No foolin: Chawn a Bobcat!

MSU01 · Post by **MSU01** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:41 pm

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ar ... uahoop.txt

John Wayne · Post by **John Wayne** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:55 pm

Mr Quast,
You are one of my favorite all time football palyers. I hope you and Ann are doing well and possibly making some future all americans!
Good luck in Scottie country and hope to see you in great falls or bozeman for a spring game.

Hell's Bells · Post by **Hell's Bells** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:58 pm

good for durham....now on to winning

CelticCat · Post by **CelticCat** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:54 pm

This sounds like a great get! I am worried though, if they kid has a little lack of motivation, is Mick the guy to light a fire under his arse?

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:18 am

2004-2005 BOYS BASKETBALL* DIVISION VA
ALL CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION
Player of the Year – Frank Henry-Ala, Price (12)
Coach of the Year – Michael Lynch, Price

FIRST TEAM
PLAYER GRADE SCHOOL
Marcus Palmer 12 Price
Justin Cook 9 Renaissance Academy
Chawn Johnson 12 Antelope Valley
Jordan Martize 12 Calvary Chapel/Moreno Valley
Michael Mulligan 12 Acaciawood Academy
Marcus Anderson 11 Pilgrim
William Rowe 12 Redlands Adventist Academy
Landon Hernandez 12 Desert Chapel
John Grysko 12 Maricopa
Shawn Walker 12 Antelope Valley Christian

Chawn Johnson,
6-8 235 lbs. power forward from Antelope Valley Christian h.s. He played pretty well over the summer with the tough and superior coaching of Rock Johnson he seemed to get lost in the shadow of D'Andre Bell. Johnson got left off the highlight tape in most games for Amer-I-Can but a recently distributed tape of his best high school games shows him doing very athletic things with the ball and has really seen his stock soar high to real Pac-10 interest and SEC Conference interest. Johnson has stated that he is also interested in other quality mid major programs like Fresno St. who might feature him sooner in college. He is a great kid with improving grades that seems to be on the "short list" of sought after players from the SoCal area.

grizzh8r · Post by **grizzh8r** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:27 am

YESSS! My prayers have been answered!! Just what I wanted for the team next year. We will be so much more versatile next year with him in the lineup..(drools

). We are gonna be an F'ing FORCE inside!!

wbtfg · Post by **wbtfg** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:33 am

grizzh8r wrote:YESSS! My prayers have been answered!! Just what I wanted for the team next year. We will be so much more versatile next year with him in the lineup..(drools ). We are gonna be an F'ing FORCE inside!!

Now we need to make sure we keep him hear for all 4 or 5 years, and make sure that he leaves with a diploma in his hands.

CelticCat · Post by **CelticCat** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:58 pm

I am really excited to see what this kid can do. Can you imagine Moss and Johnson on the floor at the same time, with Morris at center? We might just have a physical/big team! With Beye coming in for whoever needs a rest, or vice versa, I like our rotation there. I hope he can live up to the hype we built around him here at the board.

Anyone know if he is going to start right away, or RS? If he is as good as advertised, and his main concern was playing time, I have to think he will be playing next year.

HelenaCat · Post by **HelenaCat** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:19 pm

I suspect a lot will depend on who else Durham recruits this year. He has 2 more schollies available. If he gets another PF type from a JC, then Chawn may redshirt. But I am hoping he can come in and give us some help/depth next year. I am excited to just be excited about Basketball at MSU again!

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:23 pm

CelticCat wrote:I am really excited to see what this kid can do. Can you imagine Moss and Johnson on the floor at the same time, with Morris at center? We might just have a physical/big team! With Beye coming in for whoever needs a rest, or vice versa, I like our rotation there. I hope he can live up to the hype we built around him here at the board.

Anyone know if he is going to start right away, or RS? If he is as good as advertised, and his main concern was playing time, I have to think he will be playing next year.

OK, listen a kids freshman year is always an adventure. I am quite happy that this kid
will come into a program with the likes of Moss, Beye, Morris and even to some extent
Pratt. I do not think Durham will be able to hold him back and redshirt him, but by the
same token I am penciling him as coming off the bench, unless we are hit with the injure
bug. Freshman are notorious for having big games and then bad games, and adjusting to
the longer season. Figure him as the future and the guy we can bring off the bench to
give us some solid offense, physicalness and quickness. Depth baby we have depth.
Lets keep our expectations for a true Freshman reasonable.

OH YEA, but his sophomore season he will kick BUTT

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:35 pm

HelenaCat wrote:I suspect a lot will depend on who else Durham recruits this year. He has 2 more schollies available. If he gets another PF type from a JC, then Chawn may redshirt. But I am hoping he can come in and give us some help/depth next year. I am excited to just be excited about Basketball at MSU again!

