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GARDEN GROVE, CA – After three sessions of the adidas Nations at the spiffy and immaculate Next Level Sports Complex, my opinion remains as it did when I initially scanned the event’s rosters:

There are oodles of some of the very best players that basketball has to offer, both on the high school and college levels.

Here are some quick observations, going into Sunday morning’s fourth session of six games (four involving the nine teams of high school-level players and the other two matching the four squads of current college players):

*The Australian squad is off to a 3-0 start, after “upsets”, of sorts, against the USA 2013 Red (seniors-to-be) and USA 2014 Blue (juniors-to-be) squads.

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LAS VEGAS – OK, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls – it’s a wrap . . . finally.

The NCAA’s third July five-day recruiting live evaluation period came to a conclusion at 5 o’clock Sunday evening.

After pretty much going from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 6 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday in the Bishop Gorman (Fab 48), Rancho (adidas Super 64) and Durango (Big Foot Las Vegas Classic), I’ve assembled a 20-player “all-tournaments”-type of deal for your perusal.

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LAS VEGAS – Everything was coming up “adidas” – for me, at least – Saturday during Day IV of the NCAA’s final evaluation period . . .

*The Minnesota Pump N Run 17s club was more than just a bit of a surprise as one of the eight teams making up the quarterfinal field for the championship bracket of the adidas Super 64.

Graham Woodward (5-foot-11/Edina, MN) utilized his nifty playmaking, scoring and leadership skills to lead Minnesota PNR team to an 88-82 toppling of Southern California-based Dream Vision in the Round of 32 Saturday morning in the main gymnasium on the Rancho High campus.

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LAS VEGAS – If you’re about to start what is going to turn out to be a 13-hour day of hoops-de-doing, why not begin with the best?

As far as high school low-post players go, they don’t come any better these days than Jahil Okafor.

The 6-foot-10, junior-to-be from Whitney Young High in Chicago got to play against someone his own size – more or less – and made the most of the opportunity by putting most of his immense set of skills on display while leading the Mac Irvin Fire to another lopsided victory, this one over the Los Angeles-based Basketball Training Institute Double Pump.

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LAS VEGAS – Day II of the NCAA’s final evaluation period took me across the gamut:

There were Thursday stops at Rancho (morning), Durango (mid-afternoon) and Bishop Gorman (early evening) high schools – with a pit stop tossed at a Chili’s for re-fueling.

The lowdown, starting with the Rancho stop for the adidas Super 64 . . .

*The Garner Elite (North Carolina) vs. Dream Vision (California) showdown was a dandy, with the Isaac Hamilton-led Cali lads finally prevailing in OT (79-73) after trailing through most of the first half.

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