Following up on some familiar names

Several ex-Braves are doing very well in their professional careers...here's just a sampling.....

Patrick O'Bryant's current pro team, Kavala in Greece's top pro league, which was one of the bottom dwellers last season, wins again...
as POB had another solid game, 10 pts, 7 rebs..
..at 4-2, Kavala is just one game out of first place...and POB still leads the league with 2.8 blocks per game, and ranks 6th in rebounding with 7.3 rpg

Marcellus Sommerville also had another great game and his Le Mans team beat Poitiers 106-95, Cellus had 19 pts, 7 rebs, 5 asst, and a steal!

Eddie Cage had a fine game Saturday with 19 pts, 4 rebs - making all NINE of his shots including 1-1 from 3-pt...his Andorra team is tied for 1st place at 5-2

Lawrence "Boogie" Wright's Halifax Rainmen (Canadian National League) win again 115-111 - Boogie had 15, 3 rebs, 3 asst and they are battling for 1st place.

Chris Roberts' Fuerza Regia won yet again Sunday - with Chris getting 19 pts, 3 rebs, 3 asst..and are on top of the league.

Andrew Warren was the subject of this article...silencing critics who said he was inconsistent, but he's now doing very well.
His team, the Taipans, who have been a long time bottom dwelling team - is now competitive.
http://www.nbl.com.au/taipans1/news/article/2011/november/warren-silences-critics-as-cairns-taipans-get-revenge/

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Bradley's two recruits for next year are also doing very well.
At Dodge City Community College - Tyshon Pickett is putting up double-doubles consistently and is averaging 14 ppg, 10 rpg, hitting 64% of his shots.

PG Ka'Darryl Bell just completed a big time Chicago area Holiday Tournament at st. Patrick's -leading his team won the Championship and playing three great games...
The games are available per online video at the link right below...
Ka'Darryl's averages are 13 ppg, 6 apg
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19772


Here's a couple followups on other players..

-Andrew Bock - who was one of Dana Altman's premier recruits to Creighton -a Top 100 kid who was rated as high as 4-Star....a sure fire star - who flopped royally at Creighton and was ushered out to free up a scholarship.
He transferred to Pacific and after sitting out a year - and after getting the chance to start..he has now kinda bombed there as well.
He's playing now as a sub and getting a couple points per game.

-Michael Ocereobia is probably falling deeper on the list of possibilities for BU.
He's been hampered by injuries but he's not putting up great numbers..
6.2 ppg, 58% field goal shooting, 5.5 rpg.

-Robert Goff - a big man that was once on Bradley's radar screen - played his cards - held out and was at one time last year the hottest BIG MAN commodity getting big time offers from Big Ten, Big 12, & Big East schools.
But then most schools backed off a bit due to his academics and he settled for Marshall.
Surely he should be doing great at Marshall, right?
well...not really - 9.8 ppg, 5.2 rpg, and averaging 4 fouls per game.

-note the discussion on Reggie Hamilton...the point guard from Illinois in Class of 2007 who wasn't even listed inside the top 50 players in the state (others in the Top-10 just to remind you - Sam Maniscalco, Evan Turner, Demetri McCamey, Mike Tisdale..)
this kid is one of the best players in the nation now, scored 35 points last night to beat Tennessee, and yet was overlooked by everyone!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19810

-NIU is really woeful under new coach Mark Montgomery. At 0-6 they really haven't been in a single game yet...
They have a kid who was hailed as a BCS caliber recruit, a difference maker, Abdel Nader..
But Nader is struggling a bit - needing SEVENTEEN shots last night just to score 8 points!
Ex-BU recruit Tyler Storm - who doesn't get a lot of chance to play needed only 4 shots to make 5 points.
Nader's FG shooting is just 33%, and only 50% on FT. He's also averaging 4 turnovers per game.

-Hersey Hawkins' oldest son Brandon Hawkins - was listed as a walk on at Portland State but now he's no longer listed on the roster and is apparently no longer playing.
Hersey's 2nd son, Corey is sitting out a year after transferring to UC-Davis to play for Coach Les.
Hersey's youngest son, Devon, plays high school ball for West Linn HS in Oregon.
Here's a video of Devon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDSEJIfArrs&feature=related

-Manual HS's Marvin Jordan - now at Niagara is averaging 11 ppg, 3 rpg, 2.5 apg.
Maybe 2.5 apg doesn't sound like a lot but consider this...
That figure would easily lead the main point guard at BU who is averaging 2.16 apg.

-Anyone recall Larry Anderson? He's a recruit that Bradley battled right down to the finish and was one of Anderson's final two choices before he decided on Long Beach State. At the time it was made clear that the facilities were the main deciding point and Larry Anderson spurned Bradley because of the the aging on-campus facilities.
At Long Beach State - all he's done is become the team leader in just about everything.
A senior this year - he's averaging 15 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 3.5 apg. He'd have been a ton in the Valley - too bad we missed on him.

-Big game tonight (6:30PM) Illinois playing at Maryland, part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. It'll be interesting to see how Sammy does.

-Evansville hosts Alabama State 0-4 - should be an easy win.

-One last followup...
Drake's Josh Young - the sharpshooter who always played well against Bradley - is in Germany playing professionally.
He has turned into a prolific scorer.

Last year he played in the Pro B division in Germany - the 3rd tier of professional play and averaged 26.7ppg, 6.4rpg, 3.0apg, 2.3spg, shooting 3PT at 45.3%!!
Pretty amazing stats that allowed Josh to negotiated with a bigger, stronger team.
..and so far this year at the highest level of Professional ball in Germany, with the WALTER TIGERS Tuebingen team, he's averaging 11 ppg, and 35% from 3-pt, and 82% on FT.