Touted big man commits to Tennessee

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey discuss the newest addition to Tennessee's basketball recruiting class — versatile 6-foot-11 forward JP Estrella from Maine.

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0:00.0	What's going to happen tonight? What's going to happen?
0:05.0	What's going to happen? We record coming to you from Fort
0:23.9	Rutgers studio and as you can tell by the truncated version of this intro we got
0:27.9	our breaking news edition of the Go balls 24 seven podcast then we have a big
0:31.8	one a big big Tennessee basketball breaking news episode
0:36.0	To give to you all so you know what we're going with this one we're going down to that blunt county satellite office down there in
0:41.3	Maraville and getting to grant Ramey and Grant please tell the good people
0:45.7	of this podcast why we have a breaking news edition for him and why it's a big one.
0:50.0	It's J.P. Estrella Day West, six Foot 11, 210 pound four star center, J.P. Estrella out of Maine has committed to Tennessee basketball.
1:00.0	He's a third guy in their 2023 class and it's probably the biggest guy they've got to date
1:05.4	because of how big of this recruiting win is. I mean he's a four-star he's a top
1:08.7	50 guy. Consensus in the rankings he's the number seven center in the class. He's a guy that's they've been after since December when nobody really knew who this kid was. It's a huge kind of
1:19.8	scouting win for Tennessee being ahead of this one and being one of the reasons that
1:24.4	that JP picked Tennessee is because of how long they've been after him.
1:28.0	Just a fundamentally really good big man. 611-210 he's grown 8 inches over the last couple of years so he's got some guard skills he's an inside-out big man but
1:37.1	just his overall game his footwork his mechanics is fundamentals it's just kind of all there and it's a really big win for
1:42.9	Tennessee. Yeah and I want to put a pin in that because I want to discuss Tennessee
1:46.9	sort of early evaluations in the second segment because I think that's something
1:50.3	that's been so critical both when you talk about Tennessee football recently
1:54.2	and Tennessee basketball that's been such a big part of everything that they've been able to do in this
1:59.4	recruiting window but as a player you don't often think of Maine as a basketball factory, right?
2:07.3	I mean, I guess you could say on one hand that in Maine you got a lot more time to spend
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