Jeff Norment II Prospect Report

<p>WHBH Head Coach J.P. Primm needed a point guard.  He brought in Jeff Norment II on short notice.  Generally, AAU teams have too many point guards.  Tennessee creates and grows more points guard than any other position by a landslide.  For this reason AAU teams almost never need a midseason point guard addition.</p> <p>Still Coach Primm needed somebody to help his backcourt of Jacobi Wood, Cade Purvine, and DeArre Mcdonald.  A player capable of just eating minutes might have sufficed.  Norment II brought much more. </p> <h2>Baby Bump</h2> <p>That small bump mothers show early in their pregnancy signifies a deep life-changing moment on the horizon. Stretch your imagination to consider how this last two weeks represents a metaphorical baby bump for Norment II.</p> <p>"Cumberland University reached out to me yesterday," DMed Norment II January second.  </p> <p>It is always fascinating which college is the first to express interest in a largely unknown prospect.  Jeff Norment II is like many who came before him.  He has college potential.  He is not an obvious McDonald's All-American, but he is better now than almost every high school player he meets during the regular season.  In the gigantic chasm falls most high school basketball players.  </p> <p>Cumberland was the first to reach Jeff directly.  Mars Hill was the first to talk with AAU Coach Primm.</p> <p>"A few months ago Mars Hill College reached out to Jp about recruiting me," shared Norment II.</p> <p>Days later Cumberland reached out again.  The Phoenix started earlier this month to become an invested party.  They really wanted to contact Norment and evaluate more games.  In the mean time, Norment put up more and more impressive games.</p> <p>"We played Fayette Ware for our first district game," shared Jeff Norment II. "I had 17 points 4 assists and 4 rebounds."</p> <h2>The D1 Pop</h2> <p>Just this week it happened.  The baby bump became a baby shower.  Unlike the hint of a future change the party crashed into the here and now.  Life was changing.  And life will be different from now on. </p> <p>Jeff Norment II heard from a Division One basketball school: Southern University. </p> <p>"Southern University talked to me the other night talking about recruiting me," said Norment II.  </p> <p>Most high school athletes say the same things about schools.  'It looks nice.  They are nice.'   It gets old quickly and few comments from image-conscious high school kids every indicate any kind of favoritism.</p> <p>This feels a little different. </p> <p>"I really think Southern University could be a school I would want to attend," said Norment II January eighteenth.   "My mother and father have a very good relationship with coach Sean Woods and it wouldn’t be a problem with me fitting into the system. Louisiana isn’t that far from home, so it would be a good school for me."</p> <p>Players never forget their first.   Is this love at first sight?  Is it less?  </p> <p>Time will tell.  And this time all will be different.  Jeff is now birthed into a new world of opportunity.</p> <p>Look for Norment II with WHBH Gold 17u this spring and summer.  You better because the D1 coaches will be on the baseline seeing if he fits their need entering Norment's 2020-2021 freshman year.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT9UYfpMeV0&amp;feature=youtu.be</p>