HS Capital Classic
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was 1-2 on 3, made corner. off front of rim from top of key. brought ball up court for awhile. played D on baseline, generally kept man in front. pulled down one crazy rebound in traffic against bigger guys, drove baseline for reverse layin. Just a few things that stuck out to me.
This used to be THE game. It had more prominence than McDonalds, it was really the precursor to McDonalds. These all star games have lost a lot of cache over the years. but back in the 80s it was the thing and the US team would be stacked. I went to one in the old Cap Centre in MD. The US team even practiced at my hs 1 year, I want to say like 1988. I remember meeting Roy Williams, UNC asst at time. Friendly guy, I think he was checking in on Rick Fox iirc.
Yes. Occasionally u got some unsigned kids. I assume it is similar but just not the same level of D1 player. For instance the US team in the Capital Classic used to be like top 25 players in US. The best of the best really. That has changed as many understandably don't care about hs all star games any longer. I don't know if there is a roster floating around. But it definitely doesn't pull in same level of D1 player. No disrespect to Donnie Richardson but he otherwise would have zero shot to play in it. I figure his Richmond geography helped pull him onto the US team. I expect the DC area team is a more similar level since all local guys.
They also used to have a prelim game of I believe district players vs. suburban players. but idk if that is still the case. That game would have some D1s too but also mix of D2 and D3.
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