ESPNU 100 SG Terry Whisnant Commits To Florida State
by basaltrock on Jul 10, 2010 12:20 PM EDT
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PrintTerry Whisnant, an ESPN100 shooting guard out of Cherryville, North Carolina, has committed to play for the Florida State Seminoles. Whisnant plays for Cherryville High School.
Evaluation from ESPN.com contributor Andre Whitehead:
Terry's an athletic wing with great quickness to the basket in transition. He's a good shooter with a soft stroke and a high release. Terry needs to be more aggressive with the ball, which would lead to more scoring opportunities for him. But he has great length, which makes him a solid defender.
Whisnant finished his Junior season at 6'3, 175 lbs. He is ranked 78 in the ESPN100, with a position ranking of 26. He is ranked 105 nationwide on Rivals (position ranking of 30). Prior to his commitment, he was heavily recruited by Wake Forest, North Carolina, Charlotte, Auburn, and South Carolina.
More information after the jump.
Terry shot 54.3 percent from the field and a stunning 50.5 percent from 3-point range, helping him to score 27.5 points per game. He made a school-record 109 3-pointers and scored a season-high 40 points against West Lincoln, reaching 30 on 11 other occasions.
He also averaged 7.3 rebounds and 4.2 assists on his way to conference and district player-of-the-year honors. He led the Ironmen to regular-season and tournament titles in the Southern Piedmont 1A/2A Conference and helped his team reach the sectional finals. He was also named Associated Press All-State for North Carolina.
Whisnant was one of 15 high school shooting guards across the nation invited to the Paul Pierce Skills Academy. He has already been busy this summer with his AAU team and a high school summer league at Cherryville.
Some insight from the Gaston Gazette:
Whisnant owes much of his success to his father, who held the Cherryville career scoring record for 13 years. The elder Terry Whisnant, who turned down Wake Forest and Clemson basketball offers to play football at North Carolina, teaches his son basketball fundamentals and proper shooting mechanics.
He plans on signing a national letter of intent on Nov. 10, the first day of the early signing period.
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He just committed?
I thought this happened a month or two ago.
Great!!
We were all created to be Seminoles. This is why we bleed garnet and piss gold.
by NoleThruandThru on Jul 10, 2010 12:52 PM EDT reply actions
Great shooter
though he needs a quicker release for the college level. Not sure how much UNC was really pursuing him.
This seminole basketball team's glass is half full, dammit!
3rd and 4th in the ACC the last two years. 5* recruits. Trip to the ACC Champ Game. And now we get a SG who can stretch the defense, and has length to defend? Sure sounds like good Nole news to me.
/eat my humbug
"I got a PBS mind in an MTV world"...Jimmy Buffett
by The Ryno and I Know on Jul 10, 2010 4:03 PM EDT reply actions
Whisnant...
Commited quite a long time ago, so this isn’t new at all. What is newer is that he participated in the LeBron James Skills Academy, which is great.
by NolesHeatBraves on Jul 10, 2010 5:03 PM EDT reply actions
As long as one of the acquired skills isn't how to firebomb your hometown
FSU Defense 2010: Taking back 1st down.
by ricobert1 on Jul 10, 2010 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Love this kid. Cant wait to see him on the floor!
I heart Cardullo...in the same way I heart the World Cup, Fat Girls, and Okra.
by Randall W. Spetman on Jul 10, 2010 6:44 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Kid can apparently shoot.
We have too many athletes and not enough shooters. We will see if it helps or not.
MiNDSET? SWAG-ER-ISM!!!
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So are you calling Chris Singleton an athlete but not a shooter?
How dare!
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175 lbs?
Can’t wait to see what our S&C Dept does with this guy
by Cigar City Nole on Jul 10, 2010 8:53 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
good news is his role on the team wont require him to gain weight immediately
Weight will help him with injuries and become a complete player but as a mid range- 3pt guy as a freshman he can step in and play right away.
He also won't be playing here
until about a year and a half from now. He has plenty of time
if he plays near chapel hill/the triangle please let me know
id love to check him out in person
Cheryville is a little west/northwest of Charlotte.
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"Wherever you are, Trick, you are wise, indeed."
i know where it is
its about 3 hrs away from chapel hill
Oh, I see what you were asking now.
Just misinterpreted.
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I will especially be pulling for Whisnant.....
and yes, I know he committed a while ago. My old high school played against this guy in NC and he plays for a 1A school in NC (smallest class, like my old school) so I will really be pulling for him hard. We 1A guys don’t get noticed very often.
I don't see how you can support...
The idea that Leonard doesn’t develop his players…he does….he makes them play great defense, he improves their ball handling and passing skills, what he does not do is run a cohesive offensive scheme. Leonard is going to graduate kids, make the Tournament every other year, have a squeaky clean program, do good things in the community. If he is ever going to push the program past the 25~40 range he is going to have to find a very good offensive mind and recruit to support their scheme. We need to help him do that by giving him the money to hire a first rate staff from top to bottom. If we are not going to commit big dollars to support staff etc…it doesn’t do much good to complain about the product we get.
