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Article: Batavia to honor East's Wyatt this Saturday
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Watching Thomas Wyatt play basketball was like peeking over Rembrandt's shoulder as he stroked paint on canvass.
There was no such thing as an equal playing field when Wyatt was on the floor. A slender 6-foot-5, Wyatt could shoot the outside jump shot or take the orange to the rack with the ability of a ballet dancer.
He was a pounding headache for defenders. Jump up in his face and his first step left you in several shades of red as you grasped at air. Play off him and he'd take that soft jump shot.
It was on the press where Wyatt was most dangerous. Scott Martens, his coach at East Aurora from 1987-90, had a gleam in his eyes when he installed Thomas at the point of the Tomcat pressure. ...