www.co ncordiasent inel.com concordia sentinel • August 28, 2019 • 5B LSU hoops shine in Spain LSU completed its four-game tour of Spain with to be a huge component for us this season. He’s a a workmanlike and balanced win over its second really, really good player and that showed through - toughest opponent, the FC Barcelona B squad, 101- out this trip. That’s one of my biggest takeaway 77, Wednesday at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gam - from the trip how solid he is and how much we are per, the training grounds for all the FC Barcelona going to be able to count on him and depend on him squads. this coming season. As the LSU team arrived late morning at the heav - “The stat sheet read like it needed to,” Coach ily controlled site, several dozen fans were outside Wade said. “We beat them 60-32 in the paint. We the facility waiting to catch a glimpse and possibly doubled them up in the paint. We forced 23 an autograph from the football (soccer) team which turnovers and only turned it over ourselves nine was practicing on the other side of the complex. times. Three or four of those were us trying to get LSU finishes the tour at 3-1, following up an 92- the ball inbounds. Two were side out-of-bounds, 88 loss to the Dominican Republic with wins over two were full court inbounds. Stuff we haven’t spent All-Star teams from Valencia and Barcelona and the a lot of time working on yet preparing for the trip. FC Barcelona team, scoring over 100 points in each That’s stuff we can clean up on and cut the nine of the last three games. turnovers down to four or five. But forcing them to The FC Barcelona team featured young athletes 23 turnovers and then doubling them up in the paint from several different countries including 7-1 Ibou that’s how we are going to have to play.” Badji from the Senegal. After FC Barcelona took the lead early at 10-7 For the third straight game, LSU had at least six highlighted by a 7-0 run, the Tigers eventually got in double figure scoring with Darius Days leading the lead back for good at 12-11 with 4:31 to go in the way with 15 points. Charles Manning Jr., was the first quarter and were never headed, leading 21- really good in the game scoring from inside and out - 16 after the first ten minutes. side the arc to get 14 points, the same total that LSU closed the half with two free throws and a Trendon Watford and Skylar Mays totaled. Mays steal and score and then opened the third quarter went inside again several times for easy buckets in - with 10 straight points, their longest run of the game cluding one time he tangled and scored with the 7- at 14, to take the lead to 58-38 before the host team 1 Badji. could get a free throw. The lead would stretch to as Javonte Smart and Emmitt Williams had 13 points much as 27 points in the fourth quarter at 91-64 and delta charter tight end kenzeric hollins scores the first touchdown in a scrim - each for the game. Smart had five assists and 95-68 as LSU cracked the 100-point barrier in the age against Block Thursday. (Sentinel photo by Joey Martin) Williams was the leading rebounder with 8. final 45 seconds. For the contest, LSU shot 40-of-76 with nine FCB tried to pressure the Tigers man-to-man full- treys, making 12-of-17 free throws. FC Barcelona court a lot of the game, but not with a lot of success. Demons add local player to roster B was 27-of-56 from the field with 10 treys and 13- “Once we got it in, we were able to use our quick - The Northwestern State men’s has attended our summer basket - come one of the most feared 20 from the free throw line. LSU had a 31-30 ad - ness and our athleticism,” said Coach Wade. “We basketball signing class dots the ball camps since he was seven shooters in the state.” vantage on rebounds and forced 23 FCB turnovers, have the court a lot more spread now with the new country and the globe with repre - years old,” said NSU coach Mike The 5-foot-10 Bankston aver - getting 17 points from those. The Tigers turned the offense. It’s not so ball screen-centric. When the sentation from places like Greece, McConathy. “Our staff has fol - aged more than 20 points per ball over just nine times and had 60 points in the court is spread, the paint is open. It’s basically one- Arizona and Iowa. lowed his development over the game as a senior, earning first- paint (or puntos en pintura). on-one once you get by the guy. You just have to But the Demons will have a last several years, and it’s evident team all-area honors and an all- “I thought we played better. This is probably the keep him on your hip and go in and finish. I wish local flavor with the addition of he’s worked on his craft because state honorable mention nod. He best game since we’ve been here. I thought our de - we’d done a little bit better job of finishing. We Natchitoches guard Parker his production has been a huge added six assists and four steals fense was a little crisper. We did a little more missed four or five layups and they hit two or three Bankston. part of the success of the St. per game in his final campaign. switching than we have been doing,” said third-year threes off our missed layups because it puts your The St. Mary’s product is a Mary’s basketball program. Bankston made 237 career 3- LSU Coach Will Wade. “I’ve very, very impressed transition defense in a tough spot. But overall we long-range shooter who scored “His former coach Jason Kern pointers en route to St. Mary’s with Charles Manning. He’s been tremendous all got good film. We got a lot of stuff we know we 1,300 career points. and current coaches Tom Collins winning three district titles and trip. He’s so solid and affects winning in so many need to go back and get better at and know that we “It feels like Parker has already and Jacob Bankston have been in - making the Division IV state ways. You could see that out there today. He’s going need to go back and correct.” been here for awhile because he strumental in helping him be - championship game in 2018.
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