Brother Martin’s TJ Small goes viral after 360 dunk

NEW ORLEANS – Brother Martin basketball coach Chris Biehl was talking about the many positive aspects of his senior guard, TJ Small, at an on-campus ceremony Wednesday afternoon acknowledging the school’s football and basketball signees.

Before getting into Small’s decision to attend West Point, he had to mention the elephant in the room.

“Go look on Twitter,” Biehl said.

Barely 18 hours had passed since Small had a breakaway in the third quarter of the Crusaders’ victory over Rummel Tuesday night in Metairie. His 360-degree, tomahawk dunk was captured by a phone camera and it made it to the Twitter account of Brother Martin’s student section.

😳😳 pic.twitter.com/CQseSLNwD1

— BrM Student Section (@TheSaderSection) February 5, 2020

As of early Thursday afternoon, Small’s dunk has gotten more than 60,000 views, with more than 500 retweets and 2,000 likes.

“TJ’s kind of going three-quarter (speed) right now on a bad ankle,” Biehl said. “I think he proved (Tuesday night) to the coaches and the training staff the ankle’s feeling a lot better these days.”

Away from social media and back to the floor. Next up for Brother Martin: a Friday night showdown with St. Augustine at home in a matchup of the top two teams in the District 9-5A standings.

In the first meeting between the teams on Jan. 14, the Crusaders let an 18-point first-half lead slip away in a 63-56 Purple Knight victory.

“The tempo was really good,” Biehl said. “We just got away from who we were. You can’t make many mistakes (against St. Aug), and we made too many mistakes.”