09 Forward Reeves Nelson commits to UCLA

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After losing Henson and the Wears to UNC UCLA gets their first commit for the '09 class in F Reeves Nelson from Modesto. 6'7" Forward more of a 4 than a 3 despite the size. Athletic kid he'll get up and dunk on you and his outside game is improving.
 

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U of A is really missing on font court recruits. We are good on wing and G positions but the main 09 class of bigs are now off the board. Worse is guys like Renardo Sidney & Jeremy Tyler look like their USC & UCLA's to lose.
 
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U of A is really missing on font court recruits. We are good on wing and G positions but the main 09 class of bigs are now off the board. Worse is guys like Renardo Sidney & Jeremy Tyler look like their USC & UCLA's to lose.

UA has good bigs in the 08 class though and Withey is not a 1 and done kind of recruit so he'll be around a bit.

Who knows on Sidney and Tyler, for months now we've been told UCLA isn't recruiting either kid. A few weeks ago Jeff Goodman interviewed Sidney who gave him a long list of schools, when Goodman pressed and said who is REALLY recruiting you, Sidney admitted USC is the only team aggressively after him.

I heard something the other day that said UCLA is now back in recruiting Sidney the move to Fairfax has apparently impressed them and they think Sidney has made enough positive changes they're now recruiting him again but if he has any issues prop up they'll back out.

Tyler went from thought to be a huge UCLA lean to UCLA is not recruiting him in a few months this summer. he fired his trainer and suddenly had a posse, an overly involved family, and ties to Master P. He then came out and said he's a huge USC fan, always has been, and would like to play for them.

So it looks like officially USC has the overwhelming lead for both Sidney and Tyler, unless the rumors are true UCLA is back recruiting Sidney.

Interestingly in a recent tournament they went head to head and Sidney outscored Tyler 32-0!
 

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U of A is really missing on font court recruits. We are good on wing and G positions but the main 09 class of bigs are now off the board. Worse is guys like Renardo Sidney & Jeremy Tyler look like their USC & UCLA's to lose.

UA has never recruited front court players that well, but only taking Jordan Hill (a project that turned out nicely) and Alex Jacobsen (worthless stiff used to lure in Wear twins) in the frontcourt over three classes is killing UA right now. Mis-evaluating and not retaining backcourt players is also hurting Arizona. Everyone currently on the roster is either really good (Bayless, Hill, sometimes Chase and Wise) or really bad (other times Chase and Wise, everybody else on the roster) which means no depth.

2008 will be a solid class no doubt, it's very well balanced which will make it better than some of the other highly-rated classes AZ has brought in recently. KO's got to hit the recruiting trail really hard this spring, AZ needs a fresh influx of talent starting with adding a player or two to next fall's class. He'll get it done, KO is a helluva recruiter.
 
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