Cleggy

Cheatham County must have caught on fire if they were down by 20 and come back to win.  Sure the pros overcome those deficits consistently, but high school ball?  Really?  Usually it would indicate that key personnel went missing due to fouling, injury, etc. or the head coach got tossed or something along those lines to give up a 20 point lead.  No excuse for that.  Blame to go all around for the Patriots.  Much credit to the Cubs.

On ‎2‎/‎3‎/‎2018 at 9:13 AM, Cleggy said:

Going out on a limb for this quirky season, Heritage and Harpeth will be in the Dist. finals.  Heritage's game against Greenbrier was an anomaly. Keys for Heritage, Eddings hitting enough threes to open defense up, Oskin staying in the game out of foul trouble, and the team playing together and for each other.  Wouldn't hurt to get Petrone back too.  They're hard to beat when that's happening.  Only seen it once this year at White House.

Boy, I was off.  Must have been another anomaly.

Going out on a limb for this quirky season, Heritage and Harpeth will be in the Dist. finals.  Heritage's game against Greenbrier was an anomaly. Keys for Heritage, Eddings hitting enough threes to open defense up, Oskin staying in the game out of foul trouble, and the team playing together and for each other.  Wouldn't hurt to get Petrone back too.  They're hard to beat when that's happening.  Only seen it once this year at White House.

1 hour ago, B52bomber3 said:

Good job CLEGGY? LOL 

You deserve all the credit.

8 hours ago, buledievlpdrie said:

District Play begins next week!  Now that we are a couple weeks in and passed thanksgiving. How do you think it will shape up before district play begins?

Cheatham County (1-3) - Play Beech(2-3) at Home Monday. At Kenwood Thursday Night

Greenbrier (1-2) - Home vs. Clarksville Academy (3-1) Tuesday night. Home vs. East Robertson (0-4) Friday Night

Harpeth (2-2) - At Hume Fog (0-3) Tuesday Night. Home vs. Creekwood (3-1) Friday Night

Sycamore (0-3) - Schedule seems to be incomplete **

Westmoreland (0-4) - At trousdale (1-1) Tuesday Night.....Home vs. Trousdale (1-1) Friday Night

White House (4-1) - Play at Portland (4-0) Tuesday night.

White House Heritage (0-3) - Home vs. MLK (3-0) on Monday..... At Murfreesboro central magnet (2-1) Friday Night.

Should be some pretty good games this week good luck to all !!

Dang, Mo-town has to play TC 2X in a week.  Terrible scheduling by both schools.  That will be a wasted week for both.

On 11/1/2017 at 0:44 PM, buledievlpdrie said:

The new year is upon us with everyone starting practices this week.

Not much has changed in this district as they are the same teams....

What are your early predictions? Who is the player to watch for each team? Anybody know of any scrimmages these teams have planned?

My preseason predictions are as follows

1) White House -  Ward

2) Cheatham - Marberry

3) White House-Heritage - Neely

4) Greenbrier - Post player who transferred back from beech name??

5) Harpeth - ???

6) Sycamore - James left so ??

7) Westmoreland - ???

Ashton Oskin will be a PTPr this year.  Don't count him out.

WH is the pre-season favorite no doubt.  Have they gained the maturity that was their achille's heel?  Most likely IMO.  The window of opportunity is wide open this year for them to finally get that District championship.  Heritage played great summer ball from what I heard.  I expect them to field three strong All-District performers.  Shooting will be their weakness unless somebody found a shot this summer.  PG injured in FB should be back and is one of the 3.  Short bench as well.  They could challenge WH for the championship with their very strong frontcourt.

Great game by both teams. Worth the 7 bucks the T$$AA charged.  Patriots didn't ###### up and kept it close.  The 7 foot Cobra was hard to overcome.  Whites Creek is solid and gets mucho props from me.  The Patriots end the remarkable season only one win away from Sub-state. This squad is certainly one that won't be forgotten. 

East Lit., er,  I mean East Nashville wins by 9!  Patriots will be waiting on them!

I think Heritage understands now that they can compete with the 10AA.  I look for them to be comfortable at their home away from home and will challenge the Snakes.  Patriots won't have it easy, and may get blown out, but I see them winning by 5 in this game.  Petrone has this team focused and they are collectively "in it to win it".  I know for sure the Heritage fans will be there along with a few Blue Devils and the Cobras will come empty handed.  Save the 10 for 10 telecast for after the game and come on out and watch the Patriots move on to the Regional championship game!

