West Liberty Hilltopper Basketball

[Columbuseer]

Bryce Butler named d2cca 1st team All American!
https://hilltoppersports.com/news/20...-american.aspx

[Layton]

Crutch spoke at sports banquet at his hs. No hard feelings here. Only heard good things about him.
Glad he wound up at a premier program in IUP.

Must’ve forgot he ended up there. He took a lot out of poor Boat

[Columbuseer]

No one compares to the legend Chucky Humphries

Crutch spoke at sports banquet at his hs. No hard feelings here. Only heard good things about him.
Glad he wound up at a premier program in IUP.

[Columbuseer]

It was Ariel Watson. Much of his WLU "career" has been stricken...His name has been removed from the 2018-19 roster, his player profile has been scrubbed and you can't get any game to game information without going into the individual game box scores. Watson was a NJCAA All-American. Played 12 games and was sumerarily bounced from the team. Interesting that his recruiting class consisted of Nick Greely, Yalee Hill and Jon Alessandro. Three of the four were gone by the start of their second season and Alessandro was gone by the start of the next season.

I don't worry about transfers. There is no shortage of players longing to play for wlu
For example:

2019-20 Out In
Greely. Butler
Hill. McKinney
Watson. Robinson III

2020-2021 Out. In

Alessandro. Sarson

[Layton]

No one compares to the legend Chucky Humphries

[boatcapt]

That guy was an offensive machine. Projecting his offense to 40 minutes yielded about 47 points per game. But his opponent would probably score 55. Lol. Near zero defensive fundamentals were learned growing up. Sad, given his skills.

As I said when I THOUGHT I was talking about Hill, I seem to remember him never seeing a shot he could pass-up. Yea, he certainly had the ability to make a lot of them, but it wasn't really the ball movement offense WLU runs! Takes a lot of boneheadedness to wear out your welcome after 12 games particularly when you are a gifted scorer, like he was. I would think that if a scorer like him just listened and tried to execute what Ben and company were telling him about defense and ball movement, they would have kept him around for at least the full season.

[boatcapt]

I might be mistaken, but I believe Greely merely hung it up after that season. I never saw him surface anywhere else after that. I could be wrong through--I admit to not searching that hard for the travels of Nick Greely. LOL

I hear you. That would be an interesting read about "what happened to..." of WLU players that transfered (or that committed and backed out). Obviously we know about Bolon and Robinson and Yoakum, but what about other players who transfered in search of glory? Did they find it at their new school? I don't have the time anymore to research something like that but it would be an interesting read!

[Scrub]

It was Ariel Watson. Much of his WLU "career" has been stricken...His name has been removed from the 2018-19 roster, his player profile has been scrubbed and you can't get any game to game information without going into the individual game box scores. Watson was a NJCAA All-American. Played 12 games and was sumerarily bounced from the team. Interesting that his recruiting class consisted of Nick Greely, Yalee Hill and Jon Alessandro. Three of the four were gone by the start of their second season and Alessandro was gone by the start of the next season.

I might be mistaken, but I believe Greely merely hung it up after that season. I never saw him surface anywhere else after that. I could be wrong through--I admit to not searching that hard for the travels of Nick Greely. LOL

[boatcapt]

He might be thinking of Ariel Watson. He was a gifted offensive player but never saw the court (unless it was garbage time) because he was a me-first player.

It was Ariel Watson. Much of his WLU "career" has been stricken...His name has been removed from the 2018-19 roster, his player profile has been scrubbed and you can't get any game to game information without going into the individual game box scores. Watson was a NJCAA All-American. Played 12 games and was sumerarily bounced from the team. Interesting that his recruiting class consisted of Nick Greely, Yalee Hill and Jon Alessandro. Three of the four were gone by the start of their second season and Alessandro was gone by the start of the next season.

[Columbuseer]

He might be thinking of Ariel Watson. He was a gifted offensive player but never saw the court (unless it was garbage time) because he was a me-first player.

That guy was an offensive machine. Projecting his offense to 40 minutes yielded about 47 points per game. But his opponent would probably score 55. Lol. Near zero defensive fundamentals were learned growing up. Sad, given his skills.

[Scrub]

I think you may be confusing hill with someone else, who loved to shoot but had no interest in defense. Everyone liked hill; good student. It was his decision to leave. He went to school (polk) that showcases players for d1 offers.

He might be thinking of Ariel Watson. He was a gifted offensive player but never saw the court (unless it was garbage time) because he was a me-first player.

[Columbuseer]

Hill is the example that proves the point about playing in the system. No doubt that even at WLU, he could SCORE...but equally true that when the ball hit his hands, it rarely went anywhere else except to the basket! Ben gave him about 1/2 a season to realize that that wasn't how WLU played until he was asked to leave the team! Two fundimental truths at WLU, first if you're a "big" you have to be able to shoot the 3 or you won't get on the court and second if you hog the ball, you won't be around long.

I think you may be confusing hill with someone else, who loved to shoot but had no interest in defense. Everyone liked hill; good student. It was his decision to leave. He went to school (polk) that showcases players for d1 offers.

[boatcapt]

And Bolon! Don’t forget our guy Yahel Hill was still playing and Sincere Carry

Hill is the example that proves the point about playing in the system. No doubt that even at WLU, he could SCORE...but equally true that when the ball hit his hands, it rarely went anywhere else except to the basket! Ben gave him about 1/2 a season to realize that that wasn't how WLU played until he was asked to leave the team! Two fundimental truths at WLU, first if you're a "big" you have to be able to shoot the 3 or you won't get on the court and second if you hog the ball, you won't be around long.

[Layton]

Sincere Carry would have been the best player to ever wear the black and gold. Worked out for him I guess

[Ship69]

And Bolon! Don’t forget our guy Yahel Hill was still playing and Sincere Carry

Well, in our league California if Phil Alston had stayed and IUP if Armoni Foster has stayed certainly might have been better.