GLENBARD WEST, GONZAGA COMMIT Braden Huff vs CHICAGO WHITNEY YOUNG in Illinois State Title Game!
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Glenbard West's HS basketball team (Glen Ellyn, IL) completed it's Storybook Season (37-1) by beating Chicago Whitney Young 56-34 to win the 2022 Illinois 4a IHSA Boys Basketball State Title. Gonzaga commit Braden Huff led the Hilltoppers balanced attack all season alongside Caden Pierce (Princeton), Ryan Renfro, Paxton Warden and Bobby Durkin.
After starting 26-0, Glenbard West's only defeat was a buzzer beater vs Sierra Canyon (CA) who features Amari Bailey and Bronny James. Glenbard West is coached by Jason Opoka.
Whitney Young Dolphins overcame a shakey start to their season by winning the Chicago Public League City Title in February and making a lengthy postseason run to the state title game. Coached by Ty Slaughter, Young was led by seniors Xavier Amos (NIU), AJ Casey (Miami), and junior PG Dalen Davis among others.
Time will tell but this Glenbard West team and their run will be considered among the greats in recent Illinois basketball history.
Thanks to the IHSA and Mario Bravo (@wegotnexthoops) for his coverage for Ballislife!
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it was a great game to watch, GBW’s defense is unique, they’re lengthy and they play as a unit on both sides of the ball, that’s why they finished the season 37-1, state champions and that’s why they won by how much they did.
1-3-1 is deadly
Yea ur exactly right. Plus, most of em have been playing together since they were little kids. I myself actually played with a couple of em. They’ve always been super close.
@@sushi400 when i was in Jr High. 7th and 8th grades. In 74 75. I went to school in Wheaton which borders Glen Ellyn. We ran a 3-1-1 halfcourt trap that wanted you to let them pass the ball in the corners or anywhere but the middle. All you do is slide to the man who left his position. 1-3-1 is basically the same. It was also easy to go into a 2-3. 3-2. 2-1-2. Or a 1-2-2 zone. It amazes me the this team from a school that has only been known for football came to play this zone that nobody knows of. Thats the beauty. With their length you cant throw over the top. No letting you dribble to middle. They let you and want you to pass into corner and along sideline. In early 70s to 80s. Lockport Porters were the master of 1-3-1. Bob Basarich? Was the coach. I only recall 2 or 3 players that were 6 5 or bigger. If i had 6 or 7 kids who liked to play D. If they were all 5'10 to 6'1. I could beat 90% of teams in any state. Kids dont see these defenses anymore. Plus you just change it up every 2 possesions. Most teams would panic and strat playing one on one.
I have been watching this team for 2 months. They are a pleasure to watch and have trampled some really good teams. Really glad they won the state title.
Lots of ball movement, minimal dribbling. These kids are taught the right way
When coaching and talent level are equal championships are won. Not only do they play the right way, all 5 starters are d1 commits. It's unreal
Commenting as en ex-player under coach Jason Opoka.. get to know the name! Absolutely supreme talent and intelligence... and he has a dumb stupid wicked handle with the ball
Thought I was watching Hoosiers....
coded racist language
@@chm97chm97 we invented this shit
absolutely magical to witness in the stands on the floor, never felt anything like seeing my friends go out and win it
Fs One of the best teams in Illinois history
I don't know about that. There been some great teams in state but these days it's not as talented as back in day was but to say they are best team of last 15 years that wouldn't Be a stretch at all but there was teams in the 80s and 90s that had multiple NBA players and guys who all played in college fron the 1-8 spots on team
It’s amazing seeing this type of basketball. One of my favorite teams to watch ever
Ball movement, patience, and just look how quick they stampede to the other end of the floor after a make lol.
Omg the ball movement
It's laughable that Casey is still ranked ahead of Huff. Goes to show how bad national rankings are. Also a testament to why Gonzaga is so good. They get guys like Huff.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Lmao yah, Casey couldn’t even put an average performance against a wash u commit in the semi final. The wash u commit is a baller and put up 24, but he should be doing more for a 4 star.
😂🤦🏾♂️ u never had a bad day? the kid had 2 bad games i forgot he a human
@@cordallejohnson923 They already played once as you know. Both times they couldn’t beat huff. He Had film against huff though, and could’ve adjusted, but he did even worse. he just is worse then huff.
@@lrq6296 like Cordalle would ever give the white kid credit
Damn this just set us back 60 years 🤣 congrats GBW easily top 5 greatest HS team ever
Oh god never seen a more garbage statement in my life
Yeah, they're REALLY young. Great team no doubt, much respect.
I guess u forgot who invented the game
All yall must be really white 🤣 get tf on ima let yall have yall moment them white boys balled out but yall know who run this game
@@aronsaenz6166 take a joke
GBW did play a heck of a game but Whitney Young got outcoached that night. They played right into the hands of what GBW wanted to do. I would have pressed and ran the whole night on GBW. Probably would have ended up with the same result but GBW was just too long and too big to get into a half court game with them. Kudos to them.
