We talked to college basketball expert Kevin Sweeney of Sports Illustrated about this season’s USC roster. Kobe Johnson is gaining notice on a national level.
“I think there’s a world where Kobe Johnson’s being talked about as a potential NBA prospect by mid-season this year,” Sweeney said. “The film didn’t lie in that foreign tour (from August). If he’s going to take the next step, that’s going to open up a ton of different options for Andy Enfield offensively in terms of, okay, how do we want to deploy our backcourt? Do we want to play smaller? Do we want to push the ball? Can we free up Boogie (Ellis) to score even more and not have to be reliant on him to handle the ball when you have (Isaiah) Collier and Johnson together in the backcourt?
“I think there’s just a lot of different things when you have three different guards who you’re really scared of creating off the bounce. That just creates so many problems for opposing defenses. His (Johnson’s) continued emergence in that European tour is a really positive sign for this team this year.”
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