Wildcat Hoops Targets: Summer Camp Updates
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Kentucky Wildcat's Basketball,
Kentucky Wildcat's Basketball Recruiting,
Russell Byrd,
Shawn Kemp Jr,
Trae Golden
As the Summer Camp's go into full swing we have a couple of updates that were passed along to us.
1.Shawn Kemp has said that the three schools that he is currently interested in are Washington, UK and Georgia
2. Russell Byrd a 6'7 190 junior power forward has said that Michigan State, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville and Indiana have all been in contact with him. Byrd is a native of Fort Wayne Indiana.
3. Trae Golden: This should come down to UK and Ga.Tech with UK probably having the edge. I don't see Ohio State staying in the picture and it might be mutual.
I do know this the rumors of Golden's de-commitment have been around for some time and coincidently or not that's about the same time that Matta started to go after Anthony Johnson from Chicago very hard.What happened first is anyone's guess.
Both players are basically combo guards who may be more suited to play the 2 and it wouldn't make any sense to me for OSU to go after both,so either Matta was pro-active and started to go after Johnson or maybe Golden's recent drop in the rankings had Matta re-thinking the situation that maybe Johnson was a better fit and Golden caught wind of it an decided to open things up.
It very well may have been a mutual decision on both fronts and that is purely speculation on my part,but it would make sense OSU leads for Johnson at this point.
I do know this the rumors of Golden's de-commitment have been around for some time and coincidently or not that's about the same time that Matta started to go after Anthony Johnson from Chicago very hard.What happened first is anyone's guess.
Both players are basically combo guards who may be more suited to play the 2 and it wouldn't make any sense to me for OSU to go after both,so either Matta was pro-active and started to go after Johnson or maybe Golden's recent drop in the rankings had Matta re-thinking the situation that maybe Johnson was a better fit and Golden caught wind of it an decided to open things up.
It very well may have been a mutual decision on both fronts and that is purely speculation on my part,but it would make sense OSU leads for Johnson at this point.
In either case I hope both recruits find a happy fit. If Johnson commits to OSU and Golden to UK I'm cool with that. This was passed along by a friend of the site who is an Ohio St. guy and keeps a close eye on developments in Columbus.
