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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 3364787, member: 10"] Love hearing this about Alex Karaban! Alex is a year younger than my son and they played together in middle school. He was a tall guard back then. He could always handle the ball and was a very good shooter. On the 8th grade middle school team (my son was a year ahead so he was not on that team) Alex once scored the first 37 points for their team. They were winning like 37-10 and Alex had all 37 points. Man against boys. After middle school he went to a catholic school in Worcester and repeated 8th grade (but still played on the varsity as an 8th grader because I guess you can do that there). He transferred back to our public high school for his freshman year last year (should have been a sophomore) and was an absolute stud. He was the [URL='https://www.telegram.com/news/20190422/player-of-year-alex-karaban-algonquin-regional-freshman-forward'][B][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]Central Massachusetts Player of the Year[/COLOR][/B][/URL] as a freshman. I watched one of his first games last year, turned to a parent who had a kid on the team, and said there was no way he was coming back to our high school for his sophomore year because I knew the prep schools would be all over him. He and his parents told the high school coach they were willing to play 1 more year at the public high school and then he was probably gone. But then New Hampton offered him a deal and he announced he was transferring there. He was 6-7 last year but still pretty skinny. He mostly played out on the perimeter but could mix it up some inside also. I know someone who runs the AAU team he plays for, Expressions Elite, and his opinion was that if Alex could grow to 6-9 and put on muscle he could play like a stretch 4 and was a high D1 player. If he stayed at 6-7, he wasn't big enough to play the 4 or athletic enough to play the 3 at a high D1 school and would probably be a mid-major player. If he's really 6-9 and is stronger then that bodes well. Remember, he's only a sophomore right now. Good to hear this. I'll show your post to my son tonight. He'll get a kick out of it. [/QUOTE]

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