basketballfanatic3

** MY RURAL WEST10 OPINIONS** LONG READ Humboldt and Union City should dominate the 1A area, Middleton lost Mr. Basketball and I'm not sure what West Carroll will look like. -- In 2A, I don't know what's around here. I'm not sure what Gibson County brings back, but coming outside of rural west 10, I think that Douglass has the be up there with Alcoa as the favorites, they had them in a tough championship game. -- I'm a 3A Basketball Fan, loved the way Fulton dominated the tournament last year and watching Haywood dominate until the championship game. (against a Fulton team who flat out got hot, even on heavily contested shots). In our area, this should be very fun watching how it all plays out. The North Sides, South Sides, and Chester County all have to go through the teams going toward Nashville for the region and sectional games. Chester County returns mostly everyone, I think if they can avoid an improved hard playing South Side team they'll be back in March. Dyersburg, South, Gibson (added) , and Dyer County are all in the same district along with Crockett. I watched Dyersburg this summer play a couple of games with out their big guy, the coach's son had developed tremendously. He can shoot the cover off the ball. They shoot the ball at a pretty decent clip as a team. They might be the best team in this district. Dyer County lost their guard and post kid to graduation, they looked really good last year with a lot of young guys until they slipped a few games towards the end of the season and in the tourney. South Gibson plays at a high pace. They pressed a lot this summer when I saw them. I watched them play Haywood twice, Haywood dominated one game and South Gibson outsmarted Haywood at Bethel, and they pressed Haywood both times, very surprising. I think it will be a up between these (DC) two for a spot in the District Championship against Dyersburg. The Rival District has had some old rivals leave and new old rivals join. Haywood is the only one left after Covington moved to the Memphis area region (with Munford and Brighton) and Ripley dropped to 2A. Old time rivals Fayette Ware and Bolivar join them in a District that is sure to have packed gyms most nights. Bolton is also in this district and I think that I was told that Lakeland isn't competing in Varsity Basketball this year. Bolivar- is guard heavy, they lost Anderson to graduation, they like to play fast, and look to push the tempo, Coach Crisp seems to be able to a lot of time get the best out of his players. I don't know if they have their point guard back from injury, I saw them at South Gibson this summer and couldn't tell if that was him or not. Fayette loses alot in Yates, they return a lot of experience, they have a knock down shooter, and nice forward who shoots the mid-range with ease, and I believe their point guard. They always play hard, pick you up full court and like to use their length and speed. They should be in the conversation for the District Title and to get to Murfreesboro. Haywood lost a lot, but still has a lot to compete with and I think has a chance to get back to Murfreesboro. I got the chance to watch them at South Gibson and a little at BCAT. I think the key for them is #13. He looked great last year, but this summer at times he looked like he wanted to take a lot of shots, and wasn't real coachable. ( I could be wrong, but this is how it looked). A lot of time Haywood's coaches were yelling for them to move the ball. When they did it, it looked like it worked, so looks as if the struggle for them could be buy in. If they can buy in don't be surprised to see Coach Chatman and MS State legend Vanardo and other coaches back in Murfreesboro with their team. Memphis has also loaded up on transfers I've seen on social media. Ridgeway is one of the teams I've seen. -- 4A - Memphis is always a gauntlet with that district that Arlington,Bartlett,Collierville, Cordova, Gtown, Houston, and Southwind and the other district in the region is Central, East, White Station, Overton, Whitehaven. (There has to be a way to split some of these schools up, a lot of talent gets sent home in the district tournament). Cordova loaded up over the summer with a couple of transfers, Bartlett is Bartlett, Coach Taggert and Collierville have improved as the years go on. Whitehaven lost Thedford to Cordova, we'll see how that affects them. -- Private Schools I AM A DEXTER WILLIAMS FAN! I'm excited to see what he does with an experienced TCA team this year. USJ is under a new coaching regime and JCS has also improved vastly. If you made it this far leave a reaction !! Thanks