Ryan Turell: NCAA D3 to NBA?

[@BBallRambling]

***Attention everyone*** I pronounced Yeshiva incorrectly. That is all.

[@basketballandfunk5091]

It’s too late, change it.

[@JonathanFriedmannyc]

Also, who calls three pointers "triples"? Triples are in baseball.

[@JonathanFriedmannyc]

Do I know you?​@@RoniRauch

[@JonathanFriedmannyc]

​@@RoniRauchnot in America, we don't.

[@carlkolchak4437]

@@basketballandfunk5091 At your age you should know better. Why don't you show some grace and stop ordering people around, HOSER!

[@thorsnilsberg7618]

Devean George played DIII at Augsburg in Minneapolis. Lakers’s drafted him with the 23rd pick after he impressed their scouts in a workout of the Gopher’s Quincy Lewis. 11 NBA seasons and 3 rings!

[@TS-zu4hv]

Good call

[@benfrank8649]

I remember Quincy Lewis wanted him to have a better nba career

[@clarkysparky]

he did it his way and im impressed by his dedication

[@blacki4268]

Saw him play last year in toronto...man can ball and is nice as well. He said hi to us during a timeout

[@giffysstiffy887]

He's mixed...a pure bred Jewish dude does not look like that🤓

[@Jackspaniel1]

What school did he play in Toronto ?

[@blacki4268]

@@Jackspaniel1 no no. He played for the Detroit gleague team (motor city cruise) and they played raptors 905. My wife and I were next to the visitors bench and during a timeout we (well she) said hi and started a very brief conversation with him

[@douglashairston7808]

Hey Ryan. I loved this introduction to you as a person and as a basketball player. I sincerely wish you much success in your new but native home of Israel and in all your b-ball endeavors.

[@isitrachelorj3953]

A nice player, fun to watch at the "Y", but that's it.

[@Dabeaux]

I don't even really watch basketball but this got recommended to me and now I'm hyped for Ryan Turell to dominate the league in 2028

[@isitrachelorj3953]

Dominate? What league? Stop smoking crack!

[@ecstrat1966]

He’s not dominating anything except D3.

[@jazzcook]

Wonder what will the scouts that pass over him will be called?

[@gabrielA95-t5o]

chill

[@nineteeneightynine432]

Lol. You know semi right these days they'll call them a bigot. Maybe not though...

[@kenw2225]

They did not see

[@gregcorrick4088]

Smart

[@wesleyyost4157]

Passover

[@TheRealTruth533]

EUROLEAGUE is a great option. He can iplay n Isreali league. Great competitive basketball and good pay.

[@fearlessdaveandthetsuanami7037]

I'm an orthodox Jew and huge basketball fan, Many of my high school teammates played for the Yeshiva University team.

[@NateHignogs]

Country ruiner

[@mizrahimjew9351]

Are you ashkeNAZI; fake juws?

[@mizrahimjew9351]

@@fearlessdaveandthetsuanami7037 are you a fake joo like everyone else is? Are you the same authentic Middle Eastern Jew as the ones in the Torah?

[@williamdavis9562]

Are you a Zionist?

[@DragonsFrogs]

Turell is terrible not even good enough for the G League lol. However, 2025 will likely be the first time two Jewish players go in the first round of NBA draft - Ben Saraf who is a real rotation player in German league & EuroCup at 18 and dominated for Israel at U18, and Danny Wolf at U of Michigan looking like a more raw 7’0” Franz Wagner. Anyone who thinks Turell is even a EuroLeague or NBAGL player though is biased and has no credibility

[@kabby29]

I think he's crafted a nice little career for himself already, with many interesting prospective paths in the future. I look forward to following.

[@LeJendLBC]

First time watcher. 👍🏾 SUBBED!

[@dimelo58]

Cool story, who ever compared him to Jordan is doing too much.

[@CrimzDad]

He meant that for the Jewish people, he might become their Jordan. But I think that's also ridiculous as he isn't even the best Jewish basketball player. Maybe in the end, he meant the proximity of Israel to Jordan 🇯🇴.

[@BakiSmaki27]

Lol yeah youtube is ridiculous like this. There's been several very good jewish players.

[@adamprice3466]

​​​​@@CrimzDad Jews used to have a lot of good basketball players before the wars. After they won the World Wars jews didn't really have to be into manual labor anymore so they stopped producing a lot of athletes. At only around 2% of the population it's impressive if any of them make it into big time athletics.

[@benw8669]

@@BakiSmaki27yea like Omari Casspi lol

[@nysockexchange2204]

@@BakiSmaki27 Deni Avdija, Amari Bailey and of course Domantas Sabonis (converted to Judaism).

