West Liberty Hilltopper Basketball

[Columbuseer]

Where is the podcast?

Taylor Kennedy intern metronews with coach Howlett. Soundcloud
https://t.co/Ezey6TrNr4?amp=1

[Layton]

Fyi
Per recent podcast with coach, Luke is retiring.
Marlon is coming back, which is great news!

Where is the podcast?

[Columbuseer]

FYI
Dante stats

OLSH's Dante Spadafora won 101 games in his career, scored 1,792 career points and helped team to a perfect season in 2020-21.(Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

WPIAL CLASS 2A

Dante Spadafora, OLSH

[Columbuseer]

Fyi
Per recent podcast with coach, Luke is retiring.
Marlon is coming back, which is great news!

[Columbuseer]

Dante Spadafora named class 2A player of year by Pittsburgh Post Gazette

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...s/202104140001

[boatcapt]

Yep. The general term Hopefully spans all preceding, prerequisite tasks.

WLU has been to the Regional Finals the last two years and is the defending Regional Champion. They are and should be the odds on favorite to win the RC again in 2022.

[Columbuseer]

FYI highlights of the Serbian Superman Viktor Kovacevic.
IMHO, If you are musically inclined, i suggest you mute the audio :-)

https://youtu.be/qoAW1C6zzHs

[Columbuseer]

You better hope WL gets out of the Atlantic region for dreaming of that NWMSU match up in the finals.

Yep. The general term Hopefully spans all preceding, prerequisite tasks.

[IUPalum]

Hopefully WLU will get a rematch against NWMSU in finals. No one entered the portal for nwmsu. Question is who meets them in the finals.

You better hope WL gets out of the Atlantic region for dreaming of that NWMSU match up in the finals.

[Columbuseer]

Hopefully WLU will get a rematch against NWMSU in finals. No one entered the portal for nwmsu. Question is who meets them in the finals.

[Columbuseer]

Well the roster changes present interesting fodder for conjecture on the platoons
Given we got a pg transfer, does that mean Luke is retiring?
I would guess that several starting spots would be obvious, Here is one guess in no particular order:

Platoon A

Robinson III
Yoakum
Butler
Watson
McKinney


Platoon B

Moore, Jr. ( assuming he returns)
Sarson
Rasile/Powell/Hiles
kovacevic
montague

Redshirt maybe to get stronger, ala Yoakum?
Webb?
Satterfield?
Spadafora?

Imho those are two+ starting fives.

[Columbuseer]

Since Montague was injured his first two years, I think he has 3 years of eligibility remaining. Was listed as RS sophomore at walsh

[Columbuseer]

Viktor only played one year in high school. Smart guy and computer science major at quincy.
last year shot 56% fg, 48.5% from three and 67% FT. 2nd leading scorer at 15.3 And played 30 mins a game.
Euro players have the complete fundamental skill set that makes them a good match for wlu.
He played in a slow, deliberate style at quincy, so this may be liberating for him.
if so, he could be a matchup nightmare at 6-8.
I would love to see wlu establish a pipeline to Eastern Europe.

[Columbuseer]

Christian made GMAC 2nd team all conference; he played for ohio power Dayton Chaminade.
From his highlights, his style is similar to malik. He was a pg at walsh


Montague averaged 13.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.3 steals (T-7th in G-MAC) per game while shooting .406 overall from the floor. The Dayton, Ohio native made 33.3% of his three point tries and knocked down 77.8% of his free throw attempts. For the season, Montague had 11 (out of 16 games) double-figure scoring games, including four 20+ point contests. When Montague had six steals against Lake Erie on February 28th, he set the second-highest mark of all conference players this season.

Here are some highlights

https://twitter.com/i/status/1256739453839835136

???????

[boatcapt]

Don't know if we have ever had a true Euro. Think we have a couple of players from Australia.