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TJ Williams’ hot shooting in 26-point night sparks Bolingbrook to blowout win at Oswego East · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: TJ. Williams hot shooting in twenty six point Nights sparks
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  Bowlingbrook to blow out win out As We Go East
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  I written by Joshua Weldon. This article is being read
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  by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. TJ.
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  Williams has a shot repertoire that is unique in a
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  modern game that so often is centered around the three
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  point arc. The Bowlingbrook senior guard can and will take
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  shots from distance, but Williams is just as confident in
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  his mid range game just inside the arc. He is
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  athletic enough that he can raise up and shoot at
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  any time from any distance. He's a shot maker. Bowling
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  Brook coach Rob Burrose said he can make shots that
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  most kids at this level cannot make. Williams put that
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  skill on display Friday. He made his first nine shots
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  from the field and scored twenty of his twenty six
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  point tis in the first half visiting bowling Brook. Never
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  trailed in blowing past Oswego East eighty three four in
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  the Southwest Prairie Conference game. I was just getting in
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  the group of things, but teammates kept finding me, making
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  sure that I was open. Williams said, if I was hot.
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  They kept finding me the ball. Brady Pettigrew added twenty points,
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  Jeremy McCollum twelve, and Trey Brost eight points and ten
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  assists for bowling Brooks seventeen six twelve demo for Oswego
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  East fourteen nine seven four, Deshaun Bolden scored twenty points
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  and Mason Lockett nineteen. Williams was wide open in the
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  corner on bowling Brook's first possession and slowly unwound a
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  three point attempt that was nothing but net. He was
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  just getting started. He knocked down a pull up jumper
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  and drilled a long contested two point shot as part
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  of bowling Brook's ten to two start. Later, he drove,
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  came to a jump stop and floated a shot up
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  over a defender. Williams scored thirteen in the first quarter
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  part of bowling Brook's twenty three to seven blitz. I've
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  been working on my jump shot with high elevation, trying
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  to get my shot better because a lot of people
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  say I need to get my shot off faster, Williams said.
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  I've been in my gym working on my shots and
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  making it in games like I do in practice. Once
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  I found out I was in a good rhythm. I
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  just wanted to keep attacking, just show that I wasn't
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  going to let my foot off the gas. Bowlingbrook did not,
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  collectively shooting sixty four percent in the first half to
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  go up forty nine to twenty seven at half. Oswego East,
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  which dropped its fourth straight, also gave up forty nine
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  points in the first half this past Saturday against New Trier.
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  Gotta be better at playing team defense. Just didn't have
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  that tonight. Oswego East coach Ryan Velaskez said, We're not
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  going to outscore teams, so we have to defend. We
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  like to give up fifty points in a game. We
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  gave up forty nine in the first half. It's been
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  a tough stretch for Oswego East, who's third leading scorer
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  and his second leading rebounder, Jackson Tucker, was out sick.
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  The Wolves have allowed three teams to top eighty points
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  in its four game losing streak. They lost to Juliet
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  West on Tuesday at the Buzzer. It's been a pretty
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  tough January ever since we lost to Oswego. Velaskaz said,
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  this sport will teach you a lot about character. I
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  feel like we have some resiliency. We have to get
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  back on our feet. While January was not kind to
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  Oswego East, bowling Brook is getting whole as the month closes.
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  Brose played in his second game back from injury Friday,
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  and his presence showed We're just completely different without him.
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  Coach Brose said he just knows what matchups to take
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  advantage of. He gets TJ and Brady the ball in
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  spots where they can score. It's not all about Trey,
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  but it makes our team a little more cohesive. He
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  understands the game. It makes for quite a guard combination
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  with Pettigrew, one of the state's top prospects as a sophomore,
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  and Williams, who has settled in nicely in his first
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  season at bowling Brook after leading Glenbard West to a
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  sectional type last year, scoring thirty two in a sectional game.
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  The year has been great, Williams said. We've all been
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  sharing the ball. There's no selfishness. We have been coming
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  into each game getting everybody involved. Williams, throughout his high
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  school career, has not always been a high volume shot
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  taker or scorer, but Brost was not surprised to see
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  him go off like he did Friday. He kept it
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  rolling out of halftime, making his first three shots with
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  a baseline jumper and a long one from the wing. Ironically,
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  three of his later misses were two layups that rolled
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  off at a miss dunk. I think he had a
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  thirty point game earlier in the year. He's capable of
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  doing those things, Bro said. He's shown throughout the year
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  that he can make difficult shots. He's allowed to shoot
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  shots others wouldn't be allowed to do because of it,
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  our team is moving in the right direction. We have
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  Evanston at their place tomorrow. They're really good. When we're right,
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  we're really good.