Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News attended the Champions Classic and says that NBA scouts were plentiful and there were a lot of players to look at.
He starts his piece with Jeremy Roach though, a player he says might not get drafted but who you can expect to make a team and possibly excel. That’s pretty cool.
But the real focus is on the high-end talent and he likes Dereck Lively and Kyle Filipowski a lot.
About Lively he says this: “Lively is one of the most electric big men we’ve seen in college basketball since Tyson Chandler – oh, yeah, that’s right.