2021 Class

[Jet915]

Saint Thomas will be making a commitment announcement on April 10.

Looks like mostly mid-major offers I don't watch Nebraska high school hoops is there a reason for the lack of high major interest?

[Chicagojayfan]

Saint Thomas will be making a commitment announcement on April 10.

Looks like mostly mid-major offers I don't watch Nebraska high school hoops is there a reason for the lack of high major interest?

I was curious about how other schools viewed him as well. He looks to be a shooter -- is that lack of offers due to concerns about his ability to play D in a power conference?

[cujaysfan]

Similar to jalen windham?

[Realhoops]

Offensively he seemed to be Millard North’s leader night in and night out. And ended up being named state player of the year over Sallis. It seems a little odd to me that he’s not getting higher offers.

Jacob probably has thoughts.

[Altmanforprez]

I love how all the Nebraska fans are tweeting at him to pick UNL when he doesn't even have an offer from them...

Hope he ends up at UNO, always like to say the hometown guys stay home.

[LJay]

Doug was an unranked three star coming out of high school. There are always diamonds in the rough who get a lot better in their late teens and twenty’s than they were as a 16 and 17 yo. Not saying Thomas is one of those and not saying he is not. The Jays do have two openings for now. I hope everyone stays but that is to be determined after the season ends. There may be room to take a flyer on a local kid who seems to want to go to CU.

Never stop recruiting.

[Chicagojayfan]

Doug was an unranked three star coming out of high school. There are always diamonds in the rough who get a lot better in their late teens and twenty’s than they were as a 16 and 17 yo. Not saying Thomas is one of those and not saying he is not. The Jays do have two openings for now. I hope everyone stays but that is to be determined after the season ends. There may be room to take a flyer on a local kid who seems to want to go to CU.

Never stop recruiting.

Completely agree. I don't know if Saint Thomas is one of those diamonds in the rough, but he's had a very impressive senior year.

I remember when Murrell's recruiting took off, and then Lok Wur's (although he was a qualification question mark).

[Realhoops]

Doug was an unranked three star coming out of high school. There are always diamonds in the rough who get a lot better in their late teens and twenty’s than they were as a 16 and 17 yo. Not saying Thomas is one of those and not saying he is not. The Jays do have two openings for now. I hope everyone stays but that is to be determined after the season ends. There may be room to take a flyer on a local kid who seems to want to go to CU.

Never stop recruiting.

Completely agree. I don't know if Saint Thomas is one of those diamonds in the rough, but he's had a very impressive senior year.

I remember when Murrell's recruiting took off, and then Lok Wur's (although he was a qualification question mark).

Until he proves otherwise, I will go to the grave swearing that it would have been a huge mistake to push hard for Lok Wur, local or not. But Thomas sure seems like he has a legit shot to develop into something. Almost have to assume it’s the defense that is a question mark.

[JacobPadilla]

Offensively he seemed to be Millard North’s leader night in and night out. And ended up being named state player of the year over Sallis. It seems a little odd to me that he’s not getting higher offers.

Jacob probably has thoughts.

MaxPreps is the one who named him player of the year. Not sure how much stock I'd put in that. Saint was ridiculous in the first half of the season but he cooled off a bit and Hunter stepped it up in the second half. They were both really good this season.

Athleticism is what's holding Saint back. He's a tweener at 6'6" or 6'7" and high major coaches aren't sure who he'd defend at that level. There's also a question about him being able to create anything at all on his own on offense against athletes. He's a good shooter, passer and rebounder. The question is to what degree all of that will translate in college. He shot 33% from 3 as a junior, 52% over his first 16 games (which was absurd) this year then 38% his last 13 games. He's also a career 71% free-throw shooter, which is often an indicator of true shooting ability with enough volume.

There's a chance he could succeed at the high-major level (Nebraska was at least exploring options with him), but I've had one coach tell me he thinks Saint would be better off being a dude at a good mid-major school.

[Chicagojayfan]

Offensively he seemed to be Millard North’s leader night in and night out. And ended up being named state player of the year over Sallis. It seems a little odd to me that he’s not getting higher offers.

Jacob probably has thoughts.

MaxPreps is the one who named him player of the year. Not sure how much stock I'd put in that. Saint was ridiculous in the first half of the season but he cooled off a bit and Hunter stepped it up in the second half. They were both really good this season.

Athleticism is what's holding Saint back. He's a tweener at 6'6" or 6'7" and high major coaches aren't sure who he'd defend at that level. There's also a question about him being able to create anything at all on his own on offense against athletes. He's a good shooter, passer and rebounder. The question is to what degree all of that will translate in college. He shot 33% from 3 as a junior, 52% over his first 16 games (which was absurd) this year then 38% his last 13 games. He's also a career 71% free-throw shooter, which is often an indicator of true shooting ability with enough volume.

There's a chance he could succeed at the high-major level (Nebraska was at least exploring options with him), but I've had one coach tell me he thinks Saint would be better off being a dude at a good mid-major school.

Thanks for the details Jacob - a guy like that may also develop better if he gets a chance to get enough shots and not intermittent bench minutes.