justwatching

They play tonight, and their records mean they should be there. Too late now, but as of 2 hours before game time last Friday, NCS vs McEwen was not there either. Are 5A school too small to count?

I think you are in the wrong thread. Where is 8A?

I am a little confused. On more than one of these NCS/10A threads this morning I have read that NCS would be in trouble if Biggs weren't picking up the slack. I completely agree that he is playing great. However, I have been reading for weeks how NCS is one dimensional and all that other teams had to do was shut-down the 3 point shot and NCS could not win. I think what is happening is Biggs (and Givens, who has also played very well the last few weeks) is proving that to not be true. Other teams are figuring out that they must play further out on defense on NCS’s four NCS great three point shooters, and that is leaving a lot of space for a 5'10" or 5'11", very fact, player with great jumping ability to work. Biggs scored 20+ in the regular season, so this tournament run is nothing new. I do not see how Biggs’ play in any way indicates that anyone else is playing badly. Someone has to get him the ball, and they all have to play defense to stop other teams. What has happened the last couple of weeks is that NCS has shown that they are a very balanced team with 6 or 7 players who can have big games when needed.

I have been told that the NCS/Davidson boy's game Thursday has been moved to from 8:30 to 5:30 to immediately follow the NCS/Davidson girl's game, with McEwen/Houston County boys moved to 8:30. Can anyone confirm?

Belmont, your opinion here means nothing, since you were obviously not at the game and do not know what happened or did not happen. If you were there, you would know the game was at NCS. Why waste time giving a worthless opinion?

Did you actually join CoachT today just to give accuse NCS players and fans of starting problems at a ballgame that your school lost at NCS, and then decide to accuse NCS students of making racial remarks against another school’s student? Have you read the multiple threads on CoachT from two weeks ago indicating the anger NCS students and fans had after one or more McEwen students/fans openly made racial remarks against an NCS player. There is NO chance any NCS person did that to another teams player after what their own player was subjected to that type of treatment. And if your not saying the NCS people made those types of remarks, then you had no business even mentioning race in your post. Further, if you are saying that this girl has been subjected to that treatment by non-NCS people at other games, then you cannot possibly believe that somehow gives her the right to make inappropriate gestures against NCS students and fans at NCS. There is no way that that gesture can be “understood.”

my schedule says that is at NCS

I am not sure I understand what is meant by how the multiplier will affect NCS next year. First, the multiplier does not go into effect until the next year. Second, NCS has such a small enrollment that it will not move up. Third, NCS dodges no one. In football they are in the same district with, and play, CPA, DCA, FRA and Ezell. In basketball, they are in the same region and play CPA, Ezell, and FRA twice each. They also play 2A Fairview and Harpeth twice each, 2A Lipscolm, and 3A Pearl. They have scrimmaged Goodpasture (and could play them in Regions) and Hillwood. Basically, they play any tough school that is anywhere near in location. Other than new district members, I do not see their schedule changing that much in the future due to the locations of potential opponents. Next, I am an NCS parent who chose to put my children there because I liked the people and the atmosphere better than public and other private schools, not for cost and certainly not for what you seem to think are lower academic standards. The teachers chose to teach there for the same reasons. I guaranty that at least as high a percentage of students go to and succeed in college as do students at any other private or public school in the area. Ballbasher, your last comment was offensive and uncalled for on this board.

The fact that there are no "Anderson Brothers" is one problem -- but the main problem with that post is that it is just stupid to think that anything you said is at all possible.

If the inside players played like they did against a bigger (and very physical/cheap/dirty) Fairview on Friday, it will not be close.

Two bigger games. District 10 1 McEwen 9-2 81.82% 2 East Robertson 8-4 66.67% 3 Nashville Christian 6-3 66.67%

According to the Tennessean, they do not play at all.

someone told me sarge did not read this stuff

Two comments. First: Actually, it is not that NCS 3s are not falling at this time. In the last three games, they just got many fewer shots because of a tight man defense played by the opponents. Skinner and D. Anderson are still hitting a least as high a percentage as they were. Plus, they both scored double figures just by driving on Lipscolm. (Those drives could have produced some free throws; some fouls were called -- others clearly were not.) Other players on NCS do need to find a way to score more points. Second: As for the previous statement about Lipscolm by KHopkins: "They teach the fundamentals of basketball like dribbling, passing, movement without the ball." I am sure that is true. However, they also are apparently coached to set illegal on screens. Neither Tyler Pennington and Cutler Robertson set one pick that did not involve pushing the defender as he ran past. It makes it very easy to hold the ball for long stretches when offensive fouls are not called.

I do not know much about either team, or whether Allen played. I agree that it seems impossible for a team with a top player to trail that badly that fast, but as for them losing, the team they played had a player as good or better. The records after that game, 18-1 vs 9-5 indicate the other team may have been better also. Andre Allen Position Ranking: NR RivalsHoops: 2004 Southeast 34 (32) Marcus Monk Position Ranking: 28 RivalsHoops 2004: The Rivals150 (131) RivalsHoops: 2004 Small Forward (28) RivalsHoops: 2004 Southeast 34 (22) "He’s a legit 6-foot-6, has bulked up to about 205 pounds, runs a 4.6 forty and is coming off a junior year where he caught 52 passes for 1,104 yards and 19 touchdowns. And that’s just football. He averages 26 points, 14 rebounds, five assists and six steals in basketball. He’s ranked No. 1 in his class academically. He’s already scored more than 1,100 on his SAT. He’s just the whole package. There’s nothing he can’t do." " -East Poinsett County coach Mark Courtney Marcus Monk, the 6-foot-6, 205-pound small forward from East Poinsett County High School in Lepanto, AR., has given a commitment to the Arkansas Razorbacks. Coach Houston Nutt and Coach Stan Heath offered him the opportunity of a lifetime, so he could not turn it down. Monk accepted a football scholarship from Arkansas, but will join the basketball team once the football season is complete.