BBL honour for Wolves’ Prezzie-Blue (From Worcester News)

BBL honour for Wolves’ Prezzie-Blue

5:45pm Wednesday 7th December 2011 in Worcester Wolves

SHERRAD Prezzie-Blue has once more been named in the BBL Team of the Week in recognition of his 35 points and 12 assists in Worcester Wolves’ victories over Mer-sey Tigers and Guildford Heat.

While taking this plaudit for the third time this season is undoubtedly an honour, Prezzie-Blue would surely give up all three awards if it means that his side make it past the daunting challenge of Plymouth Raiders in this weekend BBL Cup semi-final.

In Wolves’ 77-76 triumph over the Raiders a few weeks ago, Prezzie-Blue needed all his skills to be the last man standing in a back-and-forth battle of the point guards against Plymouth’s outstanding play-maker Jeremy Bell.

The Worcester star said: “Jeremy Bell is a tough player. I’m going to have to dig down on defence and make it a hard night for him.”

Prezzie-Blue feels Raiders are likely to want to quickly make amends for losing in such agonising fashion in their last encounter.

“They’ll be coming out with energy, but on Saturday we’ll have a big crowd behind us, and we’ll come out and give it one hundred per cent,” he said Wolves director of basketball Paul James also knows what his side will need to do.

He said: “In the last match between the teams, Bell and Prezzie both had fantastic games for their teams, but Plymouth Raiders also have other high impact players such as Paul Williams and Anthony Rowe.

“We are going to do our homework, look at what we did well last time and look at what we can improve on.”

As the excitement continues to build towards Saturday evening’s first leg (7pm), supporters are advised to contact the University of Worcester Sports Centre to secure their tickets.