AndyPopCat
07-07-2007, 03:52 AM
By Jerry Tipton
CINCINNATI --Being a civil engineer, the father was naturally inclined to consider the construction of the left-handed layup. Being a basketball fan, the father knew the advantage his son could gain by mastering the left-handed layup.
So one day as he took the son to a day care program, the father instructed his kindergarten-aged son on jumping off his right leg when shooting a layup with the left hand.
A week later, 6-year-old Dakotah Euton had something to show his father Clay.
"Hey, dad, look at this," he said before properly executing a left-handed layup.
Less than 10 years later, Euton still eagerly works to perfect his basketball skills. He came to a national AAU tournament here this weekend looking to continue improving a skill set good enough to warrant a scholarship offer from the University of Kentucky this spring. He accepted, which made him, arguably, the youngest player ever to commit to UK.
With the start of a UK career still three years into the future, Euton's willingness to improve makes the possibilities delicious to ponder...
http://www.kentucky.com/276/story/117718.html
CINCINNATI --Being a civil engineer, the father was naturally inclined to consider the construction of the left-handed layup. Being a basketball fan, the father knew the advantage his son could gain by mastering the left-handed layup.
So one day as he took the son to a day care program, the father instructed his kindergarten-aged son on jumping off his right leg when shooting a layup with the left hand.
A week later, 6-year-old Dakotah Euton had something to show his father Clay.
"Hey, dad, look at this," he said before properly executing a left-handed layup.
Less than 10 years later, Euton still eagerly works to perfect his basketball skills. He came to a national AAU tournament here this weekend looking to continue improving a skill set good enough to warrant a scholarship offer from the University of Kentucky this spring. He accepted, which made him, arguably, the youngest player ever to commit to UK.
With the start of a UK career still three years into the future, Euton's willingness to improve makes the possibilities delicious to ponder...
http://www.kentucky.com/276/story/117718.html