9AA is irrelevant this year past district play.  All 9AA teams will lose their region games this season.

What 9AA team could beat any of the top 5 in 10AA?

HERITAGE PATRIOTS BABY, THAT'S WHO!  TOLD YA SO.

Heritage cashes that regular season and district tournament championship in on the first round of the regional tournament.  Due to those accomplishments, they get the weakest team in 10AA at home.  Pearl Cohn will be athletic but I believe that this Patriot team is not done yet.  They have shown that they can play defense, get out and run, and shoot the three well on any given night.  I expect it to be a challenge  but I believe that if they keep turnovers to a minimum, shoot better than 70% on their free throws, and rebound well, they should move on to the 2nd round with ease.  Don't be surprised if Heritage takes this one by a large margin, say 12+.

Greenbrier will put up a fight for 3 minutes then collapse.

Cheatham County will put up a fight for 6 minutes then collapse.

White House can pull off the upset against Maplewood.  Depends on Bo's health and ability to play.  White House will have to be red hot from trey land and shoot a lot of FT's to pull this off, but for some gut feeling I think they will.  White House wins by 5.

Since I'm not a player and can look ahead, wouldn't it be sweet if White House and Heritage met in the finals?!  Sweet!

Heritage wins by 12, White House will be up by 10 at halftime.

So cleggy you don't think heritage can be outscored . Don't use foul trouble as an excuse part of the game . If they are good defensively as proclaimed they shouldn't foul . That would be like if we shoot 40% from 3 and 75 from ft line no one can beat us oh that's devils % last 7 games and no body has beat them yet . Only team that beats the devils now is devils .

They have only been outscored three times this year.  A third victory over the Blue Devils would be salt in the wound and leave no doubt.  Hey, wait, they could meet in the Regions too!  Patriots stretchin' that head to head series lead over the Devils out this year.

Petrone has loosened his stoic grip on this team a little this year and you see from their record that they are comfortable getting out and running with anyone.  That could help them next week as they encounter another level of athletes in the Regional tournament.  But for this one, the District, you will see them win by defensive rebounding and getting out and going.  If they don't have a high percentage lay up attempt, they have pulled it out and run Petrone's attack offense.  You saw it in both of their victories over White House.  Easy drives, slicing through that leaky zone, and making hardly challenged lay ups.  If Upton gets hot, watch out.  If the Patriots go down it will be because of foul trouble and missed FT's.  TRUTH. haha.  I really don't see that happening. 

Shout out to Johnny Showtime on the 10 for 10 network (FB) for streaming awesome broadcasts.  BDP to you bud.

First Games of The Tournament tonight !!!

 

Boys game is 2) Harpeth vs. 7) Cheatham

 

I am still an experience type person when it comes to tournament time. The cubs even though finished the 7 seed have had injuries and suspensions pretty much all year missing their best players. They won the championship last year, I know they lost a few seniors, and very good seniors at that. But just playing in that game , coaching that far over and over I just feel is going to pay off for the Cubs tonight. 

 

Harpeth has a new coach, and i saw they only beat Cheatham by 1 last time they played, and the cubs were missing their two best players.

 

I think this game will be a great, wild one to open up the district tournament.

My hunch is the cubs going to come ready to play and give harpeth all they want tonight. I got cheatham "upsetting" harpeth 56-50 tonight......

 

Good luck to both teams !!

nice call on that one.

Upton, White House Heritage

Neely, White House Heritage

Gibbs, Harpeth

Cox, Harpeth

Cole, White House

Ward, White House

Derseweh, Greenbrier

Garrison, Westmoreland

Olson, Sycamore

Jenkins, Cheatham County

MVP-Desmarais, White House Heritage

I think Tyler Welborne (Heritage) should be strongly considered as well.  Maybe the top PG in the District IMO.

Last night of district play !!! Who ya got tonight , there are some big seeding games happening !!

 

1) Heritage takes on 7) Cheatham county : Believe these two teams are locked in as 1 seed and 7 seed .. Congratulations Heritage on winning the regular season Championship keeping Cheatham from having a 4 year District alignment sweep ! I got Heritage in this game , and I have been around White House for a long time , and i believe heritage going for a 20 win REGULAR season for the first time in school history ! ...

