Lamont Bryant
Lamont Bryant
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I've never spoken to Coach Weber about Patrick. Big-time head coaches know they talk to the high school coach. This is why the top city kids are going outside the state. I'm not trying to belittle Illinois. My son goes there. I love Illinois.
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Sometimes these games get personal. All the credit goes to the kids.
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He reminds me of Gary Payton when he was in college and how he was a force on the offensive and defensive ends and plays both very hard. He is 6-2, very long and slender and plays with great intensity. He is a heady basketball player.
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I was telling everyone that would listen that Patrick was going to be the best player in the city.
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We wanted to give other teams another look. Teams also come into games focusing on Patrick. We wanted to see what they could do without him in the game.
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It will give us more time to focus. We had a lot of time off during the Christmas holidays, but we were able to stay focused and come back and win the holiday tournament at Chicago State.
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They've worked hard. It's a nice thing, but we have a dogfight ahead.
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We are going to sit down and re-evaluate his recruiting. Will he visit a fifth school? We aren't sure. But the Indiana situation is very unsettling. We don't want any distractions. We don't want any surprises.
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They're a good team. They came out and hit some shots early. I don't think our kids realized that the game is four quarters long. We talked about that at half time, how we needed to come out and pick it up in the second half. I said some things I can't repeat here, but we needed to pick it up.
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Anybody who has a name, he wants to play them. He wants to be on the top of the list, that's all. The kid just wants to win.
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This incident was extremely out of the ordinary. He was at the club and seemed comfortable; nobody thought there would be a problem.
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Patrick is the best player in the state. There are a lot of scorers in Illinois, but how many defend and rebound the way he does? What puts him at a level with other top players is he is very athletic and plays hard all the time. He gets at least 10 points a game playing aggressive defense.
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Patrick is a qualifier. All this about whether Illinois has seen a transcript isn't the point. Those schools haven't seen a transcript, and they have offered.
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He hasn't been going to all those little camps and stuff. The (Marshall) program had dwindled. When you don't stay above water, people will forget you.