Cookeville basketball player Bryce Herren said he has made it to the next stage of his basketball career.
Herren enters his junior year at Cookeville High School. Herren said he has relaxed into the role given to him. Herren said he looks to other facets of basketball to help encourage the Cavaliers.
“I’d say not necessarily leadership cause I think our senior, Brody Parsons, does that pretty well,” Herren said. “But just uplifting the team, being a team player, whether it’s getting the ball, hitting a shot, getting the ball, making the reversal, sliding over on defense, just whatever the team needs in the moment.”
Herren started playing basketball at point guard. Herren said he plays between the two guard positions. Herren said he would even play forward if the opportunity presented itself.
“So if I were to have a mismatch in a game and I have the opportunity to get them down low in the post, I take advantage of that,” Herren said. “But whatever the defense gives me, I take advantage of that.”
Herren said he looks to one main source for discovering how to play basketball the right way.
“Give the glory to my parents, they raised me right,” Herren said. “They taught me how to not only play basketball correctly but how to just be a good person so it’s kind of shed off into my basketball playing and how to be a team player and a team person.”
Herren said his parents would always tell him the right thing to do wherever they went.