Honestly, I think their drop is a result of the scouts seeing a lot of the other players at national games against each other during the winter for basketball maganet prep schools like Oak Hill Academy, Findlay, or Brewster.
Monte and Thomas playing with their town's basketball teams don't give them the exposure they were able to recieve on the AAU circut during the summer from these scouts.
Honestly Matt Thomas overall grad just went from a 88 to an 87, so the scouts still see him as basically the same just ranked behind others that have the 88 ranking.
I am shocked Monte went from a 4 star grade of 82 to a 3 star grade of 77... That is a huge drop. I have no idea how you could downgrade the same individual that much in a span of 6 months (with out injury, of course).
Either way, both will be very good players for Fred and ISU for the next 4 year, these are just opinions. Hopefully Morris can use this as motivation and is out to prove this ranking wrong.