{"id":522922,"date":"2026-01-17T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:08:14","slug":"prep-talk-sophomore-guard-sho-evans-is-coming-on-fast-for-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522922\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Sophomore guard Sho Evans is coming on fast for Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sho Evans of Cleveland High was thrown into the fire as a freshman guard last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hard,\u201d he said. \u201cI was trying not to mess up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This season as a 6-foot-4 sophomore, you can see his growing confidence and calmness. He\u2019s had a 39-point game and isn\u2019t afraid to launch a three.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned to play with confidence and take what the defense gives me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The development of Evans gives Cleveland another offensive weapon to go with 6-8 center Sergine Deme and guards TJ Wansa and Charlie Adams.<\/p>\n<p>Evans had 17 points on Wednesday in a win over Granada Hills. His first name comes from his Japanese roots. <\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers have Shohei Ohtani, but Cleveland is happy to have its own Sho.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sho Evans of Cleveland High was thrown into the fire as a freshman guard last season. \u201cIt was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":522923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,232571,232569,13593,10282,2442,124821,160797,66100,2961,224,5337,449,111832,4712,232568,232570,15613,2030],"class_list":{"0":"post-522922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-center-sergine-deme","11":"tag-charlie-adams","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-confidence","14":"tag-dodgers","15":"tag-evans","16":"tag-first-name","17":"tag-granada-hills","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-point","22":"tag-prep-talk","23":"tag-shohei-ohtani","24":"tag-sophomore-guard-sho-evans","25":"tag-tj-wansa","26":"tag-wednesday","27":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115910837243581892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}