[@NoName-l2o2c]

I enjoyed watching him on Prime doc. I hope he makes it back to nba.

[@joemarshall4226]

My favorite move of his is the one where he stops dribbling, then starts again, and the ref doesn't call traveling.

[@BBallRambling]

@@joemarshall4226 are you referring to that single play from his high school days? Because it looks like the ball was thrown to him, not caught cleanly, then he started. We have all seen far more egregious examples.

[@joemarshall4226]

@@BBallRambling There were two or three plays where I would have called it.

[@BBallRambling]

@ 👍

[@pum6454]

haywood highsmith on the miami heat came out of wheeling jesuit university, a D2 school, very impressive to make it to the NBA from D2 especially with the amount of talent coming from everywhere

It´s a nice story, he seems to be an incredible athlete. I wonder if he had chosen to play for a D1 college team if his career would have had a different direction. He would have played against and with much better players, he could have developed much more and maybe that would have given him more opportunities at the Gleague and in the NBA.

[@jimduncan-qw6xo]

YES...THIS!!! BIG mistake going D3 if he wanted to turn pro. Not taken seriously by NBA. Black dudes who have skills usually desire to be pro's. American white dudes rarely have that strong desire, Cooper Flagg being a strong exception!!(Probably #1 DP).

[@pwilki8631]

Made it halfway. Amazed the amount of subscribers here.

[@drewskee68]

I wish him the best

[@johnr.seydel3821]

Such a cool story. Sounds like a movie in the making. Hoping the best for Ryan and will be watching for him and cheering him on. Thanks for highlighting this young man’s journey!

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

he averaging 4.4 pts in gleague. there are players that averaged 30ppg in gleague that cant make an nba bench. he better play good defence, get alot of rebounds and be able to play off ball as a role player or he wont make an nba team. also if he cant shoot the 3 at 38 percent efficiency, its likely he just bound for europe.

[@kenw2225]

Well all the owners are like him. So I wouldn't be surprised if they put him the league. They are kinda famous for their behavior or helping eachother

[@stephenowens8658]

@@kenw2225not true at all. how many examples of that do you see? 🫤

[@nineteeneightynine432]

Billy Wagner one of the best closers ever was d3. That's cool didn't know that....

[@BBallRambling]

Ferrum College! And he was a 2 sport athlete, playing football as well. Which is also fairly common at the D3 level.

[@sergioremonalvarez]

Billy Wagner had a 100mph fastball. Different sport with different athletic requirements.

[@johnr.seydel3821]

Would love to stay in the loop on this guy keep up the updates with his journey!

[@ice8531]

Excellent video. Your pronunciation of Yeshiva cracked me up.

[@TruSyphonFilterz]

Zechariah 11:5 “Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.” Job 9:24 “The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?” 1 Maccabees 3:48 “And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.” Psalms 83:3 “They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.” Job 30:30 “My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.”

[@tuckerchisholm1005]

The future of basketball is athleticism vs craftiness. We will see which is superior but I think Jokic and Luka show that elite athleticism is not needed

[@romeod7549]

Since they eliminated defense, yes

[@armandorodriguez6447]

Bring him to Boston please, base line jumpers look good enough

[@davidyoung5044]

How about a video on Mac McClung? Perhaps you have done that.

[@BBallRambling]

@@davidyoung5044 He is definitely a guy worth talking about. There are a lot of G Leaguers who have dominated there, but for one reason or another are being almost completely ignored by the NBA. Thanks for the idea!

[@famousmortimer7933]

Protect my Battlefield Earth collector cups…especially Turell.

[@taekim2378]

He seems to be jumping fine when dunking

[@mikerichards8456]

0 chance he would have left yeshiva his senior year if he were serious about making the nba

[@TSprinkles-rz3kw]

Yeah he really hurt his own chances by staying there. I would venture to guess he knew his defense would keep him on the bench at a lot of schools. His offense is the real deal though

[@luciusbuildzz]

Stretching too you have all the time in the world can we get muscle to work in unison?

[@joshboggs1866]

Amazing watch. Keep em coming!

[@Yehohanan67]

Emanuel "Manu" Ginobili is also non NCAA who entered NBA.

[@luciusbuildzz]

AJ Hernandez is the gold standard of good shape take care bro

[@charold3]

If this young man (he’s not so young any more!) makes it to the NBA, I’ll eat my yamaka. God bless him tho. Wish him well.

[@Tacana_Redd_Sox]

I remember there was a story about a Jewish kid in sports illustrated and the headline said “Jewish Micheal Jordan” it was back in the 90’s. The kid had a yamaka ( probably misspelled it) and all that. His name was Tamir Goodman.

