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Jassid82 said:
Bryant McKinnie was a basketball player in HS IIRC.

If Zion keeps progressing the way he has been and the way the staff hypes him up to be, then El Gammal I will be very excited to see in 2-3 years because he has the same type of athleticism and length as Zion. Now the question is, is he as physically and mentally tough? I have been very impressed with the mental toughness of Zion. Would have been EASY for him to mentally shut down after the rough start he had to the season and nobody would have faulted him for it..but he kept at it, never felt sorry for himself, kept working..and now he is improving every week.
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Mentally he could have folded but he never quit. Give him another offseason in the s&c program and I think we have a left tackle.
 
Ethnicsands said:
He looks to me to be nothing like Zion physically. ElGammel is thicker, not as mobile or quick feet. A guard, imo.
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Well that doesn't bode well for us because we already have a OL room full of guards and we have more coming in this class. They better hope he can play OT if need be.

He apparently was a good bball player. Or maybe it was one of the other NY kids. If he was good at bball, his feet are good enough to play OT. Especially if he was good by NY Bball standards.
 
TheMatador said:
McKinnie played in the band. Forget which instrument so I don't know which one correlates most with OL ability.

Many of these taller guys played HS basketball. If they are 6'7" it really doesn't say much. They can just stand their flat-footed and grab a rebound

I've told the story JJ apparently told some other people. JJ went to a Pennsauken High basketball game. Starting 5 was four Black guys and Greg Mark. When Greg was sent out to jump center, Jimmy knew the kid was an athlete. This story is legend, but I believe it's true.

Mike Irving won dunking contests in HS.

Yes, basketball ability can correlate with football ability.

I do remember that David Alekna played French Horn in HS. David started on our '86 team, I think.

Chuck Todd went from HS in Miami to George Washington Univ. on a French Horn scholarship, BTW. I see no OL potential in Chuck Todd. In fact, I see no Meet the Press ability, either. I remember Lawrence Spivak. He had some gravitas.

Pretty much everything I told you above, jumping center, French Horns, McKinnie in the band, is true. I read a lot and remember a good deal of it.

EDIT: McKinnie played bass drum in the HS band.
https://www.espn.com/magazine/vol4no20mckinnie.html

And I was right about Chuck Todd.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/features/fl-fea-nbc-chuck-todd-received-award-miami-dade-public-schools-20180212-story.html?outputType=amp
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Yeah sure if you are playing HS basketball in the state of Florida, you can just stand in the paint and not do much if you are 6'7. If you are playing basketball in NYC at the HS level, you have a certain level of skills. I don't think I need to state that NYC HS basketball is the equal to SoFla HS football. If you can play, you can play.
 
To be honest Zion should have redshirted too his blocking was similar to a turnstile the first seven games. Would have been interesting to see if Elgammal had came in to school as an early enrollment and see how both of them compared.
 
DMoney said:
I haven't gotten an update on him but he was physically impressive in camp. Very big, not fat and athletic. Now he needs to learn how to play football. He was a basketball player and played against poor football competition.
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Kid should have his head deep in the playbook, and working with Coach Feely to S&C his body. This is not basketball.
 
Jassid82 said:
Well that doesn't bode well for us because we already have a OL room full of guards and we have more coming in this class. They better hope he can play OT if need be.

He apparently was a good bball player. Or maybe it was one of the other NY kids. If he was good at bball, his feet are good enough to play OT. Especially if he was good by NY Bball standards.
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People take loose comments and build too much into them. We need tackles. It’d be great if this kid can be one. Color me skeptical. And I don’t recall reading that he was a great hoops player. He played at a private school, btw. I think there was a clip of him dunking that folks got excited about.
 
Private school. LOL. More hoops players have come out of that school than every private school in Dade combined. Not sure that's true, but you get the point. Bird and Holdsclaw are better than most in Dade. :)
 
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Jassid82 said:
If you are playing basketball in NYC at the HS level, you have a certain level of skills. I don't think I need to state that NYC HS basketball is the equal to SoFla HS football. If you can play, you can play.
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Would you go so far as to say that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere?
 
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