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“I’m a competitor, so I was taking it serious,” Jermaine King Jr. said to Newsday when discussing his injury he suffered in November of 2022. “I went to hit a tennis ball, and then I ended up on the ground. I looked down and my foot was looking back at me. It was in the wrong direction.”
In the Colonials victory over the Sachem East Flaming Arrows this past week, King continued to make up for lost time last year on the court and made his presence felt. The junior point guard scored five points (one three-pointer) and flashed his ability as a facilitator as he had a team high six assists in a 76-39 beatdown.
“The crazy thing is he’s actually better than what he was two years ago as far as, like, mobility, quickness, strength,” Head Coach Will Slinkosky said to reporters after the game about King Jr. “It doesn’t seem like he even had an injury last year.”
King Jr. has had an incredible start to his season as he is averaging 11.5 points per game and just under four assists while hitting 24 3-point field goals throughout his team’s hot start to 2023-24.
Outside of King’s performance, the Colonials got a huge boost from Joey McLaurin who had a game high 24 points as he now is averaging just over 15 points a game and has been in double figures in his last four games.
The Colonials also got a boost from Jauwan Smith who had another monster game in the paint and on the glass as he had 10 points while falling just two rebounds shy of a double-double with eight on the game.
Jayson Yourison also was a big contributor in the victory for Floyd as he drained four three-pointers and added 14 total points on the game for the Colonials.
For Sachem East, AJ Vurchio was the lone bright spot in the blowout as he was the only member of his team that was able to reach double figures as he scored 10 points for the Flaming Arrows. His team now falls to 6-3 on the season.