Kriener in Nat. Champ. AAU game
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so help a brother out, was this THE national championship for aau ball or just like a certain level of aau? I know next to nothing about aau, obviously, but it seems like the iowa teams are always competing for a title somewhere or other. I realize there are different tourneys and such, but what made this one that much more important, or was it?
who else was in this tournament, that we can get a gauge of the competition?
signed, aau ignorant
who else was in this tournament, that we can get a gauge of the competition?
signed, aau ignorant
I'm probably just as ignorant as you. But there is the Nike EYBL, plus Adidas and Under Amour have AAU leagues. And then I think there might be a non-shoe sponsored club circuit...and if I'm right, at a guess, it was probably that one. Unless they made it through Nike's Peach Jam? Doubt that was it.
But one thing I do know is Martin Bros Coach said that Kriener came up against higher thought of posts and outplayed them.
Hopefully the injury isn't too bad. Right now, 100% of our 2016 class are injured or coming back from injury. Yay.
National AAU Champs 17u D1 in Louisville Ky. About 300 teams from all over the country. Carmelo anthony and Shaq in the crowd of 8,000 watching. So kind of a big deal.
http://aauboysbasketball.org/News/V...h-Grade-National-Championships-Super-Showcase
http://aauboysbasketball.org/News/V...h-Grade-National-Championships-Super-Showcase
Seem like I read it right after Kriener committed. So, July?
I thought I heard he hit his head on the floor and had a concussion. It's not a similar situation to Pemsl's knee which has to be a major concern right now. I hate to see lingering injuries damage a career so hopefully he can fully recover.
Pemsl will fully recover from the surgery which was performed on his leg. He leg was deliberately broken, cartilage placed in it, and the leg reset. This will allow for his knee (which had suffered a torn meniscus prior to all this) to be straighter and much less likely to be injured again.
How would you like to be the guy in the OR tasked with that duty?
Pemsl is apparently about two or three weeks ahead of schedule in his 5-6 mo. recovery and is coming up soon (in a week or two) on the halfway point between surgery (May 14) and playing at full strength (mid to late Nov. or early Dec.?). The U. of Iowa surgeons re-fixed the torn meniscus (which he tore and then re-tore last year and played hurt all season) and they did an osteotomy of the lower femur of his right leg, which I know next to nothing about except that they cut part of his lower femur and straightened his leg with some bone wedges and that is now over 90% healed. He has been spotted doing sprints (with some leg stabilization gizmo), lifting heavy weights, and shooting baskets at a local sports conditioning training facility for local athletes from all schools. This whole surgery situation makes me nervous about the kid, and I hope he is sensible enough to let everything heal before he goes full-force.
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Just going to go ahead and not push play on that video k..
That's kinda what I decided not to do also
Yeah I was eating dinner when I stumbled across that an no way in hell I was watching that.....especially then!
I'm with you, this surgery sounds like something that will be successful on your everyday Joe...a D1 bball players last resort perhaps. I really hope he can recover and play without issue but I'm not holding my breath. Really no kid deserves to be in pain, athlete or not.
According to what I have read McCaffery has had players in the past that had the same surgery, and they came out just fine.
As much as Fran recruits length, this actually doesn't surprise me. Guys with unusual length are going to have this sort of problem more often than others.
Saw somewhere on Twitter that Pemsl is rated 139 in the class of 2016 nationally as of this summer. He hasn't played at all so I don't know how that happens. He was supposed to be on the Martin Bros. team that won the championship in their class, with Ryan Kriener.
That was at the beginning of July. New rankings should be coming out soon and with his recovery going on I suspect he'll be passed by guys that were able to play.
And that's fine, he's still the same guy, he'll recover and we get to watch another kid that may be an unranked three star end up surprising people.
Actually it's a little different than that. Most of the shoe stuff is done in early July. That is the stuff like UA's major event, EYBL, and Adidas. In late July when they event occurred, most AAU programs (not all, but most) are in Vegas or Louisville. There were a good number in K.C., including teams like the Iowa Barnstormers, in late July. At the AAU event, you see a number of different shoe programs, same with Vegas, where there are three major events running at once. Basically, there are some very good teams that Martin Bros faced in Louisville.
It seems wherever you go there is an AAU national championship games. I am comparing it to Dance that in each city there is a national championship held at some point.
AAU is getting bigger and it seems like it will at some point take over the High School ranks. Kids will soon opt out of their high school season and concentrate on AAU only. Pretty sad deal, but it does expose them to some great competition (but defense isn't usually played).
AAU is getting bigger and it seems like it will at some point take over the High School ranks. Kids will soon opt out of their high school season and concentrate on AAU only. Pretty sad deal, but it does expose them to some great competition (but defense isn't usually played).
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