I was at the Oldham County/Bullitt East scrimmage last night. Oldham won going away in four quarters. 99-72. They ended up playing a fifth quarter that was lop sided in Oldham's favor as well, but both sides subbed frequently in that quarter.

I don't have the box sheet, but tried to manually keep some stats on Oldham`s side. Freshman Ty Bryant had an off shooting night, but rebounded well and hit a few threes and a few mid range jumpers and layups to finish with 26. This old school player would love to see him initiate contact more and get to the foul line more than he does, but he is a very nice player. Jacobi McRoberts played a terrific game giving East fits defensively, and also driving for mid range jumpers and layups. He had at least 20. Kye Bowan started hot the first qtr getting 8 as Oldham led 32-17 after one qtr. Kye showed his long range from deep at least twice in the game hitting long range threes from 25 plus. The piston and driving force for Oldham's offense was Will Hinkle whos 10 pounds of off season muscle added to his frame has done wonders to his game. He went anywhere he needed to go against East and made great decision with the ball in his hands, as well as playing pesky perimeter defense. Oldham's defensive pressure gave East trouble all night and created run outs early and often. Oldham is still working their football kids back into the rotation which should help them down the road. The schedule is brutal, and Oldham started two true freshman and a sophomore last night. With the narrow loss to 6th regions tough J-town last week and last nights bust up of East, Oldham is coming out of the gate nicely. The future is bright at Oldham, but if last night is an indication, the present might be a little better than the prognosticators are thinking. 

Bullitt East looked like a team still trying to mesh their football kids back into basketball shape. By mid season Couch , who is a seasoned and very fine coach will have them playing good ball. I don't know the names of the BE Kids but they have two very solid cat quick guards that do a very good job of getting paint touches and kicking to teammates for threes. They also can finish drives very well. You could tell Oldham's pace just caught them off guard, and when you start down 17 after first quarters makes it very tough to gather yourself and get back in the game. They showed flashes of getting back in the game. Couch lost 7 seniors last year so he is still trying to put all the pieces together. You also could tell his football kids are just not in basketball shape as of yet. Couch will get them where they need to be my mid season. problem is they play in the 6th Region so the sooner the better. 

Both teams played with great sportsmanship which is always nice to see!

Great write up

I wrote in the 8th region thread that I thought OC would be better than many predicted.

With the 3 team district those regular season games are going to be VERY interesting!!!

I haven’t been too high on the Colonels. Maybe I should have ranked them higher. Time will tell. Thanks for the write up on the scrimmage games.