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Post by victoriouslasalle on Jan 3, 2013 11:20:55 GMT -5
Hey K'Zell,
You are a (semi-) big who busted butt your upperclass years and blossomed. While you coud always bound, you worked hard to become a decent inside defender. You could stay in the game and keep bringing it by your Senior year and often against taller opposition. Your O became pretty dependable also! Drop me a line! Share your training secrets!
Jerrell Wright
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Post by explorer88 on Jan 3, 2013 12:14:47 GMT -5
Victorious, I think K'Zell was a great offensive rebounder but he was an awful interior defender. There is a reason that Donnie Carr, Rasual Butler, K'Zell Wesson, Julian Blanks, and Victor Thomas couldn't have a winning season. That isn't the only reason but one of the reasons we never could win consistently. He and Victor Thomas were the biggest defensive laibilities.
Reggie Okosa was another good offesnive rebounder but I think a better defender than K'Zell.
Truthfully I can't ever remember La Salle having a good post defender since I have been a fan. Travar Johnson was the best shot blocker and he only lasted a year and I think Craig Conlin and Milko Lieverst were decent positional defenders.
Just a few thoughts on the interior defense which I would categorize as abysmal in this program.
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Post by spaceghost on Jan 3, 2013 12:39:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I loved K'Zell, but I don't remember him ever becoming a competent defender. I'd put Anwar Wilson over Travar Johnson as the best shot blocker in semi-recent history.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 14:14:21 GMT -5
Ron Barnes
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Post by explorer88 on Jan 3, 2013 14:54:27 GMT -5
Both Anwar Wilson and Ron Barnes are good names.
Funny thing about Anwar Wilson is it took Speedy Morris 3 years to realize the kid help contribute to the program when you had a bunch of guys that couldn't play.
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Post by tswg111 on Jan 3, 2013 15:21:35 GMT -5
Paul johnson was one of my more recent favorites, although not as tall as some of these guys. he was an absolute worker.
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Post by victoriouslasalle on Jan 3, 2013 16:21:32 GMT -5
Victorious, I think K'Zell was a great offensive rebounder but he was an awful interior defender. There is a reason that Donnie Carr, Rasual Butler, K'Zell Wesson, Julian Blanks, and Victor Thomas couldn't have a winning season. That isn't the only reason but one of the reasons we never could win consistently. He and Victor Thomas were the biggest defensive laibilities. Reggie Okosa was another good offesnive rebounder but I think a better defender than K'Zell. Truthfully I can't ever remember La Salle having a good post defender since I have been a fan. Travar Johnson was the best shot blocker and he only lasted a year and I think Craig Conlin and Milko Lieverst were decent positional defenders. Just a few thoughts on the interior defense which I would categorize as abysmal in this program. MIK, Agree, with your comments about that team's poor defense and the overall situation regarding our lack of interior defenders. My point was, and my take is K'zell went from an absolutely attrocious defender who would foul out too frequently, a virtual defensive sieve his Junior year to being relatively decent his Senior year. I noted marked improvement. I recall the A10 was pretty good at that time with a lot of bigs (Temple, Mass, etc), several good beefy bigs. K'zell hung in there at 6-71/2 his Senior year. I remember marked improvement that appeared to be due to hard work and dedication on his part. I surmised, this did not come easy to him. I would like to see Jerrell find his way to this kind of effort. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 0:01:31 GMT -5
Our bigs shot over 65% tonight. Not sure why all the scouting reports call us a guard heavy team with a weakness up front. I believe Jerrell and Steve are excellent + on the lineup tonight that stifled umass defensively was when they were both on the floor.
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Post by coqui900 on Jan 31, 2013 0:07:56 GMT -5
Our bigs didn't lose the game tonight. Crappy three point shooting in the first half and sloppy ballhandling early on did us in.
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Post by casey44 on Jan 31, 2013 1:53:27 GMT -5
I am stating an obvious point, but Peterson and Mills are killing us offensively, causing Galloway and Garland to take on way too much, thus the low shooting %. It's gotten to the point that they remind me of bumpers in a pin ball game, each one getting rid of the ball on wide open threes and immediately passing, esp. when they have missed a couple. I don't know where the scoring is going to come from on the perimeter next year.
Making treys seems to be contagious.
