Jamal Cain (17 MBB Offer) EYBL Highlights
Highlight clip I put together of Jamal Cain this past weekend for EYBL Session 4 in Atlanta. The causal basketball fan may just look at rankings and see a 247 composite #190 and think meh. Let me assure you, I believe this is a top 100 type of prospect from both an athletic and skill perspective. No doubt in my mind that Cain's stock will rise once the post spring/summer rankings are updated. Jamal was already ranked #70 for 2017 per Rivals before the spring. Hoopseen was the first site to update rankings last week, and Cain made his debut at #60 on their updated top 125.
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Jamal is repping the D, definately the best basketball player in the city. Guarantee if he played at Country Day or U of D he would be a Top 100 4/5* player.
is what killed Jamal prior to this year. Playing for the Detroit Stars on the AAU Circuit, the recruiting sites simply didn't have a chance to evaluate him because that program did not play at national events. Additionally, Cornerstone is a Class C high school, so again, no exposure. Making the switch to The Family (Nike) on the AAU circuit gave Jamal that platform for exposure. For a kid largely unranked before EYBL season, to average 13pts, 5rebs, on 50% from the field and 37.3% from 3 is astounding, considering he played against the best AAU competition in the world and was among the best players of that group.
Thinking about the possible backcourt of Xavier, Jordan and Jamal has me giddy, I mean golly!
Those three would make a good combo. Jordan is a great shooter but isn't going to create for himself as much. Xavier can create and has good vision, and Jamal is somewhere in between right now but has the potential to be very good one-on-one. Would be a very complementary group from what we see now.
Would love to land this kid.
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Do you think landing Charles Matthews would affect Jamal's recruitment in any way?
I will say that Jamal is a bit different in that he's a much better shooter in relation to Matthews. The question is whether JB feels a lineup that fields Jamal and Matthews would have enough spacing - that probably depends on who UM gets at the 4/PF spot for 17 IMO. If you get a Kyle Young, then its a non-issue.
I really doubt we land Kyle Young. He was actually offered by OSU very recently and looks to be staying home. I don't understand why people aren't mentioning Xavier Tillman, the 6'8", 230 PF out of Forest Hills Central in Grand Rapids. He has a ,OT of potential, and we currently lead him in 247 crystal ball.
The CB predictions made in favor of Michigan occurred two years ago. The most recent was in favor of MSU (last November). His game doesn't really fit our scheme. He's more of a traditional four man. There's no interest from either party really.
Staff hasn't shown any interest. I've spoken with Kyle, and while I thought he was a longshot initially, I think we have a puncher's chance there. JB just conducted an in-home visit recently and Kyle expressly told me UM is among the schools recruiting him the hardest. I'm a big fan of his game and would be estatic to land him.
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Do you have a feel after speaking with him for when he might announce a decision?
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The next live evaluation period is early/mid July, and so he'll wait until after then to sort of take in the large picture and see all the schools that offer/show interest and take it from there. After the last live evaluation period, Jamal picked up offers from UM, Marquette, Cincy, Florida State, BC. I suspect he'll add more in July. I'd say we're probably looking at a fall/early winter timeline at this point.
We need to land this kid and get the Detroit Pipeline back. Landing him could signal a Beilein recruiting rebound. Cain would be a big deal in Ann Arbor. Him Poole and Simpson is getting back to the type of players that Beilein can win big with. A solid set of bigs and maybe and elite athlete like Matthews.... now you're talking about what a Michigan team should look like.
The team I coach played the Family in Atlanta. They beat us by a point. He didn't shoot well, but he still had like 16 points. He is long and active and could be really good in college. His length and athletisicm is insane.
Jamal had a rough game from distance that game (1-7 I believe), but he was absolutely lethal the 3 games before that going 8/12 from distance. His verticality is borderline elite, just very explosive around the rim.
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