In evaluating and grading basketball prospects that haven’t even hit the high school classroom, I am always a bit weary of doing so since there is so much that goes into the development of that respective ballplayer. However, in my viewing of Isaiah Todd at the MakePlayz Breakout Classic this past Saturday in Richmond, it would be hard to understate just how impressive the future looks for the 6-foot-7 wing.

Born and raised in Baltimore but having moved to Richmond this past June, the 8^th grader at Thomas Henderson Middle School has all of the tools to be special. With a long and wiry frame and all legs, strength and physical maturation is definitely a need for him. However, Todd does have five years to do so and the ball skills out of the talented wing aren’t anything you want to bat yours eyes at, either.

While most say that they stand a certain height and play a position that they really can’t play, Isaiah Todd is a legitimate 6-foot-7 wing. With some shades of Brandon Ingram, an incoming freshman wing to Duke this winter, Todd has the opportunity to see a similar recruitment down the road.

With a 7-foot wingspan and both parents standing at 6-foot-1, chances are that the Team Loaded prospect could grow even more. He won’t turn 14 years old until two weeks from now but the ball skills out of the future John Marshall High product is beyond solid for his adolescence on the playing floor. He can hit on nifty pull-up jumpers from the mid-range area, is athletic on slices and finishes at the basket with the righty jam, and has the body and lateral skills to guard both wing spots out on the perimeter.

Definitely the next man up out of the 804 in 2020, while there is still some time before Todd starts to see the college offers roll in, but don’t be surprised whenever a plethora of high-level programs begin to work their ways into the Richmond area next winter in beginning, what should be, a magnified recruitment.