I am very excited to see Laina Ford of Cedar Falls High School and Lady Martin Bros AAU. Ford is another player that stands at 5’11, who moves really well with her natural height coming down the floor. She is extremely coordinated and she competed with a chip-on-the-shoulder mentality as a competitor. Offensively, she is the type that can kill her matchup with her height by going over the top near the bucket or she can hit her defender with a series of counter moves if someone bigger decides to step in her way. Defensively, she can switch through multiple positions right now and that’s going to be the case throughout the rest of her high school career. Which makes her extremely versatile on that side of the ball. All in all, I’m excited to see a ton of the younger Lady Martin Bros players in attendance. They all have a ton of promise and so I’m excited to see how they matchup against some other proven ballers.

Laina Ford is labeled as a SF at 5’10 but realistically she has played more of a CG role this season with her Lady Martin Bros program on the road. Ford is one of those that has ample skill, coordination, touch, athletic ability, and smarts within this game. She understands what the team is trying to accomplish as a whole each time they take the court and she understands how to get her team to that specific result with the pieces they have. The Lady Martin Bro’s programs have been killing it with talent this season across the board and Ford is in that conversation. She has been one of the best players within their entire program and that says a lot. This Winter we should see a big step up out of her at Cedar Falls. If she continues to play how she has all AAU season long, she is going to kill it.