Lowe Lands Another ’10 Prospect (Projected Roster Update)

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ACCBasketballRecruiting.com – along with everybody else – is that point guard Ryan Harrow has committed to NC State joining consensus Top 20 high school star, CJ Leslie in the class of 2010. (Link here).

Harrow – a rising junior from Marietta, Georgia – is a little shorter than his listing of 6’0 and weighs only 150 pounds. As ‘seeinred09’ stated on an NC State message board, “Let the record show that Chris Paul was 5’10” and around 150 lbs as a high school sophomore.”

Harrow plays AAU basketball for the Louis Williams Elite 16s and is reportedly close to Lorenzo Brown, a top 20 wing prospect in the class of 2009 who has reportedly narrowed his list to NC State and Memphis.

The University of Florida’s Rivals.com site recently had the following report on Harrow that was shared on Pack Pride’s free message boards:

There may not have been a guard in the entire tournament field that was faster and more slippery than the 5-foot-10 guard from Walton High School in Marietta, Ga. Harrow was a blur with the ball in his hands and because of his size and speed, he was able to sneak into small cracks in the defense.

His frame is tiny but his game was big. Harrow’s ball-handling skills and overall basketball are tremendous for a 2010 prospect. He’ll have to continue to fill out, but his game was one of the best of any point guard in the tournament.

It appears that Harrow couldn’t be more enthusiastic about the recent developments in his recruitment. The Wolfpacker ran this story highlighting Harrow’s spark with NC State on Sunday.

The North Carolina State elite camp experience left such an impression on rising junior point guard Ryan Harrow, he couldn’t wait to come back to Raleigh with his mother.

Harrow, who played three games with Louis Williams Elite 17s on Saturday in Norcross, Ga., is flying to Raleigh today, arriving around 9:30 a.m., where he will meet his mother, Fern Harrow, and his brother-in-law, Erasto Hatchett, who is an assistant coach at the Concord (N.C.) Cannon School, his former school. Harrow transferred back home to Marietta (Ga.) Walton High last January.

NC State coach Sidney Lowe will be meeting today with rising junior point guard Ryan Harrow, and his mother and brother-in-law.
“My mom wanted to meet [NCSU] coach Sidney Lowe about my scholarship and me committing early,” Harrow said.

Harrow attended the elite camp for two days, June 11-12, yet the experience could alter his life.

One question on the minds of many Wolfpackers will be, “How does this impact NC State’s recruitment of John Wall in the class of 2009.”

Personally, I do not think that Harrow would impact Wall in any way. If Wall (were to commit to NC State and) is a one-and-doner as many predict then Harrow simply replaces Wall’s scholarship. The best case scenario would be if Wall stays at least two years; giving Harrow at least a year of growth and development and competion in practice vs Wall (and Javi Gonzalez and Farnold Degand).

Projected 2008-2009 NC State Basketball Roster

Senior Class
(1) Courtney Fells (Wing)
(2) Ben McCauley (F/C)

Junior Class
(3) Brandon Costner (F)
(4) Trevor Ferguson (G)
(5) Dennis Horner (F)
(6) Fernold Degand (PG)
(7) Marques Johnson (PG/SG)

Sophomore Class
(8) Javi Gonzalez (PG)
(9) Tracy Smith (4F)

Freshman Class
(10) Johnny Thomas (Wing)
(11) Julius Mays (PG/SG)
(12) CJ Williams (Wing)

HS Sr Commits
(13) Scott Wood (SG)
(1) Open – [Wing player along the lines of Lorenzo Brown] (Courtney Fells Scholarship)
(2) Open – [Center along the lines of Derrick Favors] (Ben McCauley’s Scholarship)
(3/4/5/6/7) Potential open from potential departure in junior class to be used only on a superstar like John Wall.

HS Junior Commitments
(5) CJ Leslie (F)
(5) Ryan Harrow (PG)
(6) Open
(7) Open

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82 Responses to Lowe Lands Another ’10 Prospect (Projected Roster Update)

  1. packbackr04 07/03/2008 at 11:26 AM #

    WHAT ABOUT JOHNNY THOMAS?

