Falls Basketball Team Takes on the Next 'Big Dog'

Glenn Robinson is coming back to play basketball in Milwaukee.

Not the Big Dog himself, but his son, Glenn Robinson III, who leads Lake Central, IN against Menomonee Falls at 4 p.m. Saturday in the second annual Brandon Jennings Invitational at Marquette University High School.

Before Jennings was a member of the Milwaukee Bucks he was an elite high school player; his namesake event features similar prep talents from around the country. Menomonee Falls is in the event for the second time thanks to Falls senior J.P. Tokoto, who will play next season at North Carolina. Falls lost to Lincoln High School of Brooklyn, NY 75-61 last year.

Tokoto averages about 27 points per game this season and is closing in on the Menomonee Falls school scoring record of 1,427 points, set by Brad Christenson (1990-93). His dunks are the stuff of legend. The Indians as a team are just 4-4 after a rough start, but they have won three games in a row.

Robinson, also a senior, is headed to to the University of Michigan. He averages 20.6 points for Lake Central (8-2), also nicknamed the Indians and ranked in the top 10 in Indiana.

But it’s Robinson’s lineage that adds special stature to his early stardom. In a state known for high school basketball legends — Oscar Robertson, Larry Bird and John Wooden are just three names who are not among the top 75 scorers in state history — Robinson was one of the best. He was Indiana’s Mr. Basketball and national player of the year, outdueled future NBA player Alan Henderson in the state championship game at the RCA Dome and then was an All-American at Purdue University.

He says his son is a better overall player than he was at this age, according to a lengthy feature in the Northwest Times of Indiana. Glenn Robinson lives in Atlanta while Glenn III grew up in Indiana, but despite the distance, Lake Central coach Dave Milasunic said there are uncanny similarities in their basketball.

Milausnic said the one feature that is so similar is the Robinson "turnaround jumper." They both have it. It was and is deadly."

"It's uncanny how similar it looks," Milausnic said.

The younger Robinson also can hold his own in a dunk contest.

There are five games in the event at Marquette; there are no ticket pre-sales and all-day tickets are available at the door.