Coach’s Take: Iowa Cornsharks (Part II)
Tony Roe, Travis Hines and I certainly provided our fair share of player evaluations this spring and summer, but we thought we’d give the guys who know the kids best a chance to be vocal: the coaches. Dave Morris — Iowa…
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Continue ReadingTony Roe, Travis Hines and I certainly provided our fair share of player evaluations this spring and summer, but we thought we’d give the guys who know the kids best a chance to be vocal: the coaches.
Dave Morris — Iowa Cornsharks Program Director
Trey Hinote, 6′ PG, Greene County (2019)
“On the 15U team he was a leader out there, and they have a ton of talent on that 15U team. He can handle the ball, and the only flaw he has is he needs more experience. The more experience he gets in clutch situations that are hard to handle that’s just what he needs to continue to grow. But as a basketball player — as a point guard or as an off guard — he does so many things right. He uses his left, he uses his right and he can shoot it with either hand. He gets guys off balance, he knows how to change speeds. He gets other guys involved. And if you give him space he can fill it up. He makes everyone around him better, and defensively he’s often the best player on the floor too. He’s always looking to do the little things on the defensive end. He just does everything right.”
Trent Williamson, 6’2 G, Earlham (2019)
“He’s a big guard, and I didn’t get to see him play as much but I do get to see him play in our (Ogden) conference — and that’s not good for our high school team. He’s almost like Hinote, but he doesn’t have quite the handle that Hinote does. He’s a big, strong kid and he shoots it well, and I don’y know if he’s done growing yet. He could probably end up playing some power forward even at this level.”
Noah Snedden, 6’4 SG, Ogden (2018)
“I’ve know him for about 10 years, and man has he gotten taller. He’s turning into a guard and forward type player and he can shoot the ball really well when he’s confident. He is streaky though, so sometimes he needs to get his confidence back up. He uses his length well. Defensively I’ve seen him get after it and when he does he’s pretty good, especially when he uses his length. For the ‘Sharks he just constantly wants to play and be in the gym; he’s a gym rat. I look at my (Ogden) class of 2012 and how good they were, and he reminds me of them because they were all gym rats.”
Eric Milewsky, 5’9 PG, Urbandale (2018)
“We needed a point guard bad and I saw him play at the Urbandale Shoot Out and I thought, ‘ya I definitely want him, if he’s interested let’s get him involved.’ And for Urbandale he plays the two, and I told him we need him at the one and he said he could do that, and that he could do whatever he wanted me to have him do. The kid is like a sponge and he absorbs everything. And from the first moment he put the jersey on and got on the floor it was like high energy, get after it, if I’m on the floor then I’m playing hard type guy. He didn’t shoot it much, but he got to the rack and made everybody better. He did everything you want your point guard to do. And it was just one of those things where it was just fun to be around, and fun to watch. He can do a little bit of everything for you.”
Nathan Nelson, 6’3 G/F, Waukee (2018)
“I could have put him on the 17U team and he would have been fine. But I kind of wanted him to play with the 16s as well, and he never really played up this summer. But he played with our 17s last year and they were pretty dang good, and he held his own. I think he did a lot of good things, I think he learned a lot about how to be a leader, like a vocal leader — not just a leader by example, and that’s one of the things I wanted for him. He’s a wing, but he was forced to play inside some, and he played point guard some…he played every position on the floor and he payed it with confidence. And he’s one of those kids that I always thought he was going to be a special player when he was a junior and senior, and now he’s a junior and it’s time for him to shine.