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Streator boys basketball takes positive steps this summer · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Streeter boys basketball takes positive steps this summer. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Brian Hoxy, this article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. While much of the
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  Speaker 1: off season structure of the Streeter boys basketball team hasn't
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  Speaker 1: changed for coach Bodoti in the recent past, what he
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  Speaker 1: was hoping to see this summer from his returning group did.
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  Speaker 1: We have always taken our summer contact days pretty seriously
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  Speaker 1: as far as mapping out how we want to approach them,
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  Speaker 1: said Doty, who will be in his eighteenth year on
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  Speaker 1: the Bulldog's sidelines. We pretty much had a five week
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  Speaker 1: program which finished up last week, and next week we'll
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  Speaker 1: hold our youth camp. From there, we'll still be lifting
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  Speaker 1: three days a week through the fall sports season, with
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  Speaker 1: some open gym sprinkled in. I feel we accomplished what
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to this summer. We graduated a pair of
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  Speaker 1: all conference players and centered Joe Hoakstra and point guard
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  Speaker 1: La Moten, along with Riley Stevens, who had his senior
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  Speaker 1: season cut short with an injury. That has left us
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  Speaker 1: with a couple of big gaps to fill, the first
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  Speaker 1: being rebounding. We have seven seniors back and We'll be
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  Speaker 1: far from small, with a couple guys at six foot
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  Speaker 1: two or sixty three. But we talked about how this
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  Speaker 1: coming season we are going to have to collectively one
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  Speaker 1: to five on the floor as a team rebound the ball.
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  Speaker 1: We are also going to need someone to step into
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  Speaker 1: the point guard spot, and we fortunately have a number
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  Speaker 1: of kids who will be battling for time there. Doty
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  Speaker 1: said that from the very first game of the summer
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  Speaker 1: he saw many of the things that he feels will
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  Speaker 1: be the identity of his squad when the real season
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  Speaker 1: begins in November. We played sixteen or so competitive games
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  Speaker 1: this summer, starting with a camp at Purdue University for
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  Speaker 1: I think the fifth straight summer. Dody said, we played
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  Speaker 1: really well and really showed the scrappiness and toughness that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have to have when the real season
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  Speaker 1: starts in a few months. That first game in Mackie
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  Speaker 1: Arena was a great example. We played a very, very
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  Speaker 1: good Westlay team with a couple of Division one caliber
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  Speaker 1: players and fell just short by a couple of points.
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  Speaker 1: We also played in the Braidwood Shootout. I had a
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  Speaker 1: handful of three team round robins here at home and
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  Speaker 1: went to Seneca for a couple of games. From a
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  Speaker 1: competitive standpoint, I was very pleased with what I saw.
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  Speaker 1: Doti feels his group of players collectively made huge steps
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  Speaker 1: forward to not only work on individually getting better and stronger,
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  Speaker 1: but also doing the things they need to do to
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  Speaker 1: be better as a team. Senior Brennan stillwell looked really
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  Speaker 1: good this summer, and I thought junior Christian Bruton took
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  Speaker 1: a huge step forward in his all round play. Doty said,
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  Speaker 1: I also thought seniors Sharon Morton, Colin Byers, Jack Studnick
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  Speaker 1: Camden Darrow, t J. Horton, and Sam Lorette all really
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  Speaker 1: showed improvement and leadership. This group is a committed, very
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  Speaker 1: hungry group that has formed a great bond with one another.
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  Speaker 1: Doty said that heading into June he had a number
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  Speaker 1: of things he was hoping to see from his club,
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  Speaker 1: and while they still have much to improve on, he's
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  Speaker 1: happy with where they are at as of July. Tewod
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  Speaker 1: I'm very pleased at where we are at with where
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  Speaker 1: I anticipated us to be, Doty said, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: in all but one game this summer, these guys really
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  Speaker 1: played hard and really outworked other teams we played We
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  Speaker 1: have a strong senior group that has high goals set
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  Speaker 1: for themselves and wants to end their basketball careers here
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  Speaker 1: at Streeter on a high note. This summer was a
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  Speaker 1: great stepping stone for them to reach those goals