Dear AP voters, this is Makana Stone. How could you not vote for her? (John Fisken photos)
Izzy Severns, great person, good hoops player. All-State in soccer? Heck yes. In basketball that slot belonged to Stone.
The people who voted for the Associated Press All-State basketball teams are either blind, easily bribed or just morons.
I understand Coupeville is a small town, on an Island, and 99.2% of reporters and editors at the big city papers pay absolutely no attention to us.
Cause how else do you explain the fact Makana Stone, the slam-dunk MVP of the Olympic League, leader of a Wolf squad that went 9-0 in league play and won every game by 15+ points, was left off the AP’s list, while another player from the same league, is on there?
With all due respect to Klahowya’s Izzy Severns, who seems like a really nice young woman and was (arguably) the second best player in the league, huh?
Stone was the dominant player on the dominant team, and it wasn’t even close.
Coupeville went 15-7. Klahowya went 4-15.
Severns was a hustler, a scrapper and a decent scorer on a team that went nowhere.
Stone was the league’s transcendent player, doing anything and everything needed that night to fuel a team that rolled to a league title.
Coupeville’s JV, which also went 9-0 in league play, would have given the Wolf varsity more of a sustained challenge than Klahowya did.
Dominant on the boards, rejecting shots, making off with steals, able to change the flow of the game by herself (at one point she poured in 22 straight points for CHS) or work within a total team-orientated game, Stone was the whole package.
Now, Severns was, quite justifiably, a First Team All-State soccer player, where she helped lead the Eagles to a state title.
Did voters, many (if not all) of whom never saw a single game played by an Olympic League team, just vote for a name they recognized from the fall?
Cause, if they actually saw Stone play and still want to make an argument for voting in favor of one of her runner-ups, maybe it’s time to consider changing jobs.
Maybe try doing something that hires the legally blind.
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