Ahmed Mohamed pf 6-10 '15 offered to VCU

[Cdizzle]

So, who visited yesterday remains a big question.

Or is it a guard question? Or a wing question?

Recruiting confuses me.

[shocka khan]

I think it's more a C/PF question now.

I am a little suspicious of the guy from Kentucky who plays PG, thought I read he might have reclassed, if we sign him, I bet he ends up @ Sunrise.

That would be two players - the number we had heard from others that he might be after.

[Dan]

I like the looks of this guy. A natural 5 with a knack for scoring and rebounding. I think he'd fit in quite nice.

[WSUwatcher]

The eligibility thing on Mohamed is just weird. Unless Trent Internationale runs exclusively a postgrad program (unlikely considering that Mohamed was the Texas private school MVP, which makes it sound like he was playing against high schoolers, because that's what TAPPS is -- the equivalent of what Texas calls the UIL, or what in Kansas would be the KSHSAA, except exclusively for private schools), why would he not be allowed to spend two years there?

Guys routinely spend four years playing at private schools in Texas (Kyle Wilson at Dallas Jesuit, for example), just as they do at KMC or Carroll or Collegiate or Trinity or Independent here, and that's no problem; so what's wrong with just two? Was Mohamed already finished with the Egyptian equivalent of high school basketball when he came to the US?

[tropicalshox]

Was Mohamed already finished with the Egyptian equivalent of high school basketball when he came to the US?

If I remember correctly, that is what I read.

[pinstripers]

Sounds like it was a pyramid scheme

[1972Shocker]

If the Shocks are really interested in this young man and it is down to WSU vs WSU then I think 3G may have a tape of a game played in MSG in 2011 that this young man would find of interest.

[shoxlax]

Something Sphinx about this deal

[xazshox]

WSU Vs WSu

A page ago, someone reported that Washington State signed a 7 footer out of Saddleback Wherever that makes a person tend to think that Mohammed will lose interest in that school.

[WstateU]

Sounds like it was a pyramid scheme

[Shockadelica]

If this is our guy, and I have a feeling it is, our depth at the 4 & 5 is really pretty solid. It lacks star power, but really not bad at all with some considerable upside. Especially if you include McDuffie in that group and Big Bush develops the way JuCo players usually do in year two.

[WSUwatcher]

If this is our guy, and I have a feeling it is, our depth at the 4 & 5 is really pretty solid. It lacks star power, but really not bad at all with some considerable upside. Especially if you include McDuffie in that group and Big Bush develops the way JuCo players usually do in year two.

The firm of Lufile, Coleby & Carter (his junior year, that is) also lacked star power, and things turned out very nicely for that team. (Of course, having Early along for the ride also helped that team quite a bit, and it isn't exactly apparent that the 2015-16 Shocks have his counterpart.) Like other posters, I'm also still wondering a bit if there's someone out there to whom the staff is paying more attention than we are -- we've seen it happen before.

[tropicalshox]

JucoRecruiting now has WSU as offering.

[tropicalshox]

JucoRecruiting also now has Mohamed having high interest in VCU. No offer as of yet.

[wu_shizzle]

Found full game video for Ahmed. This is from November at the Daytona State College Thanksgiving Tournament. Ahmed doesn't start either game, but is No. 12 in black.

VS USC SALKAHATCHIE

http://ihigh.volarvideo.com/daytonas/broadcast/embed/93687

24 pts 13 rebounds 3 blocks

VS DAYTONA

http://ihigh.volarvideo.com/daytonas/broadcast/embed/93742

Not one of his better games -- he fouls out with 13 points and 3 boards in the loss -- but he has a nice follow slam at the 15 minute mark of the first half.

After watching some video, he looks about 6"8+ 230 and moves like a PF. I don't see the 6'10 240+ center I was hoping for.

He might be a good fit but, as others have said, give me a grown man like Anton Grady who's played D1 and had success.