Final.

 

Collision course between Station and Catholic. Hope it's not as one-sided as the 2008 one, and I'm to talking about the score.

Sounds like Catholic is on a bit of a roll themselves. Didn't get to see lots of the game because I was listening to Clay County's, but it looks as though they were pretty convincing in taking care of business.

Catholic completely dominated this game from start to finish. Henry Clay came out and missed quite a few easy shots and it seemed to really hurt them mentally. It was looking like Henry Clay would go into the half in single digits until they got a couple buckets late to get to ten points. It was 25-10 at the break. In the second half LexCath looked like they were going to immediately put it away but Henry Clay cut it to 9 and had a lot of momentum. LexCath then went to Johnson on the block for an easy bucket, Johnson hit a three the next trip down, and then Griffin hit a three the next trip down. All of that happened very quickly and the game was essentially over. Lexington Catholic played extremely well tonight, as good as I've seen them play all year. Of course Bryan Station looked good tonight too so it should be a great matchup but I suppose that would be saved for another thread.

Catholic completely dominated this game from start to finish. Henry Clay came out and missed quite a few easy shots and it seemed to really hurt them mentally. It was looking like Henry Clay would go into the half in single digits until they got a couple buckets late to get to ten points. It was 25-10 at the break. In the second half LexCath looked like they were going to immediately put it away but Henry Clay cut it to 9 and had a lot of momentum. LexCath then went to Johnson on the block for an easy bucket, Johnson hit a three the next trip down, and then Griffin hit a three the next trip down. All of that happened very quickly and the game was essentially over. Lexington Catholic played extremely well tonight, as good as I've seen them play all year. Of course Bryan Station looked good tonight too so it should be a great matchup but I suppose that would be saved for another thread.

 

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Catholic completely dominated this game from start to finish. Henry Clay came out and missed quite a few easy shots and it seemed to really hurt them mentally. It was looking like Henry Clay would go into the half in single digits until they got a couple buckets late to get to ten points. It was 25-10 at the break. In the second half LexCath looked like they were going to immediately put it away but Henry Clay cut it to 9 and had a lot of momentum. LexCath then went to Johnson on the block for an easy bucket, Johnson hit a three the next trip down, and then Griffin hit a three the next trip down. All of that happened very quickly and the game was essentially over. Lexington Catholic played extremely well tonight, as good as I've seen them play all year. Of course Bryan Station looked good tonight too so it should be a great matchup but I suppose that would be saved for another thread.

 

I wouldn't say they missed a lot of easy shots. Looked like they forced quite a few bad shots. Too many 3pt attempts early. Let Talbott get to the basket. Should have probably zoned them and made Talbott shoot the ball. He is too dangerous off the dribble.

I wouldn't say they missed a lot of easy shots. Looked like they forced quite a few bad shots. Too many 3pt attempts early. Let Talbott get to the basket. Should have probably zoned them and made Talbott shoot the ball. He is too dangerous off the dribble.

 

Well...they certainly settled for too many jumpshots and didn't take it to the basket as much as they should have. However they had shots in the lane that rimmed out. I know Jordan Houston had multiple shots that he typically makes. That's what I was thinking of. If a few of them had dropped I think it would have helped them a lot. In elimination games with high schoolers bad things tend to snowball and momentum can be a huge factor.

 

But yeah, you're right, many of the jumpshots they settled for were bad shots. Me and the guys I was with even talked about how it reminded us of the Henry Clay teams 2 and 3 years ago with Green, Cunningham, etc. They had a ton of talent but settled for jumpshots far, far too often instead of taking it to the rim.

 

I actually think that is what makes LexCath so good. Their players seem to be very aware of their strengths and weaknesses as players. Most of the time they do their best to play to the strengths and avoid being forced into the weaknesses.