District 9-A Season MVP

[Speedy Claxton]

Baker had 43 earlier in the year. With this he only had one three. He had 13 offensive rebounds. Thats pretty impressive to a player that you say is not good enough to play college ball.

[FridayMainEvent]

QUOTE(Speedy Claxton @ Feb 16 2007 - 08:11 AM) 826374217[/snapback] Baker had 43 earlier in the year. With this he only had one three. He had 13 offensive rebounds. Thats pretty impressive to a player that you say is not good enough to play college ball.

 

 

 

 

Trust me, everyone else in the district has the utmost respect for Baker. I can gaurantee you Coach Pope and Coach Edwards put in some overtime working on a game plan for him tonight. I just hope we can at least contain him and force someone else to beat us!

[Speedy Claxton]

QUOTE(cascade11 @ Feb 16 2007 - 09:09 AM) 826374294[/snapback]

Trust me, everyone else in the district has the utmost respect for Baker. I can gaurantee you Coach Pope and Coach Edwards put in some overtime working on a game plan for him tonight. I just hope we can at least contain him and force someone else to beat us!

 

 

 

 

Glad to see someone else that thinks he is good. There for a while it was like fresh didn't know which one he was. Just cause he's your brother doesn't mean he can't be beat out. I just don't see the same aggression in him this year. Last year he was an under sized post that still dominanted, but now just a guard that seems like he don't even want to rebound. But whatever. We've heard everyone's view. Can't wait to see the outcome.

[blueice712]

I,ve read it all about theMVP business. Shankle will win it again this year. His team had the best record by two games and he eally carried them. Hall and Baker obviously are 2 and 3 (not in that order-who knows). both of them are juniors and thats impressive. Hall and Baker have a lot more potential in college than Shankle-no disrespect intended but that's my opinion. I love watching Baker play. VB plays him at point but he should be a wing man. There's more opportunity to feed the good post players from the wing and the kid can stroke it. The idea of backing a smaller gaurd down the lane will only work part of the time-its not too hard to stop if you are prepared for it (like at tourney time). Against VB there is always a player on the floor that you can leave to double Baker. Also, run a little 1-2-2 zone and the point has to give it up. VB should find someone else to run point even if they never score. Hall has a nice stand still shot from the perimeter and his post game has improved a bunch. Next year he'll need to add the ability to put it on the floor a little and make some jumpers and good decisions passing Next year MVP will be a close one. Both Cascade and VB have strong junior classes.

[Speedy Claxton]

I don't know it's hard to say who will win. I still choose Baker. Shankle barely beat that guard from VB out of MVP, and the Baker kid is alot better. So I guess we'll see. True Baker would be a better 3 player instead of 1 but he is the only besides Crain who is pg material. So it could go either way.

[Vultor]

QUOTE(cascade11 @ Feb 13 2007 - 08:20 AM) 826369893[/snapback]The guy from Cascade who want get any mention for MVP but is definitely the backbone to our team is not Brandon Hall. Our team would be nowhere near the team we are without Stephan Reed. Any unbiased Cascade fan will tell you that is the one player we CANNOT do without this year. It will be tough going early next year without him but I think Ricky Hord will be fine after he has gained some experience. I wish we had used him more this year to get him prepared.

 

 

 

Having said all that, Brandon Hall is extremely important to us also and is the best D1 prospect we have on the Basketball team. I'm afraid his lack of height will hurt him in recruiting. He is almost unstoppable when he gets the ball down low, but not many D1 colleges will look at a 6-4 to 6-5 post player. I think if he grows a couple more inches and continues to develop his outside shot, he will get some attention for a possible 4-spot in college.

 

He has good size and if he plays as you say a D1 could take him and move him to guard. Remember there are alot of D1 programs we don't know about.

[Vultor]

QUOTE(SLEDGEHAMMER2 @ Feb 15 2007 - 01:29 PM) 826373164[/snapback]That leaves the 2nd question unaswered. Since you questioned that other MVP candidates college offers while they are still juniors, Did Corey Shankle have offers as a junior?

 

Can they entertain offers as juniors? We have seen alot of recruiting at Forrest the last few years in alot of sports and I don't remember anyone getting an offer as a junior.

[FridayMainEvent]

QUOTE(Vultor @ Feb 18 2007 - 10:12 PM) 826378574[/snapback]Can they entertain offers as juniors? We have seen alot of recruiting at Forrest the last few years in alot of sports and I don't remember anyone getting an offer as a junior.

 

 

 

I'm not sure when is the earliest an athletic can sign, but I'm pretty sure you can offer before the senior season. I know there are some kids such as Causey Clausen's youngest brother (Jimmy) that had colleges contacting him as early as 8th grade. I read somewhere that he went to an Oklahoma football camp his eighth grade year and Stoops told him then they had a uniform waiting on him.......Whether it was legal or not, I'm sure a lot of that goes on.

[Speedy Claxton]

They can watch and talk to you as a junior but no signing or anything can be done.

[11Awatcher]

QUOTE(Vultor @ Feb 18 2007 - 10:12 PM) 826378574[/snapback]Can they entertain offers as juniors? We have seen alot of recruiting at Forrest the last few years in alot of sports and I don't remember anyone getting an offer as a junior.

 

 

Even though it hurts me to say it bc of his brother, Shankle will win it. I guarantee more coaches prepare for him more than any other player in the district and he still has great numbers. You can verbally committ as early as you want but can not sign until a certain date your senior year.

[fresh]

bc of me... thats not nice... what did i do??? syate the truth im sorry...

[fatman from vb]

so does anyone know who got it yet and who won the championship.