Nick Neari

HawkPrdatr40

HawkPrdatr40

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Let me ask this.

Nick Neari looks more like a player than lil Lick. How is it that he doesn't get on the court to give Cully a break. He is more athletic and has much better quicks than Lick.

Nick Neari
Earned first team all-conference and all-area recognition as a senior . . . averaged 14.3 points and 4.9 assists as a senior, helping prep team win 22 games and play in sectional tournament for the first time . . . first team all-Area and was selected Player of the Year by the Kane County Chronicle and The Republican . . . second team all-league as a junior and honorable mention laurels as a sophomore . . . averaged 15.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.0 steals his senior season . . . averaged 10.0 points, 6.0 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 steals his junior campaign . . . three-time football letterwinner playing quarterback . . . honorable mention all-conference football honoree.


John Lickliter
- Started every game as a senior for prep team that won state Class 4-A state title while posting a 25-1 overall record . . . team also won Mississippi Valley Conference title . . . team captain as a senior . . . contributed 11 points and three steals in state title contest . . . attended Franklin Central HS in Indianapolis before moving to Iowa City for his final season . . . lettered at Franklin Central as a sophomore and junior, helping team post a 24-3 mark during his junior season.
 
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IAJay said:
I knew this would come up because he made one drive in garbage time of the Purdue game. He is not a point guard, it is as simple as that.
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How do you know that?? His stats as a PG in High School tells me something different Jay. 1 Drive in garbage time tells you that? Lickliter bringing the ball up the court against Purdue or any other Big Ten team is just painful to watch..
 
But Nick Neari is not the coaches son...

"...He is not a point guard, it is as simple as that."

Neither is Lil Lick
 
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HawkPrdatr40 said:
How do you know that?? His stats as a PG in High School tells me something different Jay. 1 Drive in garbage time tells you that? Lickliter bringing the ball up the court against Purdue or any other Big Ten team is just painful to watch..
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I am not saying that Lick is a good option at the point. I am able to see practice quite often and I remember the intrasquad scrimmage where he played. It is not a knock on him, but he is just not a point guard. Lick is a better option as sad as that is.
 
St. Charles North's Neari chooses Iowa

Nick Neari has come a long way in a short amount of time with basketball, and now the sport is taking him all the way to the Big Ten.

Neari, the 6-foot-3 senior point guard on St. Charles North's record-setting team this winter, decided Friday to play his college basketball at Iowa, where he will be a preferred walk-on.

That means he'll get to dress for all the games, travel on the road and get a chance to compete for minutes in a backcourt that has been decimated by transfers and graduation.

Not bad for a sport that he didn't even consider his best most of his life. The starting quarterback on the North Stars football team his junior year who split time between quarterback and wide receiver this season, Neari spent most of his time the past few summers working to play college football, not basketball.

Now after averaging 14.5 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds for sectional finalist St. Charles North, Neari will get a chance at Iowa, which he picked over Division II Colorado State at Pueblo and several Division III schools.

After making the decision, Neari spent Friday night hoisting up 500-odd shots at St. Charles North, then Saturday night at the school's prom.

Neari was shooting Friday with Cully Payne, a close friend since sixth grade and the reason the option of going to Iowa became possible. Payne, a senior at Schaumburg, decided on Iowa this spring after earlier committing to DePaul and Alabama.

Neari's high school coach Tom Poulin said he thinks Neari can earn minutes at Iowa. Poulin said the biggest challenge for Neari is developing the quickness to stay with the caliber of point guards he'll see at that level.


Nick Neari
Senior
St. Charles North
POSITION Guard
STATS 14.3 points, 4.25 rebounds, 4 assists, 2.3 steals
ACHIEVEMENTS The 2009 Press-Republican Player of the Year was more well-rounded than stats alone can tell. His court vision enabled him to find creases in the defense and get to the rim, but also let him find narrow passing lanes. He could finish an array of ways at the rim, yet his range extended well beyond the three-point line. His quick hands and aforementioned vision made him a formidable defender, able to strip the ball away or read passes and cut in for the clean steal.
 
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What do you want his high school coach to say? Usually the best guard on a high school team will play point guard, but that does not mean they would play that position at the next level. Mccabe is playing point right now as well and I am sure Brust is. Hell, there were articles written about how Tucker could play point guard in high school and we all saw how that was not going to work in the Big Ten.
 
IAJay said:
What do you want his high school coach to say? Usually the best guard on a high school team will play point guard, but that does not mean they would play that position at the next level. Mccabe is playing point right now as well and I am sure Brust is. Hell, there were articles written about how Tucker could play point guard in high school and we all saw how that was not going to work in the Big Ten.
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Neari has more intangibles to offer than that of lil lick. It is an option that should be explored at this point. IMO he may just look the part of a player that belongs on a Big Ten court and that is alright with me. Everytime lil Lick graces the court it makes the Iowa Program look pathetic. Sorry but it's true..
 
Lick has to be a 1000 times better then Neari if Neari hasn't even got a chance to play... or so you would think
 
HawkPrdatr40 said:
Neari has more intangibles to offer than that of lil lick. It is an option that should be explored at this point. IMO he may just look the part of a player that belongs on a Big Ten court and that is alright with me. Everytime lil Lick graces the court it makes the Iowa Program look pathetic. Sorry but it's true..
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Hey I am not going to argue with that point because I completely agree that it is embarrassing to see a 5'7 chubby kid out there. You have semi convinced me though, I guess why not at least try Neari because it is hard to be worse than Lick has been lately. I feel bad for him because you can just tell the other team wants to abuse him every time he walks on the court.
 
If Neari was a high school quarterback and wide out, you would think that he had some athleticism, which lil lick has nothing close to athleticism
 
IAJay said:
Hey I am not going to argue with that point because I completely agree that it is embarrassing to see a 5'7 chubby kid out there. You have semi convinced me though, I guess why not at least try Neari because it is hard to be worse than Lick has been lately. I feel bad for him because you can just tell the other team wants to abuse him every time he walks on the court.
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To change the subject... I have been thinking about this since the Purdue game in Carver when Lil Lick made his debut.. I don't think he is chubby.. I just think that he wears a baggy shirt underneath a tight jersey... Just my opinion.. what do you guys think? :)
 
He has a thickness to him that you don't see on most D1 point guards. It doesn't help that he is a midget who wears super long shorts too.
 
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