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DePaul commit Mason Lockett goes for 24, but New Trier overwhelms Oswego East at When Sides Collide Shootout · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: To Paul commit. Mason Lockett goes for twenty four, but
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  new Trier overwhelms As we Go East at When Sides
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  Collide Shootout I written by Joshua Welde. This article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Mason Lockett drove to the basket, absorbed contact and fell
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  to the ground, a look of frustration on his face
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  as the ball trickled out of bounds and a turnover ruled.
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  It was that kind of afternoon. As We Go East
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  struggled mightily to score in the first quarter at the
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  When Side's Collide Shootout at Pinney, managing just four points.
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  Lockett got it going from there, scoring twenty four points,
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  but the Wolves early struggles bled over to their defense.
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  New Trier overwhelmed Oswego East eighty two fifty one in
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  the first of four games at the event a running
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  clock throughout the fourth quarter. We came out flat, Lockett said.
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  We were down nineteen four after the first quarter and
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  it was hard to build our way back up. The Wolves,
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  fourteen to seven, shot just two for nine in the
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  first quarter with four turnovers, which led to a number
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  of easy new Trier baskets. The Trevian sixty six ended
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  the first quarter on a fifteen to zero run and
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  scored the first basket of the second quarter for a
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  twenty one to four lead. We scored four points in
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  the first quarter. That's not going to help you. Oswego
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  East coach Ryan Velaskaez said, turnovers and miss layups. We
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  had two really good practices coming in. I felt good
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  coming into today. New Trier has been without its best player,
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  Princeton commit Christopher Kirkpatrick, since December with an injury. Kirkatrick
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  and Lockett, a DePaul recruit, are two of the better
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  players in Illinois senior class. The Trevians didn't miss a
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  beat without their star. New Trier hit seven to three
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  pointers in the first half. When the Trevians were not
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  hitting from deep, they were slicing oswego E with lobs
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  for layups at the basket. It was mostly their three
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  point shooting. Lockett said, we were trying to front the
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  post and have help on the backside. We had to
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  guard their shooters and they were able to throw over us.
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  Danny Hulihan, a six foot four senior, scored twenty four
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  of his twenty eight points in the middle two quarters
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  for New Trier. Matthew log added eleven. All five New
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  Trier starters are between six foot four and six seven,
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  and that size had its way near the basket. The
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  Trevians scored thirty points in the second quarter for a
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  forty nine to twenty four halftime lead, and shot sixty
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  three percent over the middle two quarters. We have to
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  be more connected defensively, Velaska has said. We really wanted
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  to take Hulahan away, and I thought we did a
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  good job of that. In the first quarter, we were
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  defensively not where we needed to be against a team
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  like that. Got to clean some stuff up. Lockett missed
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  three of his first four shots, but got rolling after that.
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  He scored twelve of Oswego East's twenty points in the
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  second quarter, seven more in the third, and finished with
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  twenty four points. Deshaun Bolden added seven for the Wolves.
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  I felt like the team was looking for and needed me,
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  and they tried, Lockett said, But it's hard to come
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  back for that deficit. Oswego East, with a future Big
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  East player in Lockett, has been a frequent guest at
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  shootouts the last two months, playing in four of them.
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  The Wolves have lost three of those games, but Lockett
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  found the silver lining. It helps a lot. Lockett said,
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  the teams that we have played there are the best
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  we have seen. Our conference is not bad, but at
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  these shootouts we've been able to see teams at a
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  higher level. I've been looking forward to playing in this
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  event since the schedule came out. Oswego East looks forward
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  to a busy week home games with Juliette West Tuesday
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  and bowling Brook Friday in conference, and a non conference
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  game at Lincoln Way Central Saturday. We need to get
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  better in a lot of areas, Velaskis said. I told
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  the guys they need to keep their heads up. How
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  do we want this stretch to end? Tough game, but
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  I'm not going to give up.