Update (Bball 2014): Craig Victor was invited to try out for Team USA

Good for him. Hope he makes it.

After watching him and Jarell this weekend. I was thoroughly unimpressed yet again. He seems like one of these LA kids who was really big as a young player and dominated but simply hasn't gotten better and isn't growing anymore. Start with Tasmin and continue down the line. I watched them get beat by a decent but long Fleur-de-lis team and score under 30 points in an AAU Semi-Final game.

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As to Coach D comment: Craig and his teammates played soft this past yr... He'll be much better the next 2 seasons playing with his peers...

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I agree and with the focus off of running the offense through Felix, I expect him really to mage a huge step next year.

Craig has outgrown that AAU league... Been there and done that!!

You're a complete idiot if you think he isn't worried about AAU and has nothing to prove. He is a Soph who can easily, EASILY fall out of the ranks if he doesn't show up on the AAU circuits. Your name could be ______ and I would still know you are a hopeless St Aug Homer. He has a bad summer this year and you can bet he won't be ranked in any of the rankings (ask Bridgewater about it). Craig isn't growing anymore and he hasn't developed his skills at all over the past year. Don't be shocked when come his senior year, he is a 3 star begging for the big schools to come back.

Rico is undersized but dominated the AAU Circuit last year, that's why he is going to Baylor.

I watched the state championship replay of St.Aug vs. Peabody on CST last night. I honestly couldn't tell who Craig Victor was.

St. Aug didn't look like they belonged on the same court as Peabody.

I realize i'm not a scout or anything, but is beyond me how Javon Felix got a full ride to Texas.

Maybe Victor will improve these next couple of years, but he did not impress at all. Ricardo Gathers was 3x the player he is as a sophmore.

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Maybe Victor will improve these next couple of years, but he did not impress at all. Ricardo Gathers was 3x the player he is as a sophmore.

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You are really reaching with that Rico has no offensive game whatsoever. He relied on pure athleticism in high school. Actually, whenever they've matchup against each other Victor actually held is own and performed well given that he was two years behind Gathers in his development. I agree with you that the St. Aug vs Peabody game was a bad game to watch if you were gauging how good he is. Nobody showed up for that game and even in that bad loss he scored 25% of the total points in that game. I think he ended up with a double double. And that's w/o him being the focus of the offense!

There's a reason why big name schools are after him and it's because he's a big that plays with finesse and has a pretty good mid range game. The best comparison I have for him is LaMarcus Aldridge. I can see him developing into that type of talent. One of the major flaws in his game to me is that he hasn't developed that killer instinct yet, but that is typical with young high school players. Whenever he does and with the continued development of his skillset then he could potentially be 3x the player Gathers ever thought he could be.

Indeed... Craig knew how sluggish he played throughout the season and still guided his team to the big dance(Lost 4 games to nationally ranked squads)... He'll have it figured out before next season and will definitely shine... Stay on him Tiger

I agree.

Victor will be better than Gathers, Martin, and Felix, IMO. Then again, I've felt that Gathers is overrated for two years now.