Mark my words, barring injury, Pratt and Durr will redshirt before Chawn! I also hear
that Durham and company may sign another big man highschooler now that Chawn is on
board. They are now recruiting from strength. If the best JC guy that they can sign is
not rated (on their board) enough, they may go and sign a Highschool big man who they
think will be a better prospect down the line. (ie if the best JC is a Taylor Pratt or Calvin
Ento type, but they still have a highly rated high school post prospect, they will go with
the highschooler. The same could be said about the JC wing they are after, They only
have 1 or 2 JC wings they are looking at if they do not get one of them they have about 4
highschool wing they are very interested in.

MSUcantouchus · Post by **MSUcantouchus** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:01 pm

It seems to me we are doing pretty well now in the big man area as well as the gaurd area. But, I think we are in real need of 2 more small forwards/wings. I am a big proponet of having real athletic wings that can do it all. I feel dissly is a good fit but we need a backup for him real bad. I would love to see an aaron rich type. Long and athletic who can shoot and gaurd the other teams best player. If we can nail down a jc like that or go the H.S. route it would be very good.

Another guy we have fell asleep on is Martrel Johnson. He has been questionable for a while now, and at one point i felt he would never fully recover his game from before his transplant, but I've seen him recently and he looks much improved. He has packed on alot of upper body strength and looks fairly quick again. I still wonder about his drive. He seems to not have an intense hunger for working hard. Then again i don't see him in practice.

MSU88 · Post by **MSU88** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:32 pm

peedintunnel wrote:It seems to me we are doing pretty well now in the big man area as well as the gaurd area. But, I think we are in real need of 2 more small forwards/wings. I am a big proponet of having real athletic wings that can do it all. I feel dissly is a good fit but we need a backup for him real bad. I would love to see an aaron rich type. Long and athletic who can shoot and gaurd the other teams best player. If we can nail down a jc like that or go the H.S. route it would be very good.

Another guy we have fell asleep on is Martrel Johnson. He has been questionable for a while now, and at one point i felt he would never fully recover his game from before his transplant, but I've seen him recently and he looks much improved. He has packed on alot of upper body strength and looks fairly quick again. I still wonder about his drive. He seems to not have an intense hunger for working hard. Then again i don't see him in practice.

You are absolutely right about Johnson's work ethic. Anytime I have seen him practice, he loafs.

MSU88 · Post by **MSU88** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:35 pm

mslacat wrote:
HelenaCat wrote:I suspect a lot will depend on who else Durham recruits this year. He has 2 more schollies available. If he gets another PF type from a JC, then Chawn may redshirt. But I am hoping he can come in and give us some help/depth next year. I am excited to just be excited about Basketball at MSU again!
Mark my words, barring injury, Pratt and Durr will redshirt before Chawn!

Durr will never see the #4 again....he will play "comfortably" behind Dissly, so he will not redshirt. Pratt is going to be a senior, so he surely will not redshirt. With Ted coming back, this kid will redshirt.

MSU88 · Post by **MSU88** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:37 pm

grizzh8r wrote:YESSS! My prayers have been answered!! Just what I wanted for the team next year. We will be so much more versatile next year with him in the lineup..(drools ). We are gonna be an F'ing FORCE inside!!

If we ever thrown the ball inside!

orsalak · Post by **orsalak** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:56 pm

My source was wrong and I am happy that he was.

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:22 pm

Found on the net:

Top Players at the Southern California Hoop Review
Dave Keefer
CaliforniaPreps.com Publisher

The second annual Southern California Hoop Review was held March 25-26 at the Southern California Basketball Academy in Cypress and at Biola University in La Mirada. 47 teams and approximately 500 players participated. Here is a list of the top seniors and top 60 underclassmen in alphabetical order:

Top senior (05) prospects included (14):
6'2 Aaron Buckner of Piedmont Hills HS, San Jose, CA
6'6 Jan Burris of Culver City HS, Culver City, CA
6'8 Savoy Fraine of Granada Hills HS, Granada Hills, Ca
6'3 Keenan Haywood of Skyline HS, Oakland, CA
6'4 Kelly Hubbard of Carson HS, Carson, CA
6'8 Chawn Johnson of Antelope Valley Christian HS, Lancaster, CA
6'3 Joe Mitchell of St. Joseph's HS, Alameda, CA
6'3 Brandon Nevens of Lakewood HS, Lakewood, CA
6'6 Ray Reese of Westchester HS, Los Angeles, CA
5'11 Nican Robinson of Technical HS, Oakland, CA
6'9 Brian Simmons of Valencia HS, Placentia, CA
6'5 Donald Thomas of Pacifica HS, Garden Grove, CA
6'3 Larry Tyson of Quartz Hill HS, Lancaster, CA
6'6 Leon Young of Lakewood HS, Lakewood, CA

Other senior prospects of note (30):
6'3 Brandon Allen of Mayfair HS, Lakewood, CA
6'4 Chuck Anakwenze of Peninsula HS, Rolling Hills Estates, CA
6'5 Brandon Burnside of Kennedy HS, Granada Hills
....... list goes on and on

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:44 am

Chawn's game by game stats:

Link

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