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Mississippi State F Reggie Perry shines in debut with USA U19 squad
How is Mississippi State F Reggie Perry spending the summer between his freshman and sophomore seasons?
After going through the NBA Draft process, he decided to return to school. For now, though, he’s off in Greece for the FIBA U19 World Cup.
And, in his debut game for Team USA, he had a great performance. As you can see below, he scored 20 points, six rebounds, three steals and two blocks:
https://twitter.com/HailStateMBK/status/1145116622895685633
Team USA easily took care of New Zealand, winning 111-71. The U.S. is in Group A, along with New Zealand, Lithuania and Senegal.
Perry and his teammates will take on Lithuania on Sunday. This is valuable experience for the rising sophomore and all the other young stars on the World Cup squad.
If this guy takes a big step forward this year…I’ll be excited. I felt he was a little heavy-footed, but he has a lot of grit, power that we’ve needed, and rebounds like a champ. Our bigs next year should be strong between Reggie, Woodard, and Adu. The key will be our backcourt and shooting. Tyson and Nick need to be special to make a strong run.
He is the key to the where we go. No doubt.