It has taken a few years and a change of address, but Marvin Prochet is beginning to live up to the sky-high expectations many set for him when he entered high school.
The versatile 6-foot-7 Sheepshead Bay native left Boys & Girls for Long Island Lutheran in the fall, a move that already has paid off for the talented junior. Struggling on and off the court at Boys High, distracted by friends and failing to reach his own lofty expectations, Prochet decided to make the switch last summer, after college coaches began to notice him on the AAU circuit with Team Scan.
"If I wanted to get better and I wanted to go to a big-time college and I wanted to be a better person, I had to transfer," he said. "I felt like I wasn't improving and I had to leave. I was too comfortable. [I was] slacking in school, on the court I wasn't really pushing myself. I was just out there."
That's the last way coach John Buck would describe Prochet, who has made the transition a seamless one, adjusting well to the academic rigors of LuHi, while staying with a host family near the Brookdale, L.I., school. He's an integral part of the 12-2 Crusaders, selfless and defensive-minded, one of three team captains.
"I'm really impressed with his coachability," Buck said. "You can get on him when you need to, you ask him to do something for the team — it might be something a little bit out of his comfort zone — he
has no problem doing it.
"At 6-7, he really handles [the ball] and passes well — that's probably what makes him so special."
Prochet, in turn, credits Buck, a former star at Wake Forest, for constantly pushing him, getting him in the weight room and making sure he's spending extra time on the shooting gun.
Prochet already has landed four scholarship offers since getting to LuHi, from Quinnipiac, Iona, Seton Hall and St. Bonaventure, while Minnesota, Dayton and Villanova recently have expressed interest. At the end of his sophomore year, Prochet said he didn't feel he was getting recruited at all.
"I'm happy, from not having [anything] to having something," he said. "I see where I'm at now. I have to push myself harder and harder."
Sal D'Onofrio, Prochet's adviser, credits his development to his gradual maturity at the age of 17. Long Island Lutheran, he noted, has played a major role there, though, giving him structure and demanding his best.
"He's just focused more," D'Onofrio said. "He's not the same kid he was when he first went to Boys & Girls."
Football
St. Joseph by the Sea defensive lineman Pete Mokwuah flipped his verbal commitment from Rutgers to Notre Dame on Friday night, less than two weeks before National Signing Day on Feb. 6. A three-star recruit, the 6-foot-4, 315-pound lineman picked Rutgers in May, but opted for Notre Dame after the Fighting Irish got involved and head coach Brian Kelly visited the Staten Island school Friday.
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