By Sean Couch
Most Outstanding 7th Grade “Doonkie” for Nettleton.
New York’s top middle school prospects got together for drills and scrimmages at the Nike Junior Elite Camp last week at Gauchos gym. After the work, 20 players were rewarded with an All-Star game invite last Thursday. Among the most talked about was point guard Cheyenne Nettleton.
Nettleton is a left-hander with serious floor game. He has good quickness in transition and makes good decisions on the break. Cheyenne’s developing jump shot will propel him into a top 20 prospect in the country. While the national rankings have Jerron Love ahead of him, young Cheyenne’s showing should move him up. Bishop Loughlin H.S., Rice H.S. and St. Anthony H.S. have all shown interest. Read More »
Tags: Bishop Loughlin, Chacellor Ellis, Cheyenne Nettleton, Isaiah Whitehead, Jarrett Rivers, Jerron Love, Kenny Frazier, Mike Williams, Nike Junior Elite Camp, Rice, St. Anthony, Wolfie Novogratz
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By Sean Couch
Man, it happened…we got Bounce 23 off!! It was a lot of blood, sweat, and tears on this, but I’m personally feeling like Kobe after winning a chip with Shaq (understand what I’m saying)…Legendary Rucker Coach Antonio “Mousey” Carela rocks the cover and talks about his interaction with Fat Joe, Puffy and the NBA stars he recruited to play uptown…”Street Dogma” explores the American National Dunking Ban caused by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and my pops Jim Couch, back in ‘67…our “How We Do “column features one of Philly’s finest – Mike Keyes – who demonstrates the KOBE TURNTABLE…get into it! The new comic strip – GAME FACES – tells the story of a young player on his quest to build his basketball FOCUS under pressure, a combo of metaphysical western urbanism with eastern morals and values. As the ball leaves his hands and rotates through the air the forces of the playground go into action… Read More »
Tags: Ali Danois, American National Dunking Ban, Bobbito, Drew League, feature, GAME FACES, HOW WE DO, Jerron Love, Jim Couch, Kareem, Kobe Turntable, Mousey, reggie williams, tri-state classic
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By Sean Couch
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 »
Tags: Adey Adams, Cheyenne Nettleton, Jabari Hinds, Jarred Moore, Jeff Short, Jerron Love, Kay Hester, Nassir Barino, Rick Rivers, Shawn Jones
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