The British Basketball League is in full swing, and several players are beginning to shine. Mason Faulkner of the Plymouth City Patriots, on the other hand, has been one of the season’s biggest shocks.
The Plymouth City Patriots won their first game of the season in week three, defeating the B. Braun Sheffield Sharks. After being winless in their first three games, the Patriots were finally able to play the offence they had envisioned and beat the Sharks.
This victory, however, has been a long time coming, and while TJ Atwood and Elvisi Dusha have showed their class to begin the season, it has been new addition Mason Faulkner who has put the league on notice.
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Faulkner, an American shooting guard who has spent five of the last six years in college in the United States, was little known but had previously demonstrated his skill.
Mason Faulkner arrived in the British Basketball League fresh from the elite University of Louisville. Faulkner’s finest stay came at Western Carolina, when he was able to demonstrate his scoring prowess, averaging slightly over 17 points per game in two seasons.
Faulkner is starting the British Basketball League season where he left off at Western Carolina.
Faulkner has scored more than 20 points in each of his first three games this season, averaging 21.3 points per game. To go along with this, Faulkner has demonstrated his all-around talent, averaging 2.7 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game.
Faulkner trails Matt Morgan of the London Lions in scoring (Morgan averages 21.5), and the 25-year-old is determined to show the league and all of the fans that he is coming to conquer.
His four three-pointers made per game demonstrate his amazing shooting talents, and he is helping to spread the floor for players like Atwood and Taylor Johnson to drive and pass, allowing Plymouth to play a more fluid attack. Faulkner is now in the well-known 50/40/90 ratio.
