2025 McDonald's AA Day 1 Recap

[RuffRuff]

We seem to be gravitating back to recruiting long beanpole players. We're still in the Big East and we don't look like we are acquiring rebounders or defensive gritty players. We had better pull out some muscle and speed in the portal or consider joining a West coast league. Are we still looking to be a picture perfect 5 out tall lean 3 point bombing machine? No D, no speed and no rebounding?

If you watched the McD AA game, the guys that stood out were the players that had that physicality - Boozer, Peterson, Yessofou (who looked like a stud).

The question is simply whether you get the "men" in the portal or as freshmen.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Yes, I’m sure one more year in college would have turned Bouknight from a total knucklehead into someone that would work hard enough to make it in the NBA….

It might’ve, anyway thanks for setting the record straight on a “total knucklehead”.

 

[Mr. French]

Some people are impressed with Reibe:

 

[PBX71]

Some people are impressed with Reibe:

thats nice to see

 

[Huskyforlife]

Some people are impressed with Reibe:

FWIW Biancardi has a preexisting relationship with Reibe so he might not be objective.

 

[Huskyforlife]

This was mentioned back when Adams committed, but if he was properly ranked as a 40-75 guy instead of a 5 star all American, expectations for him would make sense.

Not basing that take on the McDonald’s game either, he’s just clearly got room for development and could be really good in a years time.

 

[RuffRuff]

This was mentioned back when Adams committed, but if he was properly ranked as a 40-75 guy instead of a 5 star all American, expectations for him would make sense.

Not basing that take on the McDonald’s game either, he’s just clearly got room for development and could be really good in a years time.

What’s your take on why he was artificially over ranked? Asking without any sarcasm, curious. Because I agree, he did not look he fit out there physically. He looked 4 years younger than some of those dudes.

 

[Mr. French]

FWIW Biancardi has a preexisting relationship with Reibe so he might not be objective.

True, I think he knows a ton of these guys and families though. He’s pretty locked in.

 

[HooperScooper]

This was mentioned back when Adams committed, but if he was properly ranked as a 40-75 guy instead of a 5 star all American, expectations for him would make sense.

Not basing that take on the McDonald’s game either, he’s just clearly got room for development and could be really good in a years time.

All the recruiting services had him pretty highly ranked.

247Sports: 26
Rivals: 15
On3: 18
ESPN: 27

Do they all just copy each other? Or did they watch Adams play a lot more than any of us have and know more about his capabilities, weaknesses, and long term prospects as compared to the other recruits in the 2025 class? Or are they all wrong and he should be ranked in the 40-75 range?

 

[TheHorde]

This was mentioned back when Adams committed, but if he was properly ranked as a 40-75 guy instead of a 5 star all American, expectations for him would make sense.

Not basing that take on the McDonald’s game either, he’s just clearly got room for development and could be really good in a years time.

I think he’s a much better shooter than he showed. But the young man needs to get in the weight room yesterday, as others have mentioned.

 

[uconnbill]

Adams may have the worst McD AA showing I’ve ever seen. I hate to say it but it doesn’t look like he belongs out there.

it is a gunning event. Everyone has a bad game. I think that is it. He looked better in practice. Mullin got screwed the entire game by the one on one bull.

This is why I hate these games. I prefer AAU where you play with the same players and learn about one another. This is a crap show