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By CHARLIE PARENT NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Josh
By CHARLIE PARENT NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Josh
Khalid Moore, the 6-foot-6 Class of 2018
NEW YORK — Moses Brown’s thunderous dunk late in the game Friday night brought the standing-room only crowd at Archbishop Molloy High School to its feet amid a chorus of oohs and aahs.
But it was Khalid Moore’s splendid drive and pass that set up the flush.
The 6-foot-6 junior wing enjoyed the best game of his career with 21 points and 9 rebounds as Molloy beat Christ the King, 78-67, amid a highly-charged atmosphere that saw school officials turning away fans, and at least one college coach, at the doors before the game on the orders of fire marshals.
“Yeah, I think it was one of my breakout games,” Moore, who entered averaging 9.3 points, told me afterward. “I was struggling before, but I just came out with the intensity, I played aggressive and I think I did very good.”
NEW YORK – Kentucky assistant Tony Barbee was the latest high-profile coach to pass through the historic hallways of Archbishop Molloy High School on Wednesday.
Barbee came to watch 7-foot-1 Class of 2018 big man Moses Brown and 2019 point guard Cole Anthony, the son of former NBA point guard Greg Anthony.
“[Barbee] didn’t offer them,” Molloy assistant John Magna said Thursday by phone. “He said he’d be back in contact with them. He was on the phone with Cal [Kentucky coach John Calipari] the whole time.”
Louisville coach Rick Pitino, Maryland’s Mark Turgeon, Florida’s Mike White, St. John’s Chris Mullin and Kansas’ Norm Roberts are just some of the coaches who have recently come through the school that produced Kenny Smith, Kenny Anderson and Russ Smith.
NEW YORK — Cole Anthony has definitely noticed a Who’s Who of big-time college basketball programs coming through the Archbishop Molloy gym in recent weeks.
There was Louisville head coach Rick Pitino and Florida coach Mike White on Thursday, along with assistants from UConn, Indiana and Miami.
Maryland’s Mark Turgeon was in on Tuesday.
And assistants from Duke and Kansas have also been in recently.
“It’s a lot different than last year,” Anthony told me Thursday. “I mean, going from open gyms having no coaches to having a lot of coaches on the East Coast coming out here. Honestly, it’s a blessing. We all worked for it. Me, Khalid [Moore], Moses [Brown], everybody in here, we all worked for it and it’s just an honor.”
NEW YORK — Louisville coach Rick Pitino and assistant Kenny Johnson came to the Archbishop Molloy open gym on Thursday primarly to watch 7-footer Moses Brown, but left by offering a scholarship to his teammate Khalid Moore.
The offer was first reported by Andrew Slater of 247Sports.com, and confirmed by Moore.
Moore, a 6-foot-7 wing who runs with the NY Rens, was one of the breakout 16U players this summer at the Peach Jam and is coming into his own entering his junior season.
It doesn’t hurt that he’s part of a “Big Three” at Molloy that includes Brown and Class of 2019 point guard Cole Anthony, the son of former NBA point guard Greg Anthony.
