nolando Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) Ontario product and former Syracuse striker projected by some to go top in the MLS Draft. Worth his own page I figure. Has a great back story, I like the sound of him already: http://dailyorange.com/2018/11/unorthodox-way-syracuse-acquired-tajon-buchanan-best-striker/ Edited January 5, 2019 by nolando ImYourKeeper, Shway, Addona and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccaliam Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Sounds like a very impressive individual. Hopefully he gets drafted somewhere that helps him to fulfill his potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 The good thing is he is only 19 and foregoing his last two years of college unlike a lot of the college players who waste some key years of development playing in college. If he can get picked by a team with a good development system he could develop into a good player. His age is probably why the mock drafts are picking him everywhere from 1st to not in the 1st round. He may have the most potential but is probably not a pick that will help a team right away.http://dailyorange.com/2019/01/tajon-buchanan-reportedly-forgo-final-2-years-su-declare-mls-superdraft/ Addona and Zem 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison44 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Hope he goes to a team with a USL affiliate. If he doesnt catch on early I'd hate to see him ride the bench all year and get 100min. Better to get a full season of USL 1 under his belt in that case. shamrock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SthMelbRed Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Does anybody know if he always plays with the massive knee brace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 9 hours ago, Bison44 said: Hope he goes to a team with a USL affiliate. If he doesnt catch on early I'd hate to see him ride the bench all year and get 100min. Better to get a full season of USL 1 under his belt in that case. You do mean, USL Championship right? Playing in USL 1,you might aswell stay in college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 4 hours ago, SthMelbRed said: Does anybody know if he always plays with the massive knee brace? Googled his images, and it doesn't appear so. If he did need to play with those big ass ACL braces... It could be detrimental in regards to a physical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 I noticed in the mock drafts they talked about how the other top 3 guys were US U20 guys but only one made the latest squad but no mention that we have never called up Buchanan... definitely could have helped our u20s I’m confident in saying without even seeing him. Bison44 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Ives Galarcep put him first overall in his mock draft. https://sbisoccer.com/2019/01/the-sbi-2019-mls-mock-draft-version-1-0 nolando and Norrin Radd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 5 hours ago, Keegan said: I noticed in the mock drafts they talked about how the other top 3 guys were US U20 guys but only one made the latest squad but no mention that we have never called up Buchanan... definitely could have helped our u20s I’m confident in saying without even seeing him. Scouting is not something done overnight. You do it over a certain amount of time. Buchanan was not playing soccer 3 years ago in Colorado and you couldn't really get highlights off him. It's not like he was a dominant freshman. I agree that he had a good season, but preliminary squads are named what 45 days before. You know how many games Buchanan had played for Syracuse in 2018 by mid September? 4. They knew about Larin because he was playing here. And the other who were playing and living in the US the Beckie, Constant and co had some videos from every year before. You couldn't do the same for Buchanan. Would he have been better? Maybe, but it's not like someone who had scored 7 career goals in NCAA in 22 matches screams call him up. Keegan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) @Blackdude while I admit he wasn’t a Larin type prospect he didn’t just become a GA top pick in the last 3 months. He’s been a well known player in NCAA since his debut.. obviously it’s not easy but guys who are projected top 3 picks should get a look. Part of the problem is we have zero camps - the roster was basically named based off the Toulon tournament and domestic pros so if you had no prior involvement with Canada you were out of luck sadly. The handling of our u20 team was a disaster and it showed. If we weren’t going to call our top u20s then there needed to be more evaluation. Our rivals probably think we’re so odd having all this talent and somehow losing to St Kitts. Edited January 5, 2019 by Keegan Northvansteve and romurra 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 6 minutes ago, Keegan said: @Blackdude while I admit he wasn’t a Larin type prospect he didn’t just become a GA top pick in the last 3 months. He’s been a well known player in NCAA since his debut.. obviously it’s not easy but guys who are projected top 3 picks should get a look. Part of the problem is we have zero camps - the roster was basically named based off the Toulon tournament and domestic pros so if you had no prior involvement with Canada you were out of luck sadly. Well known from his debut? He wasn't in the top 100 midseason but sure he got to 20th by the end of the year. I don't think that screams to me as well known since his debut. I do agree that the fact that we have had zero camps didn't help him, but even if we did, I'm not even sure that he would have gotten a look because he was hard to rate because he had holes in his youth career. red card 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 12 hours ago, SthMelbRed said: Does anybody know if he always plays with the massive knee brace? One of the articles said that he had a