Drew's 3 sons follow Dad's hoops ways By SEKOU SMITH The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/14/06 Encino, Calif. — The mere mention of basketball in the Drew household draws every member of the family faster than an Allen Iverson cross-over dribble. Known as the "Drew Crew" in Southern California basketball circles, all three of the Drew boys — 15-year-old Larry Jr., 11-year-old Landon and 8-year-old Lindsey — are intent on pursuing futures in the family business. "I started them all at about five or so and it was just to get them involved in something and to keep them active," said Larry Drew, the Hawks assistant coach and former NBA guard, this week while the entire family watched video and chatted about all things basketball in a rare moment of downtime from their hectic schedules. "It's funny because when [Larry Jr.] first started, the action would be going on at one end of the floor and he would be down on the other end turning flips and doing cartwheels. "But one he got into it and we started working on it, everything just took off. And these other two guys have been around it all their lives and it just kind of rubbed off." It rubbed off in a major way. The Drew boys have all begun honing their dribbling and passing skills. Larry Jr. is a star sophomore guard for Taft High, one of Los Angeles' and California's top-ranked teams. Scout.com ranks him as the nation's No. 3 point guard in the class of 2008. An honor student in advanced courses at Taft, the long-armed 5-foot-10 point guard is already receiving attention from basketball powers from coast to coast — highlighted by a photo album full of letters meticulously maintained by mom Sharon. During a break in the Hawks West Coast road trip, Larry Sr. and Larry Jr. are glued to the TV screen in the master bedroom dissecting video from a recent Taft game. "You've got to finish Larry," the father says as the son makes a sweet cross over move to the basket but misses the layup. "You've got to finish." And without a moment's hesitation, the son agrees. "Yeah, you're right," he says. "I've got to finish." Landon and Lindsey star with their brother in an instructional video the elder Drew put together that highlights the advanced skill training he's worked on the past 23 years as an NBA player and coach. The Progressive Guard Training program is an offseason pursuit of Drew's that was born out of his work in the driveway with his own boys. Parents would watch them in AAU and club team games and want to know how they could be so skilled at such young ages. "The film work was just a carryover from the job," Drew said of the scores of scattered DVDs he has of his son's practices, games and driveway competitions. "And once I decided to start teaching kids, and not just my own, I knew we needed to come up with something formal that could really help parents take what we give them in our program home and find ways to craft it to fit exactly what they need specifically for their own children. "Because with kids, you have to find out what works and then make sure there are positive results from all the hard work. That's when they really take an interest." That interest has turned into passion for the Drews, all of them. With their father 2,200 miles away most of the year working in Atlanta, the task of making sure everyone gets to and from school and practices falls to the real MVP of the team: Sharon. "It never stops," she said. "The little ones have practices and games every weekend. Larry Jr. plays his games on Wednesdays and Friday with the high school and sometimes on Saturdays. There have honestly been times when we'll have 10 different games in 10 different areas in a week. "There are times you'll have to go from Orange County and all the way back to Santa Clarita, which is in totally different direction, because you have one game that starts at 3 p.m. and another one at 5 p.m. It can get hectic. You just have to have a big truck and a lot of patience." The Drews have all that and more. They have an undeniable love for the game rivaled only by their love for each other. While Sharon is telling stories about their non-stop basketball travels, Lindsey and Landon are chatting about what moves they saw their older brother make during a recent game, they're both ball boys and scene stealers on the video with waves and smiles to the camera. So who's the best of the Drew Crew? Landon offers he's "the toughest" and better than his older brother, while Larry Jr. humbly states his case, "I am," he says without looking up. Lindsey might have answered if he wasn't so caught up in giggling at the sight of he and his brothers on the demo of the instructional video they shot last summer. "Landon messed up so many times on this drill," he says as he rolls around the floor with a ball in his hands. "Who's still the king? I am," Larry Sr. says with a smile. "[Larry Jr.] tried to beat me, but I think I won our last one-on-one game." But the margin of victory is shrinking. "Yes it is," the elder Drew said, "Quickly." 資料來源 http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/0216hawks.html --

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