Posted Monday, August 17th, 2020
There was a time, not that long ago, when the New England Storm were producing prospects for every level of college basketball. Georges Niang started his AAU career in a Storm uniform while they had a host of others who went on to play in the NE-10, NESCAC, and a variety of other levels. More recently, they’ve been known for the sheer size of their program, with 60 teams ranging through New Hampshire and Massachusetts, but not necessarily the same…
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Posted Saturday, August 15th, 2020
Kimball Union Academy and Albany City Rocks guard Robert Brown III announced his verbal commitment to Niagara on Friday afternoon. The pledge brings Brown back closer to his home in upstate New York and also gives Niagara head coach Greg Paulus, another immediate impact talent from the local ranks. Brown previously starred at Albany Academy prior to transferring to KUA, where he earned first-team All-New England honors for a squad that won 21 games. A physically strong and aggressive player…
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Posted Friday, August 14th, 2020
Even for the most talented international prospects, the transition to the American game is rarely an easy one. It's a process that requires adjusting to new levels of speed, physicality, different styles of play, and even officiating. However, when the talent is there, sometimes it's just a matter of time before those prospects start putting it all together. And that could very likely be the case for incoming Cheshire Academy post-graduate Terence Crowley, who just completed his first two seasons…
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Posted Friday, August 14th, 2020
Did you know that one of the most famous NBA Skill Trainers in the world lives in Rhode Island. Rob McClanaghan has worked with Lebron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, John Wall, Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, and Candace Parker...to name a few. That's literally just the tip of the iceberg as he has risen to the top of the industry over the course of the last decade. In the latest episode of The Upside Podcast, McClanaghan visits with…
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Posted Friday, August 14th, 2020
Yesterday, we profiled the u17 squad of ASA Hoops, a team which has propelled the program into the world of college exposure with over 10 prospects capable of playing at the next level. Today comes the release of the movie trailer, video documentation of those prospects including the likes of Jake Harrison, Max Hall, Ryan Donahue, Duncan Bubar, Donte White Barboza, Jesse Spear, Jonathan Rears, Neruda Perdomo, Dan Prudovsky, Sam Prudovsky, Itai Alinsky, Darius Peterson, and Connor Strickland. Below you…
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Posted Thursday, August 13th, 2020
ASA Hoops is almost totally unique in the youth basketball space in New England. Now in their 23rd year of operation, they are a comprehensive youth basketball organization that offers camps, clinics, training, and AAU teams. They had over 4,500 participants enter their various programs in 2019 and were growing across the board heading into the new year. While they may be the largest camp operator in the region, they’re growth on the AAU side has been especially rapid in…
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Posted Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
The Be Seen Tour attended the 2020 BABC Summer Combine last week at the Sudbury Fieldhouse. The pro style combine was extremely well organized by BABC executive director Britney Papile and included agility testing (shuttle run, lane agility, three-quarter court sprint), measurements (height, wingspan, standing jump, and vertical jump) and on-court skill work. The class of 2023 began the first of two sessions. Reid Ducharme was the most notable standout of this group and predictably so following his huge freshman…
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Posted Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Yesterday, we broke down the roster for this year's Crown Basketball u17 team. Coming off a 38-2 campaign, including five major championships a year ago, Crown would have been hard-pressed to live up to that precedent, but this is a group that might have been poised to do just that. Sean Durugordon, Nick Spinoso, and TJ Long, three prospects who will all be in New England prep schools next year, are all back from last year's squad and form the…
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Posted Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Putnam Science Academy big man Elijah Hutchins-Everett announced his commitment to Penn State on Monday, already becoming the second member of the Mustang's 2021 class to commit to a high-major school. The New Jersey native was identified at a very early age because of his size and talent and has seen wide-ranging recruitment from various schools over the years. “I feel like you’ve got to be consistent,” he said. “That’s why I also liked Penn State. They always stayed consistent…
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Posted Monday, August 10th, 2020
The Crown Basketball Club may be officially based in Long Island but there is a strong New England connection. In fact, five of the team’s nine players will compete in local prep schools during the upcoming academic year. The most notable of those prospects is Sean Durugordon, who helped lead Canterbury to a NEPSAC championship this past season and will now spend his post-grad year at Putnam Science Academy. Durugordon is in the midst of a pretty incredible evolution as…
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