Reading the comments is interesting. 1team haven't seen mentioned is the Farragut team from 94 w/Kevin Garnett & Ronnie Fields. Idc who won what, that team was a monster. Fields looked like a grown ass man ffs. Wolf Nelson was an outstanding coach, right there w/Bob Hambric & Landon Cox. Either way, would love to see that.
Best team in Illinois since Peoria Manual in 1997
Better than Jabari Parker Simeon teams that 4 peated????
@@petermalec5102 yeah I think so. The public league teams anymore seem to be a collection of talent that plays 5 man 1on1. Glenbard is a team and all that height in that 1-3-1 is hard to score against. I'd put them ahead of Martin Luther King from 1990. But not Thornridge, Quincy, or Peoria Manual.
@Nelson McAtee Sorry but you just went way over your head with that one. First of all we were undefeated. We didn't let no out of town team beat us..Plus we were not just city and state champs .We was National Champs. Number one team in the country. Our 7 footer Rashad Griffin and 6'6 power forward Jonny would have killed Glenbard west bigs.. Then we had 2 Snipers that would have put that 1-3-1 zone to shame. How dare you make a statement like that.
@Nelson McAtee And by the way. Which one of those Brady Kids would have been able to stop Jamie Brandon ? And everybody who thought we were a run and gun team is all wrong. Everything we did was a play including our fast break. Coach Cox was a master mind.
@@anthonyking3072 I saw them in person. Got Jamie Brandon's autograph. He's not all that. He's not Quinn Buckner. I'd rank Frank Williams ahead of him. Rashard Griffith had poor post skills and was just a freshman. They would have trouble passing around Glenbard's zone. Selvie was ineffective away from the basket.
It's an entire team of Larry Birds... incredible talent despite some lack of athleticsm
White boys balled on them chicagoans👏🏻
@Nice One excuses.. like he said
@Nice One these White boys just got better genetics
#24 went two hands off two i almost fell out my chair
hes 6'4 bro
@@euroamerican5189 I learned this later on 😅 everyone else on that team makes him look short
I have never seen a historic Chicago team get demolished like that. Wow
Best illinois high school basketball TEAM ever not talent but how the team plays and the coaching would beat any illinoi high school basketball team through the years in my opinion or at least they would keep up with those teams like rose simeon and peoria Manuel teams way back.
Probably greatest IL HS bball tram ever behind Jabari’s Simeon and maybe Manual in the 80s
yall forcing it bad 🤦🏾♂️
😂😂 the dickeating is crazy
Collinsville had a great team in the 70’s. Like 7 D1
Absolutely destroyed
Don't wanna rain on glenbard west parade, first I do wanna say all the way from Chicago, congratulations!!!!! You boys from glenbard west earned as well as deserve that. But reading the comments trying to talk about Chicago public schools, um there's a reason Whitney young has 5 or 6 of those state titles compared to y'all 1 state title that y'all just won. It's levels to this, see when you put on a Whitney young jersey, or a simeon jersey, there's expectations to this. They make that trip down state almost every year, and wins it almost every year. It's the first yr since 2005 no team from the city is bringing back a first place state title from 2a on up to 4a. Let that sink in a lil bit, the road to the state playoffs still go thru the city, city still has the best ballers, and best schools representing chitown. Again, congrats to you guys. Heck of a team they got. But state playoff basketball is still ran and owned by schools in the city. Whitney young as well as simeon, Morgan Park who has won a few in 3a Orr Academy who's won 3 straight in 2a before the pandemic. All them schools are expected every yr to be seen down state and win the whole thing like they usually do. How many y'all got again? 1 right. Y'all don't have them kind of expectations like those schools have. I'm jus saying. Congrats!!!!! To Glenbard west. Looking forward to watching big man play at the next level at Gonzaga!
still lost tho
@@georgebender501 and it's fine! I said they earned and deserved that. But they'll be back. Lol like I said, it's levels to this, it ain't the first time Whitney young done lost in state tournaments, but that following yr they were right back down there and won the thing that's why they got 5 or 6 state titles. How many y'all got again? Just that one for the first time. State title still goes thru chicago, and the city schools. Whitney young, simeon, curie, orr academy, Kenwood academy, will always be relevant to be back down state. Can you say the same for y'all nope! Past schools from the city like king, Farragut, westinghouse, Marshall boys and girls. Have more state titles than glenbard west. So think about that. The best ballers, and top schools still cone from Chicago. I gave y'all your props. That's a great team Y all had. Hands down. But how many Y all gonna have to compete against city schools that has made there reputation of being down there time in and time out. JS. Good day sir!
@@vashunbeasley2157 why you write an essay bro😂 we get it you mad the white boys won. no body in the comments said GBW was about to be a dynasty or anything but here you are ranting about how city schools still run the state. Of course they will. Not a single person said otherwise yet you wrote a fucking essay.
