Every season Jonesboro boys basketball coach Dan Maehlman encounters the same challenge. Freshman enter the Cardinals program coming from different middle schools with varying degrees of basketball knowledge.
To Maehlman, they are a clean slate. One freshman surprised Maehlman this season when he asked the Jonesboro coach, "What's a charge?"
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