Isabell? really did not have many choices. If i remember ,he only had one other offer and that was from Seattle U.. Isabell is a good ball handler and passer. He knows how to play the game. However,he lacks great quickness,speed and jumping ability. These assets seem to be in abundance among PAC 12 point guards. This will be more of a liability on defense rather than offense. Perhaps S Dominguez zone defense will help him here.
You are continuing to be a illogical wrong brick wall, that either doesn't read the logic,facts, reason, from,of others, or doesnt understand,accept,get the logic,facts,reason of others, if you read what they say. Also its obvious you,your source,is,are wrong, and that you didnt do research,and didnt read the research, info, qoutes, links, facts, logic, reason,etc, from others like me who have done the research.I posted info, qoutes, links, sources, logic, reason,etc, that absolutly proves you, and others like you wrong about Isabell. Did you read,understand,accept,get it? No of course not, your a brick wall.So I am not going to find, copy,paste, all the links, qoutes, info, facts, sources again. You can find them, that, in my previous now buried threads,post, about Isabell.
Isabell scored about 23 to 25 ppg as a senior for Garfield. He was their best player, and led them to the State Title, something that past NBA All star pros Brandon Roy, Conley, Tony Wroten, Jamal Crawford, couldnt do for themselves, Garfield. Isabell is,was ranked the 2nd best player in WA, out of a senior class, that is perhaps, maybe one of the best WA senior classes,ever,in the history of WA., There are about 11 to 13 players in WA, who have been offered,accepted offers,verballed,signed with BCS big 6 conf, high, top,mid major colleges, like BYU, Gonzaga, Butler,etc. The 11 to 13th ranked player verballed, signed with Minnesota, of the Big 10.
Not only was Isabell ranked #2 in WA, by Maxpreps, Superpreps, streetballblogs,etc,others not named rivals,scout, ESPN, who were innaccurate, not up to date, behind,info wise, because they were going by the soohmore, junior version of Isabell, but Isabell was also ranked as the 35th, to 65th best overall recruit in the USA by Maxpreps,Superpreps,streetballblog,etc,others,not named rivals, scout, ESPN.
Isabell was the best player,on the best AAU team in the WA, OR, ID area, called the seattle Rotary. Isabell led Seattle Rotary, to a AAU west coast tournament championship over the top 4 AAU teams in the west. Those teams were Oakland Soldiers, and 3 other teams. Those 4 teams, were made up of mostly to almost all 4 star, 5 star players. Players like 5 star Trevor Dunbar, and 5 star M L Edwards, both of whom Isabell owned, schoiled, dominated.
Isabell also dominated the Jamal Crawford, Griffen, Seattle Pro Am, where he scored game highs of about, 20, 25, 30, and averaged about 13 to 17 ppg. And he scored his game highs of 20,25,30, against NBA all star pros, Griffin, Jamal Crawford, and the teams those pros played on against Isabell and the team he played on.
Isabell also scored game highs of about 47, 43, 39, 36, etc, against some of the best highschools. The 47 was against Las Vegas High, in the Las Vegas highschool bball tournament that featured some of the best highschool teams in the western USA.
Isabell also played in the Jamal Crawford, Griffin, Brandon Roy, Conley Amateur 8 team summer NBA amateur development league. The league was created by the above named NBA pros, for future NBA prospects, to help develop the NBA prospects.
Also Isabell is friends with Jamal Crawford, Brandon Roy, Conley, Tony Wroten, who practice, play, train,mentor him during the late spring, summer.
And in addition to all that, I have seen LOTS of videos of Isabell's play. Isabell is extremely athletic, quick, but not as explosive jumper at the rim. He can't jump out of the gym yet. But he can jump high enough, to dunk, finish at the rim. Its just that players like Demar De Rozan, Jrue Holiday, Oj Mayo, other top,best 5 star college recruits, players, NBA prospects, players,etc, can out jump him at the rim. But be that,as it is, Isabell use his extreme quickness, talent, athleticism, skill, shooting,etc, to compensate, adjust against the better,best players, and beat them.
Isabell in frame, size, athleticism, quickness, speed, talent, skill, shooting, passing,etc, is kinda, sorta like WSU past great PG, Seltzer, NBA pros Tim Hardaway, Nick Van Excel, Allen Iverson, except not as good, athletic, fast, quick, talented, skilled,etc, as those Pros. Not saying he is even close to being as good as those pros, just that he is kinda, sorta, semi similar to them in comparison, to give a rough idea of what kind of player Isabell is.
