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Weiah growing into Phoenixville’s key cog down low
BUCKTOWN >> Chris Weiah knew he was going play a big role for the Phoenixville boys basketball team this season.
How often did the Phantoms’ staff and players remind the talented sophomore forward that his growth would be a key ingredient in their 2019-20 success?
“All the time,” Weiah said. “(They told me to) keep working hard and do your best everyday.”
Weiah, who saw both varsity and JV action one season ago, is starting to play some of his best basketball of the season as Phoenixville preps for the postseason.
The latest glimpse of the rapidly improving sophomore was a season-best 15-point performance in the Phantoms’ 68-59 Pioneer Athletic Crossover win against Owen J. Roberts on Tuesday to spoil the Wildcats’ senior night.
With talented guards like senior Steven Hamilton, who finished with 23 points, and junior Mike Memmo, who added 15, out on the perimeter, Weiah’s play down low could help determine just how far this Phantoms team (8-6 PAC, 12-8 overall) can go.
“We were telling him he’s young and he has all the potential in the world,” Hamilton said. “With Dylan Clark gone, we needed another big to step up to replace those buckets that Dylan had. And just a big to work hard, rebound before us, get buckets and just be that floor general for us in the post and be a dog.”
Weiah, a stocky 6-3 forward, said he wasn’t intimated playing down low against opponents three years older than him last season. He plays a tenacious style and made sure he wasn’t bullied around on the block.
“No definitely not, I was not going to let that happen,” Weiah said.
While the physicality of the varsity level didn’t
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