Devil4Life33

To the best of my knowledge, Eastin has been sick. It is definitely not true that he has been having it out with Dilts-totally false. It COULD have been a different outcome with him in the lineup but we will never know. Could see a rematch of this one before districts if Newport takes care of St. Henry in the All A.

I heard that both players have some sort of stomach virus.

No, Dayton had 2 starters out.

Final Greendevils had 5 in double figures led by Massey's 16. Massey 16 pts 7 rebs Lovell 15 pts Sparks 11 pts Bowden 10 pts 11 rebs Turner 10 pts 13 rebs 8 ast 4 stls

It will be interesting to see the score in this one as I think both teams are capable of dropping 80+ on any given night, but I just can't see Holmes playing uptempo against a team like Newport. I'm thinking something like 59-48 Holmes.

Final Eastin lead the Greendevils with 27. Pretty sloppy game with a lot of turnovers by both teams.

Classy or not can be debated, but as I explained my stance on this in an earlier post, I believe that it is necessary for growth. I would expect any other team's reserve players to play with the same intensity that their starters or core players play with when they are in the game. This whole issue can be debated from here to eternity with no clear cut answer, if the "mercy rule" were a basketball rule then maybe things would be different, but I can assure you this has not been the first game played like this nor will it be the last. I'm not one to make excuses, so if the shoe were on the other foot I would be telling the Dayton guys that if they don't want to be beat so bad that they better improve and be able to stop someone. Or as I said earlier, either finish or be finshed. Good, bad, or otherwise that is my opinion.

I did not see Dilts restrain any additional players, but I do not doubt that it happened. When the whole ruckus went down I was busy making sure no one else got involved either. I really don't see why anyone would consider Dilts doing that a bad thing, it was a hostile environment and he was protecting his players. More importantly, he had control of his guys so that nothing escalated. You can preach at a player to hold their temper, but when something happens like it did at the end of the JV game you can't just sit around and expect the players not to try and protect their friend and teammate. I don't blame the players for being upest (i don't condone it either), but I commend Coach Dilts for acting fast so that this didn't get out of hand. I feel the same way about plenty of Bellevue people and I am proud to call them friends and I know that Bellevue also has some quality kids on their basketball team. It is unfortunate when a situation like this takes place, but all we can do is reflect on it and try to learn how to avoid it the next game. And yes, us Dayton people enjoy giving Bellevue a good whooping in anything we can also. Can't wait for round 2 (no pun intended)

I'm not on here to talk football, but this statement about the foul at the JV game is absolutely false. I explained EXACTLY what happened in an earlier post and believe me, I had a much better seat than you did. If you truly believe what you wrote, then you are either out of touch with reality or you were not at the game.

It was confusing because the game was over, but both players were ejected.

Basketball is not classified and I am sure you are one of the posters on here that will remind the State All A champion that they did not win a state championship. It may be a joke to you, but there are a lot of class A schools around this state and if you don't care for the contests they play then maybe you should save your opinions for the larger school threads.

I never referenced football as I was not in attendence at the Bellevue/Dayton football game and I do not claim to know as much about the strategy of football as I do basketball.

Yes the teams did play twice last year and the incident occurred in the 2nd game which was played at Bellevue

I also wanted to add that there was another technical in the Varsity game against a Bellevue player for a shove after the play was over. It was not nearly as bad as the JV game. The Dayton player did not retaliate and the Greendevils were not assesed any technical in the Varsity game. I'm not sure if 2 is a coincidence, a trend, or a pattern. :sssh:

It should be a very tough District Tourny this year. After seeing New Cath knock off Boone County, the way Newport is destroying people, and HIghlands experience, it is going to take a physical, agressive, and experienced ball club to compete no matter how the draw plays out.

First off, this is not the forum for expressing your political views. As far as Dilts' decision to continue to press during the game, Dayton dressed only 11 players that night and all of them received playing time with 9 of them seeing significant time (10+ minues). If you do the math, you have to keep one of your 1-7 guys in there just to field a 5 and they were all being rotated as they would get tired because the Greendevils played hard the whole game. And IMO, if you are a pressing team, what is the reasoning in taking your press off when you put your reserves in the game. You want everyone on your team to play with the same intensity no matter who is in the game with them or against them. Those players have to get the experience they need doing those things in a game situation and they may rarely get an opportunity. It is a long season and you need everyone at their sharpest to compete at a high level. You couldn't have asked for a better preformance from the Greendevils top to bottom, the intensity was there throughout the whole game and they played great as a team. There is no substitute for that in practice and these kinds of experiences are necessary for players to grow IMO, you either finish or get finished.

Yes, after the JV game ended. The Dayton player had secured the rebound as time expired, he starts to walk up the floor to his bench and is pushed from behind by the Bellevue player. It was probably a good 5 seconds from when the buzzer sounded and both benches were already up and lining up to shake hands. This also happened in front of the Bellevue bench as the players were standing up and the large student section was starting to enter on the other side of the floor, so you can imagine that it felt like everyone was on top of you. The Dayton player retaliated and then in was broken up quickly. Dilts is the varsity coach and he plays into this because he saw the whole thing transpire, acted immediately to get his player off the floor and then went to get an explanation from the officials. Not sure what went on with the Bellevue AD as I did not see it. I do know that this is the 2nd year in a row that a Bellevue player has given a Dayton player a cheap shot. Last year it was in the freshman game and the player was hurt and missed the rest of the season. Whatever Coach Dilts said to the AD was probably well deserved IMO and I believe he has every right to protect his players. My guess is he wanted the AD to act faster and have control of his players and students, but :idunno:

I do agree that you shouldn't call a referee out by name and it was not my intention to call him out. I was just trying to make the point that things can change from game to game. Even though there were a lot of calls in the game I was speaking of, it was still a very conistent game by the officials. If that post was taken as "calling him out" I apologize because those were not my intentions.

The only starters that were not in for Bellevue were the ones who had fouled out. You may not know as much about this Dayton team as you think, they have 9 seniors and any of them are capable of starting at any time so you may have been a little confused on who were starters and who weren't because they are all interchangable. All 11 players for Dayton got in the game. Dayton simply played hard from the opening tip to the final buzzer, no matter who was in the game and that is exactly what a team should do. I agree that the zone could have made this a closer game, but obviously Bellevue's coach doesn't agree or he would have stayed in it. As for the bolded sentence, if they weren't 42 points better then I believe the score would have been a little different :sssh:

Dayton outrebounded them something like 61-28!

Final If not for a slow start, the Greendevils would probably put up 100. The Greendevils had 4 in double figues led by Cody Turner's 20. Turner 20 pts. 15 rebs. 5 asst. 3 steals Bowden 14 pts. 18 rebs. Simons 16 pts. 3 steals Dayton won the Freshman, and JV games also.

This is all I ever want out of an officiating crew- Consistency

Fangman also did the Silver Grove/Dayton JV game Saturday and I'm pretty sure he needed a new whistle after the game. Called a lot of ticky tack fouls. Just shows how things can change from game to game.

Dayton plays at Bellevue on Tuesday and then at Lloyd on Saturday

Dayton by 10+