What’s up everyone, my name is Johnuel Fland also known as Boogie. I’m 11 years old, and 5’3 and play for the NY Gauchos. I have been playing for them since I was in 2nd grade. I love the game of basketball because it’s fun and I feel free on the court. I’ve been playing since I was 2 years old. My dad would take me to the park to shoot even though I couldn’t reach the rim lol

1/1/2018

I brought in the year with my family & went to the movies with my mom n brother then went to my grandma’s house to eat and watch the ball drop. It was tooooo cold to do anything this year lol. My grandma is cool I use her Netflix all the time to catch up on my shows and eat up all her cookies lol

1/3/2018

Worked out at Gauchos for about 3 hours. Coach Donte is a young coach with a lot of fire and always wants the best for his kids.  He is always pushing and making us work hard and reminding us it'll all pay off. I think it is important for a young player like myself to have someone who truly cares about our development. 

1/5/2018

It’s Friday which means last day of school. I have a workout in Harlem after I get to spend the weekend with my dad. I love staying with him because he always buys me a bacon, egg and cheese and lets me play 2K for as long as I want lol

I call this my "BaconEggCheese" dance LOL

1/7/2018

Practice at 2:30 at Gauchos gym. It’s usually long and very intense... so I ate breakfast twice lol. I had a bowl of cereal AND of course my bacon, egg and cheese lol. Also caught up on my show "The Flash". We are preparing for a tournament in Virginia from the 12–14th called Junior Phenom. A lot of top teams will be there so it’s time to lock in.

1/10/2018

Skip to Wednesday I had practice with my school team from 3-5pm then had practice at Gauchos from 6-8pm. It seems tiring, but I’m just trying to get better every day. Junior Phenom is coming up and if we're not prepared we'll get embarrassed.

1/12/2018

My dad and I are heading out to Virginia. Got Migos playlist blasting, their music always gets me hype before a tournament. I love that basketball allows me to see other cities and states. My dad always tells me to soak it all in and enjoy these moments.

1/13/2018

We got to Virginia pretty quick. My dad seems to think he can still make it on one of the Fast & Furious movies lol. We won both our games by blowout. Everyone played good. We got to see a lot of the other top teams around the country. Our day was over early and my dad and I went out to eat with Lala, her cousin Dice and Kiyan.

1/14/2018

We won 59-5 smh lol. We're just on a different level of play now, but now is when the real games start. We ended up playing our 4th game at 12pm against Team Takeover who is ALWAYS tough because of their height. We were down by 1 with 15 seconds left and I made the game winning 3 pointer to beat them to advance to the Final 4. I was super happy I was able to help my team out. Our next game was against Team Thrill from Baltimore, these kids are physical and tough since they all play football lol. They were beating us by 18 in the first half and we turned it up in the second half and came all the way back to tie it up, but ended up losing by 3. The game was so intense they had to call extra security just to be safe lol. Overall the tournament was great and we fought till the end. 

1/16/2018

Good morning guys... it’s back to school today and we play one of the toughest teams in middle school named Wagner. I hear they are good so I’m amped up about the game. I noticed one of their players that play with New Heights 7th grade AAU team, his name is Izzy. He plays hard on defense and knows how to handle the ball well. We ended up losing the game by 1. I had a bad game smh scored 7 points and we started out slow and couldn’t recover. We play them again on the 24th at their home so we trying to definitely get revenge on them. 

1/24/2018

We play Wagner middle school again after we lost to them last week by 1 point. We had revenge on our minds and got them back. They have been the toughest team so far for us. I’ve been sick with the flu but I still played. We started out slow and were down in the first few minutes but we came back and didn’t look back. We ended up winning 42-36. I didn’t play much do to me being sick but glad we got our revenge. 

1/27/2018

Me and my AAU team Gauchos are playing in the Hoop Group tournament out in Neptune, NJ. So far we are 2-0 , I played well both games scoring 12 points the first game and 14 points second game. 

1/28/2018

We beat a good NJ Bulldogs team to get to the championship. I hit a few shots but feel I could’ve played better. I got some time to relax a bit before we face Philly Fidonce in the championship game. Besides it being the chip game any time we play a team from out of state... it’s personal. We’re all repping where we come from so it’s intense. We didn’t back down though, kept calm and we won the B-Ball Spotlight championship!!!

See you guys next month!

 -Boogie