To get to the college level, players must have a great work ethic in order to develop the skills necessary to play at that level. Sacrifices will have to be made in order to get in the gym to work on your game. They are willing to pay the price and want to be in the gym all day, every day! To be blunt … if a player is not on his or her VARSITY high school team then there is no reason to be concerned at this point in time about playing college basketball.
To take it one step further, the player should be one of the best, if not the best, on their high school varsity teams. How does one make the varsity high school team? Simple — develop the necessary basketball skills over the course of years and years of practice.
If a player is not on the varsity high school team, stop reading here, and get in the gym and work on those skills! But players must have certain physical tools to play basketball in college, unless they have an outstanding attribute in another area ie. Some of the physical tools include:. I was not the tallest or the most coordinated or athletic or had the most endurance, but I was average or above average in most of those areas, which gave me a better chance to play basketball in college.
This is 5 on the list, but still is one of the most important aspects of playing college basketball. In fact, not all players can play Division 1 basketball.
Some players may need to attend Junior College first. Good handle, floor general, understands the game. One or more areas of his game needs to be refined. Typically needs either core fundamental basketball skill development, strength conditioning work or a better understanding of the game. Solid players but raw, decent statistics, some accolades All-Area and All-Conference. Good handle, more quick than fast. Either way, as long as Woodbury's productive and the Hawkeyes are in the bubble conversation come March, Hawkeyes fans will certainly rally behind their home-state product.
If you're seeking a model of Cody Zeller, you shouldn't need to look much further than Arizona freshman Kaleb Tarczewski. Unlike Zeller, Tarczewski comes in already standing seven feet tall, but like the Indiana star, Arizona's new pivotman is still growing.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that Tarczewski has added 30 pounds to his frame since the beginning of summer. Now weighing in at pounds, Tarczewski was disappointed with his play on a team exhibition trip to the Bahamas. He recorded 16 points, 15 rebounds and three steals in 45 minutes over two games, did not block a shot and missed all six of his free-throw attempts.
August exhibitions aren't a sign of alarm, especially with a player who takes coaching as well as Tarczewski. Arizona fans are still anticipating the impact that he and his highly touted classmates can have this season.
Like Zeller, Tarczewski is preparing to bring back a traditional power that has fallen off of its perennial NCAA tournament status. Don't be surprised if, also like Zeller, Tarczewski is getting some All-America votes at season's end. Zeke Marshall is a video gamer by heart, a computer information science major at Akron.
He didn't start playing basketball until he was in eighth grade, and only then it was by his mother's prodding. Both NBADraft. He's already Akron's all-time leader in blocks, ranking in the top 20 nationally in that category the last two seasons.
Offensively, the Zips have a balanced system that saw seven players average at least seven points per game last season, so Marshall isn't likely to blossom into a PPG man overnight. Still, games like his point night against Northwestern in the first round of the NIT suggest that the potential is there. Marshall made a strong improvement in his shooting stroke last season, evidenced by his free-throw percentage increasing from Akron opens the season in Puerto Rico against an Oklahoma State team that is long on talent but short on size.
Marshall could have a chance to overpower the smaller Cowboys and open a few eyes on an ESPN network. By season's end, he may be more than the MAC's best-kept secret. Two years into his college career, 7'1" center Alec Brown has twice rewritten a page in the Wisconsin-Green Bay basketball record book. Before Brown arrived, no one had blocked more than 47 shots in a season.
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