Cedat Fortuna Peritis
AS long as we play in the TLC3
We are never going to be great at B-ball. Hamilton has a done a lot better job at this program than anyone else. Before you try to run a guy off, tell me who you are going to get. You can find a better XO coach, but can he recruit? No one else has recruited here without “extra incentives.” Just the facts.
by Ponder This on Jul 11, 2010 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions
I think we could certainly hire a better coach.
He just may not have the resume some would like.
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"Trick is right."
"Wherever you are, Trick, you are wise, indeed."
It's all very murky.
Get an X’s and O’s guy, but can he recruit? Get a recruiter, but can he scheme? Get a young unproven guy, and he’s young and unproven, get an expensive coach, and spend too much money…
It’s a tough, tough call. I personally am fine with him having more time. We’ve steadily improved (regardless of NCAA tourney wins), and I think the best years are in front.
I heart Cardullo...in the same way I heart the World Cup, Fat Girls, and Okra.
by Randall W. Spetman on Jul 11, 2010 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I would agree with giving him more time.
He has show progression, albeit very slow preogression, and we have continued to move in the right direction. I also think that the easiest course for the program to succeed more and for him to gain stability would be for him to hire a good offensive assistant. However, we haven’t seen him do that yet.
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Yeah, but we have no idea to what extent we can blame Ham for the assistant problem.
Contracts, Politics, etc. I mean, it’s more than likely 100% his call, but it may not be.
I heart Cardullo...in the same way I heart the World Cup, Fat Girls, and Okra.
by Randall W. Spetman on Jul 12, 2010 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions
I don't think there's a whole lot of room for improvement without some change in coaching and philosophy.
This is a gross oversimplification, but who was Coach K before he went to Duke? He was a guy with a .553 winning percentage in 5 seasons at Army, who went 23-28 his final 2 seasons and only made one postseason tournament while at Army (1st round NIT loss).
I think a guy like that exists today. I don’t know who it is. I don’t trust us to locate him (I wouldn’t trust anyone to, the odds are pretty small you’d succeed). Could FSU do better than Hamilton (not including guys like Pitino, Coach K, Williams, etc)? Yes, definitely. Would we? Eh, probably not.
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"Trick is right."
"Wherever you are, Trick, you are wise, indeed."
Tacking on to that, the longer you wait, the better chance of that guy emerging gets.
More reason to keep Ham around. With steady improvement, FSU would possibly be a more attractive job to a young up and coming coach who is hungry to get a piece of Roy and Coach K.
I heart Cardullo...in the same way I heart the World Cup, Fat Girls, and Okra.
by Randall W. Spetman on Jul 12, 2010 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Might disagree with your first sentence.
Agree with the last.
It seems to me that there are a lot of up and coming coaches each year who move on only to fizzle out at their new jobs. I’m not sure how many of those guys actually do pan out or not though.
Definitely agree that if Hamilton can keep our program visible and competitive until he decides to step down that it will be a much more enticing job when it does become available. He’s in his early 60’s I believe and think he has about 5 years left on his contract. If we make the NCAAT 4 of those 5 and make a sweet sixteen appearance along with a separate second round appearance, and our cupboards are still stocked with some very good (and possible NBA) talent, that we could certainly make a run at good mid major coaches or coaches doing good things at poor BCS type schools.
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"Trick is right."
"Wherever you are, Trick, you are wise, indeed."
He has earned his money
While Ham is not the greatest coach, he has recruited well, sent players to the NBA, and made FSU basketball significant again. FSU basketball was mighty quiet after the early nineties. He’ll never be Coach K, but who is? And why would they wanna coach at a football school?
by NoleySmokes on Jul 12, 2010 8:38 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
He improves their ball handling and passing skills?
Pretty sure we were at the bottom of the nation in TO%
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Yeah, I don't see a ton of ball handling improvements either.
I heart Cardullo...in the same way I heart the World Cup, Fat Girls, and Okra.
by Randall W. Spetman on Jul 12, 2010 12:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Could this be more of an indictment of not having a true PG in the lineup?
That’d still be on Ham, but more on recruiting
FSU Defense 2010: Taking back 1st down.
A true pg
Would make the difference, IMO….
by NoleySmokes on Jul 12, 2010 8:41 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
A good majority of our turnovers are
travels, offensive fouls, and poor entry passes – which aren’t dependent on quality PG play.
Oh yes.
But even guys like Swann, Rich, Mims, etc never really got THAT Much better IMO.
Side note, anyone see Toney’s backwards, no look layup in the summer league game? Freaking sick as hell man.
I heart Cardullo...in the same way I heart the World Cup, Fat Girls, and Okra.
by Randall W. Spetman on Jul 12, 2010 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Poor decision making.
MiNDSET? SWAG-ER-ISM!!!
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"Wherever you are, Trick, you are wise, indeed."
Gawd Awful decision making.
I heart Cardullo...in the same way I heart the World Cup, Fat Girls, and Okra.
by Randall W. Spetman on Jul 12, 2010 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions
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