Good luck to Bryan. I hope that he stays healthy all year. Every kid deserves their senior season.

Brian Woods seems to be a great kid and this is wonderful news for him and I think he will help the Wildcats. Now how much is the question? He can help with some defense, minutes off the bench, rebounding, and handling the ball, but when I watched PC I noticed they have very capable ball-handlers playing now...Antrobus and Appleman...but Monroe does the majority of that. Is that by design? It seems to me that it is, that staff loves the ball in his hands. Monroe is a very good player, but at this point in his Jr. season I would think that the staff at PC thought he would be having a better season. It will be interesting to see how teams play PC going forward, I feel teams are really going to go after Monroe hard and double-team him a great deal and make someone else beat them. I would love to see Monroe come off some screens w/out the ball and try to do something different instead of him always having the ball.

 

PC has struggled on offense this season and very much so in the last 2 weeks. I am not a huge fan of their offense one bit and I do not think they utilize all of the tools that they have at their discretion to their fullest potential. Quick hitter offenses are nice, but they are not something you can use all of the time, especially when you are not a great rebounding team like PC. I would love to see them run an offensive set and actually turn the play over and get a shot one time. I don't think it will happen anytime soon as their staff love the quick-hitters and the pick and roll set w/Monroe.

 

As for the basketball shape, I strongly believe there are different types of being in shape and if you don't think that then you honestly don't know much about sports. Basketball shape is much harder to achieve then football or baseball or volleyball or even soccer. I played HS basketball and football and there is a huge difference between the two as basketball is constantly moving and football has many different stops throughout the game. Basketball players are considered the best athletes in the world, that has to say something about them being in tremendous shape. If Mr. Woods has not been able to do any type of conditioning or any strength exercises for the back issue he had then it may be a few weeks before you see him contribute in a manner that can help the team.

 

With all of that said, I wish Brian Woods nothing but the very best. I look forward to watching PC when I get the chance, they do play hard and have more talent on that team then most people realize.

Great news.