Garibay keeping it honest

Edgar Garibay is not shying away from his play in the summer time.

"It was horrible," Garibay, a 6-foot-9, 215-pound big man from Compton (Calif.) High School, said.

Try finding a teenager that will admittedly downgrade his own play from the most important month of the summer. The three-star prospect isn't making excuses and hopes he can redeem himself to his recruiters with a big season for one of the top teams in Southern California.

"I was just wasn't letting the game come to me and I think I tried to rush everything. It was a learning experience. That is what it was. It was a learning experience. I need to take my time and work on what I need to do," Garibay said.

"Some people are taking it easy and taking some time off but not me. I've been in the gym since I got back from the road. Every day I'm in there. I'm working out with my trainer and we're doing college drills and doing a lot of player development. I really want to do better than what I did in the summer."

Teamed with highly-touted Demar Derozan, Garibay is looking forward to his senior campaign this year. A number of national events are on the schedule as well as a couple of cross-country trips for games. Garibay is hoping to make a splash in the winter time. He also hopes to redeem himself with the recruiters.

Garibay said he doesn't have any visits planned to date and hopes to narrow his list down in the near future to five schools that he'd like to see officially.

"I'd like to have it all done by the end of October," Garibay said.

UNLV, New Mexico State, Marquette, San Diego State, UConn, Boston College and Georgetown were mentioned as the schools still involved with him after the summer.

"Recruiting has been crazy. It's been up and down. One month, you are doing good and everyone is talking to you. Then the next month, it is totally different," Garibay said. "It's so up and down. That's why I've learned why I want to play for someone that has my best interest at hand. I want to find that. I don't want to play for someone that wants to tell you what you want to hear."

A pair of programs have made an early impression with Garibay.

"UNLV and New Mexico State have been the most consistent," he said. "They've been on me the most consistent so far. UNLV is always on me and New Mexico State just got my friend Troy Gillenwater. I'm looking at them."

"I want the best of both worlds. I want to play. I want to play early. I've always thought you do your best learning on the court. You learn by playing. And then I want to go somewhere that I can go and enjoy college."