Tony Wroten Jr. is the guard who is being heavily recruited by many schools, coaches and even players. For Kentucky fans, it’s nice to have Gilchrist and Teague on our side helping Coach Cal and staff to lure Tony our way. Currently, Wroten is playing in the U17 FIBA Championships with the top recruits of 2011. He provided some interesting quotes on playing point guard.
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Tony Wroten is a backup point guard for the US team and comes into the game as a sixth or seventh man. “Either you got it, or you don’t got it,” he replies when asked about court vision.
“Seeing things before they actually happen, seeing gaps where none are.”
In an offensively overloaded roster, Wroten has the luxury of being surrounded on court by four potential threats at any given time.
“But you can’t just pass, because defense would easily make a 4-against-5 out of it. So you can’t always be ‘pass-first’, you have to be a threat yourself.”
The left-handed, prospect out of Garfield HS goes into attack-mode as soon as he has the ball in his hands. “Any time I got the ball I look ahead of me, I survey the floor for open men or an open lane I can run. It’s about deciding quick what to do next”, he says.
“I don’t care about my defender, because I know I’ll beat him anyways.”
Wroten explicitly cares about his team-mates and gets rewarded for it. “To me it’s a reward when they love to play with me and have fun with it. On the one end you have to be unselfish to be a really good point guard, on the other hand you can’t be too unselfish, because your opponent will play off of that,” he warns.