 

3) White House vs 4) Westmoreland - this game is for the 3 seed ....if White House wins they will be the 3 seed ... if westmoreland wins , depending on who wins the Sycamore greenbrier game will determine the 3 seed .... believe if White House loses and greenbrier wins White House is the 3 ... if westmoreland and Sycamore win then Westmoreland is the 3 seed .... I got White House in this game ... they have scored over 90 in 3 of their last 4 ... I doubt the eagles will run up and down the court with the Devils , but I got the Devils in their gym on senior night 72-58 .....

 

5/6) greenbrier vs 5/6) Sycamore - winner of this game will be the 5 seed and the loser will be the 6 seed ... I really have no idea who will

Win this game ... I believe greenbrier is at home so I will give them the nod 58-52 !!

 

This should be an exciting tournament , as these teams have beat up

On each other all year ! As I have said many times I am hoping and wishing for an all WHITE HOUSE final to see the new gym packed to max for the championship

 

Good luck to all and it's that time of year !!!

In all likelihood you should get your wish.  A hot (hehe) Blue Devils team could be considered a favorite in it's home gym against the best team Heritage has ever had (according to the record).  Not to mention the fact that Heritage swept the Devils in the regular season.  Let the drama unfold.

I checked unapproved website pretty sure the devils are an over 70% free throw shooting team on the year so maybe the patriots got lucky they shot about 40% or might have been different game ...

There wasn't anything lucky about that win last night. Maybe the atmosphere was too big for the BDP pups.

Heritage killed BDP with it's pinpoint passing, hustle, unselfishness, and will to win. I think BDP players were frustrated all night not being able to stop the Patriot machine.  Time after time it was drive the lane and convert layups.  I saw it their eyes mid way through the 2nd half.  Maybe the Devils need to work on freethrows instead of threes in practice. 

BDP student section needs to be more creative than chanting ex-girlfriends names and football (Heritage beat them at that too this year LOL).  Best I ever saw was the giant paper mache brick that the Portland students used to use.  That was creative and fun.  At least the players could meet at mid court after the game in prayer.  Glad it doesn't get too ugly on the court, unlike the Mo-town/Cheatham game.

Westmoreland at CC

I really want to take CC . Just think garrison outfwoeks mayfield .,low scoring game but have to go with the healthier team . Westy wins 43-36.

 

Sycamore at harpeth sycamore flying high now lets make it two in a row .playiing their rival .will be hard doing it at their place . Harpeth just not that good . Just have a good coach and team just plays hard . I will go with sycamore by 6 ...53-47

 

Game of the week .,

 

Blue devils at patriots

 

Visitors have won the last 7 I believe . .Heritsge more experienced and won by 16 earlier . patriots 20+ turnovers but they shot lay ups all night . Defense by devils was good by turning them over but awful letting them shoot lay ups . I would say heritsge pretty much sane team as before with the devils much improved on defense . Will come down to 3 ball . If heritage has 20 turnovers again they lose . I am going with a barn burner and streak goes on . Devils 71-69

 

Good luck to all team

My prediction: Patriots 65- Blue Devils 51

Cleggy,  Are you saying that Cheatham had a shot to win the AA title in 2014? Also, what happened in that Heritage/Greenbrier game last night?

yeah when they had saunders, darden, etc.

Congrats to Greenbrier on their win at Heritage tonight.  Perhaps they are not listening to the hype and Heritage is. 

Heritage (Petrone) had a great shot at winning the 2013 Class A title if the big center, Tyler Cunningham, had not gotten hurt in the Region tournament.  The 3 year starting point guard, Johnny Bailey, was also hurt most of the year as well. 

It is extremely tough to ever expect any of the teams from the area winning the State title playing the teams they do early on in the Regions.  Look at what is probably the best team in the last 20 years (Cheatham Co.) in 2014.  If they had not had to face CPA early they should have challenged for it as well.  It will take a combination of height, athleticism, depth, and experience, as well as,a little luck along the way to hang a State banner in any of the local gyms (unless you are a private playing against the publics, or for that matter a private playing in a Division with only about 20 teams total).  But hey, there's always hope.  Go Patriots!

do you know if the transfer played in their christmas tournament at beech?

idk.