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The Frankton Eagles Report (2.144.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: You are listening to the Frankton Eagles report, or weekly look at the Frankton Boys Basketball program with head coach Brett Propston.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Every Wednesday on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: You'll also be recapping all of Frankton's Boys Basketball games, including Friday night at Madison Grant.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Please join us.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: I am back with Coach Probston and our weekly discussion about his team and we're joined by Coach Mark Drake to talk about this week's team and then we're probably going to talk some other stuff here with Coach Drake and want to go back to the lapel game, the practice since lapel has been.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Good.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was getting back in here discussing some of the things that we needed to get corrected, talking to the kids a little bit about some of the things that we think that they need to be better at.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: just getting back in around each other because it's tough loss, obviously a disappointing loss because it was a great basketball game and you've got to give credit to the lapel they earned it at the end and so and it was a good basketball game against a very good team so for us we just got to get back in here and get better and that's what we did on Monday and that was a good force to get back together Tuesday about the same thing you know just getting at it and getting back on the court and all of them they're court stuff Tuesday and that seemed to have brought them down
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think so, I think it did initially, but I think that they realized the big picture is not that game.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, that game just made us better, it exposed us a little bit in a weakness at the end that we need to get better at, and, you know, there were spurts, also, there were expos.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no one play that made that game.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, there's a lot of things we'd go back on that we could have done better, and there's no individual night game that calls to us anything, it's a team effort, and we've just got to get better, some things that we did throughout that game that we know would help
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: The bad news is they scored the first 11 points so you got to be better from the start.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: The good news is then you go from 11 down to 17 up I think.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so yeah, it's going by 28 for most of the game.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Um, you know, and then of course the bad news was what happened at the end, but there is good news to take out of it.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: No question.
• 2:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the one of the biggest challenges was we were down 11 and out then we could have gave up our kids fought back hard in the game.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: They showed some maturity.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we were able to get back in the game and get up 17.
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that was uh, that was that run right there of the 49 21 run was probably one of the best runs I've seen in this gym in a long time for my high school basketball team.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Particularly defensively.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: defensively it was phenomenal and offensively we were transitioning very well we had guys hitting the offensive boards really well and we were shooting the you know when we were open we were taking open shots and really knocking them down so it was an impressive run and then you had to expect will help to do the same and so you saw the same thing at a lapel they didn't back down they came back they made a run and then we made another run at the end to get up eight
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: and then lapel obviously in the last minute we were up six and they made another run to finish it off and when the game so it was one of those games that if you were probably in the fan in there you absolutely loved watching ever been part of the game that had that many different level digit runs it's been a while I was trying to kind of compare it to like a sectional versus wapahani where you'd have an up and down run maybe you're up than wapahani's up and you're up and wapahani's up and but that was quite a few runs in that game and it showed a lot of resilience by both teams
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: So now you put that one in the past and next up is Madison Grant, a conference game.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: You have not won a conference game yet, Madison Grant's at the bottom of the conference, but as you and I were discussing before we started recording, if the team that can, if playing their best, can definitely give you problems.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've got explosive guard play.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Barnhart hand.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: They on film watching them.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've also got strengthened that some of their big guys underneath are big and strong and physical.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And when you look at them, the 4441 lost East Brook East Brook's a team that beat us.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've had spurts of where they played really well at first half first mineral central, very close game.
• 3:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it's, you know, you go to Madison, great and you go over there.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be ready to play.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be well coached and it's going to be a hard environment to play in.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's not them.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: We can do other and come
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Alright coach, what do you think a key or two will be against a team like Madison Graham?
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right now we've been hitting the offensive boards extremely well so we've got to continue to do that defensively we've played extremely well in situations defensively I think that's been all year I think coming into the lapel game we rank 20th in the state and defense and that's out of 400 and whatever 10 team so that kind of show you shows you where we're at defensively strength the schedule strong we played a difficult schedule and so I think that we're well prepared to play against anybody.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: But at the end of the day, we'd better go and ready to play and ready to defend and rebound.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And those are the two biggest things in high school basketball.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: The two biggest things in basketball, probably when you get to the college level in the A-level, you've got to defend and rebound the teams to do those well, usually advance.
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would argue you haven't a ball handle or but you know, I was going to tell you to take care of the basketball today.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: One thing we haven't done well, and well, I shouldn't say we have a handle the basketball.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we went eight turnovers, eight turnovers, eight turnovers, and then we had a turnover 13.
• 5:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then in this game here, we had 20 or whatever.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've proven that we could handle the ball times against Wapahani and heritage and teams that were the were good teams where we had eight turnovers and we just got to treat the basketball like gold and take care of it.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to Coach Drake, who knows a little bit about taking care of the basketball, he knows a little bit about good basketball teams as well.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Coach Drake wasn't here last year, he's back this year, what does he bring to the program?
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't doze he has him, he's been here longer than anyone, including myself.
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: So he brings that stable environment for us and somebody it's been here forever.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: and we're old.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, for him, it's, uh, it's awesome to have him back, fun to be around, uh, kids enjoy playing for him.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: They always play hard for him, and...
