Kyron Cartwright

[drairf]

Committed to PC.

[dex]

Forget uconn...there's cause for celebration in FriarTown tonight.

[pc1971]

Excellent news.

You win big with guards in college.

[friar82]

Apr 7, 2014 22:38:29 GMT -5 drairf said:

Committed to PC.

Announced on a Monday, no less!

Great news

[dex]

Ha Ha man he upstaged the entire NC Final with this announcement

[pc88]

Isn't this on the wrong board?

[friar82]

Most likely headed for review by the Bylaws Committee.

Suspect that a verbal is sufficient to cross the threshold from "Recruiting" to "Dave Gavitt Court" on a late evening when the diversion of some good news is welcome.

[wtm97]

friarbasketball.com/2014/03/28/latest-kyron-cartwright/
Craig B March 28, 2014

(Thomas), his high school coach, Anthony Thomas, may have just the relationship to help him get there.

Back in the early 1980′s Thomas was playing summer league basketball for a west coast AAU organization called Slam n Jam. At the time, Slam n Jam was widely considered one of the major AAU programs in the area. On Thomas’ team was current Providence College assistant coach, Andre LaFleur. Unthinkable back then, but their relationship still holds strong to this day, and it could be the reason behind PC landing it’s fourth member of the 2014 class. A class in great need of a guard. cooley2fingersup

“I’ve been talking to Coach LaFleur since before Kyron even signed with LMU last November,” said Thomas late Thursday night. ”As soon as he [Kyron] asked for his release I called up Coach LaFleur to see where they stood at point guard.” It wasn’t long after that conversation before PC was back in the mix with the Compton left hander.

“I had talked to them before but after I got my release from LMU, I started talking to them again and they said they really needed a point guard,” Cartwright shared.

Now roughly a week later, Cartwright found himself taking his first official visit to Providence College.

After landing in Providence on Thursday, Cartwright met with the Providence staff and was given a tour of PC’s campus and facilities. He was shown the renovated Alumni Hall as well as the student-athlete section of the Concannon Fitness Center. When asked what his initial thoughts were, Cartwright replied, “It was good, I liked it. The campus is nice. It’s a little different than what I am used to, coming from the west coast. It was more open and less students than what I’ve seen at other schools but I liked it.”

In terms of what other schools are pursuing him, Cartwright said that he is hearing from Grand Canyon University and Cal State Bakersfield but his coach was quick to point out that other schools are beginning to call. Thomas noted, ”There are teams that are still in the tournament that are going to start calling. A lot of the coaches, that I’ve heard from, can’t believe that he is available. UNLV has been calling. A lot of schools are calling but they know he is visiting Providence, so when they found that out, a lot of people were like, ‘well if he’s going to look at Providence, they’re probably going to get that done’.”

[TheInfoMan]

Any guess how this affects DeVontae Graham?

[wtm97]

Looks like an Andre LeFluer connection with his HS coach Thomas.

‘well if he’s going to look at Providence, they’re probably going to get that done’.”

Interesting comment here...nice take on our involvement and it could be the expected coach promotional speech here about "others interested", etc. but at least we have someone in the fold fairly early on here giving the staff a firmer look at what we will have on hand for next year's team.

In any event, the listing at 5' 11" means he is probably smaller - and that will be fine. His picture suggest a solid build maybe? He is a LEFTY...and a true PG as well.

The consensus scouting reports also has him rated as a 2-3 star yet if sharp eyed Max Goode liked him then he most likely has an upside. Of course our hope, as always is that he is the proverbial under the radar type of young man with a good solid work ethic and solid sense of purpose. The timing may be prescient as his commit was surely overlooked coming as it did on a MONDAY, this time the day of the NCAA title game.

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Now maybe more of a shooter, as in a combo guard???

Think we also look at a serviceable 5th year BIG as well?

[johnnypc]

Just guessing, but I would be surprised if we have a real shot at Graham.

[thewalk]

everything points to graham being a longshot....i'll puke if he ends up at uconn.

[dex]

"Most likely headed for review by the Bylaws Committee.

Suspect that a verbal is sufficient to cross the threshold from "Recruiting" to "Dave Gavitt Court" "

All depends on what side of the bed a CORE Mod wakes up on

[suspended poster]

Apr 8, 2014 8:42:23 GMT -5 dex said:

"Most likely headed for review by the Bylaws Committee.

Suspect that a verbal is sufficient to cross the threshold from "Recruiting" to "Dave Gavitt Court" "

All depends on what side of the bed a CORE Mod wakes up on

Yet, Ryan Fazekas verbal was not? Double standards and hypocrisy reign again. I was suspended from the board and issued an 80% warning level for posting the Fazekas verbal on Dave Gavitt Court.

friartownhoops.proboards.com/thread/2840/breaking-news

[johnnypc]

I second that we suspend rules on verbal's. Information on verbal's should be accepted on any and all boards,