Husky Basketball
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At the beginning of the 2006 season, Montlake is buzzing. Coming off a Sweet 16 appearance and taking a number 1 seed in Conetticut to overtime. You just have recruited a Top 5 Center in Spencer Hawes, not to mention 3 other 4 stars in Adrian Oliver, Quincy Pondexter, and Phil Nelson a player who is expected to free up Spencer's down low game.
.Oh how it fell apart.
Now, in 2007, with two weeks remaining before Pac 10 play. The buzz around Husky basketball has faded into a mere hum. With Hawes heading toward the NBA after his freshman Romar was still optimistic. " I still beleive if Wolfinger can stay healthy and with the other recruits, we can compete for another Sweet 16 birth."
Here we are, 2007. We come into the season losing nobody except Hawes. Another Top 25 recruiting class and the return of Pac 10 first team pick Jon Brockman has Montlake recovering from the Hangover of Hawes's descison. A shaky at best win against Utah injects confidence into a young huskies team. But that confidence is short lived, when Phil Nelson announces his transfer to Portland State. Not soon after, Adrian Oliver announces his Transfer too."At this point my family needs me and I need to be closer to them. I'm going to find a school down there where I can be with my family at the same time."
Pondexter, the lone wolf from the once Blue blodded recruiting class, is left alone. "We thought we were going to be the catalyst to continue to change Husky basketball, so it could become like a Duke or a North Carolina," Pondexter said. "We thought our recruiting class was actually going to do that. It's unfortunate to have it pan out the way it did, but those things happen. People go their separate ways."
As a husky, I am left dissapointed, angry, but still hopeful. As long as we have Lorenzo Romar at the helm of the huskies, their will always be hope in Montlake. But still, many fans ponder on the class that could have been.
