First Look: 5AAAA
Centennial. This could be their best year in as long as anyone remembers.Champlin Park. The drop off will not be as much as you think form last year. Irondale. There are scoring pieces back, can they get to .500? Mounds…
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Continue ReadingCentennial. This could be their best year in as long as anyone remembers.
Champlin Park. The drop off will not be as much as you think form last year.
Irondale. There are scoring pieces back, can they get to .500?
Mounds View. Always dangerous and well coaches, Albers leads
Osseo. A major recovery as they have several quality guards.
Park Center. A mix of a couple good seniors and several youngsters.
Roseville Area. Like Henry Benson, couple others. New era.
Spring Lake Park. Bulk of their team played in Grassroots events as a team.
Ten Thoughts
- Love Osseo's guard combo of Damario Armstrong, Allen Anderson, Mar Mar Hughes, and Zach Theisen. I think this team is going to be in the mix.
- Also like 3-4 of the role guys I saw who will be juniors and seniors for Centennial this off-season. Add them to Tyler Peterson and Alex Facon and you have a team that should have a bigger win total than last year.
- I feel like between our telling everybody that will listen and the obvious talent of McKinley and Theo, everybody knows that the CP Rebels are a contender again. There is a lot of support around them. New team but still very good.
- The movement of Wayzata and Maple Grove out does balance things out in a good way. Maple Grove gives 8AAAA a quality team, Wayzata fills the void of three Lake teams leaving 6AAAA. Not perfect but more balanced sections than before.
- Tim Theisen might make the difference in the section. Of all the contenders he is the veteran coach who has done it the most. Remember that come late February.
- Can't wait to see Allen Anderson, Tyler Peterson, and McKinley Wright go at it. Really want to see how Anderson and Peterson handle Wright's ball pressure.
- This section is seriously void of size. Dunk away Theo, Dunk away.
- Kevin McKenzie and James Ware are new coaches at Roseville and Park Center. McKenzie has a nice player in Henry Benson but so much graduated. Ware has Amani Hooker, the football star, and a ton of youth.
- Irondale was very young last year and won eight games. All the top guys return (Uwana Etuk-Akpon, Sean Sutherlin, Kevin Schramm) so .500 is the goal at least. They will surprise somebody.
- Can big game Nate Albers keep the Mustang tradition going? He put up 15 a game last year but the scorers around him are gone.
All Section
PG: McKinley Wright, CP
SG: Allen Anderson, Osseo
SF: Tyler Peterson, Centennial
PF: Alex Facon, Centennial
C: Theo John, CP
6th Man: Damario Armstong, Osseo
7th Man: Henry Benson, Roseville
Defensive Stopper: Chris Davis, CP
Bench Scorer: Nate Albers, MV
Crowd Favorite: Brian Smith, CP