Shotwhisperer75

I totally agree. Regardless of supporting cast, level of play by an individual player or abilities of an individual player from a losing team, the losing team should not get the MVP award. The MVP award should alwasy be awarded to a player from the winning team!! ALWAYS! This is a team sport, and regardless of how strong a supporting cast is or isn't, the MVP should go to the winning team. For those that disagree, basically you are saying that in the NBA if the GS Warriors win the championship versus the Bucks, but Giannis outplays Steph. Giannis should get the MVP? Yeah, not gonna happen.

After watching 5 straight days of great basketball and the top players in the state at the King of the Bluegrass Holiday Classic basketball tournament in Fairdale, KY, I was greatly disappointed in the outcome at the end of the day Sunday championship game. Am I disappointed that North Laurel lost, because Kentucky's pride and joy and current KY King of Basketball, Reed Sheppard, didn't bring home the 1st place trophy? Or that the State's most talented and loathed team, Covington Catholic, took home the championship in a dominant performance? Or that Reed just didn't have the talent surrounding him for the game to be more competitive? Or that in the last game on a neutral court Cov Cath was booed as they took the court? No, not any of the above. Actually, after watching Reed Sheppard over the last two years and over rhe summer in AAU and after watching Evan Ipsaro dominate the NKY/Cincinnati area in school and AAU since he was in 4th grade, I was just excited about watching these two players go toe to toe. With Reed at 6'3" and Evan at 5'10", with similar but different games, as Reed is methodical at orchestrating the offense and has super hero anticipation on defense and amazing offensively abilities compared to Evan's elite stop and explode pace, pull up jumpers, and tenacity on both ends! You can try to compare and pick their games and pick them apart but it would be very difficult my opinion to give either one the edge at this point in their HS basketball careers. Their Basketball IQs are off the charts! So again why ami disappointed? I'm disappointed that favoritism put a bad mark on a great 2021 HS tounrment! After CCH donated the competition over 4 straight games wirh Evan averaging 28 ppg, there is NO way he doesn't get the MVP of the tournament! Yes Reed, on the runner up team likely averaging 30+ ppg in the tournament gets the MVP? How? Why? Evan had 35 points in the championship game, and although they are both great players, Evan CLEARLY WON THIS BATTLE! He defended and frustrated Reed from the start of the jump ball to the final buzzer! Evan Ipsaro was clearly the best player on the court on Tuesday December 21st at Fairdale HS. It was a complete blow to the reputation of the King of the Bluegrass tournament and the selection committee for ousting Evan and taking away his MVP trophy! I'm not taking anything away from Reed, love his game! But HATE that they took this moment from Evan Ipsaro! As of right now, Ipsaro is the King of the Bluegrass and the only way he gets knocked off the throne is if Reed redeems himself when they play Cov Cath in February or he does it in the Sweet 16! Which is where Evan and Cov Cath will be! Again, shame on the King of the Blue grass for taking the MVP trophy from the Championship team and the top 1 or 2 players of the tournament, but top player in the final game by far! Keep favoritism out of HS basketball! Let's let some things remain pure!