As a child, like many budding young basketball players, Justin Taylor struggled to get enough arc in his shot. And his mother Kerri, who played at James Madison, couldn’t ignore it.
Kerri showed Taylor how to lift the ball over his head, so he could quickly fire off shots over converging defenders.
Now, all these years later, as a rising junior small forward at St. Anne’s-Belfield in Charlottesville, Virginia, Taylor’s jump shot is what has driven him to be the No. 75 prospect in the class of 2022, according to the 247Composite. Last week, he added Indiana to his list of scholarship offers.