[@api-first]

Dude's alergic to using his left hand 😀

[@gregcorrick4088]

He’s no good

[@pytube777]

He’s more like Bird than Jordan.

[@BBallRambling]

@@pytube777 I wholeheartedly agree. I just have heard the Jordan nickname before and I like alliteration.

[@jobbrown7847]

Great story

[@mainlinemitch]

TAMIR GOODMAN IS LIKE ??????

[@BBPalmer420]

Hell nah. They were them lil hats when they play?? 😂😂😂

[@LiamEdelshtein]

Just to make something clear… he is a bucket🏀 The select team wasn’t with players that will make the National team, it was full of players from the Israeli second division.

[@MsNerdsRevenge]

Yes!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@luciusbuildzz]

This kid is like a baby look at young Wilfredo Gomez tough as Pele hands

[@AlfredoEClark]

Sam Jacobson, the former Golden Gopher and Laker, was the original Jewish Jordan.

[@gregcorrick4088]

Timir Goodman look him up give props where props r due

[@benfrank8649]

Jordan Farmar

[@hillbilly21960]

Why does the thumbnail say Jewish Michael Jordan if he’s not a jumper or quick?

[@BBallRambling]

He's got a great jumper! :P

[@MichaelMiner-k8b]

If he sets his mind to it, he can succeed at any level.

[@gregcorrick4088]

Probably not

[@PeeedaPan]

Jewish Jordan was Jon Scheyer. People in Chicago thought he was that legendary in high school

[@BBallRambling]

@@PeeedaPan I remember that guy! He was a very important player on a great college team, but didn’t play very long. He’s been coaching for a while at this point.

[@luciusbuildzz]

The definition of American muscle is in construction

[@dleon0902]

I see a Larry Bird in him.

[@luciusbuildzz]

When he runs he’s not fallling into it let’s see some haste

[@luciusbuildzz]

This kid has no ambition I’ve never even seen diesel in CT

[@MonteLogic]

"Yeah-shahvah" never heard it being pronounced like that before.

[@jamespohl-md2eq]

That’s cause you ain’t orthodox. 😅

[@Larry-k2t]

The story is interesting but his decisions early on & after high school are questionable. To really improve your game it is necessary to compete against players who are better than you. You’re only as good as the people you play with or against. I have always believed that. Identifying your weakness or weakness is essential & I wonder if the coaches could have done more for him in this part of the game.

[@LABoyko]

Amit Tamir, Towson State, was the original Jewish Jordan.

[@gregcorrick4088]

THANK YOU THANK YOU they don’t know bout Timir in bmore

[@buckchile614]

Could he lift a weight or two?

[@kenw2225]

Lol weights are bit too close to physical labor. Not gonna happen.

[@HaidukeNT]

2:18 wtf was that???

[@BBallRambling]

@@HaidukeNT A bucket!

[@funtasticblue7984]

i feel his like Larry bird not MJ

[@SonnyListon-xz5oj]

Description sounds Birdlike...needs a good agent.

[@gregcorrick4088]

Look up Timir Goodman Baltimore.

[@johnnealon8570]

Md terps offered Goodman but pulled it once they figured he was not athletic enough. He went to Towson and was average He can play in the maccabiah games. Probably a euro player

[@truthseeker5698]

Tamir Goodman 2.0?

[@556colt]

Solid player, but simply not NBA material.

[@BBallRambling]

That's fair

[@bull_Tattoo]

how those funny lil hats stay on their heads while they are balling!???

[@zyxwut321]

Interesting player. His story reminds me of Tamir Goodman, an Orthodox Jewish player from Baltimore in the late 90s who later played at Towson University and Israel for several years before wrapping up his career in the minor league Premier Basketball League. In Goodman's case, he was a top point guard recruit with amazing court vision but there were issues surrounding accommodating some of his religious requirements such as him not playing on the Sabbath (which is why he transferred from University of Maryland, where he could've been part of the 2002 National Championship team). Ryan Turrell MIGHT make it into the NBA for short spells if everything lines up for him, but it's more likely Israel will be his new home during and after his career.

[@rickdees651]

He's more Like bird not jordan . When he plays He's all about being in the best position to score btw bird use to dunk as well he just needs to up his defensive game it seems lacking

[@davidmccullough3762]

Danny Wolf would be a better pick

[@bookaufman9643]

This is just like the story of Tamir Goodman. It was 20 years ago or so but he was an orthodox Jew who eventually played for the University of Maryland and then went overseas to play. There was a ton of hype on his name and he was also known as the Jewish Jordan. If a Jewish player is ultra-orthodox there's no way they can play in the NBA because they would not be allowed to play Friday nights or Saturday before dark. Shalom.😊

[@BBallRambling]

@@bookaufman9643 I have heard his story. He was a solid player for many years. And that restriction on days playing is definitely real, but lots of pro athletes make exceptions. I don’t have the exact words in front of me right now, but I know Turell was asked about that very topic and I believe he said he would play.

