{"id":1561,"date":"2010-10-07T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2010-10-07T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:38:15","slug":"dalton-barnes-impressing-college-coaches-with-skills-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/dalton-barnes-impressing-college-coaches-with-skills-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Barnes Impressing College Coaches with Skills & Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Guard Already Has Received Six Verbal Offers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dalton's impressive stock has continued to rise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Veteran NSR<\/strong> scout Dave Johnson<\/strong><\/a> has covered nearly a fourth of Florida in his eight years with National Scouting Report<\/strong>.\u00a0 Over that time Dalton Barnes<\/a><\/strong> may be the best basketball prospect he has evaluated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last March a former NSR<\/strong> client approached Dave about a local prospect he thought Dave should see.\u00a0 The ex-client was a basketball official and had seen the kid play.\u00a0 The ex-client’s daughter had gone through NSR in the late \u201890\u2019s and he knew that the kid in question, Dalton Barnes, needed help getting his name and abilities in front of college coaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dave went to see the sophomore guard play and liked what he saw \u2013 a kid with raw, but exceptional athletic skills whose game stood out among local high school competition.\u00a0 Soon afterward, Dave met with Dalton, Dalton’s mom and stepdad.\u00a0 The in-home interview went well and again Dave was impressed.\u00a0 He discovered a prospect who took 500 practice shots every day, weight trained regularly and had very good grades (3.7 GPA).\u00a0 Dalton\u2019s mom, Jennifer, had been named Senior Female Athlete of the Year at the same high school Dalton now attended, Spruce Creek in Port Orange, so Dalton had come by his athleticism naturally.\u00a0 That night Dalton\u2019s parents enrolled Dalton with NSR.<\/p>\n

In a matter of days Dave had shot Dalton\u2019s skill tape and submitted his profile with video footage to NSR’s <\/strong>home office and in-house video editing department.\u00a0 Dalton\u2019s profile was digitized, uploaded onto NSR’s<\/strong> Website and then sent each month to every college basketball coach in the country and Dalton had selected specific colleges to receive his four-page, color brochure.\u00a0 After that, things began to happen as questionnaires from coaches began to arrive in Dalton\u2019s mail box.\u00a0 The entire family was excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dave Johnson:\u00a0 \u201cDalton tried out for and made the Florida Nike Blue Team<\/a><\/strong> which is one of the better club teams in the state. \u00a0We then sent out 4 or 5 Camp Recommendation packets for him and one of them was at the Hoop Group Elite Basketball<\/a><\/strong> camp in Pennsylvania. \u00a0There he made the all-star team and was drafted #8 out of 700 participating kids. \u00a0His high school basketball coach Joe Gidden<\/strong> accompanied him to that camp. \u00a0Dalton has since received\u00a0six verbal offers and he receives calls and emails daily from another 10 or 12 coaches. \u00a0His verbal offers are from Presbyterian<\/a> (NC), Campbell<\/a> (NC), Stetson<\/a> (FL), North Florida<\/a>, Merrimack<\/a> (MA)\u00a0and Embry Riddle<\/a> (FL). \u00a0\u00a0Also talking with him regularly are Wake Forest<\/a>, Miami<\/a> (FL), Bucknell<\/a> (PA), Colgate<\/a> (NY), Palm Beach Atlantic<\/a> (FL), Bethune Cookman<\/a> (FL), Liberty<\/a> (VA) and several more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Dalton was invited to play on the Florida Elite Team<\/a><\/strong> next spring and summer which is sponsored by Adidas<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The team plays in every major tournament around the country.\u00a0 The future looks sunny for this superb student-athlete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Guard Already Has Received Six Verbal Offers Veteran NSR scout Dave Johnson has covered nearly a fourth of Florida in his eight years with National Scouting Report.\u00a0 Over that time Dalton Barnes may be the best basketball prospect he has evaluated.\u00a0 Last March a former NSR client approached Dave about a local prospect he … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}