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When Jenkins and the Tennessee Tigers were beaten in Memphis (by maybe 3 or 4 points) by the Hoopers and the famous memphis referees, It was the Tigers 15th game in 10 days, having already played tournaments in Indianapolis amd Louisville. Jenkins had played even more games because he went straight to Indianapolis from the Lebron James camp. Not making excuses just stating facts. Pro teams don't play that kind of schedule.

I've seen both teams play in The Siegel and Harpeth play day. CPA will have to come to play against LA. LA has a deeper bench and plays with more intensity as a whole than CPA. Hunter Miller is the real deal for CPA and their most consistent player. Miller is going to need David Anderson, Will Chapman, Matt Zelnik and the rest of the team to step their game up a notch to beat LA. Has the makings of a great game or could be a long night for CPA if they underestimate LA. JMO.

Bottom line they have to beat CPA who will be playing without Z Mason due to football. If they were to lose to CPA without Z Mason it would be a bit embarrassing for LA.

Have Heard the following schools mentioned: Western Kentucky, MTSU, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and Virginia Tech.

I saw the Ballerz play several times this summer and yes with my own eyes. I was at Tournaments in Houston, Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Louisville, Memphis, North Carolina, Atlanta, Augusta, and Orlando. Were you? The Ballerz did not play in the Peach Jam, that is for the top 24 Nike teams. They played in Augusta but it was not the Peach Jam. I will say that was probably their best tournament of the year. I saw the best teams in the Nation and the Ballerz was not a top 25 team, a vey good team absolutely, but definitely not one of the 25 best teams in the nation. Again I stand by my statement and back it up by actually seeing hundreds of 17U teams play this summer all over the US, and once again the rankings you refer to were done by the Ballerz head coach. And absolutely agree on all your statements on CJ.

This comment has nothing to do about CJ because I think he is a heck of a ball player, but you can not put much stock in the AAU ranking because it was the Ballerz head coach doing the rankings. There was not an AAU team in Tennessee that was a top 25 team in the nation, only because the really good players were spread out on to many teams in Tennessee.

EHS 42 - CPA 14, CPA has some key injuries to their senior squad and must depend on young inexperienced players. EHS has too many weapons for CPA.

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Thats why you are not coaching college basketball. As far as offers for Mason, you can go to Unapproved Website and see about half of them. The other half have come from seeing him play in July. Guess not everybody shared the same opinion as some of the posters on this thread. Let me see here your opinion or the collegs coaches opinion. Hmmm wonder which has more creedence. This will be my last post on this subject but I will leave Legend and other posters on this thread one more Pearl. It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a FOOL, than to open your mouth and REMOVE ALL DOUBT!!!!!

Whatever, if ignorance was an olympic event you would get the gold medal.

They were definitely not a bunch of no names, I know several players on that team and you show your ignorance and disrespect to those players by calling them no names. You yourself just stated they had an MTSU commit. Again even being their 15th game in 10 days, if the game were played anywhere but Memphis, the Tigers would have won. The Tigers were also without Demonte Simpson and Blake Jenkins, Josh Lee played with a broken finger on his shooting hand, Hunter Miller was playing the whole month with mono. Things arent always what they seem. So maybe before people start bashing John Jenkins and Z Mason maybe they ought to know the facts. John Jenkins has signed with Vanderbilt and Z Mason has over 20 basketball offers so evidently the college coaches don't agree with the ignoramus that started this thread. Oh and by the way Z Mason did not play in Houston against the Hoopers when they had Reginald Buckner and lost.

Just to set the record straight on John Jenkins and Z Mason and the Hoopers win over the Tennessee Tigers. When the Tigers played the Hoopers in Memphis, that was their 15th game in 10 days and third city they played in. Playing in Indianapolis, Louisville and then Memphs. The Tigers did not have much energy the first half. They ended up only losing by 4, and the only thing that kept the Tigers from winning the game was the good ole players in the black and white stripes. The refs were so bad against the Tigers and on purpose and they knew it. They would go by the Tigers bench and laugh after making a riduculous call against them.

No they do not have to sit out. Montesorri Academy in Nashville shut down their high school a few years back and none of those students had to sit out a year.

Just maybe if you would read all the posts you would see I was not bashing anyone and certainly did not single out the Ballerz, I was merely pointing out that I thought the Tennessee teams needed to be more consistent. Sorry I should not have included the Ballerz. What was I thinking. I do think it is interesting how much press the Ballerz team gets especially for a team that supposed to be underrated, and yet they appear to have no chinks in their armor and are a destined to be a top ten team in the nation. I have seen the Ballerz play several times this year and they are a very good team and a good set of kids. I wish them all the best. They have went from an underrated team to a top national team. Several of you have put them on a pretty high pedestal. I just hope for the boys sake they can live up to those expectations.

Whatever, and I was not being negative about the players at all as I did acknowledge they are playing the best ball right now of the Tennessee teams. Any time you win a state championship, it is a great accomplishment. Just not convinced of the the national ranking. But you can't really say you have a group of underrated kids if they are ranked 15th in the nation!!!! I was also addressing Tennessee basketball in general. The TN teams have to show more consistency in the national tournaments. And agree I should have started a different thread to voice these opinions. Thank you for correcting me.