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Post by uwm97 on Jan 4, 2015 16:20:35 GMT -6
FTA:
Javan and I played together my senior year when he was a freshman. Got called up from JV before Christmas and immediately started. Got a lot better before he left and continued on at Loyola like you said.
Played a few pickup games with Scales the summer after I graduated and he was an incoming freshman. Was probably 6' at the time, not much taller. I threw him an alley-oop during a game and he took off from the dotted line in the lane, caught it at the peak and tomahawked it home. Remember that like it was yesterday and it as almost 23 years ago.
Scales was he classic tweener which is why he never made it in the NBA. Had a great career at Oregon but 6'4" guys with inconsistent jumpers aren't long for the League. To be honest, the most freakishly-athletic player since Berryhill I saw in person.
Too had those Racine Lutheran teams were stuck in WISAA and couldn't play the Vincents or Washingtons or Cases. Three players went D1 on the '95 team from a school with a 200 enrollment.
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Post by BBFran on Jan 4, 2015 20:43:18 GMT -6
No doubt about Berryhill. Enormously talented. My recollection is that Barnes went to Wisconsin, didn't do much and transferred to Whitewater - and that was at a time UW was not good, so you'd have to say he was pretty overrated. Can't recall Berryhill's college career at all.
For its size Racine has always pumped out a lot of talent, but way too many of the guys who didn't go to Cates had little chance of making it in college, much like so many of the MPS guys.
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Post by uwm97 on Jan 5, 2015 10:08:20 GMT -6
Barnes was not overrated in the least; he flunked out of Madison, and Berryhill couldn't even qualify. Had those guys made the grade there is no question they would have had spectacular college careers.
Those who come out of St. Cat's don't have to worry about qualifying as it's harder to stay elegible at St. Cat's than at a D1 university.
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Post by BBFran on Jan 5, 2015 10:46:49 GMT -6
97 did Barnes do anything at Whitewater? Recollection is that he was solid but unspectacular. So if that was his ceiling at the D3 level it's hard not to think of him as being overrated irrespective of his academic issues. Berryhill was different; a phenomenal athlete and reasonably well skilled. I did a little digging and found he played for two years at a junior college in Iowa but did not go on to play D1 ball. A few years after that he resurfaced at SIUE when they were still a division 2 program and played for at least one year there. I don't know what if anything happened to him after that.
Ultimately, two guys you can only put in the sad "what might have been" category.
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Post by uwm97 on Jan 5, 2015 12:44:42 GMT -6
Yes, Barnes' career speaks for itself; he's likely one of those guys who peaked in high school, either physically or mentally. For whatever reason he never got his sh*t together. As you said, there are plenty of those disappointing stories to go around.
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Post by PantherNation on Apr 13, 2015 11:58:46 GMT -6
Perk Mark Miller, Dee Woods will be attending Quakerdale Prep in Iowa next year.
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