Brooklyn College Academy’s Tarik Phillip and one of Manhattan Center’s finest were the N.Y. Knicks’ hardest worker MVP’s during the second session of Jim Couch Reunion Conditioning Clinic front page photo: Alton Ritter.
Manhattan Center needs to hit me back with the name of our hard worker!
***Last Sunday’s Rising Freshman Recap if you keep reading and click more below***.
Last Saturday’s 3rd Annual Jim Couch Reunion Games saw some of the best players from the Tri-State area display talent that has many high school, college and streetball/AAU coaches anxious to be a part of. A middle-school star from New Jersey emerged, a budding young streetball legend showed up in the fourth quarter to try to rally his team and a down to the wire Rising Sophomore Game had the crowd on its feet. There was also a strong showing by the daughter of a legendary streetball coach in the Girls High School Uptown Challenge Game and a primo offensive display by John F. Kennedy shooting guard Jeff Short in the High School Challenge Game that was won by Westchester, led by ultra-talented Jabari Hinds. Read More »
Milton “UltraReady” Lee (back turned) and Sean “In Fin” Couch demonstrate closing out on a defender. Photo: Alton Ritter.
Baruch College turned into one big turntable early Sunday morning as players from NYC’s Public School Athletic League got into the rhythm of basketball conditioning on the run. Over 90 boys and girls representing 10 P.S.A.L teams came out to work on their conditioning for the upcoming season. With sneakers stuttering against waxy wood, the players got into our world-famous tap rebounding drill that takes players out of the gym, up staircases and back into the gym to catch a basketball on the far side of the court, tap it against the backboard and take off again. Trainer Milton Lee dropped cones like they were hot during the drill, turning the straight run into a defensive sliding, shuffle cutting, stutter-stepping frenzy that had the gym in a rhythm that lovers of straight ball and the street game appreciate. Read More »
Jerron playing Grown Man Ball at Together We Chill
I got a chance to see Jerron Love last week at Lex’s 8th grade showcase at the Brooklyn Rec Center and came away impressed. Got an e-mail from his Dad today saying that he was going to make the 3:00 pm Middle School Game at JFK on 230th Street in the Bronx. For you backpackers, take the 1 train to 231st and hit 230th and go down 3 blocks. Kennedy HS is on the left.
Featured on Streetball.com and in Spain’s Crossover Magazine, could Jerron be the next “Skip?” Come through Saturday at JFK in the Bronx and check it out.
The Jim Couch Reunion Weekend is in full swing with seven games coming at you over a two day period. On Saturday, four top dog games will kick off at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx. Look forward to a super strong middle school game pitting New York vs New Jersey, a sophomore game also featuring New York vs New Jersey and a girl’s high school all-star game between Westchester vs New York City. Past participants: Kemba Walker, Tobias Harris and China Crosby.
Go to www.jimcouchfoundation.org for more information. On Sunday, teams from Boston, New Jersey, Connecticut and Upstate New York will come to Baruch College on 24th Street and Lexington Avenue to battle. See Rosters: Read More »
Hiked out to the BK’s Brownsville Recreation Center to get a look at the young uns’ that have been stirring up some serious noise on the city ball front. Seventh grader Jerron Love, the youngest kid I can think of since Skip to be designated a ’streetballer’ by the city, was in there running with the Bronx crew. Three other strong guards: Queens’ Cheyenne Nettleton, Harlem’s Shavar Newkirk and Brooklyn’s Tyrone Johnson represent a guard class that has enough flair to eventually excel on the strength outdoors and indoors like Dyckman MVP Kemba Walker and EBC’s Rising Sophomore sensation DaShawn Suber, who played serious minutes in the EBC “grown man” championship game and will appear in the Jim Couch Reunion Games on Saturday at 4:15 pm at John F. Kennedy H.S. in the Bronx. Read More »
China wins the National Jam Fest Skills Competition
China Crosby honed her game on the playground of Mullally Park in the Bronx. Back in Bounce issue #16, she demonstrated a mean triple move – a hesitation, to a spin and then a backleg-between-the-legs-dribble that was one of “How We Do’s” best skill demonstration segments. Big burn is in her future at the point guard position at Virginia. Knowing her drive and playground style, Crosby will definitely be one of the top freshman performers in the ACC real soon.
As we ramp up for our upcoming Jim Couch Girl’s Uptown Challenge All-Star Game, some of the top city players will be participating. Two with mad NYC handle are Jefferson’s Alicia Cropper and Patterson Catholic’s Starr Breedlove. Last year’s MVP, super-smoove Teneka Whittaker, will be waiting. The Roster for Saturday’s Games at Kennedy H.S. in the Bronx on October 24, 2009 are super strong with one girl from Westchester listed at 6′7″. Read More »
Photo: Gill St. Bernard’s 6′6″ Dominic Hoffman, last year’s 2008 Jim Couch Rising Freshman MVP.
Location: Baruch College – Midtown Manhattan
24th and Lexington Avenue – Sunday Parking Rules.
Game Start: 2:00 pm (Three games).
Admission: $10.00 Students: $5.00 with id.
The top freshman from New England, New York and Jersey-South Jersey-Philly will compete to find out which region has the top talent. The Team NYC roster has 6′6″ top-ranked freshman Jordan Washington from Pathway’s H.S., St. Patrick’s 6′5″Jason Boswell and 6′8″ Kendall Kinloch from St. Raymond’s.
New England rosters include 6′1″ Ramone Gibbons from Charlestown H.S. in MA – featured in Bounce #22 – and 6′8″ Kuran Iverson from North West Catholic, CT.
Jersey roster includes top-ranked 6′5″ Reggie Cameron of Patterson Catholic, 6′7″ Jamar McGloster from St. Anthony’s, 6′7″ Jordan Arthur from Cliffside Park, H.S. and last year’s Rising Freshman participant as an eighth grader, 5′10″Jordan Sina, of Gill St. Bernard.
In the upcoming Bounce Edition # 22 our summer tournament tour section takes us to various playground arenas around the world. One that we didn’t mention but will on its own real soon is the UK’s Midnight Madness Tournament that has earned LeBron James’ attention.
More on that coming real soon…
In the meantime check out the super-official dunk contest held this summer and check how the website : www.midnight-madness.com is grimy thorough. Read More »
