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Show i. ; ' f V H I GREG GURR Greg Proves He's Not Too Small By DAVE WIGHAM WOODS CROSS When you're a senior in high school with a physical build of 5' 10" and 115 lbs., one can usually assume you're involved in wrestling. DON'T LOOK for Greg Gurr of Woods Cross on a mat , though, because you'll never see him in a wrestling uniform. Greg does wear a Wildcat out-, out-, fit, but it's a basketball unit.. Greg is one of the starting guards for the Cats this season and is one of the reasons for their early success. "I have a definite role on this varsity team," Greg confided. "It's to get the ball up the floor and get it inside to the big people. To do that I have to penetrate and dish off. Then if the other team sags inside I have to hit the outside shot to make them honest." BEING CONSIDERED small is no stranger to the likeable like-able senior, he's had to face up to it all his life. "The junior high school coaches never said I was too small but I could tell they sometimes thought it," he laughed. Greg was born and raised in this area and started his basketball bas-ketball career in junior high in the 7th grade team. At that time he stood only 5'2" and wore size 6V2 shoes. He's grown up a little since then but his feet never did grow. "1 take a lot of razzing about my little feet," he laughed. SIZE notwithstanding, Greg started in the 8th and 9th grade and was one of the standouts of the team. He wasn't without problems though, especially in the shooting area. "I used to shoot down low by my hip. I guess it was the only way . I could get it up there, but the coaches told me I had to get the ball up or I'd never get a shot off in high school," he admitted. You see, in junior high basketball, bas-ketball, most teams play a zone defense so Greg didn't have any trouble getting his long range bombs up. But, in high school, he sees a lot of man to man and had to learn how to shoot above his head. "At first I just wasn't strong enought to shoot from up there, I had to start out right under the basket and gradually move out from there." OBVIOUSLY for someone of his size to start in basketball the coaches must have seen something in his play. "He's an excellent ballhandler and foul shooter," noted one of his coaches. Ah, foul shooting. Something Some-thing some players are excited about if they shoot 50 percent. Greg Gurr, though, just might be the best foul shooter in the area. Going into his game last week with Brighton, Greg was 23 of 23 on the season. CLYDE JACKSON, the junior varsity coach at Woods Cross, can remember one game last year when it was the foul shooting of Greg that decided de-cided the outcome. "We were playing Bountiful and in the fourth quarter we went to the four corner spread offense. They kept foulinR and for the most part it was Greg because he was handling the ball the most. AH he did was sink 14 of 14 from the line in the 4th period along to win it for us." It was while playing JV 1st season that Greg started to get some recognition for his play. The junior varsity coaches got together and selected their all-region all-region team much like the varsity var-sity coaches do. Greg Gun-was Gun-was a first team selection. RECOGNITION doesn't bother this guy. "As long as people think I show poise and team leadership I'm alright," he confessed. Greg is one of those guys that plays basketball the year around, though, he does confess con-fess to not liking the university camps that much. "I'm not a real fan of those camps. They teach you the drills but they don't give you the time to work on them. I really don't think that they were that productive." produc-tive." PLAYING IN a sport that is suppose to revolve around giants isn't easy for someone like Greg Gurr. He's worked hard and the work has paid off for both him and his team. |