NHR Scout: NYA vs Jordan
The Central Raiders (also known as Norwood-Young America High School) hosted Jordan last Friday night and the guard play of the Raiders overcame the numbers of Jimmy Vollbrecht as well as the rest of the Hubmen who are able to…
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Continue ReadingThe Central Raiders (also known as Norwood-Young America High School) hosted Jordan last Friday night and the guard play of the Raiders overcame the numbers of Jimmy Vollbrecht as well as the rest of the Hubmen who are able to dress these days.
Without Jackson Dean and Eric Tiedman the Hubmen offense constantly flows through Jimmy Vollbrecht who did his share at 28 points and 13 rebounds. However, Minnesota’s Jimmy V was playing with a sprained foot so you add that, the other injuries, and foul trouble for Cody Anton and a bloody face for Thomas Malz, the Hubmen didn’t have the experience or the depth to deal with what the Raiders threw at them on Friday.
NYA has a strong group of educated guards that play extremely well together and each of them produce in their role quite well. Kellen Erpenbach is the slippery one shaking players in both ways, Brice Panning is the third man who is experienced and tough with his straight on attack plus he was hot from the arc in this game, Carter Clemensen limits mistakes and creates off the bounce very well, and Zach Schnabel is the combo forward always moving without the ball to produce.
NYA did an outstanding job using high ball screens and moving off it to produce shots or quick attacks. Their halfcourt offense was constant ball movement with off ball activity and late in the game they spread the floor well to run time and devour the Jordan backcourt who simply didn’t have the talent to compete with the Raider guards. The 70-63 win pushed NYA to 12-5 on the year.
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Jimmy Vollbrecht (6-ft-8, Jr, PF). Jimmy battled two defenders much of the night with one in the front denying and the other playing straight behind. It was Triangle and Two for awhile only the second defender was immediately behind Jimmy. Despite double team Jimmy used a spin move to finish twice and he also picked up a loose ball and went coast to coast to complete over opponents. Very comfortable with the ball moving up the floor it seems. Scored his points away from the basket early including a trey, moved to the rim in the second half to build to 28 points and 13 rebounds. Didn’t have as much active bounce on the glass because of the foot issue but still battled to rebounds and used skill to get space and complete.
Thomas Malz (5-ft-11, Sr, PG). Spend much of the second half on the bench with what looked like a bloody nose but couldn’t tell for sure. This hurt because he was one guy that could move with the NYA guards some and he has been taking care of the ball some too.
Jason Way (5-ft-11, Jr, G). Way has been a surprise this year giving the Hubmen some point production in the absence of Tiedman and Dean. He scored about his average (10-11) on Friday but wasn’t able to get much more than that. He is having a better junior year than most expected.
Keaton Sieve. (6-ft-5, Sr. PF/C). Sieve is starting next to Vollbrecht battling on the defensive end, rebounding, and getting putbacks. Long player, gives what he can around the basket.
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Brice Panning (6-3, Sr, SF). Scored 13 points early in a run, 19 for the first half, knocked out a number of treys and slashed to the rim using a veteran frame to take or ignore contact and then finish. Finished with 25 for the game continuing to take advantage of space for his 20 a night. Consistently scoring game by game.
Carter Clemensen (5-11, Jr, SG). Love the way Carter plays. Makes few mistakes, rarely forces anything, always competes. He was able to turn the corner on screens or rotations regularly and once he did that he usually looked to move the ball to another open teammate after reading the scrambling defense. Stands 5-foot-11 and every inch of him is tough and intelligent. A guy that coaches would love to have because he soaks in the right way to play and does it consistently.
Kellen Erpenbach (5-11, Jr. PG). Love his hesitation dribble attack. On more than one occasion Kellen froze the defense and then went 0-60 to the rim for production. There was nobody from Jordan that could keep Kellen in front, it was just a matter of him being patient waiting for a lane to open up and when it did, Kellen burst into that lane going either right or left and then completed the play with a highlight creation. One of the slipperier junior guards I’ve seen this year, few can keep him in front.
Zach Schnabel (6-1, Sr, PF) The fourth piece to the NYA puzzle of consistency, Schnabel is more of your off ball work guy and active defender the other way. He’s a shorter four man in this offense but scores his ten a game moving to the right spot feeding of the creation of others and the faults of opposing defenses. Good rebounder, he collects with effort against bigger players.