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: it's nice to have him back around and really is and it's um he's the all-time one of us JB coaching Franklin history so we're always telling that so and he is he passed his dad up on that so now it's great to have him it's just great to have him back in here and and uh he started with me we went 15 years together two years apart nice back in here and it's nice to have him back around
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, he and I played on a youth basketball team together.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do believe that.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was passing.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was trying to scream for you all the time.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: He was, you know, I think he had the ball in time.
• 6:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I've ever watched a game where he didn't have the ball most of the time, which is good.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was great passion, but a ball dominant guard and a really, really good one.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's how I reminder members.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: I actually thought I remember you having the ball in his neck in that way.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: Up the core every time.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: There was never a time where Martin Drake wasn't bringing the ball.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was a nice roll to our back in the day.
• 7:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's correct.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was a very big roll.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: It really was.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: especially leadership.
• 7:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I see that's the kind of guy he is right.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
• 7:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a he was a great leader for the teams he played on and you're talking about.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still think probably one of the best teams to ever play here in 91.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: No question and that team was that team was all about team.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: So when you go back and look at stuff.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've honored that team wants since I've been here and we brought them all back and in.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were fun to watch.
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, they never officially won championships, you know, back in the single class sectional day and still they're just a special that team as the ones who have.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, people remember that team and there's a lot of people there that night we brought them back just a few years back and if they would have had class basketball and they would have been in the two eight class at that time said that forever.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's it's our telling what they would have done and they went up against the giant schools and the Anderson sectional and all the way to the finals and how to
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: really had a chance to win that game to as as people remember and I always say that Anderson Highland went on to lose and over time to Glenn Robinson who went on to win the state championships.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: So clearly you were the third best team in the state.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's correct.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: The 91 team was.
• 8:22
  [UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
• 8:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, they're the regional.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's I think I'm pretty sure that Jason Whitaker, maybe in that final game with 7 for 7 from Terry.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I had 30 points.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I had 30 points in the sectional final.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a good team.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then of course, Highland was awesome then too.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Alan Darner, but then Zachary Ash and the biggest front line that you'll ever see in high school.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's 10, 6, 8, 6.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Not that talented, not that skilled, but huge.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, correct.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: they were a team that was dominated by their guards, but huge.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: A rare team like that, that just had a bunch of big guys, but their guards were the reason that they were.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Good memories.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, uh, let's talk a little to Coach Drake.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: Coach, tell us a little bit about this team and what's its personality and its identity, this current team.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: This team, this, this is a bunch of kids that they're willing to do with Eric, you know, Coach B says, and what we say, they, they'll run through a wall for you.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, defensively, they're the best I've seen here in a long time.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we, we struggle sometimes at some offense, but I think I just, uh, uh, somehow that's you, somehow that's just, you know, they, they just, they prepare themselves well, every week for defense and we kind of hang or hat on that.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of what carries us through every game.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: some of that is losing a point guard very much like yourself that was kind of ball-dominated and replacing a guy like that is amazing.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, losing Joey and Carmack was a big last year and now they've had a very place those points and that's tough to do.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've been very we're seven and four.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: and we very well could be nine and two ten and one right now just if we to shot a little better in some of those games could be only really one game we got be bad with Eastbrook and so every game we were there are defense allows us to be there those kids they really you know we at today we did all of our defensive drills we do at least twice a week and go over and over and over and
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that carries over with this bunch and I think the offensive stuff like we were better today is a good practice.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought both teams were better today.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: They removed the ball well.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: We shot better.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were more crisp and coaches on them every day about triple threat.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: When you catch the ball, be right, fun to melt.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's always about fun, and all that way, it always carries over.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, that would say practice makes perfect what makes permanent, too.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you do it right way, you're going to do it in the game, you're going to do it the right way.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, they're a nice team, they're a good bunch of kids, they're learning, and we're trying to...
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: just get better every week and I think we're doing that and thinking now and we've got a lot of games coming up it's going to be a lot of fun and a lot of some more conference games it'll be fun you know my strength always a tough tough on it's up there so I think it's going to be a you know good little stretch here towards NCC's
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know what it takes for a make up of a good team you've been part of one does this team have what it takes to be that kind of team Yeah, absolutely.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're good kids at listen.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, the most talented we have now that way that you know, not not in the last 10 15 years, but they'll, you know, like he said they're not when it was 49 and 32 that that was some of the best basketball in this gym for a while.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: because they didn't everything correctly.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were very crisp defensively.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it give up two points at that point.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like an half.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, now they're very capable of going on or running here at the end of the season.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: If we can play the way we have been, and maybe last few games in a row.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, another very capable.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know that coaches probably don't like to talk about in results, but why if it does become a really good team, what's it, what's it, can it accomplish?
• 11:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take them in the section.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's our goal over here.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be on that, I don't know, but they're good enough to win the section.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've already proved that, because we've probably played one of the best teams that are not intersectional.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, we were right there.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: We outplayed them in that game, and we probably should have on it, even the Pell people have told me that.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, we're there, that's the end result, and if they continue to improve,
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, we do that out, no, depends on other teams too, but we'll be right there at the end of the year to get to that goal.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much to Coach Brobson and Coach Drake for joining the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 12:39
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• 13:00
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