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Two Adams brothers are two too many for Jordan High Wednesday night

December 1, 2022 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

REDONDO BEACH – Siblings Marcus Jr. and Maximo Adams helped show why the Narbonne High Gauchos came into the season with something more than a strong chance to win the L.A. City Section’s Open Division title.

Marcus (who spent last season at a prep school in Corona) and Maximo – one of the elite freshmen anywhere in the west – combined for 38 points to help their squad edge Long Beach Jordan, 64-62, on Wednesday’s second day of the Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Showcase at Redondo Union High.

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Wolverines go 6-0 with Ryse Williams win over Saints

November 30, 2022 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

REDONDO BEACH – The Campbell Hall, Beverly Hills, Windward and Harvard-Westlake boys basketball teams all picked up victories on Tuesday’s first day of the Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Showcase at Redondo High – the alma mater of the late and great Williams.

Harvard-Westlake (No. 2 in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal ratings) closed the first night out by improving to 6-0 with its 83-40 victory over Long Beach St. Anthony.

Campbell Hall went to 3-0 in the first game while knocking off Inglewood, 76-59.

In the most compelling – aka, “tight” – game played Tuesday, Beverly Hills held off Irvine Crean Lutheran, 69-68.

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Many of SoCal’s top teams in action this week at Redondo

November 29, 2022 By Frank Burlison 1 Comment

REDONDO BEACH – Nationally ranked Harvard-Westlake headlines this week’s Ryse Williams/Pac Shores boys’ basketball tournament at Redondo Union High.

The 5-0 Wolverines (No. 2 in California behind Corona Centennial) will be in action three times at the event, beginning Tuesday night (8 o’clock) against Long Beach St. Anthony.

Coach David Rebibo’s club returns to Redondo Union for a Thursday night (7 o’clock) game with No. 30 San Gabriel Academy, then wraps up the week by taking on Rancho Christian Saturday night at 6.

Rancho Christian (ranked No.

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Hoops neighbors on collision course in tourney

November 29, 2022 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – If their preseason ratings and Monday night performances are the best indicators, then it would appear inevitable that the Etiwanda and Rancho Cucamonga boys’ basketball teams will meet in the championship game of the Inland Empire Tournament Saturday night.

And, if their on-court history is another solid barometer, one of those teams would seem to have reason to feel confident about its chances in that projected final.

Some 75 minutes or so after host Rancho Cucamonga improved to 5-0 with its eased-up, 97-46 win against Victor Valley, Etiwanda wrapped up the four-game “non- bracketed schedule” played Monday as part of the IE tourney in the same systematic fashion against Redlands East Valley, 74-27.

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Notre Dame had TOO much for Modesto Christian Saturday night

November 28, 2022 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

DUBLIN, Ca. – All the offensive possibilities imagined by many when Caleb Foster and Mercy Miller left Virginia’s Oak Hill Academy and headed to the San Fernando Valley early in the spring were embodied on the Dublin High court Saturday night.

Foster and Miller joined another one of the most gifted high school players anywhere, Dusty Stromer, when they checked into Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks.

And that trio and the rest of the Knights showed why they’re capable of scoring a lot of points – and in a hurry – regardless of the caliber of competition while rolling past Northern California’s top team, Modesto Christian, 98-72, in the last of the eight games played during the 15th annual NorCal Tip-Off Classic.

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Frank Burlison is a well-regarded basketball writer who was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2005. His opinions on the potential of high school and college players are widely respected and sought by college coaches and NBA scouts, personnel directors and general managers from coast to coast. Oh, yes – he can offer plenty of thoughts on movies, television and pop music. Yes, he can rank those, too. Hint: He’s a big The Godfather, Larry Sanders, The Wire and The Beatles loyalist.

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Winningest coach (892-81) in California boys’ basketball history during his 29 seasons at Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei

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