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Braydon Porter rocks the rim, Yorkville slams past Minooka · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Braidon Porter rocks the rim. Yorkville Slams Passman look Up
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  written by Joshua Well. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett Braydon. Porter
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  is the kind of player that when he gets the
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  ball in the open court with a clear path to
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  the basket, the crowd holds its breath in anticipation. He
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  has a simple thought, I just want to break the rim,
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  Porter said Porter. Yorkville's six foot four sophomore has a
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  history of run ins with rims. He broke the rim
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  once at the YMCA. His school's basket was at the
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  business end of another Porter monster jam Thursday. When he
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  soared in for a dunk off of steel in the
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  first minute of the second quarter. The basket support rocked
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  back and forth. Yorkville ad Luke Ingelhart had to give
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  it a quick look to check on the basket's condition
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  as play resumed. I think I was just running too
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  fast and I went up and all the momentum took
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  the rim back. Porter said. It seemed like when I
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  was holding onto the rim, it was falling a little bit.
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  I had to jump off real quick, and I saw
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  it rock back all's well with the rim. Same for
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  the Foxes after their own wobbles this season. Porter scored
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  ten of his twelve points in the first half in
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  which Yorkville roared out to a twenty two point lead
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  on visiting Minnooka. The Foxes went on to a surprisingly
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  one sided fifty four to thirty win between two Southwest
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  Prairie Conference clubs that came in with point five hundred records.
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  Yorkville coach John Holakowsky's most sweaty moment was that dunk
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  and the rim. He recalled that right around this time
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  last season in a game against Plainfield East, the same
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  rim broke on a dunk by Porter or Joey Jaxtas
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  he had a forty five minute delay at halftime. It
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  was that rimote, Holakovsky said. We always practice at the
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  other basket because we know that rim, the feeling of
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  it when you dunk that support, it just feels different
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  in my head. We were up fourteen to two after
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  that dunk, and I was thinking this could be the ballgame.
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  We might have to come back another day and this
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  will ruin all our momentum. Gabe Sanders added ten points.
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  Frankie Pavlck nine and Nate Cuban eight, while Jackson's had
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  six points and five rebounds for Yorkville ten nine, seven
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  to three. Jackson, Miranda and Neamiah Brown each had six
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  for min Nooka ten eleven five and five. Porter, who
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  has talked to Missouri in the recruitment process but anticipates
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  things ramping up during AAU season, is clearly at his
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  best in the open court with his athleticism and power.
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  He showcased that Thursday right away, taking the opening tip
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  and spinning in for a three point play. Four seconds in,
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  he took a steal one of his four and went
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  coast to coast for a layup to close out a
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  twelve to two first quarter, and started the second with
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  his dunk. When he can get going up and down
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  the court, he's a really fun player to watch. Holakowsky
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  said he has got a little better with some defensive positioning,
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  which has led to steals. Indeed, the Foxes transition game
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  is fun to watch, and it starts with a renewed defense.
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  When we struggled a lot more it was playing in
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  the gaps. Porter said, I feel like defensively, everybody can
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  play defense on their own on an island. It's just
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  the help side. Things like that. We have really worked
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  hard on in practice, getting in the gaps, and I
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  feel like that's how I got that steal and run out.
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  It's helped to be healthy. A rash of sickness ran
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  through the Foxes last month, and Jaxty's has dealt with injury.
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  Holakowsky said. Yorkville went fourteen days without having a full
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  team for practice. It showed at the Jack Toosh Holiday Classic,
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  where the Foxes dropped their first three games, But Yorkville
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  is seven to three at full strength. The losses to
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  ranked teams Bullingbrook and Norqua Valley and a game the
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  day after Christmas. The Foxes are still not fully healthy.
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  Backup point guard Alawn Flint is in concussion protocol, but
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  they've won five of seven and don't look like a
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  team that's reached its ceiling. Random things went on. Flu
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  went through our team. We had so much illness and injury,
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  and we had not practiced together in so long, and
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  if you looked at our defense, it showed we got
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  carved up. At the tash, Holakowsky said, we were piece
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  mealing it together but were playing better. There is a
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  ceiling we have not reached. I think there is definitely
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  more meat on the bone on the flip side. Minnuku's
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  loss was its fourth and five games, and in the
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  last three losses the Indians haven't broken forty points. They
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  shot three for twenty two in the first half and
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  it didn't get much better after that. Minnika even had
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  three shot clock violation. Shooting nine for forty six or
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  whatever we shot is not a good recipe. Minnuka coach
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  Brett Hespel said, I don't know why we missed so
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  many shots. Gotta find a way to make them. Yorkville
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  played tough defense, but we have seen tough defenses before.
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  Have to step up and make shots.