re: Basketball recruiting 2013: Jarell Martin commits

Titans went 4-2 in this tournament and Jones averaged 6.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks. He had a couple of games where he had 3 or 4 blocks. Disappears sometimes offensively but is a presence down low .

His athleticism on the defensive end alone make him an intriguing player. He's better than Tyrus was at this same point, but there are some similarities there. Jones seems like a guy that could contribute quicker than TT (redshirt). Offer list is far superior to TT as well. I know it's lazy to just pick a little known prospect from BR that came to LSU and became a lottery pick and make a comparison, but it seems apt in this case.

It's sort of a perfect storm for us. LA is loaded for LA standards, TX is loaded, and we have a full year for our coaches to hit the trail and land some big name guys. I have no clue what it looks like come next year, but hard to imagine we're not on cloud 9 based on what this staff has done already.

From Twitter tonight (not sure where Martin is playing):

Dave Telep ?@DaveTelep

Jarrell Martin. Beast mode. Guys running scared from him. #Pangos

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After an unofficial visit to LSU, Jordan Mickey recently took unofficials to Louisville and Kentucky. He has about 40 offers.

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At least the competition for his signature won't be tough for us.

Martin in the starting 5 at Pangos All American Camp last weekend.

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Looks like you're right about "Coach Jones" running the show. Wonder where Coach Jones will decide his star player will go to school. Basketball recruiting is so horrible.

Good perspective. But you juts wonder if these coaches see it that way or if they are waiting for another coach at another program to give him more. Nothing would surprise me.

Karviar Shepherd unofficially visited UCLA this past weekend. He compared himself to Tim Duncan in an interview on the UCLA site.

We're all optimistic that Jones can recruit and LA and TX are stacked next year but with basketball recruiting there is still a lot of uncertainty with guys so who knows. If it was the last staff I would bet that he would be gone. But with the current staff, right now, I'm pretty optimistic that we ca land both Jones and Martin. We'll see though. I don't think I saw Jones list us in the last article, but that sort of thing happens a lot. Didn't Martin just go visit Bama and what have y'all heard?

We're recruiting Jones. I don't know where he is on our list but he plays on the same AAU team as Julius Randle who we're recruiting (likely a pipe dream but you never know) as well. The talent this year in LA is better than it's been in quite some time. TJ was a poor recruiter and evaluator, to some extent, but he was also plagued by a really down couple of years for LA basketball. This year Baton Rouge is very strong, and next year New Orleans is thought to be strong. And there are a couple of 9th graders in BR that are going to be ridiculous when their time comes. So the talent pool in LA is going to be strong for the next few years and Jones is thought to be a very good recruiter. So I feel pretty good at this early stage.

We had 3-4 top 100 kids in town a few weeks ago and that was more than we managed to get on campus in four years with TJ. karviar sepherd. jordan mickey. kendal harris. and I believe shimane thomas.