Grassroots Preview: Team Blaze Select 2018
The AAU season is upon us and we are ready to get things going. This season, we begin again with our previews of some of the top AAU programs in the state. Today, we take a look at Team Blaze Select 2018.
# | Name | HT | POS | Class | HS |
0 | Gabe Collins-Green | 6’0 | PG | 2018 | Southport |
1 | Musa Jallow | 6’6 | SF | 2018 | Bloomington North |
2 | Zach Munson | 6’4 | SF | 2018 | Guerin Catholic |
3 | Jack Hansen | 6’7 | PF | 2018 | Guerin Catholic |
4 | Tre Baumgardner | 6’0 | PG | 2018 | Africentric (OH) |
10 | Ethan Helton | 6’1 | PG | 2018 | Eastern Greene |
12 | Hunter White | 6’1 | SG | 2018 | Ind. Tindley |
21 | Gabe Patterson | 6’0 | PG | 2018 | Perry Meridian |
24 | Jack Townsend | 6’0 | SG | 2020 | Bloomington North |
32 | Jeff Reynolds | 6’5 | SF | 2018 | Greenwood |
Strengths: The strength of this group is their ability to provide multiple scoring outputs. Musa Jallow is going to be the main guy but Reynolds, White, Hansen, and Munson can all score at a good clip as well. Look for them to give some teams trouble as they try to figure out how to defend this team.
Why College Programs Should Watch: College programs from all levels will track this group. Musa is the best of the bunch but he is a HM player while you have a few others that are going to be in the mix of DII and LM programs. Most players will be in that DIII and NAIA range of players.
Player To Watch: Jack Mansen (Guerin Catholic) – He’s an interesting player and with such a lack of size in this class, he’s going to need to really assert his versatility to shine. He can do quite a few things really well including shoot the ball from three. He’s got to work on his interior game and defense but if he can, he could be a guy that shows up a lot this season in articles and schools top prospect lists.
Where To Find Them: They are playing on the NY2LA Circuit this season so they will be heading to Texas this weekend and up to Minnesota and Wisconsin later in the year. They will also be in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis a ton this season.