Due to the advantages of cable and the internet, I have now seen a reasonable number of these prospects. I must admit that I think the rankings must be influenced by something other than potential for basketball in D-1. There are players that I have seen in the top ten that I don't think will make a good college team. Since a prospect that I don't currently have a high opinion might actually sign with OU, I won't give names. But, I have seen point guards that can't handle the ball and who were absolutely destroyed by unknown point guards in both AAU and international ball. I have seen great athletic forwards that left me wondering why Felisha Gibbs wasn't a top ten prospect since she had more athleticism and about the same ability to shoot. The best prospects that I have seen in AAU were players that I had never heard of.
I watched a team that had Holmes, Cox, Durr, Samuelson (as well as Mulkey and Dungee) almost get destroyed by a Spanish team that had no prospects that anyone had ever heard of, and Duke got the best prospect in that game, Salvadores. I don't know how the US pulled that game out of the fire, except for the putbacks of Cox, the only US star who lived up to her reputation.
