Anyone who is a basketball fan, regardless of college allegiance and the uber-bias of fan-dom, should be pulling for Jaycee Carroll to land a spot in the NBA.
(Jaycee Carroll photo, left, courtesy of EFE)
What better story is there than a kid from the basketball mecca state of Wyoming, so highly recruited that he might have been forced to go the junior college route if Utah State hadn't offered, who out-works those with greater physical gifts and is seemingly becoming an individualized version of "Hoosiers"? (please hold back weighing in on the JC to a JC angle)
With a major tip of the ol' sombrero to Sam Wasson/BleedCrimson.net, we offer this latest nugget on Carroll, courtesy of Jonathan Givony, Draft Express (a daily must-read site):
"...We talked about Carroll in quite a bit of depth just last week, so there is no need to repeat ourselves. The main point there was that Carroll has risen up the European basketball ladder about as swiftly as an American player can, currently averaging over 18 point per game in the ACB in just his second year of playing professional basketball. So despite his obvious limitations (size, athleticism, perimeter defense, point guard skills) it is safe to wonder where the ascension of this outstanding shooter/scorer might end. He has another year left on his contract with Gran Canaria, but has a free NBA out clause and a very minimal European buyout..."
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