1. rated high school basketball in ESPN’s Top 100 players just committed to Coach Floyd’s 2009 recruiting class. He’s from Georgia- and has a grip of basketball mentors that are former all-stars and hall of famers. This young man’s dad is “Cheese” Johnson, ex-Golden State Warrior, my favorite team. (what can I say? i’m from the Bay Area!)

USC beat New Mexico State to go to 2 – 0, by the final score of 73 60. Taj Gibson had a monster 22 pts., 10 rebounds, and 5 blocked shots. Lewis had 16 and 4. DeMar got 7. Hackett played aggressively, especially on defense he actually fouled out.

Went to the game it was ok, SC pulled out to a 31-16 lead with about 7min. left in first half then they fell asleep. Dee was good Simmons and Washington play great dee and caused a lot of problems for NMS. Trojans looked out of cinch in second half but finally got it going, Refs were out of control and almost got Derozen hurt with strange calls. All in all it was an okay game, but if dudes would have taken charge at end of 1st half more players could have played in second.

Obviously our guys are going to have nights when the shots just aren’t falling. I am glad we have a coach who emphasizes defense so much as that will keep us in games to the bitter end and give the team a chance to win. The offense will come as the season continues, but as long as everyone hustles on D then there should be no problems.