Jazzfanz, where people write MUTUAL RESPECT with capital letters.
After following the highschool scene for some time, I wondered what exactly is intriguing about following the development on the court at such an early stage. It wasn't that fun for me at least.
So help me out in case I was doing it wrong.
Well for one its entertainment, secondly I'd say there could be intrinsic value to this info depending on how you choose to leverage it, third I'd say you'd probably have to be trying to learn something while checking out HSBB. whether that's specific information about players, teams, coaches, or minutiae about how things are structured and other adjacent info, like tips and tricks, drills and workouts or just the lexicon of terms used by professionals -- Once you've got **** like that established its easier to spot outliers, there's also always unique stories, every year, it's fail-safe.
There's also the competition of recruiting, which is really an interesting topic all by itself.
I like to follow how the imports do amongst the domestic HS players - That's interesting to me, in kind of a population theory type of way. For many obvious reasons the imports are increasing in #'s and effectiveness.
If a HS game is televised on ESPN, I like to watch them in-part because I want to see how the players react to the cameras, their usually pretty good games too.. I've seen a ton of NBA players play in HS already. After watching Derrick Rose in HS, I knew I wanted to catch as many of his games at Memphis as possible..Then I caught Tyreke Evans games in Hs and figured I'd root for Memphis. So now I like to see how the next generations compare.
Also there's always fresh news, good players are constantly getting discovered/shot up the rankings, the 6'5" PG Andrew Jones in my last post was simply underrated because he was sitting out recovering from Knee Surgery. He's really, really, really good - He and Justin Jackson(UNLV) will be 2 of the best 4-star recruits in the next class, and I coulda told you that months ago, it will ring true.
I also like tracking the field and profiles of the 100 or so 4 star players, the HS class of 2016 has an epically strong class of 4stars. I also like to check out the upper echelon 3-star players just to kind of look for standards or precedent if you will.
I particularly enjoy it for the stories, some of the tallest able bodied people on this planet are involved. Players from all over the globe from all sorts of different circumstances.