Ryan Nembhard continues the historical season for GU Herren -Basketball | sport

When Ryan Nembhard drove against Santa Clara against Santa Clara on February 25, he saw another opening for a highlight reel game. GU -striker Michael Ajayi was wide under the basket and was eagerly awaiting the inevitable entry fun of his point guard.

Nembhard could have opted for a typical food – but a special occasion deserves a special piece. Nembhard threw an alleys for Ajayi, and the Pepperdine transfer emphasized her in a emphatic way. She logged Nembhards 285. Assist of the season and broke the record of the West Coast Conference for Einsaison Assists.

GU head coach Mark, Mark FEW endeavored to ring his senior point guard after the game.

“I go to bed every night and thank the Lord that he is our point Guard,” said only a few. “You sleep much better if you have such a point guard that can simply manage the game.”

But long before the praise of the coaches, record aid numbers and NBA efforts, Nembhard and his older brother Andrew in Aurora, Canada, a suburb of Toronto, grew up and learned to love the basketball game. Ryan Nembhard said that his two parents supported the emerging basketball talent of the two boys.

“It is just good to have this support system. My father was a trainer who grew up and always loved the game, (and) my mother loves the game,” said Nembhard. “I am very happy and blessed to have people who take care of me so much.”

Two years before the end of Nembhard, his older brother Canada left the Montverde Academy in Florida to play high school basketball. Montverde is one of the nation of the nation’s leading basketball programs, and the success of his brother prompted Ryan Nembhard to take the school into account and ultimately attend.

In Montverde, Nembhard played with several future prospects of Division I. Nembhard found that playing with such experienced athletes helped him improve his all-round game. However, participation in Montverde also introduced him to a new family in front of the square and helped him adapt to adult life.

“I thought it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made – to leave the house early, grow up, learn how to do things alone and just grew up as a man,” said Nembhard. “It was just fun to be with such a great group of people who loved and loved basketball and (be in such a family atmosphere).”

After his junior season in Montverde, Nembhard was completed in the 2021 class to start his college career a year earlier.

Although Nembhard was classified for a highly respected preparatory school in 247Sports recruits with the 68th place of 247sports recruits, it was not strongly recruited. He said Gu calculated, but Creighton was the only program that was seriously pursuing him.

But that did not mean that Creighton was a bad landing site for Nembhard. Rather, Nembhard believed that the blue play style of the Blue Jays fit him as a scorer and playmaker.

“It was a great place for me. It was a place where you like to get up and down,” said Nembhard. “I found it a good place where they put the ball in my hands and let me grow as a player and live through my good times and mistakes.”

When Nembhard entered the transfer portal after his second season, Arizona and GU were top candidates for his talents. Both schools offered similar fast -moving systems that put a lot of responsibility in the hands of a playful point Guard like Nembhard.

But when the time came to make his decision, Nembhard once again pulled a close-knit, family environment at a time that he found at GU.

Nembhard said that his brother’s experience also helped him as a Zack to pull him to school – but in the end he made the decision to come from his own will.

“Obviously I talked to him about it (and) I was nearby,” said Nembhard. “He told me some things in the recruitment process, but at the same time he wanted to make my own thing, make my own way and didn’t do exactly what he did.”

While foreign observers look at Creighton and GU and believe that the two fast -moving teams operate similar offensive systems, Nembhard said that the two programs are schematically very different and took some time to adapt to GUS System.

He quoted an important route around Christmas in 2023 as the point at which he felt comfortable when he came about with the system of little.

“Wherever they go, it will be an adaptation time,” said Nembhard. “There will be some things that are good for you (and) some things that don’t go well for you.”

This year Nembhard made a considerable leap in both his game and efficiency. Nembhard’s career height of 9.8 assists per game leads the country, and he could move into the top 5 of the NCAA in the NCAA’s assists in the only season before the end of the year.

“He sees everything,” said the senior striker Graham Ike. “He knows how to pass the right passes through the right gaps and so on. I always expect the ball.”

Nembhard has also improved as a 3-point shooter. His career best from Deep was 35.6%. This season he shoots 39.3% of beyond the arch.

“I definitely wanted to make a few jumps in this area this summer and be able to score out of the leap,” said Nembhard. “I and (co -trainer Stephen) Gentry have worked a lot on creation and reducing shots.”

Ike said Nembhard’s improved shootout had put the defenses in the ball screens under greater stress.

“It definitely opens our offensive because it is now difficult to go under your ball screen – you have to get over it because it shoots the ball so well,” said Ike. “So it’s like picking your poison. He will survive, or he will beat you with one or three means or a nice little floater. He has everything in his arsenal.”

While Ike praised his Senior Point Guard, Nembhard also endeavored to give his pick-and-roll partner props. The two had a symbiotic relationship on the square this season, with IKE with an average of 17.1 points per game – largely opposite Nembhard’s play on.

“It took a little time to find out, but as soon as we did it, we made ourselves on the floor and it was something special,” said Nembhard about the bond he shared with IKE. “Everything I have to do is to get the ball often and he finds out the rest.”

In his two seasons, Nembhard founded all of his teammates at Gu Enge bonds and credited the culture of the program as the reason for this.

“(GU is) a special place where you can be part of a family and a tradition like no other,” said Nembhard. “This is a place where the boys get together and boys all rock together and take care of each other.”

Outside the game campaign, Ike noticed that the hard -working habits of Nembhard have had a positive impact on the rest of the team.

“Everything they do with a narrow group of people spent so much time with them … Whatever they do or do they do, it will be contagious, good or bad,” said Ike about Nembhard’s work morality. “So it’s definitely worn out, and the way I approach the game and some of my teammates.”

While Nembhard is preparing to close his college career, to leave his GU family and possibly join a new one in the NBA, there are questions about experts about his size and the ability to achieve the physicality and size of the league.

But Nembhard doesn’t think much about this concerns.

“To be honest, I don’t care,” said Nembhard. “I played all my life on this highlight of basketball, so it’s what it is … exactly what I am and who I am.”

To judge according to his previous success, we may not be interested.