Monday, July 12, 2010

Alexis Jones

If I picked one word to use for this young lady, it would be amazing, but you could use other synonyms as well, like affect, alarm, astonish, astound, bewilder, blow away, blow one's mind, bowl over, daze, dumbfound, impress, move, perplex, put one away, shock, stagger, startle, strike, stun, stupefy. She sort of reminds me of a verse from an old Prince song. "Whatever you heard about me is true, I change the rules and do what I wanna do" Watching some of the heavies in attendance like Baylor, Texas, Tennessee and Connecticut, shows what star power this kid has. I have always been a fan of kids who can take games over and by taking them over, you don't have to score 40 or 50 to do so.

Playing with kids from her high school team and almost winning a National Championship, they lost to the Tennessee Flight, one of the top programs sponsored by Nike, in the country by only 4 in the championship game.

Irving MacArthur has got to be one of the teams to beat in Texas 5A basketball next year and Jones is one of the best players I have ever seen.

Watch as she splits the defenders with this pass. Pretty good huh? Well too bad I wasn't "up on it" because the no look bullet she threw right before that was unbelievable. She's long and athletic, can drill it from anywhere on the court and can get to the rack from anywhere on the court. Simply amazing!