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BU recruit- class of 2008 juco- Roberto Mafra

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Bradley is recruiting Roberto Mafra, a 6'10", 235 pound forward/center in his second year at Southeastern Community College in Keokuk, Iowa.
He is originally from Reife, Brazil.
After their first 8 games, he lead the team with 16.4 points per game and 7.75 rebounds per game, and was shooting 63.4% from the floor, and 72.2% from the free throw line. He is also averaging 3.5 blocks per game.--
http://blackhawkboosters.com/season_box.htm

Roberto Mafra's roster page--
http://blackhawkboosters.com/Player pages/roberto_mafra.htm

The SCC Blackhawk's basketball website--
http://www.blackhawkboosters.com/

CSTV and Hoopmasters have him as the #70 best juco player in the class of 2008--
http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stories/113007add.html

Rivals profile- Bradley is not listed, but I have heard from another authority that they are involved--
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=2&pr_key=75102

Premium Rivals article--
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?cid=748545

"Roberto has really been solid for us this season. He has made great progress from last season and he must continue to work hard," said Grzanich.

Murray State, Wichita State, Idaho State and Indiana State have all shown interest on the 4/5 man this fall. Mafra is off to a great start this season. He is currently averaging 16.3 ppg and 7.7 rebounds while shooting 63.4% (52-82) from the floor.

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Good to see the Braves are still recruiting some Bigs for the future! Sounds like a good player!:wink:
 
houstontxbrave said:
I played a year of baseball with Jon Grzanich maybe a call into him will help us seal the deal with Roberto Mafra. :)

Seriously, he looks from his numbers to be a decent rebounder with a good touch both from the field and the line but he averages a lot of turnovers at 2.6 per game.

http://blackhawkboosters.com/leaders.htm
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For those who don't know, John Grzanich, a former head coach at Spoon River CC, is now an assistant coach at Southeastern CC--
http://blackhawkboosters.com/Coach pages/assistant_coach_jon_grzanich.htm
 
Jucojunction.com has a new premium article about Southeastern CC--
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=748545

Here is a bit of what is said about Roberto Mafra. Bradley is not mentioned--
Roberto Mafra: (SO) 6-foot-10 (235) from Brazil.
"Roberto has really been solid for us this season. He has made great progress from last season and he must continue to work hard," said Grzanich.
Murray State, Wichita State, Idaho State and Indiana State have all shown interest on the 4/5 man this fall. Mafra is off to a great start this season. He is currently averaging 16.3 ppg and 7.7 rebounds while shooting 63.4% (52-82) from the floor.
 
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Well I would think we thought we had better options. San Diego would be a great place to go to college but USD is light years lower than The Valley as far as quality of league. He sounded like he had some offensive ability which is why I thought he sounded interesting. Maybe that was misleading if people say he has a long way to go. I hope we could get a couple Iowa Juco's next year though. I am hoping we get a away from signing so many JUCO's. I would wave that rule for Buycks or Leon Powell.
 
Well they looked pretty good wipping Gonzaga and the conference is going to get 3 in the NCAA tournament so I guess I may be wrong about level of play. Although I still think overall the Valley is better.
 
lake Camelot said:
Well I would think we thought we had better options. San Diego would be a great place to go to college but USD is light years lower than The Valley as far as quality of league. He sounded like he had some offensive ability which is why I thought he sounded interesting. Maybe that was misleading if people say he has a long way to go. I hope we could get a couple Iowa Juco's next year though. I am hoping we get a away from signing so many JUCO's. I would wave that rule for Buycks or Leon Powell.
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Why would you have that for Buycks or Powell? Most JUCO players are in the exact same boat. Since we recruited them out of high school also, they are some how better than other JUCO's? They have all the same drawbacks people hate about JUCO guys. Just curious as to the reasoning.
 
The drawback that I don't like about Juco's is only having them 2 years. And yes they would be in the same boat. I just think they are a higher level of talent than we have been getting and I would take the tradeoff.
 
As I have said in other threads, there is much better talent at jucos these past few years than there was in earlier years. Here is an updated listing of the Top 200 jucos, and it's amazing to see all the top 50 Division I schools that go after jucos now. A few years ago, you would never see schools like Kansas and Kentucky going after jucos, but now both have signed kids on this year's and last year's lists. Bruce Weber went years without ever considering jucos, but now he has signed one each of the last 2 years. And many more top programs are scouring the jucos and signing players.
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=2005&Year=2008
I don't think there is anything wrong with signing a couple jucos in the same recruiting class. Usually they are physically better developed, and more ready to contribute right away than high school kids. Big schools recruit them mostly as backups, and midmajors recruit them to fill holes on their teams.
 
lake Camelot said:
The drawback that I don't like about Juco's is only having them 2 years. And yes they would be in the same boat. I just think they are a higher level of talent than we have been getting and I would take the tradeoff.
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Agreed. The learning curve isn't nearly as great. For the most part, how a guy is by the second semester of his first year (league season) is what you are gonna get. For guys like Theron Wilson, etc. it has worked out well. For Cole Scott and David Collins, not so much.

I personally would be OK with one JUCO for every three HS kids--not the other way around.
 
beanocookschins said:
Agreed. The learning curve isn't nearly as great. For the most part, how a guy is by the second semester of his first year (league season) is what you are gonna get. For guys like Theron Wilson, etc. it has worked out well. For Cole Scott and David Collins, not so much.

I personally would be OK with one JUCO for every three HS kids--not the other way around.
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I completely agree with that. I'd rather use the majority of available scholarships for incoming freshmen that we can have all 4 years rather than juco players..I hate to say it but i just feel like we missed a possible real-time contributor to the team with DC (maybe not so much TCS). And plus instead of having a juco team develop them, we can develop them into the type of player we need specifically for us. TW did work out for us and yeah obviously POB. But we can still get that out of freshmen when we develop them ourselves.

I WOULD be happy to be wrong about DC though...he's got one more year to prove something
 
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