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My son received an email today from a Division 2 Coach. I found the following rather interesting given the "blog" perspective, " I enjoyed watching your game. Your team moves the ball very well and plays an organized system, I can see why you went so far this season. I could also see that your technical skills and understanding of the game are at a very high level". The Coach made no negative comments about the game or Scott's style of play. I think I will take his opinion over most of yours.

In all honesty, why on Earth would a college coach say something negative about a recruit's team or an area high school team? By putting down a team, you run the risk of ruining the relationship with the coach. By putting down a team/performance you run the risk of losing the kid. I don't know a smart college coach that would say anything bad about a team that got to the state final, it's recruiting suicide.

Offside. There is no extra S.

22 games in 48 days in 3 states (KY, MO, TX) I think you could possibly say that fatigue played a part. Just saying even for high school kids, that's obscene. 10 days until their next game should give them some time to recover and get some things fixed.

PRP with an impressive record since the New Year, they'll be a (big) player in March for sure.

Ravon Lee from Ballard literally jumping over 6-7 center from South Laurel in the LIT was the nastiest dunk I've witnessed from a high school player. I know some of you remember it.

He jumped over Ty Proffit, not their center (Walt Allen). The impressive part was how far away he was and yes he literally jumped over the kid. Ty got the "tea bag" chant the rest of the game.

Lee also had a nice reverse dunk over Andres Pegues of Western that year. Not to mention countless others.

IMO Top tier- Ballard, Trinity, Eastern

Second tier- Jtown, Seneca, Male, Manual, Moore

 

I certainly think my second tier teams can beat the top group on a given night but I just don't know if they can put together three quality wins in a row when it counts.

 

As far as Trinity goes, trust me-they are not playing well offensively and still winning these games so I think they have the potential to get a lot better.

 

Should be a fun winter!

J-town should be in the top tier. They haven't faced any tough teams yet, but they will be in the top tier. Everyone will be talking about them soon enough.

Congrats to Trinity on the win.

 

I had a feeling that Clark would struggles against T's defense and I guess the Rocks did enough to get the W tonight.

 

The 7th is unreal this year with Eastern, Seneca, Ballard, and Trinity.

Ballard, Seneca, Trinity in one district. Don't forget about J-town either, they're just as good as all of these teams.

What do you mean by this quote? Ballard has a nice team but, Eastern has beaten them on every level for the past two years. Eastern has one senior in their rotation so, everybody should get used to them being successful for awhile.

Every level for the last two years?

Sure they got the sweep last year in two very close games but

1/8/08 Ballard 72 Eastern 71

1/19/08 Eastern 66 Ballard 58 (LIT)

2/1/08 Ballard 78 Eastern 74

Might want to get your facts straight on that one.

I noticed that Chad Jackson had 9 turnovers for SC. That's quite a few for a point guard of his caliber.

If I remember correctly he had quite a few last year in Georgetown too. He really struggled with the pressure.

Now that I look at the rankings they aren't too far apart. Guess it was a good win?

Is Bryan Station down this year?

The kid grabbed Jackson as he went around the screen. Not much to argue there. Plenty of calls could be argued through the night as the choice of officials was astonishing.

 

This was a fantastic high school basketball game. Bellarmine was pretty much full. Both schools brought a good number of students (with Ballard in the majority. Three individual standout performances---Jackson in the first quarter and the last 2 minutes, Cox with an unconscious 3rd quarter, and Reeves keeping J-town close as Cox went off.

 

In the end, as with so many games, it came down to Free Throws, Free Throws, Free Throws.

Musta seen it differently on TV. I thought they called him for falling over his leg. Either way a great game, hard to see Ballard let it slip away like they did though.

The last foul on Ballard was mega harsh. Ballard let it slip away for sure, but that was a horrible call at the end.

Basketball homecoming is almost non-existant at Ballard. Football homecoming is the formal one. I never once attended a basketball homecoming dance (no one did), but I am surprised that they cancelled it, especially because I never remember them selling tickets to it either.

Was at Ballard vs. Scott County this year though and BHS had a better student section than SC on a school night 1 hour away.

All games at the Gardens?

Don't read much into the whole storming the court thing. It's easy to do at Ballard and usually happens anytime it's a close game going down to the buzzer. Sounds like an exciting game...wish I coulda been there.

Bender went to U of L. I think he mighta lasted his first year but I cant remember correctly. And dryz I agree that 06-07 wasn't the only year that there were two great teams like that, but it was the only year where you saw a #1 and a #2 stay that way the entire year and have the #1 go undefeated in State and the #2 team only lose in state to the #1 team. That's what I was mainly referring to. It was purely a two horse race.

Ballard usually struggles in the half court especially with quality post play. If Zollo has a game I could see this going GRC's way, but I'll take Ballard.

An above-average basketball player? The guy was a 6'6'' (maybe taller) freak who could jump out of the gym & dominated the glass.

 

He didn't have the best jump shot. He didn't have the best ball handling skills. But Dewalt is the type of player that you'd love to have on your team, and to call him an above-average basketball player is incorrect. He was a great high school basketball player.

I'd say the '99 and '07 Ballard and Scott County teams and add '03 Mason County and '04 Warren Central. As a homer I really liked the '05 Ballard team, they probably had more talent than the '07 team they just didn't have the desire (and Spillman walked).

But the thing about the two '07 teams and especially SC is that it was a two horse race all year. Neither team lost to anyone ranked behind them and Ballard's only loss going into the Championship game was in the season opener. I think that SC team will go down as perhaps the greatest but I think Ballard should be on the list because it won the KOB and LIT in addition to losing to only the top ranked Cardinals in state. None of the other years in the last 10 years had two teams like that, let alone in the same year.