By Alexis Grace | on September 28, 2021
By Roselyn Eberhardt | The Atlanta Voice
The College Park Skyhawks hosted tryouts past weekend. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Atlanta Hawks Organization)
The College Park Skyhawks hosted unfastened tryouts this past Sunday successful mentation for the upcoming 2021-22 NBA G-League season.
The tryouts, held astatine Woodward Academy successful Atlanta, were for an accidental for participants to onshore a spot connected the Skyhawks’ grooming campy roster. An estimated 70 participants showed up to the tryouts, but lone a fewer volition beryllium selected to articulation the precocious October grooming camp.
Steve Gansey, the Skyhawks’ recently named caput coach, was excited astir the large turnout.
“I was truly looking guardant to seeing who was going to amusement up and who was going to beryllium there,” Gansey said. “Being astatine Fort Wayne for a fig of years, I ever saw a antithetic benignant of subordinate travel done that portion retired determination successful the Midwest, truthful I was truly looking guardant to seeing what Atlanta had to offer.”
As the caller look of the Skyhawks, Gansey utilized the tryout league to invited newcomers to his benignant of coaching, “explaining immoderate of my philosophies offensively and defensively and archer them precisely what I privation to spot and what I privation them to do,” helium said.
The Skyhawks’ co-owner and rapper “2Chainz” joined the team’s tryouts and gave immoderate words of encouragement to the players who Gansey said were locked successful and actively listening.
The squad volition commencement the play with its archetypal crippled November 5 against the Maine Celtics.
“I’m truly looking guardant to speaking with our General Manager (GM) Tori (Miller) and the remainder of the unit and putting unneurotic this grooming campy roster and having a truly bully roster to commencement the play and hopefully triumph a batch of games and make these players,” Gansey said.
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