Manny Obaseki named SEC Player of the week after 25-point outburst
“MO” owned the Magnolia State.
On Monday morning, the Southeastern Conference named Manny Obaseki its Co-Player of the Week following a pair of much-needed Texas A&M victories.
Obaseki shares the honor with Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves.
With the Aggies’ NCAA Tournament hopes flickering, Obaseki stepped up.
The Allen product scored 17 points in Wednesday’s 75-69 win over Mississippi State at Reed Arena before going off for 25 in a Saturday afternoon 86-60 pummeling of Ole Miss in Oxford.
With those two wins, the Aggies finished 9-9 and will begin play at the SEC Tournament in Nashville on Thursday night.
Whatever success A&M has at Bridgestone Arena should help solidify the Maroon & White’s spot in the 68-team field.
Whatever success A&M finds will likely hinge on Obaseki continuing this hot stretch.
On Wednesday, the junior was 6-of-12 from the field — including 2-for-3 from deep — to finish with a team-high 17 as Obaseki paced a quartet of Aggies in double figures.
His encore performance on Saturday was even better.
In 20 minutes of action, Obaseki hit four triples and was 9-of-14 for 25 points to lead all scorers in a revenge game the Aggies had to have.
His 25 points also served as a career-high.
Obaseki is now the fourth Aggie to be named the SEC’s Player of the Week this season.
Henry Coleman III earned the honor of Nov. 20, Wade Taylor IV on Dec. 18 and Tyrece Radford on Feb. 12.
Those three and Obaseki will likely be leaned upon again come Thursday night.
You obviously don't know ball or didn't watch the game. The Aggies were up by 20+ nearly the entire second half. No need to play guys more than needed, especially if they are already on a good note.ObviousLazyRiverIsObvious said:
Interesting that he played only 20 minutes ... why not a few more given that he was obviously playing so well?
BuzzFan24 said:You obviously don't know ball or didn't watch the game. The Aggies were up by 20+ nearly the entire second half. No need to play guys more than needed, especially if they are already on a good note.ObviousLazyRiverIsObvious said:
Interesting that he played only 20 minutes ... why not a few more given that he was obviously playing so well?
- I coach ball
- I watched the whole game
- At 6:14 remaining in the second half, we led by 26 points after Ole Miss made the first of 2 FTs. Buzz could have rested guys at that point, but Taylor, Radford, Washington and Manny remained in the game.
- If resting guys was the obvious move, then why did Taylor, Radford, Washington and Garcia all log at least 29 minutes? Even Carter got 23. But Manny was held to 20 minutes for the sake of rest? That's a non sequitur.
Pretty sure manny picked up 3 fouls in first half and that's why he only played 20 min.
Sometimes buzz is too careful with this imo.
Got it.