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http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2010/11/20/glenside_news_globe_times_chronicle/sports/doc4ce349e34d59d800275994.txt

nice feature piece on JT5.  sounds like someone who will make Gtown proud on and off the court.

yup. needs to get his rear down. stands up too much on D.

jabril has 19 pts in a win against chestnut hill

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/154480235

jabril had 16 pts in a win over Shipley.

Abington Friends lost to Friends Central by 4-5 pts today. It was a hard fought competitive game. Both jabril trawick and amile jefferson were the most important players. Friends got off to a hot start and midway through the second half they had a 13-14 pt lead. Amile was the star early. Scored in a variety of ways. Had about 13-15 pts by midway point of the 2nd period. Hit a baseline 3 ptr, hit a long two from the corner, scored on the drive twice, scored close to the goal on some nice post moves twice, hit some free throws. Amile took advantage of Kenneth Johnson from AFS. Amile is a nice all court player. Can shoot from anywhere on the court and has developed a post game b/c he forced to play center given his size- about 6'6 or 6'7. Tall and lanky but like most philly kids plays tough. he is a bit flat footed though. got blocked by shorter kids- including jabril a couple of times. in college he will be best served to be a SF/PF.

But......then AFS chose to switch up the matchup and put Jabril on Amile. Amile did not score a field goal the rest of the way.....or if he did it was real late in 2nd when i left. Jabril did a great job of being physical with amile and making him uncomfortable. Jabril gave up an inch or two to amile but made up for it with his strength and athleticism. blocked amile a couple of times and stripped him twice. with jabril guarding amile AFS closed the gap to six (29-23) at halftime and even took the lead 43-40 at start of fourth quarter. Amile was getting frustrated.  At one point jabril blocked amile from behind on the break...looked like clean, hard play....but Amile took exception and got in JT5's face. JT5 did not back down and cooler heads prevailed.

With regards to Jabril's play on the offensive end he was getting doubled most of the time when he got the ball down low. Devin Coleman was the guy primarily guarding him but the whole team, including Amile, was paying attention to him. Jabril ended up with about 11 pts. he was 4-11 from the field, 3-6 from the FT line, and 0-2 from 3 pt land. For the most part he did not try to force his offensive game. his outside shot was not falling. he scored all his buckets close to the tin. I'm no shot doctor but Jabril does not have a bad form. but it does need fine tuning. he has a flip shot and uses alot of wrist. needs to use his arm/body more to have a more fluid shot. and he needs to get much more consistent from outside. needs to get in the gym and work on his shot every day all day. kid is already blessed with a great body, toughness, and athleticism. Jabril did a good job of finding his teammates. he is not a selfish player even though he is his team's best player. but in high school you don't have many good shooters so there were a lot of assists left out there for him. Defensively he has quick hands. Got about 3 steals. And he has nice ups...got about 2-3 blocks. Since he was primarily guarding the bigs- amile- i could not fully assess his lateral defensive quickness on the perimeter. but from seeing him all season this is an area he needs to work on. he's too athletic/strong not to get his rear down and get in front of guys. he's got that bad habit of using his hands too much on defense.

In the end Friends Central- which is the number one team in Philadelphia- had too much. They were able to hit some 3's towards the end and create enough of a gap to pull away.

I love Jabril's toughness and he seems to be a good kid who is a team player. but the young man needs to work on his attire. he was sporting pink, see thru NIKE hightops. Between that and those Chris Wright sweaters the kid needs a lot of work in the wardrobe area.