From The DMV To Durham.
It Is An early April Morning And Duke Head Coach Mike Kzyeksi Has Basketball On His Mind. It is another Final Four With familiar Faces. Duke, Kentucky, Virginia, And Villanova Are All Locked March Has Passed But the final Has Yet To Go Off. This Is what they Play For This is Who They are. Blue Bloods. Coach Inhales and welcomes in The Fresh Spring Air Embracing a feeling He Has Embrace So Many Times Over The Last Decade His Fierce Focus The Only Force That Can Fray The Fear Of Failure. Fans, Spectators Media are Lock In As Well, Because One Decision in one moment Could Change The Trajectory Of Any Of These Programs. Past, Present, or Prospective. The Covid Shortened 2020 Prevented this Premiere Program From adding to their expansive slate of accolades But Now, Not Even A country Wide Lockdown Could Hold Back What Is and has Always Been Their annual goal. Each Year These Perennial Powerhouses By way Of recruiting, Principle, and Practice put Themselves In the Position To shine when The Lights Get The Brightest And As Is The Case In college basketball this The Springtime. Monumental Moment after monumental Moment weight Heavy on the Their, one wrong call could change it all. These Are The Blue Bloods, The premiere Player Producers and That Is why they Are Here, In 2021 final Four, of The Trevor Keels recruitment decision.
Come Sunday Keel’s,T he Nation's No. 19 Player Will Make The Decision that Will Compound His future As A Basketball Player. Top Tier Uppercallssmen of Keel’s reputation See The Nextlevel As Just As Simply A Stop Gap when en route to Their Other Ambitions. One of These 4 royals of College Sanctum Could be that stop-gap by Securing The Piece to Change Their Fortunes. Still For Keels, This decision Could Be a Poison Chalice. The 18-Year-oLd Keels Is A 6'5 220 Wing out of Paul the 6th high school in Washington D.C.. The Nation's top 5 shooting Guard has Been a Highly sought-After Prospect Since Transferring To Paul The 6th In His Sophomore. The DMV Native Has An offensive Arsenal That Few At The High School Level Could Boast Of. Keels Has The Size To dominate Smaller Wigs Players, The Length To Shoot Over contesting Defenders the Nimbleness To Get To His Spots at Will. Lacking Explosive Athleticism what Stands Out About Keels' Game Upon First Glance Is His Shot making Ability. The Kid Is A Shooter And when Couple With His Size And The Competition Level He Face Washington Athletic Association. In Th Premier Talent Haven That Is The DMV, Its Clear Why Keels has Been The Muse Of Many Recruitment Pitches.
The situation.
This Year's NCAA Tournament was One Of Many Aberrations Duke and Kentucky fell Short of Forfeited Their "Chance" By way of Covid Exemption, Kentucky Flat Out fell flat This season finishing With A 9-16 A woeful Divergence from their Top 10 early In The Preseason. Strikingly, Or Maybe Not, Neither Was Considered As A "Bubble" team Come Tourney Talk Time Late In The College Year. The Rest Of The Field Fared Better But Only For short Term. The Virginia Cavaliers Enter The Tournament As A Fourth Seed And Appear Poised To Make another Title Run Being The Defending Champions Of 2019, But Virginia Replicated its Is 2018 Performance and Continued their Trend of Being the prized fighter being Bruised early. Getting bounced In The round of 64 By Ohio. The Best Of The Upper Echelon basketball Programs Would Be Villanova. The Wild Cats of Philadelphia Fought their Way Into The Round Of 16 Before having their Fate Sealed By Baylor. Of These Nova Looked, The Best All-Season And are Expected To retain Most Of Its Core talent. Duke Lost Its Prize Freshman forward Jalen Johnson mid-way Through their tumult Of A season. Sophomore and Prolific Power forward is expected To Forgo His final "Two-ish" Years Of Eligibility And Take His Paint Proficient Into The League Freshman Jaemyn Brakefield Is Entering The Transfer Portal As Well As Super Senior Jordan Goldwire, a Major Contributor TO Duke's Success These past Seasons. The Duke Visage of the past years could Have An Entirely Different Makeup come NeXT Season. Kentucky, Duke's Twin In Freshman Frisking Could have An Entirely Different Issues to confront on The Limes OF Team Compositions. Prized Freshman Brandon Boston and Terrence Clarke are set to enter the draft, Questionably, Given NTat Neither % Star Prospect Had Any remarkable Contribution To AN Underwhelming Kentucky Program. Point Guard Devin Askew Is Up To Run For Another Year In The Blue Grass State. Reports Are That Coach Calipari Is Fishing The Transfer portal For Talent. After Landing Davidson College SG Kellen Grady, And The Deluge of 1000 plus College Basketball players Entering The Transfer Portal And Growing Daily With the recent Addition Illinois Adam Miller Adding to The Growing Platte, the amount of Talent In The College Commitment Indeterminate state Has Become So Great That The One And Done Don Can't Deny it In Desperation. This Swing to Transfer Athletes Is A Seismic Shift In Approach From The Highschool Scouting and Could Be Suggestive of A Potential New Era Of Wildcats Talent Consumption as Their life Blood Of "One And Done" Freshman were Grasping For life after Being Choked By Covid Protocol. Nova and Virginia Are Also Set To Retain Of Their Roster, these Blood Blue Are Amongst The Schools That Rarely see players Leave Before Their Junior, Except Villanova's Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, Who Should Test The NBA Water As A Prototypical Undersized Skilled power Forward in the vein of a Paul Millsap Who Could Contribute Immediately To An NBA Team's Success And Cole Swider Who Is Expected To Enter The Transfer Portal And Collin Gillespie Who Could Return For His Super Senior Season.
