Devil4Life33

Final

I'm not even sure why this deserves a poll. Beechwood in a rout. Beechwood plays very well together as a TEAM, not a one man band.

Couldn't say it better myself, but they will be returning ALL contributing members of this team. Only losing one senior and he has only played in a few games because of an unfortunate string of injuries.

Yes it was Heritage that they had a little trouble with and Dayton plays very similar to Heritage...only better. They both shoot a lot of threes and like to get up and down the court.

I think it is a bit foolish to say that they shouldn't have any trouble with Dayton. Dayton is very capable of pulling off an upset...I'm not entirely convinced that they will. Dayton has very good balance with 6 players capable of leading the team in scoring on any given night. If all 6 of those guys get hot they would give a lot of teams trouble. I'm just saying it is not inevitable that Newport makes it to the championship...that's why they play the games.

I'm biased, but... The Devils pull it out 74-71

One of my fondest memories from the 9th Region was in 2001 when Ronny Dawn went for 54 in an opening round game. It was in Dayton's gym against Beechwood or Calvary and it was amazing to watch. He was hitting shots from everywhere. One of the best individual high school games I have ever seen in terms of scoring.

I believe his name is Cody Chambers

He hit at least 4 3's in the first half. 3 straight to start off the game and then a 30 footer at the buzzer will 2 guys in his face. All 4 that he made were either very deep or highly contested. I know he had 19 points at halftime, but I'm not sure if he made any more than 4 3's.

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I agree that it is too early to make these predictions, but I'd go with Beuttel based on what I've seen. He's given Beechwood great point guard play on both ends of the court and doesn't try to do too much, but if he needs to take over the game he can.

Just noticed the face. You were being sarcastic....I'm a little slow:rolleyes:

You can never have enough good point guards...and if you don't think UK needs a pg then you're not watching the same team I am. I know Vilarino is coming in next year and possibly Jai Lucas, but like I said you can never have enough.

Maybe you forgot that you brought the student sections into this conversation, which has absolutely nothing to do with basketball. And to bash players/students upbringing is absolutely ridiculous. Because the Lloyd student section made racist comments towards our Pakistani player a few years ago means that those students parents are also racists? I'm not sure I completely buy that. Sure these kids parents have a great influence on their lives, but high school kids will do and say as they please when not around their parents and I don't believe you condemn a childs parents everytime they misbehave. If both student sections are getting this much talk on here then they are obviously doing thier job of getting in the other team's heads, but for arguements sake can you stick to the actual basketball game?

Dayton 78 Silver Grove 62 Dayton should be the far superior team, but I wouldn't be surprised if the end score is closer than the actual game itself.

Good point. If you don't give it up in practice you won't have it to give up in the game.

If it is true that they chanted that, then I will agree that it was/is tasteless to taunt an injured player. That being said I have been to many LLoyd games as well as played against them when I was in school and have witnessed the student sections at those games chant some very tasteless things and sometimes even racist (we had a player from pakistan one year). Kids will say what they can to distract their opponents so that is irrelevent IMO.

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Haven't seen either team, but based on everything I've read about Elliot CO they must have a fine team this year. Elliot Co 99 Boyd Co 48 I'm just predicting a closer game so if it actually happens I can say I was right :jump:

An especially good win for Dayton when you take into consideration that Lloyd has 7 seniors that get quality minutes and Dayton has none in its current rotation. You would think that the technicals would have gone to the less experienced team and the foul shots made by the more experienced team. I am not saying that the technicals were deserved because I was not at the game, but I would expect a senior laden team to have better control of their emotions when the game is on the line. Good win Dayton!!!!!

One thing that I find strange about Beechwood is that Dayton's 8th grade team beat them 5 times last year (3 8th grade games and 2 frosh games using ALL 8th graders) and not one of those games was even close, yet I see a thread on here that the Beechwood frosh handled Ryle's frosh by 20 in their season opener. Where did the talent come from? It certainly wasn't there last year and to say that the kids they had last year improved that much over one summer is pretty ridiculous. I'm just wondering if someone could let me in on the secret.

I agree. Young must have had an off night because I have saw him play a couple times this year and coming into this game I believed him to be the tigers best offensive threat. The games that I have seen he has also given gret effort on every defensive possession. COuld he have been tired? The tigers do not have much post help on their bench.

Beechwood will have their hands full with Calvary Christian. Don't get me wrong, Beechwood is a very good, disciplined basketball team that plays within their system, but to say they will dominate this year is absurd.