[@kenw2225]

Silly nonsense

[@bookaufman9643]

@@BBallRambling there's different varieties of Orthodox Jews. There is what's considered ultra-orthodox I think that's what this kid is. You noticed that they have to wear the keppah on his head? This kid was never going to be able to be a pro and if you look at his talent he wasn't even close. The dude isway too slow for the NBA

[@gregcorrick4088]

Good job. They don’t know Timir was the original

[@Shinobi33]

I would've laughed my ass off if there were black players with cornrows and dreads while wearing yarmulkes on his team.

[@theviscount4622]

hes gonna blow up

[@Buddha_Approved]

Deni Avdija

[@leonnozik]

[@jabbahursty]

yeh-shee-vah

[@quentincrisp6933]

Stick to his studies!

[@parists5455]

sounds like a joke. Reminds me of an old joke "Albanian tourist" we said in Greece, when in communist era, Albania was the North Korea of Europe, and there was literally no chance to see an Albanian tourist. But you never know, at least for tourists thw joke stopped

[@luciusbuildzz]

Not amazing bro it’s 2024 we have all kinds of nutrition and amenities how many burn out cycles has this kid gone through?

[@Coolhandchris5]

The jewish jordan is Tamir Goodman , he played at Towson in maryland years ago

[@luciusbuildzz]

The only good three pointer is a fade away and one

[@stuartmichie4411]

There is only one Jewish Jordan, and that was Tamir Goodman

[@smokescreenOG]

the Jewish Brian Scalabrini, the White Mamba is closer to reality.

[@truthseeker5698]

Tamie Goodman 2.0?

[@BBallRambling]

I’m hoping he is!

[@TruSyphonFilterz]

Isaiah 42:25 “Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.” Ezekiel 36:5 “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.” Revelation 2:9 “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” Revelation 3:9 “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

[@grandroofing1604]

Jordan?

[@IIDX]

Air Judean

[@redbunnytail9528]

Seem like he where he wanna be at 25, play basketball in Israel. Orthodox Jew. You know? Why would he wanna be anywhere else, playing? Course. Problem of war, right now. Interesting how if you shine the light on ONE successful person in college sports ranks, level of skill quite high. I mean. It obvious how much work he put into his game. And as hard as he work, he only get spare time in G League. Make you wonder about the 'something,' make an NBA player and a player who balancing in G league. If you watch NBA, you not aware of this competitive war raging to sit on those bench.

[@psychedelicshacksnycshelte2171]

Larry Bird

[@sergioremonalvarez]

sorry to say this as he seems like a nice guy and he has a nice story, but he couldn't even stay in front of D3 players in college. Even G-League guys will smoke him. He will never play in the NBA. Never. Best he can hope for is Europe.

[@jameslaughter5183]

The guys street smarts are very low order. Not playing D1 was incredibly bone-headed. If nothing else, D1 has strength coaches and he looks like he could use a bunch of that. Not show casing his offensive talent against D1 teams is a lost opportunity; now he has to do make-up work. Bone-Headed.

[@gregcorrick4088]

He knew he would get dominated

[@jameslaughter5183]

@@gregcorrick4088 Maybe, but he wanted to play pro he should have taken the harder path.

[@hanidallou2886]

You know if heakes the NBA he will make millions even if he plays only One Minute a game 😅😊😅😅

[@Snoopydad]

Ye shee vah University

[@jamespohl-md2eq]

Yuh SHEE vuh

[@matttirado7661]

How many Jewish Jordan's have there been?!?! I would take the Jewish Hawthorne Wingo at this point

[@vincentforbes3149]

He's a class act young man but he's a average player in the pro's

[@Avenger849]

The JJ, zum Kotzen diese Anmaßung!

[@redondorocket7733]

Them small hats can hoop, uh? I'll pass.

[@rhettwalker4173]

How many Jewish Jordan’s has there been? There was 100% one 20 years ago.

[@prestonscott9676]

JORDAN???? REALLY??? Jordan could fly and dominate. This kid my be able to shoot but not Jordan.

[@TimBorko]

there was one jewish player from beth tiphila maryland was a good player.i think he missed the nba though

[@michaelsnell9874]

Not exactly Jordan.

[@thyslop1737]

Gimme a break. Look at his competition. Dollars to donuts he does not make it in the NBA. WNBA, yes.

[@michaeljames4630]

Who's the Jorish Jewdan??

[@gregcorrick4088]

Not this guy

[@michaeljames4630]

@@gregcorrick4088 oh