Basketball: Lone Peak move-in could be a D-I recruit
After the Mountain West Conference football meetings concluded down here in Las Vegas, I swung by Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas and ran into......former Utah Blaze assistant coach Hunkie Cooper.
Hmm. Small world.
Actually, I drove over to the school to catch a couple of summer all-star basketball games played by Salt Lake Metro's entrants in The Main Event tournament. Metro Gold won its game to improve to 2-0 in the tourney, while Metro Black lost 54-53 on a three-pointer with four seconds left to De La Salle, the California private school known for its football prowess, to drop to 1-1 at the tourney.
I saw coaches from BYU (John Wardenburg), Southern Utah (Ron Carling), Weber State (Randy Rahe), Utah Valley University (Dick Hunsaker) and even Louisiana Tech (Curtis Condie) there watching the Utah kids play. I didn't see any Utah coaches, but I did see former Ute assistant Marty Wilson, now head coach at Pepperdine.
Coaches at these type of events have to sit on the opposite side of the gyms from the parents and fans, and can't have any contact with players, their club coaches or their parents. They are there to be seen by the recruits, and to evaluate talent.
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Metro Black is considered the better of coach Dave Hammer's Metro teams, but some of the guys who have played for Metro Black in the past -- Lone Peak's Tyler Haws, Pleasant Grove's C.J. Wilcox, West Jordan's Mason Sawyer, Brighton's Corbin Miller and Bingham's Ben Clifford -- are not competing here for an assortment of reasons.
Haws has enough offers and no longer needs to showcase his abilities, Wilcox has committed to Washington, Sawyer had a scheduling conflict, Clifford is with his Bingham teammates at the National AAU Tournament in Orlando, Fla., and Miller has shin splints.
Still, Metro Black has some considerable talent, led by Olympus' Corbin Green, Box Elder's Brant Mecham, Hillcrest's Kyle Maughan and a move-in to Lone Peak's boundaries that prep basketball fans are going to hear a lot about -- 6-3 point guard Tommy Tebbs.
I know, just what two-time defending 5A champion Lone Peak needed -- a point guard with Division I ability. Yes, he's related to the Tebbs' clan that shined for Bingham in the 1990s.
Tommy Tebbs has been living in Las Vegas, but has moved in with his grandmother in Alpine, squarely in Lone Peak's boundaries. The senior-to-be doesn't have any offers yet, but he is "hearing a lot" from Weber State and a little from Utah, Utah State and BYU.
He said he's already earned a nickname from his Lone Peak teammates, with whom he's already played 42 games this summer: "Dime."
I will have more from my chats with Tebbs, Mecham and Green in a subsequent post.
-- Jay Drew
Hmm. Small world.
Actually, I drove over to the school to catch a couple of summer all-star basketball games played by Salt Lake Metro's entrants in The Main Event tournament. Metro Gold won its game to improve to 2-0 in the tourney, while Metro Black lost 54-53 on a three-pointer with four seconds left to De La Salle, the California private school known for its football prowess, to drop to 1-1 at the tourney.
I saw coaches from BYU (John Wardenburg), Southern Utah (Ron Carling), Weber State (Randy Rahe), Utah Valley University (Dick Hunsaker) and even Louisiana Tech (Curtis Condie) there watching the Utah kids play. I didn't see any Utah coaches, but I did see former Ute assistant Marty Wilson, now head coach at Pepperdine.
Coaches at these type of events have to sit on the opposite side of the gyms from the parents and fans, and can't have any contact with players, their club coaches or their parents. They are there to be seen by the recruits, and to evaluate talent.
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Metro Black is considered the better of coach Dave Hammer's Metro teams, but some of the guys who have played for Metro Black in the past -- Lone Peak's Tyler Haws, Pleasant Grove's C.J. Wilcox, West Jordan's Mason Sawyer, Brighton's Corbin Miller and Bingham's Ben Clifford -- are not competing here for an assortment of reasons.
Haws has enough offers and no longer needs to showcase his abilities, Wilcox has committed to Washington, Sawyer had a scheduling conflict, Clifford is with his Bingham teammates at the National AAU Tournament in Orlando, Fla., and Miller has shin splints.
Still, Metro Black has some considerable talent, led by Olympus' Corbin Green, Box Elder's Brant Mecham, Hillcrest's Kyle Maughan and a move-in to Lone Peak's boundaries that prep basketball fans are going to hear a lot about -- 6-3 point guard Tommy Tebbs.
I know, just what two-time defending 5A champion Lone Peak needed -- a point guard with Division I ability. Yes, he's related to the Tebbs' clan that shined for Bingham in the 1990s.
Tommy Tebbs has been living in Las Vegas, but has moved in with his grandmother in Alpine, squarely in Lone Peak's boundaries. The senior-to-be doesn't have any offers yet, but he is "hearing a lot" from Weber State and a little from Utah, Utah State and BYU.
He said he's already earned a nickname from his Lone Peak teammates, with whom he's already played 42 games this summer: "Dime."
I will have more from my chats with Tebbs, Mecham and Green in a subsequent post.
-- Jay Drew
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