Jamont- Maybe it's just a coincidence

[Dawgsome]

I find it interesting that Jamont's trainer/adviser is Jerry Meyer. Meyer is also the basketball guru on the Rivals site and most of the year he pumped Jamont as the number one point guard in college basketball. I think his final rankings had Jamont 3 (I didn't go back and look), but it wasn't until very late in the year that he would even think about putting Rose or Augustin in front of him on his power rankings (which is something I'm sure he had to do in order to maintain credibility). Don't get me wrong, Jamont definitely had some hype coming into and throughout the season, but the only place where he had consistent hype with really no criticism was on the Rivals page. So my questions is are how long have Jerry Meyer and Jamont had a relationship? How much of Jerry pumping Gordon's talent was promoting his own agenda? How many people like this have been in the dude's ear and how long?

On a related note, it really doesn't seem ethical that someone that is in charge of evaluating talent for a website with rather large national influence is also in the business of forming relationships/partnerships with those same kids. High school basketball (really AAU) is quickly becoming the most corrupt sport in this country.

 

[JR]

where else do you find out this kind of stuff but on the pack?

 

[RebelBruiser]

High school basketball (really AAU) <span style="text-decoration:line-through">is quickly becoming</span> has been and still is the most corrupt
sport in this country.

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Fixed it for you.

High school basketball and college basketball recruiting is by far the most corrupt of all college sports. You have to be doing something under the table to recruit well. The AAU circuit basically ensures that if you're going to land a big time recruit, you have to do something to get him.

It's not about selling your program and selling yourself. There are still a handful of top recruits that aren't flat out bought and sold on the market, but the majority of them are. It's just all done through the AAU camps, which helps keep teams out of NCAA trouble. Still, if your school is good at basketball recruiting, then you can basically guarantee they are doing something that isn't above board. I'm pretty sure Kennedy is doing something as well, because he's actually managed to bring in some guys that we normally wouldn't have a chance at landing. And I'm sure Stansbury knows the ropes as well, since he seems to manage to land a decent number of blue chippers here and there.

 

[HD6]

being All-SEC and Honorable Mention All-American, and a finalist for the Wooden and Cousy awards? The Rivals thing was the only hype?

And for hopefully the last time, that Rivals ranking was a ranking of college point guards as it related to college basketball. It had nothing to do with pro potential.

 

[patdog]

I don't know what all goes on with AAU/recruiting and I don't want to know. But from what we do know, it stinks to high heaven. 20 years ago I saw an interview with the former NCAA head of the enforcement division. He said that in his opinion every Div. I college basketball head coach had committed a major violation at some point in his career. It's gotten a lot dirtier since then.

 

[RebelBruiser]

Yea. However, I don't think poorly of any coaches for doing it. It's simply the price of doing business. If you're going to have any success in college basketball, you have to play the game. I'm sure the college coaches would prefer to be able to recruit without AAU camps basically handling the players, but it's the system that's in place, and they must just have to deal with it.

 

[fishwater99]

HD6[/b]]being All-SEC and Honorable Mention All-American, and a finalist for the Wooden and Cousy awards? The Rivals thing was the only hype?

And for hopefully the last time, that Rivals ranking was a ranking of college point guards as it related to college basketball. It had nothing to do with pro potential.

</p>Well someone forgot to tell J-Money that he had no potential, had an inconsistent outside shot, was not a team-player and had too many turnovers.

 

[mstateglfr]

while Meyer may have advised him, im pretty sure Lucas was his trainer down in Houston.

 

[KurtRambis4]

if they haven't figured it out by now, then they never will. i mean it's been said 1000x and some of the people on this board still don't understand that college rankings/honors are in relation to college performances...imagine that?

 

[Stormrider81]

"was not a team-player "

Perhaps my memory is foggy here, perhaps, but I seem to remember Gordon having multiple games with either double digit assists or very close to it. Again, Gordon's "selfishness" is yet another myth that has somehow taken root on this and other message boards. Gordon looked selfish at times because he was surrounded by players that couldn't be counted on when the going got tough. Goodness knows Hans and Stewart had a lot of downright awefull games shooting from the outside. Yes, sometimes Gordon did too much or took ill advised shots. However, I find it hard to fault the guy when he passes to a guy like Benock and he travels or he passes to Hans and Stewart and they routinely miss the shot. Heck, even in the SC game had their idiot player not fouled Hans we lose that game, and that was celebrated as a great example of unselfishness on Gordon's behalf.

 

[patdog]

He was 3rd in the SEC in assists with 4.94 per game. If Hansbrough and Stewart had hit the outside shots like they did their freshman year, he'd have had more assists.

 

[TBonewannabe]

I seriously doubt any other point guards had a triple double. J Money flirted with one everytime he hit the floor and he was probably one of the best defenders at his position in the country. Where he really lacks is his jump shot and 3 point range. Those are huge in the NBA but not as much in college.

 

[rhs43]

somebody should have told him if he would have stayed his senior year he possibly could have gotten a lot of pre-season hype such as pre-season all-american and things of that nature. it's really sad that these players listen to the scum bags that just wanna make money off of them. i'm tired of seeing this happen to us year after 17ing year, but with that being said it really seemed like jamont wasn't wanting to stay regardless of what people told him.

 

[RaleighDawg.sixpack]

Who made the pass to Hans at the end of the South Carolina game this year???

 

[Eureka Dog]

in that situation. Stans drew up a good play for that situation. He used JG's reputation aginst the Gamecocks right there. I wish we'd seen more instances of team-play from JG over the last 3 seasons. If so, our record would have been better, defenses couldn't have afforded to concentrate so much on him, his scoring would have increased, his turnover/assist ratio would have been better, and, I believe, his draft stock would have risen.

 

[fishwater99]

TBonewannabe wrote: _________________________________________________ <span class="post-title"><span class="post-title"><span class="post-title"><span class="post-title">Jamont</span></span></span> Gordon was probably one of the best point guards in college.</span>

WOW...

Maybe top 20 players in CBB last year, but not one of top point guards, put him at the 3 and he would have been one of the top small forwards last year.
You kids don't get it J-Money was a great college player, not a great point guard, he was out of position while at MSUand a tweener...
The scouts knew this and he was not drafted..

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

I found those in thirty seconds of searching.

 

[Goat Holder]

and Jamont was the only person on our team that I trusted to bring the ball up the court without turning it over. That makes him a pretty successful point guard, simply put.

Did he hurt our team chemistry? Maybe. Was he an NBA tweener? Maybe. Was he a pretty good point guard for Miss. State? Yes. There's really no debating that.