Trinity/Owensboro predictions (Sweet 16 1st Round)

[All State Baseball]

Wed. March 19..1:30 PM...

 

Louisville Trinity (29-5) averaging 60.4 PPG....Owensboro (21-10) averaging 68.3 PPG

 

MP: Trinity 63-47

 

Predictions?

[sweet16]

Trinity double digits.

[Randy Parker]

Trinity wins 60-43.

[PurplePride92]

Trinity shouldn't have any issues this game. Trinity by 12.

[Getslow]

Trinity wins... somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 point margin.

 

Let's say 64-50.

[2-3-Zone]

Trinity 10+.

[stepscalled]

Taken 3 teams from the west, but feel like Owensboro is going to have trouble in this one. Trinity by 13.

[Brown]

Does Trinity play slow-down ball? It seem so with their scores. If they beat Ballard, i think they will probably beat Oboro. What is the size of their lineup and primary bench players. I've only seen something on the 6'9 center Spalding.

[Getslow]

Does Trinity play slow-down ball? It seem so with their scores. If they beat Ballard, i think they will probably beat Oboro. What is the size of their lineup and primary bench players. I've only seen something on the 6'9 center Spalding.

 

More or less. They're certainly very deliberate with the basketball. And Trinity's defense has a way of forcing opposing teams into either turnovers or really long possessions trying to find a way to the basket.

[Brown]

They must be real good at it. Nothing wrong with that. What about their size, speed, etc?

[citycat]

They must be real good at it. Nothing wrong with that. What about their size, speed, etc?

 

Statistically speaking they ended up the season behind Bishop Brossard and Ky School for the Deaf in average points allowed per game but if you factor in the SOS of Trinity I think one can easily make the case that they are hands down the best defensive team in the state.

[All Tell]

Does Trinity play slow-down ball? It seem so with their scores. If they beat Ballard, i think they will probably beat Oboro. What is the size of their lineup and primary bench players. I've only seen something on the 6'9 center Spalding.

 

I don't really know if you'd classify what Trinity does as a slow down game. Yes they play strong D and hold people to low scores and yes that can be very deliberate on offense but they can and will run when the opportunity presents itself.

[Brown]

I don't really know if you'd classify what Trinity does as a slow down game. Yes they play strong D and hold people to low scores and yes that can be very deliberate on offense but they can and will run when the opportunity presents itself.

 

Deliberate pace. What about their size?

[All Tell]

1 Ivory, Wilvontre 5'10

33 Owens, Craig 6'3

4 Levitch, Jax 6'4

13 Ramser, Daniel 6'2

35 Spalding, Raymond 6'9

30 Stafford, Michael 6'1

23 Thieneman, Christian 6'4

14 Knight-Goff, Kel'Shawn 6'4

20 Schmitt, Gabriel 6'0

 

These are the guys that will see the predominance of playing time for Trinity.

[Brown]

Based on stats I would say this is the main 5:

 

G Ivory

G Stafford

G Ramser

F Owens

C Spaulding

 

Ramser and Stafford the 3 pt guns, Spaulding and Owens down low and Ivory running the point. Their FT% looks horrid, only ramser and stafford look good (74 and 80%).

 

The matchup down low looks pretty good. Oboro is junior dominated so that probably gives Ivory an edge running the show out front. I can see how Trinity is so potent, with good post play in Ivory/Spaulding kick it out to Stafford/Ramser/Levitch for 3 bombs - which they seem to shoot awesome at.