Flying Wallenda wrote:ndlionsfan wrote:MPCG vs Hillsboro isn't the subject.....I'll put up Leeds vs MPCG
PG - Brett Moser vs Craig Nelson....yeah Moser played a 3 his last two years, but he took a team to state playing the point as a sophomore. Craig and him are close to the same size, build, and speed. They were both great shooters and two of the smartest players I've seen play. It's a tossup.
SG - Jason Haagenson vs Ben Jacobson....not even close here. Haagenson would win this matchup. Tough as nails, quick as heck, best player on the court for each of these teams period.
SF - Corey Bisbee or Carl Ahlberg vs Kraft....pretty close matchup, but I'll give the edge to Kraft. Ahlberg and Kraft guarded each other in the 98 state tourney and played basically even on both ends of the court. Bisbee was another tough player, but since Ahlberg was a bit taller (6'2" to 5'10") I'd take him to match up against Kraft.
PF - Jeremy Wolf vs Klabo....not even close here either. Wolf is the best player from ND that nobody has heard of. If Wolford would have kept their stats when he was playing varsity in JH before playing with Leeds, he would have been one of the top 10 scorers in ND history. Wolf's post moves and soft touch would have dominated Klabo and their height and weight is basically a wash. He was a monster of the boards as well and Klabo wouldn't get a single offensive board.
C - Erik Engstrom vs. Kyle Nelsen...another close matchup. Could really go either way, but I'll give a slight edge to Nelsen. Kyle really improved his senior year and I was really impressed with how he played inside. He was very fundamentally sound. Engstrom was a good scorer and defender, but just like Nelsen didn't play against too many people his same size in HS. If you put them head to head, Nelsen gets the nod because of fundamentals.
Overall, I think if these two teams played against each other 10 times, Leeds pulls it off 6-4 with the difference being Jason Haagenson. He would take them on his back when it mattered and will his team to a win.
1)Kent Flickinger was in my opinion the 2nd best player to ever come out of Leeds after Haagenson.
2)Wolf was from Wolford, not Leeds...if you are including Wolford, you need to have Vance Bowersox, who led Wolford to the state runnerup in 1968, probably the best ever to come out of Wolford, or Mark Hochstetler.
3)There was a reason Ben Jacobson was a 3 or 4 year starter at UND, including starting on the team that made the final 8....he was excellent, ya gotta give him more credit than saying he's "not even close" to Haagenson.
well thanks for taking my arguments for jacobson lol...he was only a 2 year starter...but oh well