2017 McDonald All-American’s Announced

McDonald’s All-American’s were just announced and they are as follows:

East

C [Player: Mohamed Bamba] 6-11 210 (Undecided) (247 Composite Ranking: #3)

PF/C [Player: Wendell Carter] 6-10 260 (Duke) (#4)

PG [Player: Trevon Duval] 6-2 190 (Undecided) (#5)

PG [Player: Quade Green] 6-0 175 (Kentucky) (#23)

SF [Player: Kevin Knox] 6-9 205 (Undecided) (#8)

C [Player: Nick Richards] 6-11 240 (Kentucky) (#15)

C [Player: Mitchell Robinson] 6-11 225 (Western Kentucky) (#6)

PG [Player: Collin Sexton] 6-2 180 (Alabama) (#7)

SG [Player: Lonnie Walker] 6-4 205 (Miami) (#20)

PF [Player: PJ Washington] 6-8 235 (Kentucky) (#14)

SF [Player: Kris Wilkes] 6-7 195 (UCLA) (#17)

SF [Player: Jarred Vanderbilt] 6-8 215 (Kentucky) (#19)

West

C [Player: DeAndre Ayton] 7-0 250 (Arizona) (#1)

SF [Player: Brian Bowen] 6-7 200 (Undecided) (#16)

SG [Player: Troy Brown] 6-6 210 (Oregon) (#13)

PG [Player: Jaylen Hands] 6-2 170 (UCLA) (#27)

PF [Player: Jaren Jackson Jr] 6-10 225 (Michigan St.) (#21)

C [Player: Brandon McCoy] 6-11 245 (Undecided) (#9)

SG/SF [Player: Charles OBannon Jr] 6-6 200 (USC) (#41)

SF [Player: Michael Porter] 6-10 215 (Washington) (#2)

PF [Player: Billy Preston] 6-10 240 (Kansas) (#12)

SG [Player: Gary Trent Jr] 6-5 210 (Duke) (#11)

SG [Player: MJ Walker] 6-5 210 (Undecided) (#22)

PG [Player: Trae Young] 6-1 175 (Undecided) (#18)

Think they did a pretty solid job. A friend of mine who also writes for NBADraft.net mentioned a couple snubs, as he feels that maybe [Player: Matt Coleman] and [Player: Jeremiah Tilmon] should have made it over O’Bannon and Walker (really appreciated the fact he told me who they should have made it over, one of my pet peeves when discussing "snubs).

Definitely agree that Coleman should have made it and one other player I liked quite a bit was [Player: Nick Weatherspoon], though I do not know enough about Tilmon to argue one way or the other. Would not fight for [Player: Jalek Felton] or [Player: John Petty] too hard, though they, [Player: Paul Scruggs] and [Player: Malik Williams] round out the 247 Composite top 30 (basically combines rankings from a bunch of top recruiting sites).

So, any snubs you feel should have made it? Guys you feel are rated too high, sleepers? Which team do you think is going to win? Guard play seems to maybe favor the East (at least the two most explosive PG’s), though the top two players in the nation will be on the West (at least according to composite, this site and I agree with Ayton and Porter being the two best in class).

West also has three former sons of NBA players (Jackson, O’Bannon and Trent). 4 Kentucky guys (am sure it would have been 5 if [Player: Hamidou Diallo] hadn’t decided to join UK mid-season), 6 uncommitted, should be an interesting dunk fest once again. Will say, shooting favors the West, so will roll with them going into this one.