Posted Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Both the New England Playaz and Mass Rivals were a perfect 2-0 heading into Friday night’s games. That is particularly impressive for the Playaz, considering they were placed in one of the tournament’s “Super Pools”. The 8 Super Pools in the field are designated for what the tournament directors deem as the top 32 teams. Consequently, each of those teams play three highly competitive pool play games and then receive an automatic spot into the gold bracket following the conclusion…
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Posted Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
The Bay State Jaguars Elite team recently returned from Memphis, Tennessee, where they took 7th place in the AAU U13 Division I National Championships. Point guard Patrick Benzan, an alum of the Hoop Mountain Junior Elite Camp, thrived all week for the Jaguars as he helped to lead them to wins over the San Francisco Rebels, Perkasie Knights (Pennsylvania), North Kentucky Tar Heels, All Ohio Red, The Future Players (Maryland), Cincinnati Lakers, and Kentucky Elite. The 7th place finish was…
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Posted Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
In a time where most exposure events focus on game play, Five Star Basketball Camp is sticking to it's roots, by focusing on teaching the fundamentals of the game. This past week at Springfield College, Five Star made it's Western Massachusetts debut with about 80 campers traveling from Spain, Japan, Arizona, along with New York and New England like you might expect. Five Star had two sets of four drill stations per day. Each individual station lasted twenty minutes. Needless…
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Posted Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
The first ten days of the live period was a busy time in New England. In fact, we would venture to say that 2009 set a record in terms of the amount of college coaches who traveled to New England in the month of July. It began of course with Hoop Mountain and their Super Week Camps, The Elite 75 Showcase brought all of the region’s top players together in front of roughly 50 coaches (40 from the division I…
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Posted Monday, July 20th, 2009
Denzel Brito was a busy man during the first ten days of the July live period. In fact, he didn’t take a day off. From July 5th – 8th he was in Cincinnati with his New England Playaz team at the Adidas It Takes 5ive Classic. After catching a flight home on the night of the 8th, the Playaz practiced on the morning of the 9th and then headed over to the Elite 75 Showcase, where Brito made the all-star…
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Posted Sunday, July 19th, 2009
St. Anthony's legendary head coach Bob Hurley will be hosting two clinics next month, both of which will be presented by Reebok Basketball and Shooting Touch. Coach Bob Hurley's Kids Clinic is a four day clinic for boys and girls in grades 3 through 8. The clinic will be held from August 10th to the 13th at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts and will include a focus on offensive fundamentals, instruction on the mental aspects of the game, as well…
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Posted Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Few players were better in the first half of the July live period than Billy Baron. He played to rave reviews at virtually every stop along the way, and as he thrived so did his Expressions Elite team, playing arguably their best basketball of the year in the last two weeks. But despite all that, Baron worries that perhaps not all college coaches were paying too much attention because they assumed he would automatically follow in his brother’s footsteps to…
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Posted Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Pat Chambers has landed his first commitment since taking over the program at Boston University. Chambers, who was previously an assistant coach at Villanova, returned to his old stomping ground to pick up 6'1" guard Mike Terry from North Catholic High School in Philadelphia. Terry is a shot maker who averaged just under 12 points per game while connecting on 46% of his attempts from behind the three-point line as a junior, earning him recognition as All First Team in…
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Posted Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Last Friday marked the final day of of the 1st Annual Massachusetts Elite Camp. The camp was set up as a combination team camp as well as a teaching and exposure camp. For the first year, the attendance at the camp was much more than the directors expected. The talented group of campers featured a very solid group of point guards led by Jasper Grassa, Kadeem Monroe, Osmal Odena and many more who ran their teams effectively Altogether, it was…
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Posted Friday, July 17th, 2009
So much now rides on the month of July it’s almost not fair. With the NCAA making it more difficult every year for college coaches to get efficient time to evaluate prospects, July is now the only time of the year when kids, who don’t go to a high profile high school or prep school, can hope to catch the attention of college coaches. The consequence is that the kids burn themselves out playing practically every day this month. But…
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