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Congrats to the Hodges. Morehead State is getting great basketball minds.

How do you go about getting players added?

Just want to say congrats to Walker Valley. Great shooting & great hustle. I also have to commend the VERY classy fans of Walker Valley. After the game was over, the fans were very gentle with our girls & complemented them. They even opened the consession so the girls could get drinks well after the game. Good luck @ State!

She hurt her knee @ the end of the game & wasn't in on the last play. Great game last night. That's how it should be, to go down to the last possible second to decide the winner.

PHargis I think I see you!

LOL better get a facebook to keep up HAHA Skype. Riverdaleman you've got to keep up with the times!

OH YEAH YOU GONNA BE CRYIN LIKE A BABY when you walk onto that court with your baby girl!!! You will suddenly forget how mad she made you the other day and think of how wonderful and beautiful she is and you will LOSE it lol. I have boys so i am sure girls are tougher to let go than boys lol Yeah, and since she'll probably go out of state for college, I'm probably going to really let loose. She told me she will talk to me on the phone every day when she leaves, I don't know how long that will last though.

I've already resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to bawl Monday night. Jazzy I expect sympathy tears from you!

What happened?

Lavergne @ Blackman makeup date - Monday 2/15/10.

Kudos to Riverdale as they were the aggressor tonite. We played tentative. PHargis the lineup change was due to injury. Tiera Norris sprained her ankle against Oakland & is still out. My thoughts & prayers go out to the riverdale student who had the accident. Apparently she was underwater for 20min.

LaVergne - Blackman cancelled. No makeup date set.

LaVergne - Blackman postponed. No makeup date yet.

Gibson Co. has 3 D1 signees along with a Sophomore guard that will wind up D1 as long as she stays healthy. Our Freshman class is loaded this year and next years upcoming Freshman will be loaded as well. Oh yea, our coach has won over 900 games as well. Obion Co. has a girl that has signed with Texas. They also have a very solid 6'2 post player. They have a guard, who dropped 29 on GC last night, that's only a Sophomore and will be the next big thing out of West TN after this year. They are very deep into the bench. Westview has a D1 signee and probably one of the best if not the best shooter in the state in Amber Rechis. She has signed with Florida Gulf Coast State. They have role players around her that are very very good at what they do and Westview is very fundamental. With all this being said..... I'd take an all star team from District 13AA and put them up against any all star team from a District from around the nation and would bet money that they would compete with or beat most of the teams they play. If you don't believe me, look at the TNWings AAU team from this past summer. Almost all of those players were from District 13AA. LaVergne has 3 D1 signees, including a top 50 nationally player going to Kentucky & freshman point guard that will probably go D1 & may be the best point guard in the district in a couple of years. Riverdale has a D1 signee & a freshman & sophomore that will probably go D1. Blackman has a D1 signee & another with D1 offers, & sophomore post/wing that has a good chance of going D1. siegel has arguably the best point guard in the district that already has one SEC offer & is slapping the backboard @ about 5'4. Smyrna has a post player that has D1 interest. That would be a great game. Too bad it will never happen. Also most of these girls have played the wings over the years either as TN Team Pride or TN Flight.

This statistic is evidently being used to emphasize the importance the "D" in winning. And Rightly so. But what it was missing and was missing Friday night was "D" in the transition game. RD's high percentage, after looking how they scored, was a result mostly on points scored on transition. Lavergne simply had a good game plan initially but it fell apart when their post offense didn't work, they couldn't get the ball close, started shooting outside, got in a transition game with RD and couldn't defend it. Very little was and has been written about Barbee's dominence with Myers inside. it was a factor not expected. The difference with Blackman is their "D" has to do more with Ball Control along with defense and they might be able to play D on transition better. While not commonly acknowledged, it is a hallmark of CH's teams and with rebounding is the reason they are successful. If RD's transition game against Blackman is as good as against Lavergne, Blackman will have a long night. If Blackman plays and is effective in its game, the game will be within 5-8 points, you name the winner. Blackman's game isn't run and gun but this year, with all of the post presence, can play it better. Blackman's pressing defense will also be a factor and will slow RD down. Lavergne waited to late to try it, did not have the well "legs" to make it work and that and rebounding was some of the factors for its defeat. One sentence that explains it, RD controlled to game and LaVergne played catchup all night. Doesn't mean that LaVergne isn't an exceptional team. When I said we didn't really need to change anything defensively, I meant us as in "Blackman". Obviously if Riverdale had consistently hurt us in transition, I wouldn't think that. Again we just need to be more aggressive offensively. Barbee had four fouls & we didn't take advantage of that because we weren't aggressive enough. The rest of the regular season will be even more heated than the first, I think. Now that teams have played each other, we will see which team has made the neccessary adjustments when they meet again. Get ya popcorn ready!