Gunnin' for that #1 Spot

I saw Gunnin' for that #1 Spot tonight, an interesting look at some of the top high school and college players in the country. After watching the Elite 24 game, there shold have been little argument: Michael Beasley showed by far the most talent, and he was hilarious too. Without Beasley's antics, I'm not sure if there is a movie.

My favorite part of the movie, however, was listening to the youth basketball power brokers criticize the yoth basketball system. Chris Rivers, Darren Matsubara, Clark Francis and Ron Matena criticized the development system.

Rivers and Mats criticized those who rate players at a young age, which I found ironic considering Mats is an adidas grassroots guy and adidas runs the Phenom camps where Clark Francis rates the 5th graders. Rivers is the Reebok grassroots guy and Reebok has tried to build its national showcase business again, with younger players (just can't remember the name of the series of camps). Francis and Matena are the guys who rate the players.

They were accurate in their comments about the youth system becoming big business and the problems which this causes in the development system. However, they are the system. They are basically criticizing the companies they work for and the jobs they perform.

Anyway, it was a good lck at elite high school basketball and did a pretty good job representing all angles.