After an offseason hitting the weights and expanding his game, Central Catholic’s Isaac Carr developed into one of the state’s top boys basketball recruits

Central Catholic vs. West Linn in Oregon 6A boys basketball quarterfinals

The Central Catholic Rams take on the West Linn Lions in the OSAA Class 6A boys basketball state quarterfinals on Thursday, March 9, 2023, at the Chiles Center in Portland. West Linn won 49-45.Howard Lao for The Oregonian/OregonLive

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The youngest of six siblings, all athletes, no less, Isaac Carr couldn’t do much to avoid the constant competition.

By second grade, he had adopted the nickname Ikey Buckets because, at a time “most kids couldn’t make layups, he was shooting threes,” said Kendrick Williams, Carr’s AAU coach. Carr had one of the purest push shots of any kid Williams had seen.

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