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Topic: How good is Nick Richards?
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catmandoo
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posted 04-30-2017 11:35 AM
According to this article Richards is "scary good"!
So just how good is 7-footer Nick Richards, the McDonald’s All-American headed to Kentucky this summer? We asked a man who would know, former Rutgers coach Mike Rice, who coached Richards in high school.
“It’s scary, from when I stared two and a half years ago to where he is now,” said Rice, who is now coaching a pair of 5-star 2019 UK targets on the AAU circuit. “He came into basketball late, so his basketball instincts aren’t there yet, but they’ve come on so much. No one moves like him. It’s unfair that a 7-foot kid moves like that.”
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catmandoo
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posted 05-02-2017 11:11 AM
Here is a article about Richards wanting to be the first pick in the draft.
For a kid who’s only been playing basketball for about four years, Nick Richards is doing pretty well for himself.
The 6-foot-11 center from Jamaica was a soccer star — playing midfielder and goalkeeper — and competed in track in field in his home country. When he outgrew the pitch — he was up to 6-5 by the age of 13 — he knew it was time to find another sport.
“I couldn’t keep up, because I was getting too big and getting too slow,” Richards said this week from the McDonald’s All-American Game in Chicago.
His selection for this annual all-star game — he was one of four Kentucky commitments in town this week — shows how far he’s come in such a relatively short amount of time.
Richards started playing basketball when he moved to the United States for high school — his family is in Queens, N.Y., but he attends The Patrick School in New Jersey — and he quickly emerged as one of the dominant defensive players in his recruiting class. Richards has an offensive game that’s still fairly raw for a top-20 recruit — “It’s not really there yet,” he acknowledged — but it continues to show promise with each passing month.
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posted 05-02-2017 03:04 PM
I saw his high school play two games on TV this past season. He is very athletic, has good height and athleticism but has a lot to learn about playing basketball. He certainly has the tools to be a good one but does not appear at this point to be one and done material.
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catmandoo
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posted 05-02-2017 05:09 PM
The best teacher many times is learning by playing with good players and he won't have a shortage of that.
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