Canadian Content

I’m always leary about saying guys have NBA potential when they’re still in HS. Thompson has some game for sure. I remember seing him play in a game at the ACC against Eastern Commerce a few years back before he was THE Tristan Thompson and he was head and shoulders above lots of these the guys playing and there were four cats now in D1. I don’t want to say he’s NBA potential now because the fact is he hasn’t played against college level talent yet regularly. The level he’s playing at is high but there’s no telling how he plays against guys who are at his level skill wise and physically on a regular basis. Just think of other HS guys from the past like Thompson that went to the NBA and didn’t stick. I saw a guy regularly at the downtown Y in Toronto named Sani Ibrahim who went to Oak Hill Academy. He was a top 10 HS guy the year Ty Chandler got drafted. They tabbed him with NBA game and he wasn’t drafted.

There are some other Canadian guys that are highly rated in HS like Cory Joseph, Dwight Powell and Mo Walker for the coming year. Thompson has the best chance at this point than them for the League but we’ll see. Like I said last post, I hope he can prove me wrong.

Mutombo was at the first phase of the training camp for the senior men. After that I don’t think he was was back for the remainder of the two.

Sheppard was on the Senior team when they went Italy. In fact, if you check the clips from the fight, you can see Shep in the frames coming to Doornekamp’s aid after the hit.

Both were obviously not on the final Senior roster. I think the idea was to get the young guys in the camp to get them used to the structure of the camp, the work outs and see what it was like. Both Gherardini and Rautins stressed that it was important to get the young guys that have potential to play for the team in the future in the program early and I think that’s what they were trying to do with these two guys.