CamdenBalla09

Camden/Huntington game was also cancelled and won't be played either.

Anyone happen to be at this game friday night and see the "great" officiating that went on? It seems to me that when we step into a gym of a district game, the refs have it set in mind that it's little 'ol Camden and they are going to be blown out and we can go home early. Well I know it gets pretty difficult to play 5 on 8 at times....

Are you serious? That makes me happy. lol Which player was illegal?

Thanks you. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> We try to take more pride in our defence now. We haven't given up too many points, it is the fact that we are not putting them up that hurts us. That 3rd quarter at lexington lost it for us. Careless turnovers. /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

We are probably sub par teams. But, a great game to watch still.

Oh I agree with you. No excuses for intentionals or technicals. It was just a bad decision made by me and a teammate of mine. Aslo by the guy from Riverside. I had forgot about that guys intentional is why I said they didn't affect the game. Just be ready to watch a great game week after next. I think we can pull it out. Our game plan coming in was to stop #50 and #45 and we shut them down, now to stop him and victory is ours. Learn from your mistakes is all. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Anyone can look in papers and say we are stinking. Our loses didn't come from talent problems. We have had a few in team problems that took us a week or so to fix. If you saw us play Riverside Tuesday, you would have seen that it has been fixed. We play Lexington tomoorw, so come watch us play. Then tell me what you think. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> Chester County didn't look too hot over the summer, but I wouldn't put it past them to be 3rd in district. I think South Side is still too talented to lose to them. I think it will be close with them 2 teams and McNairy for second, third, and fourth. then I think we can play with Chester County this year, so if they look at us as last years team, we could beat them. Not saying we will though. Our district is almost a toss up for all positions but first this year. Should be a fun district to follow.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, the Tech and intentionals was bad on our part, but I had one of the intentionals. :S That Tate kid had done somethings all night that wasn't ever caught, and that time I was sick of it It is on us though as players to control our temper. If you didn't think it, know that we didn't get away with it either. Coach had a few things to say after the game on that subject. But, I don't feel that they changed the outcome any. It came down to smart play and free throws. Just so happened, we were forced to foul #15 who is an excellent free throw shooter, and did well under pressure. We go to Riverside week after next, and there will be a different story in the end. =)

It's obvious who I play for, but I must say, it was one heck of a game. Anyone here witness it? Any thoughts on either team?

That I think is the refs just wanting to go home. I notice the same thing in all the games I play. If anyone was at Bolivar last year when we played them, you would know this. The scoreboard stopped working on one end, and the refs didn't call anything at all the second half. I even grabbed a jkids jersey and pulled him to me on a fast break just to stop him from trying to dunk. All that happened was the ref warning me that he will call it next time. This is times I frown on refs.

See, Halls was a little bit better than you gave them credit for huh? But, by the sound of it, your rebels could have taken that one. I don't know how good those 2 teams are they are about to play, but if they play to what they are capable of, I am betting they get them 2 wins. Good luck Rebels! /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Yes, the football players have to take the responsibility, but they played a football game the night before, it is pretty difficult to go from football shape to basketball shape over night. Along with learning all the plays and defenses. You have to see it as that atleast. I will take back the "god aweful" comment I said. I apologize. But! We also have 2 of our starters that wasn't there cause of basketball and only played 6-7 players. I know I never subbed out... We also have a second year head coach and we are in one of if not the toughest 2A district. Also.. about moving to 1A.. We only have maybe 100 students into requirements for 2A. While some of the other schools are a couple hundred from moving up. So, it isn't as easy on us as you think. I guess now that I think about it, us and Gleason are in a similar positions as teams.

You must have missed the second scrimmage game when we beat them by 40. Funny that you only bring up the first one. it IS a scrimmage game after all, it is meant to be for the teams to test their different offenses and defenses. We were experimenting the first game and played the second one like it was a real game. If you watched the Halls game at all, you would know why we lost. Bad foul trouble and we had to rely on our football players to win the game when they had a game the night before against Goodpasture. You should look into things before you want to make fun of a team. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

I know what happened in the offseason. I didn't say you guys stunk. I also didn't say you played. I know you don't. I referred to it as you guys and your team because you are a fan of theirs. They really do have a good team. I can't lie. They gave it to us pretty good in off season. We were missing 6 players due to football and we only played 7 players in the game even though we brought more. I scored 20? maybe. So that means the post for Obian need to step it up. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> Other than that. a pretty sound basketball team. But, like I told you, can't use excuses. If we played your guys again, I bet we would win or it would be a very very close game. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> Halls has a good team that will pounce when you are down. So, if those Obian boys get into a bad shooting slump, Halls will let them have it. That is why I said you what I said. Now.. Good luck to your team this year. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

I guess it's good you aren't a Gleason fan. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Greenfield by 20+ /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> Gleason is God aweful this year. My guess is young andinexperience. Like us the last 2 years. This year isn't it for them.

