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Updates on Bradley's Class of 2019 recruits

Memphis East coasts into the semifinals with a 77-51 win over Cleveland
Starters rested a lot - James Wiseman had 20 pts/10 rebs but didn't play much after half..


Here's the stats -http://tssaasports.com/event/results.cfm?id=40963
Thomas had 2 pts, 5 rebs, 4 asst in just 17 minutes


Next game is Friday Mar. 15 at 2:45 PM and if they advance the Championship game will be
on Sat. Mar. 16 at 3:30 PM vs. the winner of Whitehaven vs. Bearden
 
JaMir Price named AP Honorable Mention All-State - https://twitter.com/SteveTappa_DA/st...92044106993675
and IBCA All State 3rd Team - https://twitter.com/ibcacoaches/stat...47106049863682


Memphis East wins their semi-final game and advances
Memphis East 46 - Brentwood 42
Antonio Thomas had 6 pts, 6 assists
James Wiseman had 22 pts, 7 reb, 8 blocks
http://tssaasports.com/event/bracket.cfm?id=20180203

Memphis East heads to the AAA (largest Class) Championship tomorrow at 3:30pm vs. Bearden (Knoxville)
 
tough break for Antonio Thomas & Memphis East
they fall in the title game to Bearden 83-68

Antonio will probably play in some All Star games


Ville plays Sunday, JaMir plays in his All Star game Monday
 
Rienk Mast and Donar Groningen played a non-league game in the EuroCup challenge yesterday vs. Leiden
and they lost 79-78 - LINK -- Here's the entire game streamed - LINK

Rienk Mast played very well & got a lot of mentions in the coverage
https://translate.google.com/transla...en&prev=search

Here's the box score
Rienk Mast had 9 pts, 7 reb, 1 asst in 19 minutes - remember - this is vs. the top pro players & pro teams in Europe
https://www.fibalivestats.com/u/NEBF/1097595/bs.html
...note that Leiden is one of the top teams in Europe - they are currently 21-2 in the league...



HBA-Marsky is playing right now.. (they are 7 hours ahead of us in the Central Time Zone)
They lead JBA (Jyväskylä Basketball Academy) 47-32 early in the 3rd quarter.
(JBA is 2 spots behind HBA-Marsky in the league standings)
https://www.fibalivestats.com/u/FIN/914474/
...Ville is 4-7, 11 pts, 4 rebs, 1 asst at this point
HBA-Marsky (Helsinki Basketball Academy) is all high schoolers 17-18 years old playing in the pro league.
Here's the roster of a couple of the teams just above them in the standings - LINK - LINK - LINK
note how all of their players are 23, 25, 29 and 33 years old - seasoned pros who have been playing pro ball for many years..
Hopefully this will translate to these guys being ready right away as freshmen next season!
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.update - mid-4th qtr - Ville now has 19 pts, 5 reb, 2 asst

Next week they begin their playoffs


Final update
Final score HBA-Marsky 94 - JBA 74
Ville Tahvanainen played 24 minutes (out of four 10-minute quarters), was 7-14, 19 pts, 6 reb, 2 asst, 1 steal
and they shot 51% as a team -
 
in the Iowa-Illinois boys All Star game - (Quad-Cities area kids)
Iowa scores 6 points in the last 22 seconds to win 106-101 over Illinois
no stats available yet - JaMir Price was slated to play
Iowa's Carter Duwa was named MVP - he is an Augustana commit
 
Stats for last night's Illinois-Iowa All Star game
- JaMir Price was one of his team's top scorers...
-Deonte Billups 17
-Aiden Shore 14
-Daveon Ellis 12
-JaMir Price 10


Ville Tahvanainen & HBA-Marsky begin their playoffs Thursday at 6:30pm (Helsinki time) which would be 11:30am Central
They start the #5 seed in their playoffs and face TorpanPojat in a 5-game series


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Rienk Mast & Donar Groningen also play Thursday then Saturday - they still have 8 games left in their regular season
 
HBA-Marsky get a huge win in their first playoff game
Final score 101-66
Ville & the other starters all played less than 20 min - Ville had 15 pts, 4 reb, 2 asst - LINK
They play again Saturday.

