Jason Cain: A Point Guard, Trapped in a Post Player’s Body

Gauging talent is like predicting the weather: if you know what you’re talking about, then everybody loves you. Now if we can only find out who ordered all this rain, we will be getting somewhere. As far as basketball talent, that is not a problem.

Everybody that has seen Jason Cain [6-10, 205 pounds] from John Bartram H.S. in Philadelphia will tell you that he is one thing, unselfish. At the same time, Cain will also tell you one thing, that he will do whatever it takes to win, especially if that means getting his teammates involved.

Taking the Philadelphia Public League title this spring in a 64-62 overtime thriller, Cain had to do a little bit of everything: nine rebounds, eight points, seven assists and seven blocked shots in a 64-62 overtime victory over Simon Gratz. It was the Braves first Philadelphia’s Public League title in thirty years.

Head coach Lou Biester was an unpaid assistant on the ’72 title team from John Bartram, a school with a history of great players, including Earl “the Pearl” Monroe and Joe Bryant.

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