The momentum of Souley Boum

Being the MVP of the Oakland Athletic League surely still carries some cachet and averaging 21.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.4 steals and 3.1 assists simply doesn't happen out of thin air. Plus playing in the Bay Area on both a high school squad and travel team, eliminates any obscurity factor. So the question is why now the generation of recruiting momentum for 2017 guard prospect Souley (Oakland Tech/Team Lillard) Boum?

Over the weekend wasn't the first time Boum put his shooting range and accuracy, athleticism, ballhandling and overall production on display but this effort finally bore fruit when UC Davis offered. Also, Santa Clara, Nevada, USF and San Jose State University are now taking in-depth looks.

Yes, Boum isn't a four or five star national recruit but why the timing until the spring of his junior year for his first offer? In the 2015-16 high school season, he shot 53% or plus 49% on 132 three-point attempts. That is high level and efficient accuracy and when both playing as a team within an offensive framework plus defensive efforts are the strongest. Sure, the talent levels of most spring and summer travel ball matchups are usually higher but the overall play is generally much more undisciplined on both sides of the ball.

It would seem in Boum's case that teams in need of a backcourt upgrade would have been on him much earlier. Maybe the changes in coaching staffs at Pacific, Santa Clara and USF played a factor in the tardy interest in Boum but there was no mention of the earlier staffs at those schools displaying any enthusiasm.

So why not earlier?