Post Gazette HS All Section teams today

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I know we have broached this before. But 22 All Section teams, 5 kids a team. That's 110 players.

ONE kid taller than 6'6" and that is 6'7"! Granted we know there are more than that, but only one was good enough to be named All Section. How is this possible??

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

I didn't click on it yet, but Parham is 6'7", isn't the kid from Imani 6'10"? So that would be 2? Unless Imani wasn't included

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I didn't click on it yet, but Parham is 6'7", isn't the kid from Imani 6'10"? So that would be 2? Unless Imani wasn't included

Parham was the one kid at 6'7". The 6'10" kid at Imani (I think he is only a FR) did not make all City League.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

Parham was the one kid at 6'7". The 6'10" kid at Imani (I think he is only a FR) did not make all City League.

Parham will be interesting to watch. Still growing into his body I think but seems to have the tools. Whether he is ACC or A10 level is the big question.

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

I know we have broached this before. But 22 All Section teams, 5 kids a team. That's 110 players.

ONE kid taller than 6'6" and that is 6'7"! Granted we know there are more than that, but only one was good enough to be named All Section. How is this possible??

The lack of basketball talent in the metro area of Pittsburgh is sad. There is only 1 Senior that is a Power 6 level recruit.

 

[Upg bobcat]

I know we have broached this before. But 22 All Section teams, 5 kids a team. That's 110 players.

ONE kid taller than 6'6" and that is 6'7"! Granted we know there are more than that, but only one was good enough to be named All Section. How is this possible??

Do we know there are more than that? Can you list them?

Also, it's very possible that the 6'6"+ guys simply aren't very good at basketball, or at least weren't the best centers in their respective sections. Just because you are tall doesn't mean you have skills.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Anybody remember the old Street and Smith's College BB preview. And they would have pages dedicated to High School players and recruiting. It was the go to info before sites like these came about.

They used to have like 20 metro areas listed with their top 5 players, and up into the late 80's, Pittsburgh was included. But even then, you compared the 5 locals with say 5 from Cleveland or Memphis or Cinci (similar cities) and it would be much worse.

The one thing I can point to as a reason why, is Pittsburgh both city and metro area has a much lower African American population.

So say Cleveland has a metro area of 2.3 million and is 20%. Pittsburgh is 2.4 million and is 12% (These numbers are guesses, but I think fairly close).

Cleveland 460,000
Pittsburgh 288,000

So Cleveland has almost 200,000 more African Americans. Now not making this a race thing, but when 80% of the NBA is black and 70% of P5 starting lineups are black, this is somewhat significant.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Do we know there are more than that? Can you list them?

Also, it's very possible that the 6'6"+ guys simply aren't very good at basketball, or at least weren't the best centers in their respective sections. Just because you are tall doesn't mean you have skills.

Yeah. My HS starts a 6'8" Soph and had a 6'7" kid come off the bench. So there are definitely more.

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

Anybody remember the old Street and Smith's College BB preview. And they would have pages dedicated to High School players and recruiting. It was the go to info before sites like these came about.

They used to have like 20 metro areas listed with their top 5 players, and up into the late 80's, Pittsburgh was included. But even then, you compared the 5 locals with say 5 from Cleveland or Memphis or Cinci (similar cities) and it would be much worse.

The one thing I can point to as a reason why, is Pittsburgh both city and metro area has a much lower African American population.

So say Cleveland has a metro area of 2.3 million and is 20%. Pittsburgh is 2.4 million and is 12% (These numbers are guesses, but I think fairly close).

Cleveland 460,000
Pittsburgh 288,000

So Cleveland has almost 200,000 more African Americans. Now not making this a race thing, but when 80% of the NBA is black and 70% of P5 starting lineups are black, this is somewhat significant.

You make a valid point and there is definitely a correlation. It would be interesting to compare the numbers from the 70’s when there was talent coming out of the area.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

You make a valid point and there is definitely a correlation. It would be interesting to compare the numbers from the 70’s when there was talent coming out of the area.

Well I mean in the 70's, you had like 6 more city league schools. It is still weird how this area just produces a lack of height. I guess part of this, not alot of immigrants now locate here (many immigrants now are from Africa) and the lack of an NBA team, you just don't have the roots that emanate from having a pro team to be role model like you do hockey.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I know we have broached this before. But 22 All Section teams, 5 kids a team. That's 110 players.

ONE kid taller than 6'6" and that is 6'7"! Granted we know there are more than that, but only one was good enough to be named All Section. How is this possible??

We talked about this before but it really seems like Pittsburgh has a shorter population than anywhere. I mean in the last 30 years, how many HS basketball players has there been, say 6'9 or taller? 10? I'm not even talking about good players.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

We talked about this before but it really seems like Pittsburgh has a shorter population than anywhere. I mean in the last 30 years, how many HS basketball players has there been, say 6'9 or taller? 10? I'm not even talking about good players?

Too many Italians.

 

[cease10]

Keep in mind that this is the era of position less basketball. The days of sticking a kid down low just because they're the tallest are over.

Kids wanna be like Kevin Durant, tall and shooting/slashing to the basket.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Keep in mind that this is the era of position less basketball. The days of sticking a kid down low just because they're the tallest are over.

Kids wanna be like Kevin Durant, tall and shooting/slashing to the basket.

Yea but Pgh still produces a disproportionately low amount of humans taller than 6'9