re: NEW 2018 Basketball Recruiting Thread

His basketball coach is Tulanes head football coaches brother.

Braun's game is fun to watch. He's aggressive to the rim, and he's got a lot of quickness and explosion.

The film is here.

Blue Valley Northwest is the same high school Ben Richardson and Clayton Custer went to - those are the two kids who went off for Loyola of Chicago in the tournament. And they won the 6A title in Kansas this year. Braun's numbers (12 and 7, with 3 blocks a game) aren't crazy-good, largely because there are supposedly four college prospects on that team.

He's a program guy. He needs at least a year in the weight room, at least. They say he's 205. If he is, he's a skinny 205. He needs a good 25 pounds.

But because of that he's a very good fit for what we want. He'd be an extra body inside this year, and then a contributor next year.

Good find if Wade can pull him. Hopefully he can pull him now, because it sounds like his next visit is Arizona.

I like Braun and Batts.

LSU would be the perfect spot for Braun because we don't have to have him for next year. He could have a developmental year and be poised for a big year the next when we need him.

Also, Heier has some connections in Kansas from his Wichita days. Will be interesting. Not sure if LSU is on Batts' radar. Wonder if there was some bad blood after Wade left VCU?

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With 6 to 8 months of development he could also be a nice role player next season. Wonder why he has not been recruited more strongly or signed by someone? He seems like afour star and appears to be under raed. So was Vernel Singleton.

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Could be he got lost in the shuffle on a good team with talent. 12/7 is never going to stick out to any college coach until they get a hold of some game tape, that game tape probably didnt start to hit until recently with the season ending not too long back.

Edit- I see he played on an AAU team last year with Jontay Porter (5-star Mizzou F this apst season), Ochai Agbaji (Kansas commit) and Malik Hall (Top 60 overall player in 2019 class); Mokan Elite mentioned below, which would also explain why he wasn't a go to guy on that team either. Just hard for him to stick out.

The fact Arizona offered is very encouraging though, an elite level team sees him as a potential contributor.

Yea, looks like he played on an awesome high school and AAU team and didn't get big numbers. He took off his senior year and started picking up attention.

Mokan Elite is one of the best AAU programs. Would be a great place to get a toehold.

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He has a similar size and style of play as Gordon Hayward. Hayward was 6'8 and a little over 200 at Butler. Both are tall players with an outside shot. He also has great footwork around the basket and moves very fluidly.

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I was thinking Nick Fazekas, who was another skinny white kid from Kansas City, but yeah.

The thing about Braun is last year he was 6-6 and 180, and nobody thought a kid 6-6 and 180 could be a major-college post player. Then he hit a growth spurt that might not be finished.

This is the kind of sleeper kid you want. He'd be a really good get, especially for where LSU is with this recruiting class.

Noah thomas, a preferred walk on is joining the LSU Tigers.

He held offers from SFA and Miami (OH).

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Noah thomas, a preferred walk on is joining the LSU Tigers.

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From the same AAU team as Jeremiah Robinson-Earl...Wade knows how to get some ins

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I was thinking Nick Fazekas, who was another skinny white kid from Kansas City, but yeah.

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John Brady recruited Fazekas hard back in 2003 and almost got him as a part of a stellar class which included Brandon Bass, Tack Minor, Ross Neltner, and Darnell Lazare. Fazekas went on to star at Nevada and Braun does have a similar playing style

I like the way he attacks the basket with great fluidity . Probably gained those skills as a shorter player and expded them as he got taller.

Burns just reclassified as a 2018 recruit.

But it looks like he's all South Carolina at this point.

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