I will preface this by sharing that I have a personal relationship with and personal bias towards each of these kids.

Baxter has BY FAR the highest basketball ceiling but the least polished of the four. He has the most likelihood of playing in the NBA of the four because of length and athleticism. His handles and strength need to improve but we will see some things out of him at BYU that we have never seen since Mike Hall's dunk on Air Force.

Childs has a big strong frame and is a great power player who is very light on his feet. He is a stretch four who can step out and hit the outside shot. He plays bigger than his height because of long arms and high shoulders. I would love to get Yo for a lot of reasons, one of which is he is a local non-LDS black kid - the kind of kid we often miss out on. I talked to Yoeli a couple weeks ago and BYU is at or near the top of his list. His mom is a math teacher who emphasizes education. He's dating an LDS girl and attends LDS church. He is a great kid. He plays with some nasty (I promise he will pick up some dumb technicals early in his career) and is a loyal teammate and respectful young man.

Harding might be the most consistent basketball player I have ever seen. I could be wrong, but I think he is probably the most ready to produce at the D1 level of all the recruits listed. He is 6'6" with good handles, great speed and decent vertical. Nothing flashy but very productive. His outside shot is reliable. He doesn't have the power (yet?)of KC nor the competitive nasty that KC can bring attacking the rim but their games share similarities except that when Connor shoots the three it is beautiful, shot with confidence and you expect it to go in. His on court disposition is unflappable. I only watched his AAU play twice last week in Vegas but he was the most consistently productive player in the games I watched (FJ, Baxter, Childs and Connor all play on the same Utah Prospects team). Chocolatereadingmom compared him to Mark Bigelow, which I think is a fair comparison if you compare him to the pre-mission Bigelow, but with more athleticism and toughness. Let's hope the mission doesn't do to Connor's game what it did to Bigelow's game.

Bailey: One of my favorite kids in the world. He is a good friend of our family. His game has improved a lot the last two years. He's a long kid (I'm guessing 6'8"?) who makes shots in bunches. He can go 6-7 from three and then turn around and go 2-15 from two and three the next game. Some scouts love his game, some hate it. One guy said "the offense stops when the ball finds Bailey's hands" - ouch. But that was from one of the showcases, which is never good team basketball. In the right system I would fully expect him to be a good team player and knock down a bunch of shots mixed in with some cold streaks. His dribbling is quite good, his rebounding is great for how skinny he is (smart instincts and length) and his defense has gotten WAY better the last two years.

In summary, the best prospect is Baxter because he has such a higher ceiling than all the others. However, he is probably farthest away from producing at his potential than the other three.