19-20 First Look: Delano
After winning the state championship in 2018 the Delano Tigers followed that up with 18 wins. Delano is a strong program and they will start the year a top ten Class AAA team. Moving On: The Delano Tigers had nine…
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Continue ReadingAfter winning the state championship in 2018 the Delano Tigers followed that up with 18 wins. Delano is a strong program and they will start the year a top ten Class AAA team.
Moving On: The Delano Tigers had nine seniors on the team last year and one of them (Derek Techam) averaged 24.5 points a game while the other eight – including here and there rotation guys Dylan Hall, Reno Bredahl, Nicholas Breidy, Caleb Harris, Garrett Robinson, Sam Kern – all gave about a point a contest when they played. So in review, the shooting of Derek Techam will be greatly missed, while the other eight seniors played their role, the Tigers should be able to fill those roles without too many problems in 2019-20.
Returning Starters: The main returning Delano player is junior Trey Longstreet, a true position-less player if there ever was one. Trey could seriously play all five spots for a high school spots and do a decent job guarding a good percentage of players at all five positions as well. Trey could lead the team in every stat category.
Six-foot-6, 200 pound senior forward Keagan Smith was one of three double figure scoring players for the Tigers last season (Techam and Longstreet the others). Smith is a 200 pound skilled player that has range out to the arc. We saw Keagan change a lot of games this summer with his shooting touch against really good opponents.
Another returning starters is big wing Max Otto, a 6-foot-4 185 pound do everything player in a similar way to Longstreet, just not quite as big or as quite as skilled. Otto boards, defends, and scores four times a game. Finally you have Terron O’Neill, a bigger senior guard that came on last year later in the season. O’Neill is the brother of Reilly O’Neill who is at UWRF and had that monster state championship game performance.
Reserves Playing a Bigger Role: The reserves last year were O’Neill and the biggest group of role playing seniors I think I’ve ever seen. So besides Terron the rest of last year’s reserves have graduated.
Potentials from the JV: There are three junior varsity players from last year’s roster that are now seniors and will work to earn a 5th starter role or reserve roles off the bench. Those players are guard Nathan Sladek, forward Jack Balsiger, and forward Andrew McMahan. As far as the potential juniors (besides Trey), sophomores, and freshmen that could be in the rotation, we don’t know who they are at this time.