But the enterprising 18-year-old should minor in movie-making, because his decision to compile his own highlights package and hawk himself on the internet is how Gillette College coach Shawn Neary noticed his on-court talents.

"I actually made a YouTube clip of highlights of me playing for Maitland and I sent that to a lot of coaches," the 193-centimetre tall all-rounder said.

"The school I'm going to, they were interested in me and it seemed like a good school to go to.

"It's a junior college in the north-east of Wyoming and it's a two-year scholarship, so I'll be studying my business degree. Hopefully from there I get a scholarship to a four-year school, finish my degree there, then I'd love to go to Europe and play after I finish."

Matt, the son of former Newcastle Falcons player Brian Dick, played five years in the Newcastle Hunters' juniors from 2001 and still lives at Merewether but transferred to Maitland's basketball program four years ago.

He represented NSW Country from 2006 to 2008, earned a NSW Institute of Sport scholarship and represented NSW at the Australian under-20 championships at Gawler, South Australia, in February.

Though his feet have only just returned to earth after Maitland's dream run to the Waratah Australian Basketball League grand final last weekend, Dick will be back in the air on Friday when he flies to the US to begin pre-season training.

In front of a capacity crowd of 1800 at Broadmeadow, Dick scored five points and pulled in six rebounds in Maitland's 65-60 loss to Manly.

"I'm not sure if something like that will ever happen again with the timing of everything and our team going as far as we did, the atmosphere of playing in Newcastle, it was unbelievable - the best I've ever been a part of, that's for sure," he said.

"I've actually seen tapes of the old stadium and dad playing there and it looks just as full as it was the other night . . . Dad said it reminded him of that as well.