Post by elp525 on May 4, 2011 7:42:16 GMT -5
05/04/2011
Chip Fontanazza
Morgantown
Before Logan’s Paul Herbert Williamson decided to walk on at WVU he was almost ready to take a visit to BYU. That was one of the schools out west that showed a lot of interest in Williamson. Over the summer, the sharp shooting guard played in an AAU Tournament in Las Vegas and had some of the best games of his career.
It wasn’t long after that he got interest from many schools in the Mountain West Conference and he also had one of the most memorable moments of his life when he talked to the BYU coaching staff.
“They said that I played like Jimmer Fredette,” said an energetic Williamson. “They saw parts of him in me.”
“That was the best compliment that I ever got in my life,” continued Williamson. “That’s who I want to play like.”
Long before Fredette led the nation in scoring and won the National Player of the Year award, Williamson was following his every move. The nation’s top player wasn’t highly recruited out of high school and teams criticized him for only being 6-foot-2. All of that sounded familiar to Williamson because he is also that size and teams doubted him because of that. Oh, and he can make shots consistently from beyond 25 feet, just like Fredette.
“Jimmer Fredette is my hero,” claimed Williamson. “He’s a 6-foot-2 guy and he won Player of the Year and nobody would have thought that about him heading out of high school. If he can go do something like that I just want to be able to go out there and compete.”
That wasn’t the only reason they compared him to ‘The Jimmer’. The Cougars’ coaching staff said he and Fredette have the same body type and played the same way coming out of high school. Williamson even admitted he stole a few moves from the nation’s top player.
There are also a few other comparisons to make for both of the sharp shooting guards. In Fredette’s final season of high school he averaged 25 points per game and Williamson averaged 24.6 points per game and both were also named first-team all-state in their junior and senior seasons.
Even though Williamson chose to come to Morgantown before he even had a chance to visit BYU, he said the main reason the Cougars were interested in him was because he was very similar to one of the best players in their school’s history.
“That’s why they contacted me.”
Chip Fontanazza
Morgantown
Before Logan’s Paul Herbert Williamson decided to walk on at WVU he was almost ready to take a visit to BYU. That was one of the schools out west that showed a lot of interest in Williamson. Over the summer, the sharp shooting guard played in an AAU Tournament in Las Vegas and had some of the best games of his career.
It wasn’t long after that he got interest from many schools in the Mountain West Conference and he also had one of the most memorable moments of his life when he talked to the BYU coaching staff.
“They said that I played like Jimmer Fredette,” said an energetic Williamson. “They saw parts of him in me.”
“That was the best compliment that I ever got in my life,” continued Williamson. “That’s who I want to play like.”
Long before Fredette led the nation in scoring and won the National Player of the Year award, Williamson was following his every move. The nation’s top player wasn’t highly recruited out of high school and teams criticized him for only being 6-foot-2. All of that sounded familiar to Williamson because he is also that size and teams doubted him because of that. Oh, and he can make shots consistently from beyond 25 feet, just like Fredette.
“Jimmer Fredette is my hero,” claimed Williamson. “He’s a 6-foot-2 guy and he won Player of the Year and nobody would have thought that about him heading out of high school. If he can go do something like that I just want to be able to go out there and compete.”
That wasn’t the only reason they compared him to ‘The Jimmer’. The Cougars’ coaching staff said he and Fredette have the same body type and played the same way coming out of high school. Williamson even admitted he stole a few moves from the nation’s top player.
There are also a few other comparisons to make for both of the sharp shooting guards. In Fredette’s final season of high school he averaged 25 points per game and Williamson averaged 24.6 points per game and both were also named first-team all-state in their junior and senior seasons.
Even though Williamson chose to come to Morgantown before he even had a chance to visit BYU, he said the main reason the Cougars were interested in him was because he was very similar to one of the best players in their school’s history.
“That’s why they contacted me.”
