{"id":3341,"date":"2011-03-03T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2011-03-03T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:44:57","slug":"the-unstoppable-alexis-jones-comes-through-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/the-unstoppable-alexis-jones-comes-through-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unstoppable Alexis Jones Comes Through Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3343\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alexisjones4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3343\" title=\"Alexisjones4\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alexisjones4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"522\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Jones is shown here playing for the USA National Team last summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Irving (TX) MacArthur guard and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/app.nsr-inc.com\/prospectResume\/pProspectResume.aspx?id=183218\">NSR 2012 basketball prospect, Alexis Jones<\/a><\/strong>, couldn\u2019t be stopped.\u00a0 North Crowley coach Stephani Gray knew as much.\u00a0 \u201cYou get closer to her, and she goes past you,\u201d Gray said. \u201cYou give her a few inches, and she shoots a three over you.\u201d\u00a0 And more often, Jones chose the former.<\/p>\n<p>Driving to the basket at will, Jones showed why she\u2019s considered one of the top juniors in the country, scoring 35 points \u2014 going 20-for-23 from the free throw line \u2014 in MacArthur\u2019s 68-55 win over North Crowley in the Class 5A Region I semifinal at Wilkerson-Greines Activity Center in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy plan was to drive to the paint, and kick it \u2014 try to get my wings warmed up so that they can knock down a shot when I need it,\u201d Jones said.\u00a0 After making two first-quarter 3-pointers as MacArthur (34-2) jumped out to a 14-10 lead, Jones hit the first of 17 consecutive free throws in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Jones and Khoria Newman \u2014 who scored 16 points \u2014 MacArthur\u2019s lead ballooned to double-digits before halftime.\u00a0 When North Crowley (35-3) closed the lead to six, 39-33, with 2:46 remaining in the third quarter, Jones stepped up, scoring or assisting on all but two of MacArthur\u2019s final 29 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irving (TX) MacArthur guard and NSR 2012 basketball prospect, Alexis Jones, couldn\u2019t be stopped.\u00a0 North Crowley coach Stephani Gray knew as much.\u00a0 \u201cYou get closer to her, and she goes past you,\u201d Gray said. \u201cYou give her a few inches, and she shoots a three over you.\u201d\u00a0 And more often, Jones chose the former. Driving &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/the-unstoppable-alexis-jones-comes-through-once-again\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[7,10,13,27,56,57,59,222,94,119,137,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}