@@RedTigerGamesPLayer 1. Not mad at all. If you read my comments I gave them nothing but respect. 2. There were comments made about the city. 3. Just had to get my point across but never mad tho.
Illinois high school basketball needs a shot clock ..
Y’all gon post that metamora L?
I just don't understand, why you wouldn't want to stay in your home state and play for the illini.
I played some ball at Memorial Park in Glen Ellyn and live at 626 Roger Rd. for a while. And when I hear the song by Possum Dixon I think of Lake Ellyn but I'm just a white boy who was honorable mention in the Upstate Eight in 1992. I'm SEW like U don't know lol. You probably didn't hear bout how those cops mistreated me
that my school
"I run this state"
go go Zagsssssssssss
Anyone else curious about the wonder squad that gave them they're 1 loss ? 😭😭
Sierra canyon
@@NickLikesBikes cap ain’t no way
@@nlmbboogz7382 the games on CZcams, bronny scored 18 on them.
@@nlmbboogz7382 Sierra Canyon did give them there only loss. And they could've won that game also. LeBron James son scored 18pts in that game
@@nlmbboogz7382 yea they lost to them at the buzzer
Proud of my Fellow White Brothers. I root for ALL White Bball players like Blacks root for all Black Qbs, but yet I'm only one labeled a racist for doing it. It's good to see people who look like me play the game that someone like me created at a high level and with out the flexing after every made shot or screaming like you hit the game winner with a basket in first half. These kids play the Right way. I'm down with players who let their game do the talking and not players who talk all game long. That's White Man bball, let out games do the talking about yapping all game long is Black Way of Bball
This was worse than slavery, somebody call charleston white.
💀💀💀💀
Lmao they don’t got a single black person on they team 😂😂. Chiraq getting beat by white boys from the burbs
They do he’s just on the bench
I swear ppl who gatekeep certain activities like basketball make being a fan less enjoyable.
@Hunchoz lmao it’s just funny because Chicago is known for basketball and they usually all black and as you know black players are known to be better than white players that why
Ugh excuse me bro, but Chicago still has the best ball players. Congrats to Glenbard west tho, there long, tall lengthy and we'll coached with good ball players, But, Whitney young has 5 or 6 of those state titles. How many glenbard west has? 1 which was well deserved. But still they have 1 state title, schools like simeon, Whitney young, curie, are back downstate almost every yr and comes away with a state title almost every yr. How many that school has again? 1 which was there first. Schools like simeon and Whitney young has plenty of those. So don't be surprised you see them back down state again. Can glenbard west say the same thing? No they can't. It's levels to this. You put on a simeon, Whitney young Jersey, your expected to go down state and compete and come away with a state title. The same can't be said about glenbard west. But enjoy that victory, it's well earned and deserved no doubt. But let's be realistic tho, the city still owns basketball not the burbs.
@@mkxquesne4457 well it's okay to have an all black team but u can't have an all White team
Was at the game. The most boring high school game I’ve ever watched
yea the city teams aint show up at all this year....L
I think there is a problem in the city. Covid really hurt the city kids and schools hard.The teachers union let thousands of kids down. That was a nice WY team, but damn nothing like the teams I remember. Winning the CPS was bigger than state back in the day.
@@chm97chm97 I agree. I feel like the parents that can are sending their kids to private schools now and with good reason
@@CHAMBVRS yeah one of the best players from Chicago went to Sierra Canyon. And ironically beat this team
This team would not be 37-1 if it was precovid.
simply wrong
AJ Casey might be the most overrated player in the state
He’ll drop yo ass off 😂
@@Gio-nc2em when did I mention anything about myself? I’m just saying he didn’t show up in the championship or the semis, dumbass
@@graysonpeterselli9497 I never said you mentioned yourself. My point is don’t talk down on someone when you can’t do over half the things he can do, dumbass.
@@Gio-nc2em how is it unfair to say he’s overrated when he had a combined 10pts in the state semifinals and championship and his team lost by 20+ in the championship? He was ranked above Huff which is laughable
@@graysonpeterselli9497 What is laughable is he has a shot at playing at a higher level of basketball you’ll ever see.
Maybe Chicago basketball just trash now
I think alot of highschool teams like to think playing one on one vs team basketball on the highschool level will beat team basketball.
@@DaneWashingtonddtke tru but them boys just out muscle them alot when playing a team like them you better be ready
@@johnnyrockmore3421 that credit goes to coaching. They face a lot tough teams this season and they proved if they play there brand of basketball they could beat any team
I will never trash all high school teams however. A lot coaches and players have fallen in love with NBA players like Steph Curry as he shoots three's all game along they think that translates to highschool basketball and it just doesnt
@@DaneWashingtonddtke Yeap texas basketball next level now
glenbard west🤮