Brownell Raves About Breakout Junior’s Evolution – The Clemson Insider

CLEMSON Clemson mens basketball opened their season with a 78-56 victory over Winthrop, and the Tigers got a lot of results out of a veteran thats proving this could be a breakout year.

Junior forward Ian Schieffelin had 29 starts under his belt coming into the 2023-24 season, but hes showing an exponential evolution headed into his third season. Head coach Brad Brownell talked about Schieffelins development, and how hes taken this next step after the win.

Hes good, man. I just think hes a good player. Made two out of three threes. Hes really worked hard, weve worked hard with him for a year and a half. Really maybe not his freshman year. Just started a little bit his freshman year, were working on it, Brownell said.

Schieffelin was crucial in the win over the Eagles, finishing with 16 points and seven rebounds on 5-of-8 shooting. He was displaying a tremendous amount of effort on the floor, and ripped down three offensive rebounds in the first half.

Shooting is something that Brownell and the staff have slowly worked into Schieffelins evolution. During practice, the players will take 100 threes and its something that certain players take very seriously. Schieffelin is in that group and its a testament to the work hes putting in day in and day out.

Ian made 80 one day., First time and he was celebrating like crazy because 80 out of 100 threes is pretty daggum good now, Brownell said. Like, I guess its in gym in practice but the standards are what they are and you can kind of measure yourself and as you watch your guys get better and reach these standards and fight for these standards, then you know how much they are into it and care. Hes a guy thats been really fighting for this.

As this season could be a special one for the Tigers, Schieffelin is the hard-nosed worker Clemson needs. Now, hes more than just that and with his development, Schieffelin is a catalyst for success in 2023-24.

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