Daily News | Collin Gillespie’s game was Northeast Philly made before Villanova even happened
It came from somewhere, literally. Not just the depths of Collin Gillespie’s basketball soul. Places you can actually find around Philadelphia on Google Maps. There are bread crumbs trailing back from when Gillespie went to Providence last month with a badly sprained ankle, put up 33, including a game-clinching three, or when the Big East player of the year took over last weekend’s conference title game for Villanova in the final minutes.
“They were 12 months apart,” Jim Gillespie said. “My [older] daughter was a swimmer, she was all over the place. We couldn’t be in three spots at the same time.” “We’re looking at this kid, he’s a pretty good ballplayer,” Sharp said, remembering a conversation with his assistant coach, Vince Tarducci. “Vince looks at his age card. ‘I don’t know, maybe he got his age wrong.’ Vince calls Jim. “Did you get his age wrong? … No, he’s 5.”
“There were days they would come in bloody,” Jim Gillespie said, so when the arguments turned physical, Dad came up with his own solution. He bought little boxing gloves. The patio in back was about the size of a ring, they couldn’t go off it. The big rule: No head shots. “He had them from 6 years old up to 10 or 12,” Jim Gillespie said of Sharp, calling Sharp “one of the big guys” in terms of influence on Collin’s basketball development, up there with Roantree. “He purposefully made them dribble to half court with their left hand. He put them in a summer league down at Germantown Avenue.”
“Collin was playing up two years,” Sharp said of playing in Mount Airy. “We just got hammered. But he held his own, did a terrific job.”As the years went on, Gillespie tended to get noticed. Brian Cartin never coached Gillespie but remembers being in the gym at Judge for a CYO tournament, Region I and Region 11 squared off, all sorts of talent. Cartin is sure that future Ryan player Izaiah Brockington,, was in the game. Gillespie was representing Region 11, playing for St. Albert’s … St.
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