Glenn’s Hannah Only As Good As Supporting Cast
Glenn senior Brycen Hannah is a good high school basketball player. Probably better than good.
As he goes, so go the Falcons.
With that said, however, a legitimate case can be made that Hannah is only as good as his supporting cast.
When Glenn’s role players are clicking along with Hannah the Falcons really shine.
That’s because Hannah is a beast on the basketball court, one that makes life really difficult for opponents.
At 6-foot-4, 235 pounds Hannah isn’t just your low-block high school player. He can handle the ball like a 6-foot guard and can make you pay from the perimeter.
For a player his size, his footwork is good as is his quickness.
MAX 98.3 FM covered Glenn’s last game, a 52-27 victory Friday night at Triton. Once again we watched the Falcon big man display his wide range of skills on the hardwood.
To be honest, it doesn’t take you long to see why Hannah is really a point-center, a combination of a point guard and a center who facilitates the Falcons’ offense quite well.
“He’s leading us in assists as I thought,” said his father Travis Hannah, who is now in his 16th season in Walkerton guiding the Glenn program. “You don’t see that very often in high school basketball.
“Although there are times that I would really like to ring his neck, he really is a tough matchup.”
He was against Triton. Against the Trojans, Hannah had five assists to push his season total to 27.
Glenn started its game against Triton sluggishly. Perhaps some of that was due to the fact that the Falcons had played the night before. Whatever the case, they woke up big time in the second quarter and turned a 9-7 deficit into a 24-11 bulge at the break and never looked back.
A big reason Glenn outscored the hosts in the second quarter was it made a concerted effort to get Hannah the ball.
That they did and Hannah was unstoppable to start the frame.
He scored nine points in the first 2:27 of the quarter and finished the game, tying for high scoring honors with 14.
Don’t think Hannah was a one-man show. He was to start the second quarter, but his teammates did plenty of damage after that.
Take junior guard Chase Miller for example.
Miller has now cemented himself into the starting lineup and is delivering.
Because teams are so focused on Hannah, often double- and triple-teaming him, there are plenty of open looks for guys on the perimeter.
That was the case Friday night in the Trojan Trench and Miller made the Trojans pay.
No. 3 buried four three-pointers accounting for all of his dozen points.
Two of Miller’s triples came in the third quarter.
Junior forward Joey Shoue took over in the fourth, tallying eight of his 12 points in that frame.
The Triton win was the Falcons’ sixth in a row, improving their record to 7-4 (3-2 in the NIC).
Sure the winning streak has been fun for Hannah to watch, but so, too, has been the development of players Shoue, who his coach calls the team’s most consistent player.
“I think we are getting to the point where our kids are understanding what we want them to do on a nightly basis,” Hannah admitted. “It’s fun to watch.”
The Falcons will continue to lean on their horse Hannah, but consistency from players like Miller, Shoue, junior Joe Chrapliwy and senior Noah Dreibelbeis is a must if Glenn expects to win the upcoming Bi-County Tournament and be a force come Sectional time. Dreibelbeis returns to game action this week after being sidelined with a leg injury.
Although its role players must produce, make no mistake, Hannah, Glenn’s leading scorer (16.5 points per game) and rebounder (7.0) will need to continue bringing his A game as the schedule gets tougher.
Next up for the Falcons is a home date against 6-6 South Bend St. Joe, a game that MAX 98.3 FM (WYMR) will broadcast live beginning at approximately 7:10 p.m. ET Friday.
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