  2. Afterglow 07/03/2008 at 11:38 AM #

    Last I heard Johnny Thomas is recovering at a slower pace. I doubt we will see much of him until after Christmas<<<just a gut feeling-nothing more.

  3. Rick 07/03/2008 at 12:27 PM #

    I saw Thomas at the TOC and he was limping noticably. He also still had it wrapped.

  4. Big Worm 07/03/2008 at 1:23 PM #

    “Be it hitting the freshman wall, a late-season (disastrous) change in overall strategy by Lowe or just other teams figuring out how to guard Hickson, in the losing streak that ended (and sunk) State’s regular season, JJ averaged just under 11.9 PPG (10.1 PPG in the last 6 games).”

    nycfan-

    As a true freshman center facing double teams almost every trip down the floor on a team lacking a point guard and also without any other credible scoring threat, how many points would you have expected Hickson to score in order for his production to match his potential? With no one to get him the ball in good scoring position, no one to draw the double-team and no one to consistently help him shoulder the scoring load, he should have still put up 15-20 a game as a true frosh? Who would reasonably expect that?

    Hickson drew double-teams every time down the floor and still led the conference in field goal %. There are some holes in his game, but he came in with an NBA-ready body, immediately exhibited an ability to be a very adept scorer when he gets the ball in the lane and is not being double-teamed, has a very soft touch around the basket and, while he didn’t give good effort 100% of the time, likely did so with more consistency than anyone else on our team. He was clearly our best, and most effective, player as a true freshman, despite being the sole focus of opposing teams’ defensive strategies.

    Hickson’s play last year did not indicate anything other than how good a player he is and how much he was able to accomplish in spite of sub-par performances from almost all of his supporting cast all year long. He’s not perfect, but there simply isn’t much to complain about WRT his play last year. To expect more from him given his situation is simply unreasonable.

  5. nycfan 07/03/2008 at 1:56 PM #

    ^I was not suggesting that Hickson was not a very good player, he clearly was (or else the Cavs and a lot of other NBA teams have terrible scouting), I was just mulling whether, as a one-and-done player, he could be called a championship caliber player.

    To me, your assertion that to expect more from Hickson than he produced in the critical stretch of the ACC was simply unreasonable indicates that judged on his sole season in the ACC he was not a championship caliber player. Or maybe that is impossible to judge b/c he was not on a championship caliber team … if we had some way of determining whether he would have made a good team better, maybe?

  6. happypackdad 07/03/2008 at 2:05 PM #

    Herb left the program in a solid state with talent on campus & coming in. Pretty sure him leaving had nothing to do with him thinking the program was going to take a step back. Wright & Werner would help a lot. But that’s water under the bridge, think about this, Sid hasn’t had a PG for many games for his 2 years here. That has been 90% of the problem during his tenure IMO. Everything else stems from that fact. It turned into a re-building program after commitments went elsewhere + injuries. I think we’ll get Brown & either Wall or Favors to go with Wood in ’09. ’10 seems to be shaping up nicely also. Sid will get it done.

  7. Big Worm 07/03/2008 at 2:49 PM #

    “To me, your assertion that to expect more from Hickson than he produced in the critical stretch of the ACC was simply unreasonable indicates that judged on his sole season in the ACC he was not a championship caliber player. Or maybe that is impossible to judge b/c he was not on a championship caliber team … if we had some way of determining whether he would have made a good team better, maybe?”

    Were you to look solely at Hickson’s ppg numbers last year, especially towards season’s end, they don’t slap you across the face and scream “championship caliber.” But as you alluded, I don’t believe you can really judge the one great player on the worst team in the conference in a vacuum like that, without putting his performance in context.

    Even on the worst team in the league, were he a point guard that could create his own offense, rather than a double-team-susceptible center, there would be more opportunity to judge whether his play was championship caliber or not. It’s just too hard to do so as a center, when he is so reliant on opportunities that are created by others.

    I don’t remember an NC State player that was as automatic as Hickson if they touched the ball within 6-8 feet of the basket and were not being double-teamed. He was absolutely automatic down low.

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