NBE Basketball Report has its usual collection of good stuff.

Last week they had an interview with soon to be Panther, Ashton Gibbs.

NBE Basketball Report: What areas of your game did the Pittsburgh coaches or any other coaches say you should work on?

Ashton Gibbs: My strength and speed is the main thing. College is a totally different game than high school. Those are areas that a lot of players usually need to improve on coming out of high school.

NBE Basketball Report: What have you been doing to work on improving in those areas? Have you done anything extra since the end of the high school season?

Ashton Gibbs: I’ve been working everyday with a trainer dealing with strength and conditioning, but I’ve also been doing a lot of skill work.

NBE Bball Report: Are you going out to Pittsburgh for the summer?

Ashton Gibbs: Yes, I’m coming for summer school at the end of June.

I imagine one of the things will be getting used to shooting from the new 3-point line (it goes from 19’9″ to 20’9″ in the men’s side).

There’s also a look at the AAU team, NY Gauchos. The team features one of Pitt’s targets in Dan Jennings. Pitt has also shown some interest in Durand Scott, but he isn’t a need. I don’t think they are seriously perusing another SG/SF for the 2009 recruiting class. Not with Darnell Dodson still likely to be signing and the chance of Dominc Cheek.

Cheek, by the way, was one of several top players from the NY/NJ at the Rutgers campus for a camp.