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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jun 17, 2009 13:04:28 GMT -5
if i'm not mistaken, the east west all star basketball game is this weekend june 20th at the greensboro coliseum. we'll have two future aggies representing us. amber calvin for the women and demetrius upchurch for the men. hopefully we'll get a pretty good preview of what these future aggies are all about at this game.
will there be any bdv members attending this game? if so, please give us a first hand evaluation of the baby aggies...
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jun 17, 2009 13:10:03 GMT -5
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jun 17, 2009 13:28:03 GMT -5
oh, okay. my bad. the 20th was stuck in my brain but i guess i had my months mixed up...
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Post by Aggie One on Jun 17, 2009 14:41:28 GMT -5
I'll be at both the football and basketball games.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 20, 2009 10:57:48 GMT -5
aggie one, if you're still going, please let us know what you think of eaves' upchurch and bibbs' calvin after the east-west all star games tonight. i think this game will give us a true indication of what we can expect from both of them this year...
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Post by Aggie One on Jul 20, 2009 12:15:39 GMT -5
Will do.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 21, 2009 8:20:25 GMT -5
East-West girls basketball: Local stars lead West to victory
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 By Tom Keller Staff Writer, N&R
GREENSBORO — In March, Helen Terry dismantled Ken Beaty's Gastonia Forestview team to help Dudley win the 3-A state championship.
On Monday night, Beaty finally got a chance to unleash Terry on someone else.
The former Panthers star, now at Charleston Southern, scored 10 points, including eight straight during a 13-0 run in the second quarter, to help the West to an 87-77 win in the 35th annual N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game at the Greensboro Coliseum.
Terry has been at college since June to take two summer classes and work out with the team, including some outdoor runs that have shocked her system.
"You work harder because there's more competition," said Terry, who will play behind a sophomore at point guard. "And because I'm smaller than everybody, I've got to work extra hard to get stronger."
The 5-foot-2 Terry showed why size has never been an issue, flying into traffic to grab rebounds (she had five) and pestering ballhandlers so tightly up the floor even their shadows couldn't breathe. Her second-quarter spurt gave the West a 45-32 halftime lead, and the East would never get closer than 10.
East Davidson's Anna Freeman (Appalachian State) had nine rebounds and five blocks for the West — one more than everyone else in the game — and Southeast Guilford's Paris Alston, the last player added to the West roster, finished with nine points and seven rebounds.
"It'll help a lot going off to college," said Alston, who will play for S.C. State. "It was real cool. I had fun."
LaKevia Boykin of Southeast Raleigh led the East with 19 points, and N.C. A&T-bound Amber Calvin of Hope Mills South View added 13 points and five steals.
Reidsville's Eleisha Hairston is getting her first look at future Elon teammate Ali Ford this summer, so she had an idea that Ford's 20-point, MVP performance might be possible.
"I knew what she could do," said Hairston, who had three points, four rebounds and three steals. "She does what you want all point guards to do. She looks up, she advances the ball, she doesn't look for her shot but she takes it."
Ford, the NCHSAA Female Athlete of the Year from Morganton Freedom, hit 4-of-6 3-pointers and finished 8-of-12 from the field.
Hairston said she's been getting up at 5:15 a.m. to get to Elon's 6 a.m. summer practices. Asked the last time she set her alarm for 5:15 before that, the answer was an emphatic never.
Another of Hairston's incoming Phoenix teammates, Kelsey Evans of Raleigh Wakefield, played for the East team Monday, so Hairston asked the West squad to forgive her for cheering for Evans' baskets, too.
"Anybody who says it isn't about winning, it is," Hairston said.
Contact Tom Keller at 373-7034 or tom.keller@news-record.com
East 13 19 20 25 — 77 West 15 30 25 17 — 87
East — LaKevia Boykin 19, Amber Calvin 13, Sarah Wollett 8, Jazmine Cooper 7, Sasha Millington 7, Alyssa Leubs 6, Asia Williams 6, Shontel Mallory 6, Kelsey Evans 4, Tierra Coleman 1.
West — Ali Ford 20, Christal Caldwell 13, Helen Terry 10, Shay Jones 9, Paris Alston 9, Keyrra Gillespie 8, Jai Forney 7, Anna Freeman 4, Jazmin Cromartie 4, Eleisha Hairston 3.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 21, 2009 8:27:18 GMT -5
East-West boys basketball: West is best
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 By Tom Keller Staff Writer, N&R
GREENSBORO — Even Julius Brooks didn't realize the carnage unfolding before him.
The former Page basketball star finally glanced up at the scoreboard late in Monday's North Carolina Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game and saw the damage: The West was en route to a 124-92 win at the Greensboro Coliseum, breaking the record for both most points scored and biggest margin of victory in the 61-year-old event.
"I looked up and was like, 'Whoa!'" said Brooks, now at Loyola (Md.). "When you're playing, you don't pay attention."
The West topped the previous record for most points in the game — set in a 119-113 West win in 1987 — with several minutes to go. The previous biggest margin of victory was 31 in 1965.
