Young impresses
Incoming freshman Florida power forward Patric Young put together a strong showing for the USA 18-under team at the FIBA Americas basketball championships in San Antonio, Texas.
Highlights for Young included an 11-point effort against Argentina and an eight-point, 11-rebound game against Brazil.
The 6-foot-9, 222-pound Young made a good impression on Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt. Hewitt is serving as an assistant under Oklahoma coach John Capel this week for Team USA.
“He’s making plays, rebounding and running the floor well,” Hewitt told ESPN college basketball analyst Andy Katz. “Offensively, he’s looking good. He gives tremendous effort every time — great effort — and he’ll help Florida even if he doesn’t score a ton of buckets. He’s going to help them. He’ll defend, set screens and do all those things without scoring points.”
Young is expected to arrive on campus soon for UF’s second summer session. The tournament ended June 30.
Kevin Brockway gave up on his dream of becoming a lefty starting pitcher for the New York Mets when he walked four straight batters, then hit one in a middle school game in Suffern, N.Y. Since graduating college in 1993, he’s worked as a sports writer at daily newspapers throughout the state of Florida, beginning with the Key West Citizen. He then moved on to the Northwest Florida Daily News and Naples Daily News before becoming the men’s basketball writer for The Gainesville Sun in 2003. Brockway has won multiple state and national writing awards during his 16-year career. Favorite pastimes include karaoke and watching baseball. Favorite college hoops team growing up was St. John’s.
Come on in big boy, we need a major restructuring under the basket if we want to make it back to the Sweet 16 again!
by GBBOLT