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1. Isiah Stokley and his fellow Pioneers
teammates didn’t have the kind of
basketball season start they intend-
ed to have, but they determined to
change things up as they get ready
for a better year. “The beginning of
the season we started sluggish but
now we are starting to pick it up,”he
mentions. “We faced adversity with
injuries and losing to teams that we
could’ve beaten. Now we are start-
ing to turn the corner with the new
offense store end. I’m getting back
into the groove of things. I set a lot
of high expectations for myself and
and then frustrated when I wasn’t
meeting those expectations but
now things are coming along.”
Although Stokley hasn’t person-
ally meet his goals, he does men-
tion how he likes how his team has
grown together to become one unit.
Knowing that he can be better at his
game, Stokley is motivated to keep
working on his faults so that he can
contribute more to his team and
help them win because to him“that’s
what great players do.” But he isn’t
trying to set any more new expec-
tations on himself. Instead, his 2015
basketball NewYear’s resolution is to
take things game by game and focus
on things one day at a time.
Out of a scale from one to 10, Stok-
ley currently rates his game at a
seven because of his mediocre
start, but is looking to finish up the
season closer to a 10. And instead
of focusing on his own stats right
now, he is more focused on helping
his team win a championship. “The
stats will take care of themselves at
the end,”he declares.
Right now he’s making sure to put
in a lot of practice when it comes to
making shots and executing plays.
“I’m just learning to take my time
more and find players that are open,”
the guard says. And as he manages
to get one step closer to that cham-
pionship prize with every game he
plays, Stokley is just giving the game
his all in hopes that it will be enough
to get his team the big W. His best
game this season was against Frank-
lin Pierce because they beat them by
16 points in the first half and they are
one of the top ranked teams in the
country. But he had another solid
game against Southern Connecticut
State, which is another top team in
the nation, with Stokley admitting
that his game was on point against a
No. 2 ranked team.
Now he’s looking forward to beating
Bridgeport because they are the con-
ference champions and Dowling be-
cause his team has yet to beat them.
He also added that that he can’t wait
to go up against St. Thomas Aquanis
because he wants to shut them out
since they knocked the Pioneers out
of the playoffs last year.
As Stokley channels all his energy
and focus in helping his team win
and make it to the championships,
he’s also keeping an eye out for NBA
scouts.“If I can manage to be consis-
tent with my shot then I can go far
with my career. I know I will have to
play point guard at the next level so I
am working on that, too.”
Isiah StokleyAnd his fellow Pioneers teammates