BBall Recruiting - New 2020 Target/EM Top 100 PG Zeb Jackson
With limited scholarships available in the 2019 class, and Michigan offer day right around the corner in mid-June, its reasonable to turn our attention to the 2020 class at this point. Zeb Jackson, from Toledo, may be a likely candidate to pull in an offer at the PG spot.
I had a chance to view him live this weekend in Grand Rapids, can definitely play.
http://endlessmotor.net/2018/04/16/an-introduction-to-2020-pg-zeb-jacks…
its pretty weak in the Toledo area...........and in general I don't put a lot of stock in HS games exclusive of LA, Chicago, DC, Dallas and a few other cities.
That said, Jackson looked great against The Family (the highlights in the content are exclusively against The Family this weekend in Grand Rapids), an EYBL team that won the Peach Jam (EYBL championship) last year, so that is a great barometer for me to evaluate.
It's not even necessarily the "Toledo area" competition that is weak...his school is D-IV, I believe, and it is in a BAD conference. I'm assuming you saw him playing AAU or something similar though? That should alleviate some of those competition concerns, I would imagine.
I'll definitely be listening for his name in the future. Thanks for the update.
its pointless to account for his HS games for evaluation purposes becuase it is poor comp level.
But when Zeb plays extremely well against the defending EYBL champions (The Family with a top 50 player nationally and every starter with a D1 offer) then his performance has to be evaluated accordingly. The film in my article is exclusively against The Family from this weekend in Grand Rapids and he played really well.
April 17th, 2018 at 11:36 AM ^
April 17th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
an offer will be based on combination of performance over the next two weekends, visit, and other targets on the board.
Profiles/rankings are nearly useless from the major sites to be honest exclusive of their final rankings in April for the signing class..........they lag behind in a bad way for the most part. It took them nearly 2 years to finally give DeJulius a 4th star and place him in their top 100.
Considering we will "most likely" only have 1 scholarship to give, I really don't think we should use it on a PG. Already have 3 PGs on the roster, and none of them will be out of eligibility after next year.
We only have 1 to give currently for the class of 2019.
I should learn to drink my coffee before I log in to my account. Carry on
April 17th, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
April 17th, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^
as Coach Beilein utilizes a perimeter oriented scheme on offense with heavy emphasis on ball control and jumpshooting. Zeb is a bigger guard though, so that may provide some flexibility down the road if he were to jump aboard, although he's more of playmaker off the dribble as opposed to a catch and shoot prospect.
April 17th, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
His father was an All-MAC running back for Bowling Green in the early 90s.
April 17th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
Good to see that you are in tune with the Zeb & flow of recruiting.
April 17th, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
April 17th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^
is not against HS competition, but rather top notch (EYBL) competition a few days ago at the Storm Classic. It certainly provides good context to evaluate.
April 18th, 2018 at 10:54 AM ^
April 17th, 2018 at 12:10 PM ^
Wow, he can probably go for 50+ any night he wants to.
April 17th, 2018 at 12:21 PM ^
April 17th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^
are we recruiting with 1-2-3 spots in mind (attrition)?
the list is huge
wilson, brooks, weems, watts, girard, carlton, maxey... where do you think it all ends up and how would you rank them?
April 17th, 2018 at 12:35 PM ^
My list based on combination of need/talent only from the offer pool (would be different if considering targets - assuming Maxey is offered this week of course):
1) Maxey
Notice the gap, because there is a talent distinction from here on out
2) Carton
3) Weems
4) Brooks
5) Wilson
6) Watts
7) Girard
just read maxey most likely a kentucky guy which shouldn't surprise me (though can't believe we havent offered)
hopefully we can land some of these guys