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David Quinn: big man with big dreams for basketball
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
difference between having people looking up at you all the time and having the talent scouts looking at you at the right time. David Quinn knows what that’s all about. So does Tony House, Quinn’s coach with the Ottawa Elite basketball club. House is sure that the kid fromClarence Creek is destined for college ball when he graduates, with a
Height is not always the deciding factor in what makes for a potential champion in basketball. It’ll help but having the heart and the will towork hard to be the best pos- sible player on the court is what makes the
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good shot at playing for a pro team, either with a European club or maybe even the NBA, but only because Quinn works hard to be good at what he does. «He was a challenge to make the team,» House said, recalling when Quinn showed up for tryouts in August last year. «He was very tall, for sure. Based on his size (six foot eleven), he was playing hockey and then he started basketball. I coached his brother, Michael. He was also six eleven, and he was a good player.» But House remembered that the younger Quinn’s performance in the first tryout ses- sion did not suggest that he had the same kind of ability that hadmade his brother an asset when Michael played for the Ottawa Guardsmen. At the time, David was playing centre for the Gloucester Wolverines basket- ball club but he didn’t make a good impres- sion on House as Elite material yet. «He wasn’t very polished,» House said, «and he wasn’t in very good shape.» What changed House’s first impression from that first tryout session was howDavid Quinn performed during every follow-up session of the tryouts period. He kept getting better on the court over the weeks, to the point where he became «the thirteenthman» and a personal coaching project for House to work on even after he’d made his selection
of a dozen new names for the Elite roster. «It was his attitude,» House said. «His work ethic, his commitment was absolutely outstanding.» In the end, David Quinn went frombeing the unofficial Elite Number 13 draft to among the top ten players on the team, earning himself a berth on the Team Ontario U17 squad for nationals inHalifax and sharing in a silver-medal triumph. Canada Basketball even listed him as a «top prospect for the TAS development program» which House notedmeans that now the folks in charge of the Canadian national basketball team are keeping an eye on David Quinn. Quinn noted that, while he enjoyed playing hockey, basketball is more his game and not just because he has the height for it. «It fits my lifestyle more,» he said, grin- ning. «I’m not overly fond of the cold. I just really fell in love with the sport. It’s been something I’ve really wanted to follow through with.» While Housemay havementored Quinn, he gives the 16-year-old athlete all the credit for the success the Clarence Creek centre has enjoyed during the past two years. «It was his determination,» House said, «his overall enthusiasmand his willingness to learn. It was all about attitude. He knows he can be better and he works at it.»
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