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Post by lasallerules1978 on Jan 31, 2013 7:26:20 GMT -5
Our bigs shot over 65% tonight. Not sure why all the scouting reports call us a guard heavy team with a weakness up front. I believe Jerrell and Steve are excellent + on the lineup tonight that stifled umass defensively was when they were both on the floor. In college basketball it is easy to poke at the bigs. Not alot of schools have them, I agree wright and zack were not the problem tonight. I thought played a good game. As far as comparing him to Wesson, it's not apples to apples. We are talking about a guy who is older than wright and more mature. I think wright is hands down the better all around player. Plus the fact that wright was never held back and Wesson was. So compare the two when they are both juniors and keep in mind Wesson was a year older. Maturity is huge at this point, that is the main reason guys get held back so often. It gives them a leg up on competition. |
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Post by lasallerules1978 on Jan 31, 2013 7:27:32 GMT -5
Victorious, I think K'Zell was a great offensive rebounder but he was an awful interior defender. There is a reason that Donnie Carr, Rasual Butler, K'Zell Wesson, Julian Blanks, and Victor Thomas couldn't have a winning season. That isn't the only reason but one of the reasons we never could win consistently. He and Victor Thomas were the biggest defensive laibilities. Reggie Okosa was another good offesnive rebounder but I think a better defender than K'Zell. Truthfully I can't ever remember La Salle having a good post defender since I have been a fan. Travar Johnson was the best shot blocker and he only lasted a year and I think Craig Conlin and Milko Lieverst were decent positional defenders. Just a few thoughts on the interior defense which I would categorize as abysmal in this program. Pneumonia, don't rehash it. |
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Post by baab on Feb 2, 2013 0:23:47 GMT -5
how about bill pleas, he was a great rebounder.
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Post by jak71 on Feb 2, 2013 9:40:08 GMT -5
Billy Pleas was a great leaper. I think he followed Jim Harding to Detroit
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Post by baab on Feb 5, 2013 0:05:13 GMT -5
yea he did. Bill Pleas sat out the 70-71 season after leaving LaSalle but averaged 16.6 points and 12.4 rebounds for Detroit in the 71-72 season. Imagine those numbers on the 70-71 LaSalle team. I thought he was a David Russell type of player.
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Post by Fastchuck on Feb 5, 2013 11:11:50 GMT -5
Wasn't Pleas in the same freshman class as Durrett in '67. I don't think he ever played a varsity game for the explorers. There was a freshman team at that time and I remember him playing on that team.
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Post by Okayplayer on Feb 5, 2013 12:37:58 GMT -5
I'm really surprised no one mentioned the famous Garrett "Mr. Boca Rotan" Bragg.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 14:33:18 GMT -5
Wasn't Pleas in the same freshman class as Durrett in '67. I don't think he ever played a varsity game for the explorers. There was a freshman team at that time and I remember him playing on that team. Pleas was on the freshman team with Durrett but sat out the 1968-69 season with knee problems. He played on the 1969-70 team that went 14-12 but if I remember correctly, he was declared academically ineligible midway through the season. He could jump higher than any La Salle player I've ever seen. Here's his bio from the 69-70 media guide: Ulysses F. (Bill) Pleas
Sophomore 21 6-5 180 Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
An outstanding sophomore prospect, Bill
is one of the best leapers on the squad.
He's returning to action after sitting out
a year nursing two injured knees, but the
rest and surgery have put him in good
physical shape. Bill was second leading
scorer (17.3 ppg.) and rebounder (12.8
ppg.) on the 1967-68 Explorer freshmen
behind Ken Durrett. At Mt. Vernon High,
Bill was picked player of the year in West
Chester County, 1967, besides being named
All-County and being selected to the New York Daily News high school
team. Sociology major.digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=basketball_media_guides |
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Post by broderickpresident on Feb 5, 2013 16:46:30 GMT -5
Wasn't Pleas in the same freshman class as Durrett in '67. I don't think he ever played a varsity game for the explorers. There was a freshman team at that time and I remember him playing on that team. Pleas was on the freshman team with Durrett but sat out the 1968-69 season with knee problems. He played on the 1969-70 team that went 14-12 but if I remember correctly, he was declared academically ineligible midway through the season. He could jump higher than any La Salle player I've ever seen. Here's his bio from the 69-70 media guide: Ulysses F. (Bill) Pleas
Sophomore 21 6-5 180 Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
An outstanding sophomore prospect, Bill
is one of the best leapers on the squad.
He's returning to action after sitting out
a year nursing two injured knees, but the
rest and surgery have put him in good
physical shape. Bill was second leading
scorer (17.3 ppg.) and rebounder (12.8
ppg.) on the 1967-68 Explorer freshmen
behind Ken Durrett. At Mt. Vernon High,
Bill was picked player of the year in West
Chester County, 1967, besides being named
All-County and being selected to the New York Daily News high school
team. Sociology major.digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=basketball_media_guidesGood memory www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/la-salle/1970.html |
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