The boys’ basketball coach of the Vergne, Tony Rutland, did not hesitate when asked if Wolverine Senior Landon Bryant is someone whose name should be in the mixture for the TSSAA Class 4a Mr. Basketball price.
“Yes, it is,” said an emphatic Rutland, which won its share of Grand Prix at high school and the University of Wake Forest. “He was able to change his position of (guard n ° 2) to (leader) and he does a great job. He does a lot.”
One thing that the 3 -foot 3 -inch leader has done is to put the vergne from the best teams in class 4A. It has been on fire lately, just like Wolverines.
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Bryant scored 24 points in a 57-56 victory against his rival Smyrna in a key league match Friday evening. The Wolverines (13-7, 6-0 District 7-4A), which reached the TSSAA Tournament of Class 4a last season for the first time in the history of the program, won nine after a start-up slow.
“We informed him in defense,” said Bryant. “Everyone understood their role and our big ones (AJ Wright, Cam Samuel, Tarskil Jones) really recovered from last year to now. They had a big leap in their game. These are key pieces for us. “”
While others settle in roles to complete the gaps left by obtaining the diploma, Bryant was the key cog after having moved to the leader, a role in which Xialin Lenoir excelled last season.
This decision did not harm Bryant’s rating. In fact, it was his second season (14.4 points), when he won the Player of the year in the team of all DNJ areasand last season (18).
He entered the Friday match on average 20 points, six rebounds and five assists per game. He has an average of 22 points per match in the current victories sequence.
What the move of Landon Bryant to the leader meant for basketball of La Vergne
“For Landon, going to the leader was a lot,” said Samuel. “I didn’t know how it was going to happen. He was our top scorer (the last two seasons). The menses normally put the ball. I didn’t know how he was going to score and flat. I feel comfortable with he has the ball at the end of the game.
Bryant played the playmaker most of his young years before entering high school, so the switch was not new. He said it was “nostalgic” that is backing up.
“He does an excellent job by being the leader,” said Rutland, a leader during his play days. “I hope it will give him an exhibition to university coaches that he can play both 1 and 2 . “
He has also increased his leadership role, in which he has had a large hand in the past two seasons. He had a lot of practice to supervise his younger cousins who play primary ball and college.
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“I try to everyone everything I know, bases to skills movements and things like that,” said Bryant.
Bryant, whose offers from the college are mainly junior colleges and small universities, said Wolverines are ready for another state tournament race. In other words, if they continue to improve on certain key elements of the game.
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“This is detail,” he said. “It’s the only thing that really bothers us. If we pay more attention to detail, we will continue to beat more teams.”
Cecil Joyce covers secondary sports and MTSU athletics for the Daily News Journal. Contact it at cjoyce@dnj.com and follow it on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @cecil_joyce.
This article originally appeared in Murfreesboro Daily News Journal: Tsssaa Basketball: La Vergne goes up with Landon Bryant to the leader
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