5 To Watch For in 2018-2019

The college basketball season has begun anew and your boy is wild excited. And for those of you who don't obsessively watch basketball, scour the Twitter for recruiting news and have sites like NBADraft.net bookmarked then I am here to help you with who to keep an eye on during this season. Without further ado...

The Duke Unholy Trio:
Zion Williamson, F
Cam Reddish, G/F
RJ Barrett, G

Let me just go ahead and get this out the way because frankly it sickens me that Duke has arguably the 3 best players in the upcoming draft. First up the "least" heralded of the 3, Cam Reddish. Good size, very smooth, and gets to the basket at will. Hasn't gotten the consistent 3 pointer yet but when he is hot, yikes.

RJ Barrett is probably the most well rounded of the 3, good size and the lefty is an elite scorer. Not to mention the young Canadian has already played against and with pro competition as a member of the Canadian National Team so honestly there is no stage short of the NBA Finals he probably isn't ready for. 

The most intriguing man in all of college basketball is no doubt Zion Williamson. If you follow any member of basketball twitter then you are no doubt familiar with the antics of one Zion Q. Williamson. As Jim Ross would say he is a freight train with a Ferrari engine.

There is no reason that someone that is 6'6, 285 lbs should be able to jump the way he does. Then to top it all off, apparently as seen against previous top 5 competition Kentucky, he can handle the ball, lead the break and even has a nice jumper. Basically he's a Monstar.

Ugh. I feel so disgusted so

Bol Bol, C - Oregon
Remember Manute Bol? Well his kid is like an upgraded version. Want a ton of blocked shots? You got it. Want someone who can shoot the 3? You got that too...in the same player. Yes this kid who is built like your create-a-player for NBA Live 96 is real and he is doing work.

For someone who blocks a lot of shots he doesn't get in foul trouble. On the offensive side he has very good handles for someone tall as he is and while he is adept at shooting threes, he doesn't fall in love with them and will put the ball on the floor. Simply put this season we should all watch Oregon and not for the horrendous jerseys they wear.

And last but certainly not least, you knew I wasn't gonna have a list of guys to watch and not mention someone from UNC.

Nassir Little, SF - UNC
The first elite athlete to come to Chapel Hill in quite a while, Little is a 2 way player with star written all over him. When you watch him play the one word that you can use to describe him is explosive.

Like when he's grabbing rebounds, contesting shots, even elevating for a jumper he's flying off the court. at 6'6 and 220 pounds he has good size for a wing player and gets to the basket at will at times and the times he doesn't, he draws the foul. While he needs to work on his 3 point percentage, his jumper looks good so it seems like something that can be worked on.

Well folks there are five guys to keep your eyes on and I even gave praise to Duke so you know how in pain and disgusted I am with the current state of the world. Excuse me while I go burn some sage to purify my basketball watching experience.