Inexperienced TL boys aim to turn negatives into positives

  • Junior guard Tristan Dupris, 24, is one of just a handful of returning letterwinners for the Timber Lake Panthers this season after all five starters and the sixth man from last year’s team graduated this spring.
    Junior guard Tristan Dupris, 24, is one of just a handful of returning letterwinners for the Timber Lake Panthers this season after all five starters and the sixth man from last year’s team graduated this spring.

    With Timber Lake graduating all five starters and the sixth man off last year’s 18-4 squad, it’s easy to label the 2022-23 boys basketball campaign a “rebuilding” season for the Panthers.

    Gone are last year’s MVP, leading scorer (16 ppg.) and All-State selection Hank Kraft, Chazz Gabe, Kedrick Martin, Jayce Lawrence, Dixon Booth and Brandt Ducheneaux - the core of a Panther team that won both the L…