Donar Groningen wins 78-60 on Thursday - but no individual stats avail. yet
They also play again Saturday.


edit - UPDATE - stats show Rienk Mast played just 16 minutes and hit his only 3-point attempt for 3 pts
 
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Hey Tornado, it is early and I am sure a crap shoot but which of our new guys next year do you think brings the most to the table and have immediate impact? We can move this to another thread if you want to keep this as updates only. curious to hear your thoughts.
 
well, it is a little risky to say with certainty -- but my take...

-without a doubt Stephan Gabriel has a solid D-I body and looks to have the ability, talent and fitness to play right away. Plus, he does seems to have some pretty good defensive abilities. However, from all the games of his that I have seen, he shows signs of playing in poorly coached offenses - so he might need some time to develop into someone Coach Wardle uses.

-Rienk Mast has played against toughest competition consistently- playing and practicing constantly for over a year with & against mature pros and in systems with competent & experienced coaches. So I think he will be a good replacement for Luuk right away.

-Antonio will get some time and he will be tremendously valuable if DB gets hurt

-I think Ville will come in to Bradley a little like Sam Maniscalco - able to play right away but will need to adjust as i think it will be much more physical than the 2nd tier game in Finland. If he shoots the 3-pointer well - then it would be hard to keep him off the floor. Northern Iowa always has one or two of those guys like Lohaus & Sonnen - and Drake's Timmer last year - who weren't the most physically gifted but earned playing time with their shooting

-JaMir Price is a year away - I haven't seen a lot of his games but he is not going to contribute next year
 
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HBA-Marsky get a huge win in their first playoff game....
They also play again Saturday.
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Ville Tahvanainen & HBA-Marsky are playing well and win today - taking a 2 games to none advantage in their best-of-five playoff series.
Score: HBA-Marsky 84 - Torpan (ToPo) 78
Ville had a phenomemal game hitting 5-9 form the 3-pt arc!
He ended with 19 pts, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals
Utah commit Mikael Jantunen had 21 pts, 14 rebs on just 7 shots attempted!

they have a chance to close out the series and advance on Tuesday March 26



Rienk Mast & Donar Groningen tip off in about 50 minutes and here's a link to a live stream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7-VVhKyeCA
It may be free - it doesn't appear to actually say - but it's a possibility you'd have to register or pay
 
Ville Tahvanainen and his HBA-Marsky team win and sweep their series 3-0 with Ville getting 16 pts, on 4-7 from 3-pt
Ville also had 3 reb, 4 asst, 3 steals..
..but now they play the next round against the top team in the league
 
In Ville Tahvanainen's last 10 games he is shooting 33-65 from 3-pt range
That's 51% from the international 3-pt line which is almost a foot and a half further than NCAA
 
The schedule for the next round is set - for the HBA-Marsky & Ville Tahvanainen

HBA-Marsky faces LoKoKo in a best-of-five series with games currently set for:
April 3 - LoKoKo vs. HBA-Marsky
April 5 - HBA-Marsky vs. LoKoKo
April 8 - LoKoKo vs. HBA-Marsky

LoKoKo is located in Loimaa, Finland about 80 miles NW of Helsinki
Their name "LoKoKo" is the shortened form of Loimaa Korikonkarit Korisliiga (which meant the Loimaa Veterans of the competition league)
...but for short, they call themselves the Bisons, which despite being commonly thought of as a North American animal,
...one species of Bison is native to northern Europe


EDIT- the games are scheduled for April 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 - the last two if needed
https://www.basket.fi/basket/sarjat/...a/?arena_id=95
https://www.basket.fi/basket/sarjat/pelipaikka/?arena_id=65
 
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t....Isn't there some way we could get an good interview on Ville Either in English or translated into English? There hs to be more on Ville in major games and interviews. What do other coaches say about him? He is obviously a very good offnsive player but can he play the kind of defense he will ned in the MVC?
Wizard
 
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