'War on the Floor' - Battle of the Frosh - Marcus LoVett, Jr. vs. Aaron Holiday
Scouted for 11 years in the NBA and have seen a lot of great talent at all levels of basketball in my life. I'm the son of a legendary college coach who coached basketball for 47 years of his life. I was raised in and around gymnasiums. Great talent/players stand out like a sore thumb. Not hard for anybody to recognize a great talent. The challenge in evaluating great talent for the professional level is evaluating the psychological side of the individual and their ability to lead, grow and evolve as a person and a player. Evaluating a 9th grader is fraught with it's own challenges and land mines. So much can happen in terms of physical, mental and psychological development between the 9th and 12th grades; and obviously, the same holds true in terms of the development of technical and tactical skills in the athlete. In reviewing George Dohrmann's "Play Their Hearts Out, " I expressed a concern with our propensity to expose children to too much too soon...