knee injury earlier in the year and played with the brace. I would assume that he no longer plays with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1996 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 7 hours ago, Keegan said: I noticed in the mock drafts they talked about how the other top 3 guys were US U20 guys but only one made the latest squad but no mention that we have never called up Buchanan... definitely could have helped our u20s I’m confident in saying without even seeing him. Well you would think that a guy who is probably going to go pretty high in the MLS draft should have at the very least got a look for the last Canadian U20 team that failed miserably. It’s not like this guy just got good at the last minute. So nobody pointed this guy out to the CSA ? Once again and I’ve stated this many times on these boards in many posts, that Canada with our miserable results in men’s soccer be it in men’s U17, 20 and our full national team does not have the luxury in missing players like this who have talent. But this has been going on for years with our beloved CSA , I remember a certain Eddy Berdusco who at the time was one of the leading scores one season of our last attempt at a professional soccer league in Canada the old CSL that lasted from the 1980’s to the early 1990’s , he was of age to get picked for I think it was the Under 23 men’s Olympic team at the time ,but for some unknown reason was not picked to play on the Olympic men’s U23 team even though he was of age. Instead a few players not even playing in the CSL or anywhere were picked over him an incredible omission at the time for a guy who was scoring goals in out national professional league at the time. romurra, Keegan and Corazon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corazon Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 17 hours ago, 1996 said: Well you would think that a guy who is probably going to go pretty high in the MLS draft should have at the very least got a look for the last Canadian U20 team that failed miserably. It’s not like this guy just got good at the last minute. So nobody pointed this guy out to the CSA ? Once again and I’ve stated this many times on these boards in many posts, that Canada with our miserable results in men’s soccer be it in men’s U17, 20 and our full national team does not have the luxury in missing players like this who have talent. But this has been going on for years with our beloved CSA , I remember a certain Eddy Berdusco who at the time was one of the leading scores one season of our last attempt at a professional soccer league in Canada the old CSL that lasted from the 1980’s to the early 1990’s , he was of age to get picked for I think it was the Under 23 men’s Olympic team at the time ,but for some unknown reason was not picked to play on the Olympic men’s U23 team even though he was of age. Instead a few players not even playing in the CSL or anywhere were picked over him an incredible omission at the time for a guy who was scoring goals in out national professional league at the time. It seems very hard to make a Canadian men's youth team if you don't play for Toronto FC, Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whitecaps or Unattached FC. Olympique_de_Marseille and A_Gagne 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince193 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 35 minutes ago, Corazon said: It seems very hard to make a Canadian men's youth team if you don't play for Toronto FC, Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whitecaps or Unattached FC. We also barely run camps. Corazon and hamiltonfan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad_Impact Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 3rd overall in Doyle's mock draft https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/01/03/armchair-analyst-2019-mock-superdraft-v1-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section114row20 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Worth a bump. Draft 9th overall by New England in the Superdraft. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/01/11/revolutions-superdraft-pick-tajon-buchanan-culmination-long-journey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazlo_80 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Tricky spot for him to land. They have a bunch of attacking options. Wishing him all the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/new-england-revolution/revolution-tajon-buchanan-louisville/ Impressing for NE in preseason. BenFisk'sBiggestFan, Shway, Grizzly and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 45 minutes ago, Keegan said: https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/new-england-revolution/revolution-tajon-buchanan-louisville/ Impressing for NE in preseason. Nice cross for the assist. Grizzly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 3 hours ago, jpg75 said: Nice cross for the assist. Nice ball control too before taking the cross. Keegan and jpg75 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW519 Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 On the bench for New England johnyb and Dominic94 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey_twelve Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Didn't catch the game but he played for the final 10 minutes this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamrock Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 (edited) Without a USL team I don't think NER is a good place for young prospects like him (or Wright for that matter). He was subbed in as third attacking option, so he'll probably have to be content with just a few minutes here and there this season. Very hard to make a case for yourself like that (unless you're David). Edited March 11, 2019 by shamrock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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