High school scoring sensation has major recruiting offers, but no interest from Kentu

[Matt Dillon]

Still just a junior high school, Joe Girard III is already the all-time leading scorer in New York state basketball history.
On the court, his numbers are incredible.
The 6-foot-1 combo guard from Glens Falls, N.Y., averaged 50 points, seven rebounds and six assists per game this past season. During that run, he broke Lance Stephenson’s all-time scoring mark for a state rich in basketball talent, and he’ll go into his senior season with 3,306 career points. Maxpreps.com named him a first-team All-American for the junior class.
He’s currently among the leaders on the uber-talented Nike circuit in three-pointers (22 over eight games) and is a perfect 27-for-27 from the free throw line so far this spring.
Off the court, he’s an A student and volunteers in his community. (Oh, and he’s also the star quarterback on his school’s football team, leading them to their first state title as a sophomore).
Duke, Syracuse and Michigan are among his top suitors — all have offered scholarships, and head coaches from all three paid him in-home visits last month — but UK is not on his recruiting radar.
“I haven’t heard from Kentucky,” Girard told the Herald-Leader last weekend at the Nike stop in Indianapolis.
He would be glad if the Cats gave him a call.

http://www.kentucky.com/sports/colle...210441184.html

Phenominal shooter, outstanding student, does volunteer community work and plans on being in college at least two years, if not longer, but we're not interested. I noticed recently where a couple of big men, that are tearing it up, haven't heard from UK either. Oh well, I'm sure the staff knows what they're doing.

[teamchemistry15]

That's a lot of points. Slightly off topic, but didn't we have a stretch of about seven or eight years before Cal where we didn't have a 30 ppg scorer from high school? I want to say it was Alex Legion who broke the streak.

[Joneslab]

That's an absurd amount of points.

Imaging averaging 50 a game. Almost literally every shot in a game with 8-minute quarters would have to be yours.

[Catatonic]

Imaging averaging 50 a game. Almost literally every shot in a game with 8-minute quarters would have to be yours.

Imagine being his teammate who's never had the ball passed to you.

[J.Jennings]

Don't worry folks, he's going to Duke.....

[J.Jennings]

Mac McClung will play one year at Gerogetown, then transfer to Duke also...

[ralph helm]

Pistol Pete Maravich #2???? rest of his team inbounds the ball,brings it down court & passes it to him to shoot?????

[Matt Dillon]

Pistol Pete Maravich #2???? rest of his team inbounds the ball,brings it down court & passes it to him to shoot?????

He's among the leaders, on the Nike Circuit, from three point land and a perfect 27-27 from the free throw line. I think we could use him.

[Joneslab]

He's expected to sign with Syracuse.

[Spiritof96]

He's among the leaders, on the Nike Circuit, from three point land and a perfect 27-27 from the free throw line. I think we could use him.

Cal tends to have a very good nose for things beyond on-court performance. Attitude, work ethic, parents, entourage, willingness to be a teammate. Given Cal's track record, if he isn't offering a guy, I assume there is a good reason and count our blessings. Some of his biggest "misses" have been very positive results in hindsight.

[Joneslab]

Cal tends to have a very good nose for things beyond on-court performance. Attitude, work ethic, parents, entourage, willingness to be a teammate. Given Cal's track record, if he isn't offering a guy, I assume there is a good reason and count our blessings. Some of his biggest "misses" have been very positive results in hindsight.

I agree.

Cal does probably need more gifted shooters. He's said the same thing over the last few months. He covets length, athleticism, fluidity, versatility. In short, he likes guys whose games translate to the NBA.

It would be nice to have a couple of these elite shooters, but it's not going to be this guy.

[Joneslab]

This guy just scored his 4,000th high school point this week (!). It's hard to wrap your head around a stat like that.

He committed to Syracuse btw.

[Joneslab]

Bringing a totally random thread back to the top to say that this guy is still in college basketball. I saw him playing in a game this past week and thought about this old thread. He plays for Clemson.

[Catsrock]

Bringing a totally random thread back to the top to say that this guy is still in college basketball. I saw him playing in a game this past week and thought about this old thread. He plays for Clemson.

You intrigued me. Had to look him up. Leads them in minutes and second in scoring—15/game. But he’s 23. Actually did pretty good as a freshman at Cuse though—made 70 threes. However…Hagans, Maxey and Quickly were in Lexington at that time. He wouldn’t have taken 7 threes.

I looked him up because we sort of have the homegrown version of him coming next year. Will be really interesting to see what type of opportunity Perry gets and what he will do with it. Expecting him to be another Sheppard is probably not fair. But the guy sure can put it in the bucket. Interweb has him at 6’2” and 170. Hope he gets strong without losing shooting touch.

[Joneslab]

You intrigued me. Had to look him up. Leads them in minutes and second in scoring—15/game. But he’s 23. Actually did pretty good as a freshman at Cuse though—made 70 threes. However…Hagans, Maxey and Quickly were in Lexington at that time. He wouldn’t have taken 7 threes.

I looked him up because we sort of have the homegrown version of him coming next year. Will be really interesting to see what type of opportunity Perry gets and what he will do with it. Expecting him to be another Sheppard is probably not fair. But the guy sure can put it in the bucket. Interweb has him at 6’2” and 170. Hope he gets strong without losing shooting touch.

Sheppard looks like a one in a million to me. How well-rounded he is is something you just rarely see in the college game.

However I've seen better pure scorers than Reed and the Perry kid looks like he's the very definition of that.