re: #tAuburnBasketball Thread

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The Tigers are wrapping up their summer practice schedule this week and the two injured newcomers are now able to participate in some of the non-contact drills.

Summer signee Javon Franklin, who broke a bone in his leg during his first game of the 2018-19 season at Holmes Community College in Mississippi, is doing light, non-contact workouts. Franklin will be a redshirt freshman for the coming season. His junior college head coach, Jason Flanigan, told me that we will enjoy watching the six-foot-seven forward play because he is a very athletic guy who makes the type of plays that help win games.

Freshman Tyrell Jones had surgery in the spring for a tibial stress fracture. He is able to run now, but hasn’t been cleared to have contact work. Even at less than full speed, it is obvious the six-foot-one signee out of West Oaks Academy in Orlando, Fla., is quick. Nicknamed "Turbo," he is expected to share point guard duties with another quick guy, J’Von McCormick.

On the subject of McCormick, Bruce Pearl put the point guard and Samir Doughty under pressure to make a free throw at the end of Wednesday’s practice. The team would have to run extra wind sprints if either player missed a foul shot. Doughty stepped to the foul line first and made his free throw. McCormick followed with a shot that rimmed in and went out and that started the running drill.

McCormick stepped up to the line again with the consequence of a miss a longer series of wind sprints and he failed to make the free throw.

Pearl then changed the challenge. If McCormick made the free throw the coaches would all have to do 25 push-ups. If he missed the players would have to run a very long series of wind sprints. To the delight of his teammates, the senior made his foul shot.

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