In Isabell's videos, he is able to slash ,finish at the rim, with dunks, lay ups, runners, tear droppers, semi circus,Jordan like shots, where he slithers, twist, contorts, and finds some way to put the ball in the basket. And he is also a great passer, gets assist. He plays great defense, gets a lot of steals. He rebounds ok. He shoots midrange jumpshots well from all angles. He can post up at the high post, do spins, drop steps, up and unders. He got a explosive first step, crossover, juking, stop and go, ball, shot,pass fakes, to break the ankles of defenders, beat defenders off the dribble, slash, into the paint, shoot, pass, score, en route to the rim. Isabell pump fakes,double clutch windmill pumps, etc, to avoid getting his shots blocked. Isabell also can hit turn around, fade away, fall away jumpers. He shoots the 3 well. He can run the fastbreak well, and can shoot well off the fastbreak, and can beat players all the way down the court,off the dribble, all the way to the hoop, in the open court , 1 on 1, in fast breaks. And he can dish it off for a assist, at the last second, right time, not to early, not to late. He has good ball handling, good court vision, does not turn the ball over very often.I have seen all that in his various videos combined, when I watched a lot of his video's.
Isabell when he was a freshman, Sophmore, was about 5' 7", 150 pounds. Because of that he was UNDER THE RADAR TEMPORARILY, long enough so that Ken Bone was lucky enough and a good salesman enough, to recruit, get Isabell interested in WSU. At this time, Rivals, Scout, ESPN,etc, only had Isabell as a NR, no star,no ranking, unranked player, that not very many colleges, except seattle U, and WSU were intetested at the time. Then during his Junior year. He got a lot of interest from more, some to almost a lot of colleges. But most didnt offer, because he was starting to have academic problems, and werent sure if he was a good enough ball player to justify taking a risk on a academically risky bball recruit player.
Then after his Junior year, and right as he was doing well against NBA all star pros, AAU players, 5 star players,etc, in the Pro Am, AAU, NBA amateur D eag, etc, he then verbaled to WSU. Then thats when a lot of top college bball programs were just starting to take an interest in Isabell. But by the time they were ready to offer him., or have him change his verbal commit to one of them top bball programs, Isabell signed with WSU, after they the top bball programs, tried their hardest to try to get Isabell to de verball commit from WSU. After that the top bball programs tried their hardest to try to get Isabell to ask WSU to be let out of his letter of intent,verbal to obe of the top bball programs. But Isabell chose to stay with WSU.
So that's why Isabell didnt get a lot of offers. He was under the radar temporarily,until he verballed, signed with WSU. If WSU hadnt recruited Isabell, and if Isabell had been available when he late bloomed into the top recruit that he is, he Isabell would have had 50 to 100 offers from the top 50 to 100 top college bball programs in the country.
It is totally innaccurate, wrong in Isabell's situation, to go by number of offers, or his NR rivals ranking, or his Scout, ESPN 2,3 star,low innaccurate rating,ranking, as they are using the freshman,sophmore,junior year version of Isabell, before he late bloomed into the top recruit that he is. Rivals, Scout, ESPN, also dont rank Isabell high because of his lack of offers. But I have already showed why he didnt get many offers, and how he got a lot of interest from top bball programs.
Isabell is the #2 player in WA, and is a 3,4 star, should be 5 star, 35th to 65th best college bball recruit in the country. He is being groomed to be the potential future NBA prospect, that he has a chance to already be, become. He has the potential to leave WSU after his sophmore year at WSU is over, and be drafted about the 14th pick, to about the 23rd pick, in the first round of the draft, 1st pick of the 2nd round, at extreme worst. Not saying he will do that, only that he has that kind of potential.
If he Isabell stays until he grads from WSU, after 4 years of playing at WSU, he Isabell has the potential to be a be drafted about 9th to 17th in the first round of the NBA draft. Again not saying that will happen, only that he has that kind of potential. Now whether he realizes that potential will remain to be seen or not.
Isabell is the best WSU highschool guard,pg, recruit since at least the sampson years, and maybe even the Raveling years. Only Fontaine, Tony Harris, Terrence Lewis, Seltzer, even come remotely close to comparing to Isabell. And Klay is the only 2,3 guard, that is at least equal to, maybe, if not even better then Isabell ON PAPER, coming out of highschool, BEFORE they became who they became wise. And Klay is not a good comparison, because he is a 3,2, not a 2,1 like Isabell is.
Now cut,stop your wrong illogical brick wall crap about about Isabell.
Mike