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BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Evan Cole, South Forsyth
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"ALL GROWN UP" // South Forsyth senior Evan Cole holds his phone showing a picture of him in ninth grade on the War Eagles basketball team. South head coach Scott Givens remembers him then as a 6-foot-3 string bean who was already displaying the potential that made him the 2016-17 FCN Boys Basketball Player of the Year. - photo by Micah Green
After a summer in which he racked up a flurry of college scholarship offers, South Forsyth senior forward Evan Cole anticipated he would receive the ultimate sign of respect from opponents this season: the junk defense. The question was, how would the 6-foot-8 forward handle it? “Every game, teams planned to try to stop him,” South head coach Scott Givens said.