If you ask Doral Moore to describe himself it is pretty interesting.

“I am regular kid who is gifted with basketball skills,” he said.

This is all the Luella High junior considers himself. He is not an attention seeking, self-promoting basketball player. However, while he wants to be summed up by this simple phrase, Moore is not necessarily an ordinary kid.

He is a 7-foot college basketball prospect who is getting plenty of attention from college coaches and will be the focal point of several opponents. Moore, who is ranked No. 2 in the HoopSeen.com Class of 2015 rankings, has gone from an unknown commodity to a coveted recruit.

“I have put in a lot of work over the summer to get to where I am right now,” he said. “I had to work at it.”

The work he put in this summer with the Atlanta Xpress has paid off. Moore is holding rougly 18 high major college offers. The ones that have caught his interest are Indiana, Ohio State, Texas, Kentucky and Louisville, he says.

It was not until late last year where Moore felt he could be good at basketball if he put in the work. He was not confident enough in his own potential. Moore felt unnoticed by college coaches who were interested in teammate Termarcus Blanton, a recent South Carolina signee.

“When he saw Termarcus getting all the attention he kept saying that they don’t even know about me,” Luella coach Jamond Sims said. “I just told him, ‘Doral be patient they will know about you.’”

Yes, college coaches and programs are aware of the most improved big man in the state and arguably the country.

Moore did not start taking basketball seriously until middle school. His parents wanted him to be more active and he enjoyed this new sport. He battled through some grown pains, literally. Teams and opponents were pushing him around. He wasn’t confident in his abilities.

 Things started to click for him during his sophomore year where he started watching YouTube videos of the Spurs Tim Duncan, Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki and former NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon. Moore looks at each video as an opportunity to learn various moves, styles and ways to improve. He then applies it during workouts.

All this diligent attention to details and improved work ethic has impressed his coach.

“His work ethic has gone from a kid who could not run a suicide in 35-40 seconds to now he’s keeping up with the guards,” Sims said. “He went from not being able to complete a mile that he is running them around 6:40.”

Moore knows putting the work on the court has to carry off of it. Earlier this spring, during while playing a tournament at Suwanee Sports Academy, the youngster was at a table doing homework while many of his peers tuned the world out with their Beats by Dre headphones on.

Despite all the noise around his area, Moore was focused on finishing his math.

“I was studying because we had the math final and I said to myself, ‘if I passed I don’t have to re-take it next year,’” said Moore, who is interested in veterinary science. “I have to study and qualify to get into college, that is the most important thing.”

He is also doing his homework on the players ranked in front of him. Moore working towards shooting past Wisconsin’s Diamond Stone, Las Vegas’ Stephen Zimmerman, California’s Ivan Rabb and Texas’ Elijah Thomas all who are ranked higher than him nationally.

“I have to keep getting better,” said Moore, who is ranked 22nd nationally. “I can’t slack up. I have to compete with them.”

This fuel is what drives this humble young man. It is also not the kind of thinking from just ordinary youngsters.