transfers & stuff

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SoCalHoops Recruiting News

Transfers, More Transfers, &
Some Non-Transfers--(Sept. 10, 2001)

Ok, here's some transfer news from we gleaned from players while we were attending the Fullcourt Fall Hoops Showcase yesterday:

Darius Sanders (6'-5" Sr. PF) didn't play at the Fall Hoops Showcase. He's no longer at Dominguez and has transferred to Lynwood (in anticipation of Russell Otis getting the job). And, he's finally taken our advice and is playing football (not that we really had anything to do with the decision), which makes you wonder why he left the Dominguez football team to play for Lynwood's squad.....

Keion Kindred (6'-3" Sr. G) is apparently the only experienced senior left at Dominguez. He said he just decided to stay because Otis didn't get the Lynwood job and he felt comfortable. He told us that he's being recruited by close to a dozen schools right now but his leaders are USC, UTEP and a few other west coast schools. Now whether "leader" means that he's most interested in those schools or those are the ones who are mostly calling him wasn't really clear, and he didn't want to say. Rumors that Keion had transferred to Crenshaw are false. "No, I don't have any plans to attend Crenshaw," Keion told us Sunday afternoon.

Bobby Jones (6'-7" Sr. F) has indeed transferred from Dominguez to Long Beach Poly. Bobby was also in attendance at the FCP Fall Hoops Showcase.

Samir Hernandez (6'-7" Sr. F) was not at the Fall Hoops Showcase. Samir has indeed transferred out of Dominguez and is attending Gardena Serra. Samir attended the USA Basketball Youth Basketball Festival in Colorado this summer as one of three invited players from California.

Travon Free and Jason Murdoch, underclassmen, are two of the only returning players who will be on the Dominguez squad this season, according to Keion Kindred. Saul Langster (6'-0" Sr. G) has also transferred out to Long Beach Poly.

Wendell White (6'-5" Jr. F) will not transfer out of Redondo Union after all. There had been much speculation that he would be enrolling at Van Nuys Montclair Prep (where his cousin is the head basketball coach), but those rumors also proved false. We spoke directly with Wendell at the Fall Hoops Showcase, and he smiled and said, "No, I'm staying at Redondo. There were questions about my academics, but I believe I can get things in order, and improve them at Redondo, so I'm staying."

Jamaal Walls (6'-7" Sr. PF) will be attending his fourth high school (by our count) for his senior season. Jamaal's latest stop, after playing this summer with LA City Section's Manual Arts, will be Inglewood, which may actually be even stronger this year than last with DeAngelo Collins, Jason McKinney, Jamaal, Ray Ray Reed, and others. Rumors that Jamaal would attend an East Coast prep school this fall didn't pan out; but we're willing to predict that Jamaal will attend one next year (just a prediction....nothing solid to go on there).

More later.....