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The Dillon brothers are a killer crossover at Chaminade.
Senior Kyle and sophomore Lucas are the driving force behind the Flyers’ sky-high season as playoffs will soon roll around in the Catholic league — and the boys are looking to go supersonic in the late stretch.
“I think we do a good job of knowing where we are,” Kyle, a guard and career 1,000-point scorer, told The Post.
“If I’m in the corner and we’re in transition, there’s one guy I’m looking for to get the ball to and dunk,” Kyle said of his little bro, who is also a guard.
Riding the hot hand on a mighty season — one including back-to-back wins over city powerhouses St. Raymond and Holy Cross — Kyle and Lucas “definitely” want to bring home another banner to their Mineola gymnasium.
It wouldn’t be the first for the older point guard, or his family, either.
Kyle won a state championship as a sophomore when his older brother, Devin, was a 12th grade hoops leader in red and gold in 2024.
“My brother, he would have zero points in a game but still be the most impactful player on the court,” said Kyle, whose cousin Kieran also scored 1,000 points at Chaminade before graduating in 2020.
“Devin taught me that there are more ways to impact the game than just being what seems to be the ‘lead guy.’ He can do a little bit of everything.”
Inside the family arch
Now it’s Kyle’s turn to pay it forward to guard Lucas, who is already being scouted by big-name Catholic schools such as Notre Dame and Boston College, during his first varsity campaign.
“After every game, he’ll tell me what I could have done better, the same with my oldest brother,” Lucas said.
“They both taught me a lot about the varsity level.”
And Kyle, who committed to play at Wesleyan, sees 15-year-old Lucas prove his moxie day by day.
“I think he’s getting close,” Kyle said. “I think he’s getting better. He can guard me pretty well,” the 17-year-old added.
The dynamic duo Dillon brothers also push each other, iron sharpening iron.
“On the day of Christmas, when kids were opening presents, we’d be putting in work,” said Kyle. “Our dad put in countless hours before and after work with us — rain, shine, snow. Times when we would be in on a field, covered in snow, and he’d tell us to look around and realize that no one else is here.”
Their father, Matt, “instilled love at first sight” for basketball in his three boys from an early age, personally developing their talent.
“A lot of people these days have trainers and coaches they go to. We’ve never really had a guy like that. It’s always been him.”
Passed talent
More recently, it’s been Devin who has had a massive influence on the boys, as they are doing everything big and small to emulate his presence.
“Kyle’s got a prepractice ball handling routine he does every single day. He’s got a stretching routine he does every day — that was Devin,” said head coach Dan Feeney.
“Now you’re seeing Lucas kind of formulate his own routine and do that as well,” Feeney added of “the most present kid in the program.”
Although Devin is out of the house now at the chilly University at Buffalo, he regularly keeps up with his little siblings’ season to stay in touch and motivate the boys.
“He just texted in our family group chat, about Lucas and said, ‘Yo, that was sick! That was a nice dunk,’” Kyle recalled. “His silent leadership, that really made me want to take that step into my life as a leader.”
Feeney said the Dillons have been an absolute hand-me-down of increasing talent since the eldest brother took the court.
“Kyle’s the better one of the two of them from a basketball standpoint, and he followed Devin’s lead,” Feeney said.
“Looking back now, two years later, and Lucas is more talented than Kyle in a lot of ways on the basketball court, and he’s just following Kyle’s lead.”
Whether or not the Flyers win it all in a few weeks, the Dillon family will always be a beloved chapter of Chaminade basketball history.
“My biggest complaint about the Dillons is that they stopped at three children,” said Feeney.
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