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Brazoswood basketball camp goes hi-tech
Published July 19, 2007
CLUTE — Players at this week’s Future Stars Basketball Camp have Noah to help them with their arc.
Brazoswood basketball coach Paul Eubanks’ annual four-day camp is utilizing the Noah’s Arc Shooting System to help players improve their motion.
“What it does is it analyzes every shot that they take,” Eubanks said, “from trying to get a consistent release point on their shot to measuring the distance where the ball is actually going into the rim. They will get a chart where they can see that the red lines are too long and the blue lines are too short. The yellow and green lines are what they want to be shooting. They are getting instant feedback from the computer and are able to correct themselves after every shot.”
The Noah, which costs about $6,000, was donated to the program by the Brazoswood Booster Club.
“The NBA average is expert III on the Noah while the NCAA averages expert II and the high school averages expert I,” Eubanks said. “So it gives them something to shoot for. Chris Mullins has scored the highest, he was a master II and now he’s an NBA executive with the Golden State Warriors. I saw his chart and every shot was identical and made 25 out of 25 3-pointers.”
The camp at Brazoswood’s Performance Gym, which concludes Friday, is for incoming fourth- through ninth-grade players. Assisted by varsity assistants Jacob Donnell, Hershal Taylor and freshman coach Mike McCormick, the ballers ran fast break, layup and free throw drills and played contests, as well as tried out the Noah.
On the final day, there will be games and contests to determine the best of the best in the camp for the week.
“In particular the one-on-one contest, and that is always a big contest because we have them bracketed out,” Eubanks said. “The one-on-one champion will become the MVP of the camp. There is also the hotshot contest, which is the best shooter competition; dunk competition, where we lower the goals; a free throw champion; buzzer beater champion; and we are giving out a hustle award every day. So we give out a lot of awards in order to make it fun for them.”
Taylor, who is coming into his first season with the Bucs from Killeen’s Shoemaker High School, was pretty impressed with what he was seeing on the court.
“We’ve got several kids from LJI, Clute Intermediate, Angleton and every group has some good-looking players in there,” Taylor said. “What this camp does is give our kids a foundation to work on from basic basketball skills and hopefully create some interest. The things we do are basic fundamentals and don’t do anything fancy. Much of it has to do with passing, dribbling, shooting, how to take care of the ball, move their feet and all those things together are very important.”
Grades four and five are running from 9 to 11 a.m. each day, followed by sixth- and seventh-graders from noon to 2:30 p.m. and eighth- and ninth-graders from 3 to 6 p.m.
“With our eighth- and ninth-graders, we are trying to get specific and trying to put in quite a bit of our offense package that we are doing here at the high school,” Eubanks said. “We are trying to get them initiated with that, but we are doing a lot of fundamentals and at the same time trying to teach them as much as we can. So its a combination of fun, fundamentals and a combination of our system is what we are trying to put together in the package.”
After starting the camp out with 50 players in his first season, 65 signed up last year. This year, the number jumped to 80 participants.
“The first camp I had that first year I had just gotten the job and so it was kind of a scramble to get it together,” Eubanks said. “But its really grown and developed into a big camp, I’ve almost got 40 kids in my eighth and ninth grade group which is a big plus for us. We not only have a good turn out but we have good quality this year. We call it Future Stars Basketball Camp and I mean it that, I think there are certainly some future stars out here.”
Eubanks spent seven years at Class 4A Angleton before departing for Fort Bend Elkins for a year. He is hoping to build the Buc program from the ground up just as he did in Angleton.
“I think this is the same type of scenario to Angleton when I was there, we are right on the edge of turning things around and turning the corner,” Eubanks said. “I think you’ll see a great improvement this year and I think in the future because we have some real good players coming who are focused on basketball.”
Joel Luna is a sports writer for The Facts. He can be reached at (979) 237-0161.
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