7-1 JUNIOR DORAL MOORE COMMITS TO REALIZE HIS POTENTIAL AT CENTER By Sam Walker Initially, his college basketball experience was via baptism by hen you’re 7-1, most of the world fire. But that experience set the bar high for a promising young probably looks comparatively player who came out of Montverde Academy in Florida ranked by as the 12th-best center in his class and a four-star recruit small. Doral Moore, Wake Forest’s ESPN as chosen by ESPN, Rivals and Scout. Moore played in his hometown high school of Luelle, Ga., until junior center, eclipses most everybody on the his senior season when he moved to Montverde Academy where court with his 7-1, 280-pound frame. He is an he played with LSU’s Ben Simmons, Florida’s Noah Dickerson and Florida State’s Jean Marc Koumadje. Monteverde defeated imposing figure. previously undefeated Oak Hill Academy to win the 2015 national title. So Moore had a history of playing on a team at a But it wasn’t so long ago that everything looked big to the “big high level surrounded by top talent. His freshman season at Wake Forest, former Demon Deacon man” Moore. The effort it took to compete at college basketball’s highest level was big, becoming a student-athlete was big, and the Devin Thomas was the big man who showed Moore just how physical the game is, and classmate John Collins, who went on to learning curve for a player his size was, at times, enormous.
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