With Duke Fresh Man DJ Steward Now Exciting, The Doors in Durham The Blue Devils Are The Presumed Favorites To Secure Keel's Services. Keel's Advanced His Announcement Date to this Sunday, Before, The prediction Forums 24/7 Sports "crystal Balls" Oscillated Continuously with the "crystal Ball" Slightly Favoring Nova after Weeks Of Duke Holding The Lead. Keel's Played along with Side Current Duke Point Guard Jeremy Roach In High School Just A Season ago. North Carolina is Only Some Hundreds Mile From The DMV And This Relationship Gives Duke A Leg Up in the race. The Added Absence Of D.J. Steward, Keel's Previously Presumed Primary Competition At The 2 Guard Spot In Durham, Now Incoming Freshman and Number 7 rank high schooler & Player A. J. Griffin, who is More Of A combo F/G But Now Small Competition For Playing Time, Is who Keel's Will Constantly face At Durham.
On The Other Hand, NOVA's Backcourt Could Be Crowded Come November. As Stated earlier Except Swinder This Villanova Roster Is expected To retain Its Composition with Guards Brian Antoine, Justin Moore To return And Continue Along with Side Gillespie as well As A Commitment From Incoming 4 Star Angelo Brizzi That Will Give Nova The Experienced Backcourt The Team Has Always Fashioned In College. For Keel's To Break Into The Villanova rotation In His Freshman Year Would Be A herculean Task, No Matter His Talent.
Virginia Joins Kentucky AS The Outliers Amongst These Blue Bloods. There Is Trend Growing in College Basketball Of Crowded Backcourts, Call it Covid Causation But The Symptom Are endemic Amongst These Premiere Programs. The Cavalier Are Also not Expected To Lose Any Of The Productive Backcourt Pieces Including Starter Kihei Clark. Former Top 40 recruit Jabri Abdur-Rahim IS Expected To Emerge In His Sophomore Year And Contribute on an expanded Level For The Cavaliers After A Forgettable Freshman Year. With That addition of Rahim's Presumed Production, Virginia's Roster makes Up As Currently Projected Has No One At The Tier Of Talent That Trevor Keel's Possesses. Keel's Has A Pro Skill Set similar to that of Former Cavalier Kyle Guy (Great Shooter, Limited Athleticism) who Help Virginia Win The NCAA Tournament. Without any Notable Recruits In This Upcoming Class With, Though Keels And Efton Reid Are Still Pending, Virginia Could Possibly Present Keel's With The Optimal opportunity To Produce For NBA Scouts If He can Get On The court. Proximity Is another considered Point in The Bucket For Virginia. Keel's Is Proud Of His DMV Heritage, As He should Be The Are Is An Elite Athletic Production Capital, And Staying In The Area Is Also an Apart Of The Mores. Both Allen Iverson And Micheal Vick Did, Still This Loyalty To The D.C., Maryland, Virginia Are Has Not Deterred Guys Like Kevin Durant Ad Michael Beasley From Leaving The Metropolitan Area Past Years. The Cavaliers appear to be the Best Fit If Keel's As Far As Complementary Talent is concerned. He may on the other hand have To Be Willing To Wait And adopt Lesser Standing. this is Assuming He Is Not, Which Is Always The Assumption With Top 20 High school Prospects, Then He Should pass on wearing Orange This Fall. The Cavaliers Program is Not Known For As A "One And Done" factory, At All. Short Of Deandre Hunter And The Aforementioned Kyle Guy Few Players Have found Their Way Of The Cavaliers Program And Into The League These Past Few Year, Which As I Metoined IS Keel's Primary Objective. Kentucky Is The Outlier Of Outliers Here, They Are Talented At Several Positions with Guards Spot expected to e Competitive. The Team System Appeared To Spiraling Downwards After Flat Out Uncompetitive Year. Keel's Added Kentucky Late To His Recruitment Process. They Are not expected To Much Of A factor Ad This Decision Ad Could Have Very Well Come As Meas To influence Duke To Make Room For Him If Keel's Names Kentucky as The Team Of Choice It Would Be A Shock.
I Called Keel's College Decision A Poison Chalice For This reason. All Of These Blue Are Successful O Several Levels I The College ranks Are All Justified In Their Status As Upper Echelon Programs But This Has In The Past Come At The Expense Of The Talent These Teams Ted Tail. No Matter Where Keel's Unpacks His Bags Next Season, He will Walk into A Situation Much Different Than The One He Currently Occupies. He will be Possibly The Third or Fourth Option Under Favorable Conditions Despite His Talent, Which won't Serve Him Well If He Hopes To Transition To The NBA Level. I Personally, If I Were Advising Him, Would Have Encouraged Him To Consider A Second Tier Program Such AS DMV's Georgetown Or The ACC's Virginia Tech. He IS Less Like To Win Games With Those Programs but More Likely To Play At a Comfortable Pace Against Top Talent In Those respective Conferences. Ultimately, I Think Keel's Will Choose Nova Over Duke, Despite The Allure Of Camren Indoor Stadium And Coach K. Still, His Fit Within this Final Four will Be Fascinating.
