Basketball season for 2013/2014 should provide another exciting year. What should we expect from DuPont Manual? Remember, please be constructive.

With the departures of Stuart Jackson, Dominique Chandler and Jamie Johnson from Central, the 25th district is wide open for the Crimsons. If Ja'Kory Freeman and Trey Boyd can have big seasons, Manual can absolutely win this district. I believe Manual only had two seniors last year so other than losing Andy Tillman to graduation, Manual is going to bring just about everyone back.

I agree. Manual has a strong Jr class led by Sutton plus a Soph point guard (forgot his name). Plus coached does a good job getting the best out of the kids.

Manual played a lot of younger guys last year, and that will certainly help this next season.

Manual will be very young again this season as they return only two Seniors Trey Boyd and Raleigh Dixon. The Crimsons have Juniors Dwayne Sutton, JaKory Freeman, Tyron Horton, Jarrett Harness, Chris West, Jake Chilton as well as Junior transfer Jalen Smith from Trinity. Sophomores that will be counted on to contribute are Nik Reed, Tim Comstock, and Marquis McClendon. All of these players mentioned with the exception of Jalen Smith will have varsity experience under their belts. All 5 players that were starting at the end of last season return(Freeman, Boyd, Sutton, Harness, and Horton). This could be an extremely competitive team come February and March with improved defense and chemistry. Attacking zones has been their achilles heel this summer. With more practice time I believe the Crimsons will rectify this weakness. While this team will count heavily on Boyd, Sutton and Reed to supply much of their scoring anyone of the 11 or 12 players is capable of leading the team in scoring. Sutton in my opinion was an overlooked sophomore last year he averaged 11 points and 8.5 rebounds for the Crimsons. He should be considered one of the top players in the 7th region this season. Nik Reed, Tim Comstock, and Marquis McClendon are 3 of the top sophomores to be in the region.

I have always thought Coach Just is one of the better yet more underrated coaches in the state of Kentucky!