th team. I could write up a big preview of this event but the guys at D1Circuit.com have done an absurdly good job at putting together this preview so I would be doing a disservice to try to write anything further. This is an absolute must read for all recruiting junkies especially because, as you’ll see below, there are a TON of PC recruits at the Peach Jam this year.

No question that Providence's Ed Cooley is the best dressed at the #PeachJam. #LookingSharp

— Rivals Nation (@RivalsNation) July 18, 2014

All Ohio Red

• 2015 Esa Ahmad

BABC

• 2016 Bruce Brown
• 2015 Terance Mann
• 2016 Terrell Brown

Boo Williams

• 2015 Chris Clarke
• 2015 Justin Robinson
• 2015 Kenny Williams

CIA Bounce

• 2015 Teki Gill-Caesar

Each 1 Teach 1

• 2015 Antonio Blakeney
• 2015 Barry Brown
• 2015 Alex Owens

Howard Pulley

• 2016 Amir Coffey
• 2015 Jarvis Johnson
• 2015 Alex Illikainen

Mac Irvin Fire

• 2015 Davon Dillard

New York Lightning

• 2015 Jermaine Bishop

Spiece Indy Heat

• 2015 Matt Holba

Southern Stampede

• 2015 Prince Ali

Team Final

• 2015 Levan Alston

Team SCAN

• 2016 Devonte Green
• 2015 Cheick Diallo
• 2016 Tyus Battle

Team Takeover

• 2015 Sam Miller

The Family

• 2015 Eric Davis
• 2015 AJ Turner
• 2015 Trevor Manuel
• 2016 Miles Bridges

Nike Elite Youth Invitational (Augusta, GA) 7/16-7/20

Georgia Stars

• 2015 Malik Beasley

MeanStreets

• 2015 Ryan Fazekas

UA The Finals (Atlanta, GA) 7/16-7/20

The UA has some good players and will surely get lots of attention from the Providence staff with Donovan Mitchell and The City playing in Atlanta this weekend.

Houston Defenders

• 2016 JJ Caldwell

NE Playaz

• 2015 Jarred Reuter
• 2016 Kellan Grady
• 2016 Tyree Weston
• 2017 Tomas Murphy

New Heights

• 2015 Dupree McBrayer

SportsU

• 2015 Markis McDuffie

The City

• 2015 Donovan Mitchell

WE R1

• 2015 John Crosby
• 2015 Derrick Jones
• 2015 Ernest Aflakpui
• 2016 Sedee Keita

NY2LA Summer Jam (Mequon, WI) 7/16-7/20

This tournament seems to be fairly loaded with talent and has a bunch of the Adidas teams that don’t have an Adidas Uprising event this week. I scoured the interwebs for rosters for all the teams and couldn’t find anything for most of them. Here are the PC recruits that were there based on what I could find:

Atlanta Celtics

• 2016 Braxton Blackwell
• 2015 Kaiser Gates
• 2016 Josh Langford
• 2016 Kobi Simmons

Wisconsin United

• 2015 Levi Bradley

Hoop Group Summer Classic East (King of Prussia, PA) 7/16-7/17

This is an team event being held Wednesday and Thursday. Expressions Elite has their 15U, 16U and 17U squads in attendance. It’s basically the same teams that will also play in the Jam Fest over the weekend.

DC Warriors

• 2015 Andrew Robinson

Expressions Elite 17U

• 2015 Aaron Falzon
• 2015 Jared Wilson-Frame

Expressions Elite 16U

• 2017 Kimani Lawrence
• 2017 Jermaine Samuels

High Rise Team Up

• 2015 Steve Enoch will not be playing so he can rest his injured thigh, per Adam Zagoria’s tweet:

6-10 Steve Enoch is done playing for July so he can rest his injured thigh and get to 100 percent. Coaches shouldn't travel to see him.

— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) July 16, 2014

Mid-Atlantic Select

• 2015 CJ Keyser

NYC Jayhawks

• 2015 Kealen Ives
• 2016 Mamidou Diarra
• 2017 Hamidou Diallo

Hoop Group Summer Jam Fest (Manheim, PA) 7/18-7/20

DC Warriors

• 2015 Andrew Robinson

Expressions Elite 17U

• 2015 Aaron Falzon
• 2015 Jared Wilson-Frame

Expressions Elite 16U

• 2017 Kimani Lawrence
• 2017 Jermaine Samuels

High Rise Team Up

• 2015 Steve Enoch will not be playing so he can rest his injured thigh, per Adam Zagoria’s tweet:

6-10 Steve Enoch is done playing for July so he can rest his injured thigh and get to 100 percent. Coaches shouldn't travel to see him.

— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) July 16, 2014

Mid-Atlantic Select

• 2015 CJ Keyser

NYC Jayhawks

• 2015 Kealen Ives
• 2016 Mamidou Diarra
• 2017 Hamidou Diallo

Peach State Showcase (Aiken, SC) 7/16-7/20

Potential 2014 guard target Ricky Council will be playing with his Brand X team in this event. Aiken, SC is about an hour drive from N. Augusta where the Peach Jam is being held so if the Providence staff wants to come down and take a look at Council to decide if they want to offer this is as good a chance as any. If the PC staff doesn’t send someone to the PSS it would seem to indicate they are not interested enough to offer a scholarship to Council and they may be content to go into next season with their current roster as is.

Brand X

• 2014 Ricky Council II

Note: Council went for 28 points in a win over Mass Rivals 7/18 at 6pm.

Maryland 3D

• 2015 Drew Edwards

Mass Rivals

• 2015 Chris Baldwin
• 2015 Josh Sharma
• 2016 Wenyen Gabriel

Basketbull Hall of Fame Invitational (Springfield, MA) 7/18-7/20

Brookwood Elite

• 2017 Jerome Desrosiers

USAD

• 2015 Arkel Ager

Other tournaments during this live period:

• Double Pump Best of the Summer (Los Angeles, CA) 7/16-7/20
• Las Vegas Live (Las Vegas, NV) 7/16-7/20
• Great American Shootout (Duncanville, TX) 7/16-7/20

 

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