Waled in the gymnasium and it looked like a grown-man that should be coaching the team not in the lay-up line. That's right and after the 1st frame of middle school business I simply looked to my guy sitting next to me and said, " The next in line to put Chi-City back on Google Earth talking High School Hoops"! That kid was Duke and ACC P.O.Y. 2014-15 Jahlil "Big Jah" Okafor and he has lived up to all his billing and then some.
A dominant figure at famed Chicago, Illinois Whitney Young H.S. Dolphins (A Chicago Magnet School for no Crash Dummies as it was home to HS Stars like Quentin Richardson, Dennis Gates, Marcus Jordan, Cordell Henry, Marcus White, Sam Thompson, and Big Jah's HS Teammate who I also saw standing 6-4 that day in middle school Georgetown's Paul White).
"Big Jah" won the Illinois State Championship his senior season beating fittingly enough Wisconsin's "Frank the Tank" Kaminsky's old High School Benet Academy's of Lisle, Illinois. Yes they had a nice "Big" Sean O'Mara who is now at Xavier University Ohio playing for the X-Men as "Big Jah" delivered again!
He also made his name at AAU and Nike EYBL Powerhouse Mac Irvin Fire playing alongside his dude Bucks and former Duke All-American Jabari Parker and Kansas Cliff Alexander.
He exceeded expectations but folks finding the negative aspects of his game picked and prodded at his lack of playing "D" and eating glass as they forget he was just 18 turning 19. What he did do though was bring Coach K another Chip along with fellow Freshman Studs and soon to be 2015 NBA 1st Rounders Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow.
"Big Jah" and his Duke Digits:
17.3 ppg 8.5 rpg 1.3 apg
"Big Jah" Duke Highlights
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Footwork and Court Awareness and B.B. IQ
Just watching the video his footwork and agility as well as body control for a Kid that young is phenomenal as most NBA "Bigs" right now cannot simulate that. Now he is on the clock getting ready to make an NBA Franchise really happy as Chips start with "Bigs" and front court players unless your an exceptions to that rule Michael Jeffrey Jordan and Kobe Bean Bryant...
There will be a time when "Big Jah" is done when they say the Logo was a place dominated by Karl-Anthony Towns of the Knicks and also "Big Jah" of the new Lake Show from Second City and that's real!
Stand up Chi-City he is your along with the "Brow and Jabari and even Cliff Alexander all "Bigs" making or going to make major noise in the Logo...
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