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Congratulations to this young man. I've heard a lot about him and will follow his progress if he signs.

Cookeville names girls coach Jamie Gillies from Upperman middle school. It's on Upper Cumberland reporter.

Looks like he was on this one.

Have fun.

I wasn't aware we were discussing girls basketball. I have nothing against Key he is a great player. Who has said anywhere 7A can't compete? All I said was I do not agree night in and night out I do not think they would be the best team in 8AA. According to Coach T Clay is the only boys team in 7A with a winning district record. They lost to the 8AA 4th place team. They lost to 4-4 Jackson County. Don't get me wrong Clay is a very good team with the best player in the area. The difference is that PC is 4-4 and Clarkrange is 2-7 in there district. I wish them all the best not sure why were discussing 7A and Key on the 8AA board?

I too have seen both of these two play and yes very different players and at least 75% of Clays offense runs through Key. I do not agree Clay is the best team. I would love to see them play MC on Monday, LA on Tuesday and Upperman on Friday. I also think they would struggle with Central Magnet. That I just my opinion but appears only a few on here have opinions that count. I guess the real deal will be where they are in a year. Once in a generation player has to be a can't miss at the next level.

Some of you wow! This team beat that team. I have to go back through a few pages here but one of you recently was calling someone an idiot for referencing this team beat that team and so on. Does Key play any other sports? Is he just a year around basketball player? He has signed with Indiana State. Has he officially been excepted? Application process returned NCAA clearing house is all good or does he have classes this semester he needs? I assume since no one answered Key and Endicott have not played against each other?

Have they ever played against each other?

Ok answer me a question? What more should he be doing. I was able to get some info on him tonight 22 points 12 rebounds 3 blocks and 3 assist per game. Averaging 14 shots per game on the season. On a team that has 2 to 4 players a game in double figures with 3 averaging double figure points on the season. He doesn't play on a team where he takes 30 shots a game. He is shooting over 65% from the floor. Who else around here does that? Had he chose to play basketball at the next level he would need at least 30 more pounds.

Please explain further. I would assume your talking about 5 for MC as he is the most difficult to defend on that team. I still don't see him doubled or tripled or changing other team game plans.

I will say this MC has struggled to score against CM. I would think MC averages upper 60's to 70 points per game. Against CM they scores 43 & 54. I didn't see either game but that would support some difficulty scoring against them. Tech is not an easy gym to shoot in and score would tend to be lower and this to me would favor CM. I say MC by 5.

Wow bold prediction. I know MC had a close one at CM but MC beat them by 15 at home. It will interesting game to watch.

Hey it can always be worse. I saw on twitter this morning in Michigan a high school game a fan was on the floor during a time out having a discussion with the officials and one of the referee pushed him. They officals then ran off the floor and call the game. I have no idea of the content of the discussion or why the fan was on the floor in front of scorers table.

Radio announcer was a little harsh on the call after the made shot. Saying he had missed a million from there.

From what I've seen I do not think so. I will say I've probably not seen near as many game as some on here have but some like the spot light to much. I've seen coaches try to talk to them and they just walk away. Calls verses no calls are terrible and they appear to hold some player to a different standard.

Like VF said I was able to find some of the district awards on the Macon county FB and Upperman twitter pages. I didn't see the Macon girls information. Macon county Michael Ashburn 1st team and all Defensive team Seth Carlisle 1st team Heston King 3rd team Riley Phillips 3rd team Dalton Marsh Freshman of the year Upperman Josh Endicott POY and Defensive POY Akira Levy POY Austyn McWilliams 1st team Gracie Maynord 1st team Jake Drongebarger 2nd team Abbie Greenwood 1st team & Defensive POY Tanner Dillon Honorable Mention Riley Hurst 2nd team Dillon Cushing Honorable Mention Lexie Strickland Honorable Mention Dana McWilliams CO coach of the year

Did you ever hit that on the head. The officiating in the Upper Cumberland is as bad as I've ever seen. The way they will single out a player and make themselves front and center is terrible. The calls and no calls. I saw two officials that do high school games working a middle school game where a player was lying on the floor and another play stomped him in the chest and no call was made. The level of ability and desire to be front and center is terrible.

When do you consider a kid to be successful in regards to athletics? More so a kid that receives a scholarship or walk on status to college. Is it just receiving the opportunity? Is it taking advantage of the opportunity by getting an education while there? Very few will move on and play past college. What if they don't make it for whatever reason and come home? I had this conversation recently and wanted to bring it here for discussion. I realize success of any kid other than your own is not ours to judge. It's just a question.

To me this is a joke and a mockery of basketball. He was 7 of 22 or 23 from three point range and most everything else was a layup. Not sure how often he crossed half court on defense. How did the opposing coach allow that to happen?

I saw the first game at UHS. Wow what a difference MC shot the lights out. I wonder myself why UHS doesn't go to Endicott more. When they went to him he scored. I bet he didn't shoot 10-12 times last night. Way to much dribbling and turnovers because of it. No matter the way MC played last night not sure any area team could have beat them.

They lost a guard in the LA game concusion. He should be back by district tournament.

Josh Endicott Upperman 22 ppg 12 rbds 3 blks 3 asst team is 19-4.

I would like to see the Clay GP game. GP has played a couple of quality teams JP III and they lost to Whites Creek. Who I would say is a team Clay hasn't seen anything like. I would expect the GP and Clay game to be a game worth watching.

Wow what a game. Easley the most physical game I've seen this year. Keeping in mind I've only seen 4 or 5 regular season games. Macon was not going to let Endicott beat them they doubled and tripled him most of the game. He still had 16 to 20 and maybe that many rebounds. One for sure and maybe two of the Macon big's fouled out 53 & 34. Both teams had some early foul issues with players having 2 fouls in the 1st half. Macon shot it very well in the 1st half and better than average for the game. It was an exciting back and forth game. You must make foul shots in close games. I hope I can make the next game between them. Congrats Macon.

​I was a little surprised to see Monterey beat PC by 14. Was Monterey's size the difference? I see Macon beat Clay county as well but that has no district effect. Hard to beat a decent team 3 times.