Team ABA, AAU tournament at the Beaverton Hoop

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The Beaverton Hoop is famous for always hosting exceptional aau basketball tournaments on Fridays, and weekend days. College basketball coaches from all over come to this tournament, and look to find players that they feel have a great chance to play at the next level. Team ABA is a basketball team from Vancouver Washington, and they are a team of all unsigned seniors from the class of 2019. Many players on the team already have offers from colleges, however, some players are looking to seek more offers after the tournament is over. Two standout guards that are on college coaches radars that are on Team ABA are James Husband, and Alex Schumacher. Team ABA was playing against the Salem Hoop team on Friday May 17. The Salem Hoop have a standout guard Drayton Caoile who was the class of 2019 but he is reclassifying to the class of 2020. College coaches were swarming to come watch the matches between these two top teams in the tournament. Salem Hoop ended coming up victories this game, and beat Team ABA by 38 points. Final score of the game was 84 to 46. Coaoil finished the game with 25 points, and 8 assists. Husband finished with 14 points, and Schumacher finished with 20 points.









Alex Schumacher drives baseline












James Husband defends Dray Caoile full court.













Travion Weiss finishes contact layup.












Alex Schumacher finds space in the key, and drives straight to the hoop for the layin.












Dwight Jones dribbles the ball up the court.















Alex Schumacher finishes and 1 free throw












Dwight Jones shoots 2 foul shots at the line.












Alex Schumacher gets a steal and finishes fast break layup.










Team ABA head coach calls a timeout.











Team ABA









James Husband subs back into the ball game

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