Chicago's Top Talent!

[Daniel Poneman]

The Chicago Public League consistantly produces a lot of high major prospects and many potential Bradley recruits.
Check out Illinoishsbasketball.com for a list with scouting reports of the top 50 CPL players regardless of class

[Da Coach]

Daniel, welcome to BradleyFans.com.
I have used Daniel's site, illinoishsbasketball.com many times for some of the best and most up-to-date info on Illinois high school players and teams.information. Daniel does an great job!
My only beef is that you have Sam Maniscalco ranked as the #20 player in the class of 2007. Are you serious?

[Daniel Poneman]

Everyone is telling me the same thing about Maniscalco, that he is way better then 20th in the state.
i have actually only seen the kid play once, and though he was impressive he had a terrible shooting night (2-10 threes or something like that)
I am going to be covering his sectional tightly with Loyola, Evanston, New Trier, Von, and Senn so maybe he will impress me more.

[tornado]

Also, you can't be serious listing Darrington Hobson as 6th best senior in Illinois.
First, how would anyone know, since he's been injured so much he hasn't played even one full game?
Second, the few times he's been on the court he is nowhere near as good as Mario Stula or Duro Bjegovic.
But you probably think those guys are juniors just because Decatur Christian says so, but check out the facts that were posted here a couple months ago that these kids are nearly 20 and can't be juniors eligibility-wise.

http://www.bradleyfans.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=31684#31684

[Daniel Poneman]

i saw Decatur play a few times earlier in the year, and Darrington looked great. The second and third best players on the court looked to be Beas and Lucca. Im not completely sure which players Bjecovic and Stula were, but i think one hit afew threees and the other had a broken hand.

[tornado]

i saw Decatur play a few times earlier in the year, and Darrington looked great. The second and third best players on the court looked to be Beas and Lucca. Im not completely sure which players Bjecovic and Stula were, but i think one hit afew threees and the other had a broken hand.

Stula is 6-7 lefty, long shaggy black hair. Word is he is going to end up at DePaul, as Jerry Wainright is using the prep schools and banking his future on those older kids (Thijin Moses, Mac Koshwal, Stula, and even the Croatian juco kid (Matija Pocsic) who is basically a prep schooler who had to go juco to qualify)
Bjegovic was similar looking to Stula (but Bjegovic does have a brother on the squad) but is right handed.
I am still convinced that several of those "kids" are older than we are being told.
I have the same exact feeling as when I watched Danny Almonte pitch in the Little League World Series when he was supposedly 12, when in fact it was l ater revealed to almost nobody's surprise that the kid was almost 15.

Staiger, Hamga, and the Croatian kids all looked to be intheir 20's, and can claim any age you want, but we all know some of the internationals in sports have for years hidden the truth about their age.
Anyway, even if Bjegovic is as old as he claims, his age when he played semi-pro in Europe still puts him at 20 before he finishes his supposed senior year, as I have shown elsewhere.
If his coach knows that then why did coach Huss lie about it to the press as I have also shown.