Don't talk crap about MY team when YOURs couldn't put up more than 30 on Greenfield. if the team isn't shooting well, that's something you have to play around and deal with. Stop using it as an excuse. Get the ball into the post more until you open up more threes. Don't settle for long shots every trip down the floor. You deserve to get beat that bad if you do. I think Halls will beat up on you guys if you don't play smart and play fundamentally.

We have a sophomore who averaged 12 a game as a freshman. We have a 3 year starter returning for leadership. A 2 year starter returning at center who is averaging 15 a game right now... a 2 year starter that does nothing but hustle. A PG that was our running back this year so you know he is very quick and has great court vision. We are the same players plus a few new faces. We may not be 3rd in district, but look for us to be 4th or 5th. Last WILL NOT happen this year. The Gleason game you were talking about.. They came back because it is a scrimmage. We were testing different defences and such. If you paid enough attention, you would have seen that they only came back during our 1-3-1 half court defense. In the second game, you would have noticed that we fell back into a 2-3 and into a 1-3-1 half court press whic, I might add, created ALOT of trouble for little Gleason. In a scrimmage, you are suppose to go through different defenses to see what work needs to be done before the season. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> Just a side note there. EDIT: Lexington will be lucky to compete with us this year, much less be better than us and Chester County. I can almost promise you that Lexington will be last. 5th at the best if they can beat us. But, I don't see that happening. (atleast I hope.)

Yeah. . I understand. Reffing games ain't easy. I know I wouldn't want to do it. But, sometimes it just seems like it is way lopsided like that. Granted that we commit some of the things they call us for, it just needs to be called on both sides of the ball. Also.. I feel that they also need to call things the same for each position. If I hand check a post player, odds are it will never get called unless I outright push him. But, if you so much as to touch a point guard, it gets called. Anyone with me there?

OK.. I play basketball in high school, so my views on bad refs are of course stronger than some of yours. But, explain to me why some games (not all) it does seem like fouls and walks etc are flying out of the ref's mouth for one team, but the other team are getting away with it? Such as this.. I was called for a hold while posting up. I am 6'3" and the other guy was 6'6" and had atleast 50-60 pounds on me. I had both hands at my face calling for ball when the foul was called. I didn't say anything, but a few plays laer, the bigger guy had one of my arms locked in his and an elbow in my throat while posting and a call was never made. Another of my fouls. A guy drives in a little outta control and pulls an off balanced fade away from right to left in the lane. I stood both feet planted and arms straight up. No contact was made at all, but I got called for a push after the ball was shot. (air ball at that) But, on the other end, I turned with a post move and had someone's arm across both of mine forcing me to throw a shot up but nothing was called. Or this.. A ball was passed to a teammate and he stepped with his right and dragged his left before dribbling. A walk was called. The VERY next playy on the other end, one of their players do this and isn't called for it and they score off that play. As soon as our coach said "If dragging your feet is a walk down there, it needs to be one here.." they called that walk on the kid the next play. In this game, 1 of our players fouled out, 4 of them had 4 fouls, 4 had 3 fouls, and I am guessing at this number, but about 10 turnovers were called on walks. They came out of it with 2-3 people with 3 fouls. 2 with 2 fouls, and someone fouling out.

OK. I thought so. I know over the summer even we gave them a 25+ loss. I was hoping they were that bad, we need a district win this year and I am hoping Lexington will gives us just that. But, they are very young, and it reminds me so much of our team the last two years, so I know how they are feeling right now.

Ya'll are too young, inexperienced, and under sized to beat us this year. But, good luck to you guys. =)

Is Henry County that good this year or is Lexington worse than I thought? I know they are young and under a new coach, but that shouldn't be an excuse for only scoring 23. Anyone who saw the game care to fill me in?

He said that whole post as a joke. Just ignore that guys posts, and he won't keep coming back. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> He actually goes to our school.

Was you talking about the big guy from Halls or Camden in that one? I thought we were being cheated to, but we have to learn to win games even if we think we are getting the bad side of the calls. lol