Raney has arrived
By: Jeff Meadows
Raney Has Arrived
The Great State of Oklahoma has produced such players as Wayman Tisdale, Milwood's Brian Hopgood, Booker T's Fred Burley, Blake Griffin ("09" top NBA draft pick), Sam Bradford and Putnam City High's Xavier Henry. Once again the Sooner state has a top tier player and that player is also from Putnam City H.S. his name: Dominue Raney. Raney is a 6’4 extreemly skilled guard that has all of the physical tools along with all of the off the court intangibles that could make this young man an instant national high school basketball house hold name. “Dominique is the real deal” says Avery West Coach of the Oklahoma City Magic AAU team. “Not a lot of people know about Dominique yet but trust me; he’s the only thing they’re going to be talking about this spring and summer”. Dominique played his freshman and sophomore seasons along side Xavier Henry (who is currently a stand out player for KU) and last season is when people started to take notice of Raney. Dominique began turning heads when he played at one of the top tournaments in the country if not the top event the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions held at UNC, NC State and Duke University. Bob Gibbons picked Raney as one the top young prospects at the tournament and a future star. Dominuque also played in the Hoop Group basketball tournament in NYC this past summer where he played against such players as: NYC’s 6’8 (F) Micheal Gilchrest the nation’s top player and Dallas TX’s 6'6 power wing LaBryant Nash another one the nation’s top ranked players and Dominique played very well so well in fact, he was named as one the top 10 players at that event. “I couldn’t be more proud as a father” says Arthur Raney Dominiques’s Father. “He’s a gym rat; all he wants to do is just go to the gym whether it be after a game or on his days off”. Dominique also has a deep passion and love for music. Dominique plays a number of musical instruments including the piano. Dominique is a High Major prospect and along with being a great student (3.5 core GPA) Dominique is a high character guy, he is the total package. To discribe Dominiques's game is this; he has a very good handle, he’s a very good 3 pt/long range shooter, he’s an excellent defender and he loves to attack the basket and posterrise or utube if you will, his opponents. Dominique attacks the basket with such extreme strength, aggression, athleticism and determination that he’s probably going to finish with the foul. Raney is also very athletic sporting a 47-49 inch vert, he’s really a human high light real and if you haven’t seen him, utube him and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. Raney is currently averaging 26 pts 6 rebounds and 4 blocks a game for Putnam City H.S. and like I said at the beggining of this article Dominique has arrived and he’s ready to put Putnam City on his back along with the state of Oklahoma. I give Dominique Raney my stamp of approval as being a “Prime Time Baller” and Raney is a bonified top 20-25 player in the class of 2011, remember where you heard it first
www.hoopsreport.com. Don’t forget to log on at the end of Jan. to get
www.hoopsreport.com top 100 rankings in the class’s of 2011, 2012 and 2013.
