Hey, what’s up everybody! This is Max Burgess, I am a sophomore from Deerfield High School and I am here to drop my first journal entry for Daniel Poneman’s IllinoisHSbasketball.com. The high school season is about to begin this week and I cannot wait. My team will be playing in the Lyons Thanksgiving Tournament and we are very excited. This year is going to be a challenging year for us. We don’t have a lot of size and we are young, but we will play all out every second on the court. Some guys whom you may not know much about, but you will hear about, is our forward Tommy McGee who is a junior and our other forward who is a senior, Alex Parmacek. I feel very confident in my game right now and I feel like my game has gotten 10x times better this off-season because I am working with Jeff Pagliocca of Evolution Athletics. He has fixed my shot completely and gotten me better with my ball handling and quickness. I cannot wait to start playing this year and pull a few upsets. I want to say thank you to Daniel Poneman for letting me write a journal entry on his website and good luck to everyone out there and I will be writing again as soon as the season starts.
Max Burgess #23