Michigan offers 2015 five-star PG Jalen Brunson
Brunson, a 6-foot-2 point guard, is a five-star prospect and ranked as the top point guard in his class and #20 overall according to ESPN.com. Brunson received the offer while on an unofficial visit to Michigan on Saturday.
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The inbound to himself off the opposing player's back. I've seen that on a set play, but I've never seen someone do that on the fly after a made basket. I be like dang.
Do want.
It looks like that opposing player is Devin Booker (but I can not confirmt that).
it's done most if not all the time on the fly. that's not a typical set play
I know it's never planned, I just mean I've seen it plenty of times in a typical dead ball, ref-hands-you-the-ball-you-can't-find-anyone-open-and-hey-look-this-dude-has-his-back-to-me-commence-lollerskates!! situation, just never after a made basket. That said, I kinda don't watch basketball very obsessively.
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Wait, I thought Michigan waits until one day to offer the kids in a class? I know we just had offer day for the 2014 class. Do we offer the really highly rated kids early or am I missing something?
June 15th after their Sophomore year is the first day they give out offers. But there is a considerable amount of info they need on the players first in addition to requiring a visit to Michigan from the kids. He might not have been to Michigan until this weekend hence why he wasn't offered last week.
Did you read the article? "Brunson is the third prospect that the Wolverines have offered in the class of 2015 with other offers to wing guards Luke Kennard and Jalen Coleman." The reason we waited until now to offer him is because he just visited campus this weekend. They won't offer someone until they've visited.
That makes sense, thanks
That is the same reason why Sedrick Barefield hasn't been offered yet.
We really must have ALL of the Jalens. It's science.
To the OP: To embed in original posts, you must copy the "Old embed code" from YouTube and paste it into the plaintext editor.
After Derrick Walton rises to 1st overall in the 2014 NBA Draft, Jalen can come play right away!!!11!!!!!
What about the year between Walton and Brunson man?? Don't bring doom for '14-15
Spike Albrecht.
PG recruits going on lately. The national exposure of Burke and the tourney run are paying off great dividends.
the rise of morris and burke is huge for recruiting...shows that beilein can make a pg a true star...one you can pass off as a fluke, two and its a coaching staff a pg will want to play for
Watched one of his clips on You tube. Looks like he has a nice J, good handles and excels at getting his teammates in a good scoring position. Would be good to have another Jalen run the point. He's a southpaw too so if he commits he's gotta rock the number 5 jersey.
"Jalen" . . . I like the sound of that name. Not sure why.
Point guard named Jalen.
Where have I seen that before?
It's typically done as a set play when the opponent does not have a man on the inbounder and they are inbounding under their own basket. Usually you see that "self-pass" which allows the inbounder to score.
In this instance it looks like no one from his team was back to take the inbound (under the opponents basket) so he had to improvise.
Two things that tells me: 1) Kid has improv skeels/"high b-ball IQ". 2) He was hustling back on defense.
That said, he may have turned the ball over leading to the fast break...edited highlight reels are highly edited. It was still fun to see.
The kid he throws the ball off of looks like Devin Booker
Another Jalen sounds good to me.
The highlights posted above look pretty good. There was an earlier article which said that LaVall Jordan has the lead on Brunson's recruitment, but that Beilein has played a minor role as well. Per an earlier UMHops article, when asked about what he liked about how Michigan used Burke and point guards in general:
"It’s kind of like my position and it shows that they have a lot trust in their point guard and let him make plays and give him the freedom. That’s what I want and that’s what I look for, for a coach that has trust in me."
He also has a pretty decent offer list already (from all over the map really) per Rivals, including Creighton, Connecticut, DePaul, Illinois, Oklahoma State, Purdue, SMU, Temple, Tulsa, Virginia and Xavier.
I just happened to play basketball against one of Brunson's teammates this morning. Would be awesome if Brunson came to Michigan.
Did you win?
Not until the kid left after the 3rd game. He was really good - apparently the 2nd best kid on the HS team (only to Jalen).
Any word on if there are offers in this class by Coach B for any Chris', Juwans, Jimmys, or Rays? If so I have a sneaking suspicion about Coach B's plans...
Why hasn't the coaching staff extended offers to Diamond Stone and Stephen Zimmerman? I know about the rule where they need to visit campus in order to receive the offer but if I remember correctly both already have. So where are their offers?
they haven't visited the campus yet.
Zimmerman hasn't, but I could have swore Diamond HAS visited campus.
But not an official visit
Does this mean Michigan isn't really going after Eric Davis?