Shilo Bowles is Prepared For a Big Senior Season
Shilo Bowles has earned his notoriety. The 6-foot-8 power forward was the second-leading scorer on a West Allis Central squad that was three points short of beating Sun Prairie and advancing to the Division One championship game last year. In…
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Continue ReadingShilo Bowles has earned his notoriety.
The 6-foot-8 power forward was the second-leading scorer on a West Allis Central squad that was three points short of beating Sun Prairie and advancing to the Division One championship game last year.
In the summer, Bowles — along with Gerald Gittens Jr. and Brandin Podzimski — led Wisconsin Rap to a Hard Work region championship.
The common denominator between Bowles’ school and AAU seasons? He was a significant contributor on teams that competed successfully at the highest level.
Intangibles are great, but if a prospect is unable to help his team win games, those talents are rendered useless. Bowles has shown his upside while still impressing in the most important category: winning.
Next season, Bowles and his Bulldog teammates will have to re-assume the underdog role. The cards will once again be stacked up against Shilo and West Allis Central. Jacob Fierst and Glenn Martin — two of the Bulldogs’ most productive players from a year ago — have graduated. Bowles will be forced to take on a much bigger role in the 2019-20 season.
Last year’s overtime defeat at the hands of Sun Prairie has motivated Bowles to work even harder so he can return to the Kohl Center in March.
We were right there,” he said. “We all have to work hard to get each other better, we all had the experience of being the underdog so know all we have to is take care of business and slowly get back up there.”
Shortly after the school season concluded, Bowles turned his attention to AAU basketball.
Wisconsin RAP’s 2019 AAU season was like a roller coaster. RAP started fast, then faced a slump in the middle of the spring. “Coming into the AAU season, we started great by making it to the championship game and losing to Phenom [Univesity] in NY2LA. Then, after that, we started to lose our feel as a team,” said Gerald Gittens Jr., who was one of RAP’s leading scorers during the summer AAU season.
“I feel like the start of our season was a little bit slow, we came together as a team through the middle of the season,” Bowles stated.
After facing some adversity, Wisconsin RAP came together and dominated in their final two tournaments on the Prep Hoops Circuit. They went undefeated, taking down Fundamental U, Team Speights, Minnesota Matrix, and Minnesota Comets, among others.
The 6-foot-7 forward says that he has been talking with some Division Three, Division Two, and Division One college basketball programs. While he still holds zero scholarship offers, anybody who watched Bowles play on the Prep Hoops Circuit this past summer knows that he is a D1 caliber prospect.
Prep Hoops’ Ryan James had this to say on Bowles’ D1 potential: “With Bowles, it’s all going to come down to a school taking a chance on his height. He was listed at 6-foot-5 this winter, listed at 6-foot-6/6-foot-7 this summer, Bowles has been productive every time he’s stepped on a Prep Hoops Circuit court. Bowles hits with range once or twice a game plus a one/two dribble attack game beating bigs to the rim for well-placed scores.”
At this point, Shilo Bowles has nothing left to prove. It does not matter what team he is repping across his chest, Bowles has proven himself as a productive forward.