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My guys watched Tony Mitchell today. He is a good athlete that will do well in a run and gun offense that allows him to score on fast break and offensive rebounds. But he would be a horrible fit for a pro-style (triangle/princeton) system. Right now Mitchell is a 6'6 power-forward.

6'8 face up forward from Turkey.� Gtown is looking at him, as are a lot of schools.� I doubt Gtown recruiting him gets too serious, but he is worth monitoring:

Like I said in another thread: Jelen, Nate, Roscoe, and Markel have all been invited to midnight madness for officials. Jelan and Roscoe are still working out their official visit schedules.

Tony Mitchell can NOT take an official visit, because honestly his grades are horrible and he does not have his test in order to take official visits yet. I was trying to be polite about Mitchell and just critique him on his basketball skills (or lack there of). But I got a PM that the usual clueless assholes have been flapping their yaps about how great Mitchell would be for GU. Well here is the truth:

Mitchell is a good athlete but an average basketball player at best. The only person that has him ranked as a top 20 player is the clueless asshole himself, BJ Meyers. BJ was the only person that ranked Latavius Williams top 15 last year also. His credibility for ranking players is dog crap. Yet there are some gullible suckers that live by what he says, and the usual BS from rivals. Mitchell can't shoot, handle on the perimeter, has no post game, is 6'6, and has a low hoops IQ. Mitchell had a two week stretch this summer that he played well, other than that he stunk. He needs to be in a system that is run and gun with very little thinking involved.

More problematic is he is a HORRIBLE student with bad grades. He is not as bad as Latavius academically, but it is close. There is a higher probability that Mitchell goes Juco or Prep school rather than a DI school next season. His grades are so bad that right now he will only be accepted at a school like KSU. He would be a disaster on many levels. Do not expect him to end up at Gtown.

Another problem is that his mom has "control" issues. She wants to run the show, and that is what she is doing. Mitchell was supposed to go to prep school in Florida to get his grades up. But she vetoed that and now he is still going to school in Texas, where Mitchell has struggled mightily and just gets passed through the system. He is a nice kid (not a punk like Malik Story), so I have been holding my tongue for a long time. But people should have figured by now that when I start a reference to a prospect as being a 'good kid, but bad fit', I am saying this for a reason. I will always tell it like it is good or bad, people can do with it whatever the heck they want to.

Thanks, but I honestly would have preferred to have never spoke the truth about Mitchell. Most people are smart enough to figure out what I meant about him being a bad fit without going into further detail. But we forget that the internet is full of idiots that think they are the smartest kid in the class, yet they are repeatedly wrong. Again Mitchell is a good kid, and maybe his grades really improve and his skills improve enough that he could sign with Gtown in the spring. But he certainly is not a player that I would be high on.

Since he has gotten a little hype over the summer, his mom now thinks Tony is her lotto ticket and heading to the NBA. Unfortunantly, when familly/friends of prospects get caught up in the hype they fail to realize that 6'6 athletes are a penny a dozen in the eyes of the NBA. His mom will be the first person that once Mitchell to transfer when he is sitting the bench his first couple of years at GU. At Nike Mitchell measured out at 6'7 with shoes, so he is 6'6 without shoes. Michell has long arms, but no real post game, so he can only play SF.

Mitchell:
http://inside.nikebasketball.com/news/wp-content/2009/06/09_Vince_Carter_-_High_School_Alphabetical_Roster.pdf

Yeah, well this has a lot of Latavius to it. Same: State, AAU people, assistant coach recruiting him... At least Mitchell is a better student and better prospect, so we will see.