A 3-pointer by the East's Zach Faircloth in the final minute closed the gap to 30, but K.J. Sherrill, who played at West Rowan and is now at Charlotte, put down an uncontested dunk at the buzzer for the record.
Sherrill had a game-high 19 points and 11 rebounds.
"They showed their talent," said West coach Howard West of Winston-Salem Reagan, whose team had eight double-figure scorers. "We were lucky to have a good group that didn't mind sharing the ball."
Winston-Salem Mount Tabor's Mike Grace, who will head to Yale in the fall, earned MVP honors with 16 points and five assists. His 3-pointer just before the first-quarter buzzer gave the West a 33-16 lead.
"He was our vocal leader," West said of Grace. "From the moment he stepped on the floor, he was in control of his group."
It was essentially in hand at that point. The West, which featured seven future Division I players, had already put on a fireworks display when East Lincoln's Keith Rendleman pinned a shot against the backboard and started a fast break to North Mecklenburg's Kyle Gaillard, who threw down a left-handed dunk over a defender to bring the crowd to its feet and prompt several scoreboard replays.
"There were some leapers out there," West said. "It was no place for the faint-hearted."
The East had five double-figure scorers, led by 16 each from Greenville Conley's Jaron Lane and Camden County's Ricky Krainiak, and their 92 points would have been good enough to win in five of the previous 10 games.
But the West shot 58.3 percent to the East's 39.5 and had stretched its lead to 27 by halftime. The West scored at least 28 points in every quarter.
"We came together as a team and the switch flipped," said Brooks, who had 10 points and 11 rebounds and was joined in double figures by Wakefield Ellison of Asheville (17), Rendleman (14), Kyle Gaillard of North Mecklenburg (13), Drew Absher of Davie County (11) and Wake Forest-bound C.J. Harris of Mount Tabor (11).
"You only get one try at this thing," said West, who has been coaching for 40 years. "The record's OK, but getting a chance to coach it is an honor."
Contact Tom Keller at 373-7034 or tom.keller@news-record.com
East 16 18 25 33 — 92 West 33 28 31 32 — 124
East —Jaron Lane 16, Ricky Krainiak 16, Marcellous Perez 11, Candon Rusin 11, Zach Faircloth 10, DaMetrius Upchurch 9, Alex Tucker 6, Stan Okoye 6, Harrison George 4, Trey Sumler 3.
West — K.J. Sherrill 19, Wakefield Ellison 17, Michael Grace 16, Keith Rendleman 14, Kyle Gaillard 13, Drew Absher 11, C.J. Harris 11, Julius Brooks 10, Eric Mayo 8, Josh Pittman 5.
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Jul 21, 2009 12:37:20 GMT -5
Aggie One,
I cant wait to see your report.
Thanks. Bro.
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Post by aggiejazz on Jul 21, 2009 13:21:00 GMT -5
I talked to someone who saw the games last night. He said that Amber and Demetrius were good pickups for A&T. He said Amber was a pretty good pick-up for A&T.
He likes the shooting stroke of both Amber and Demetrius and their court awareness. Demetius has good jumping ability. He thinks Amber needs to improve her ball handling skills and quickness to be ready for college basketball. He stated that Demetrius must get stronger before he is ready for college basketball.
Amber and Demetrius, like all incoming freshmen players will have to work hard to improve their basketball skills. What's great, is they have a good foundation from which to improve their game.
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Post by Aggie One on Jul 22, 2009 11:04:23 GMT -5
All-star games really don't tell you a great deal on how a prospect will project in your program but I will say this. For the style of play of the teams we put out on the floor, they fit perfectly well within those systems. They both can shot and are athletic enough to play good defense.
The thing I like about Calvin is her calmness and her ability to adjust her game to the flow of the game. She doesn't play out of control as point guard, picks her spots, does what she needs to do whether it's scoring points or dishing it around plus she understands where she is on the floor and what the situation calls for most all of the time. She is a thinking man's point guard which I can see why Bibbs wanted her so very badly - A very coachable and unselfish leader.
Upchurch to me is guy who can run the floor and finishes, and with work can become a very good rebounder and shot blocker playing the small forward spot. One thing the guy does well is find a way to score, not a shooter, but a scorer. There is difference.
He's thin and the weight room is definitely in his future but he is very long, extremely quick and has great some hops to make some very difficult plays inside.
I see him spelling Robert Johnson off the bench very often. He's a very nice player, not a great one, but he has a very nice game.
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Jul 22, 2009 12:05:44 GMT -5
Aggie One,
Does Upchurch have more upside than Ed Jones did when he first steped on campus ? Sounds like a Ed Jones type of body but maybe a more inside / outside type of player.
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Post by Aggie One on Jul 22, 2009 12:27:58 GMT -5
I think so. He doesn't seem to disappear at times like Ed did in a game and his inside offensive game is more consistent - better hands and can catch the ball cleanly.
Ed had a lot more muscle and quickness but we're trying to compare a 17 year old to a 23 year old. Give it a year and a half then let's then revisit this question.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jul 22, 2009 15:45:14 GMT -5
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jul 22, 2009 16:07:36 GMT -5
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