Friday northern California high school basketball report

Carl Steward offers a look at Salesian and star Jabari Bird.

Kendall Andrews, Jabari Bird and T.J. Taylor are lauded as the East Bay basketball players of the week by Inside Bay Area.

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Jeremy Balan reports on Riordan's sacking of Seaside High.

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Isaiah Guzman provides the details of Harbor High's swamping of Robert Louis Stevenson, powered by Colin Gruber's double-double of 39/14.

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David Kiefer informs us of the Watsonville High takedown of Gunn.

Watsonville 64, Gunn 61

Watsonville -- Ivo Basor 13-10-36 (10-10 at the foul line plus 20 boards)

Gunn -- Anthony Cannon 8-3-21, Matt Redfield 9-1-19

Pigtgybacking on our last post, TJ Taylor will become a Gaucho

Jimmy Durkin is reporting that Oakland High's TJ Taylor has give a verbal to UC Santa Barbara -- go here.

CaliHighSports features Oakland High's T.J. Taylor

CaliHighSports is doing a 2011 Top 25 and T.J. Taylor comes in at #12:

Cali High's Top 25: #12 T.J Taylor
August 10, 2010

Cali High Sports is coming out with the best and most accurate list of the top Cali players for each sport. We add basketball to our rankings where an extremely talented 2011 class features maybe the best crop of athletes California has seen in years.

We continue our countdown to number 1 with Oakland high school guard T.J Taylor.

#12 T.J Taylor
School: Sacremento (Our note: actually it's Oakland High)
Position: Point Guard
Height: 5'10
Weight: 165 pounds
Schools Considering: Santa Clara (committed then decommitted), Boise State, Colorado...

Go here for a lengthy evaluation.

T.J. Taylor looking at all options

It did seems mighty early to pin oneself down and now Oakland High's T.J. Taylor, currently a junior, has decided to re-open his recruiting:

Per Scout's Greg Hicks:

"Junior point guard T.J. Taylor made an early commitment to Santa Clara last year, but now says he's going to open up his recruitment and listen to other schools..."

Go here for the remainder and a Scout sub is required.