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I also watched the East vs Cloudland game, East and Cross started out with a quick 7-0 lead mainly because of a tired Cloudland defense. Take away all the offense rebounds and put backs from East, Cloudland wins by twenty. (with fresh legs and boxing out) Lets just say if East doesnt get Cross back they are in trouble, the others on that team can barely hit the backboard. Cloudland was tired and played a bad game and still found a way to win, thats what good teams DO! Should be a great year for basketball in east tennessee, esp with Cloudland and hampton beating up on the Sullivan schools and Tennessee High. And great games between Cloudland/ Hampton ....and on the HEELS, just give them time- they are young and it will all come together

That would not surprise me at all! He would do great at Hampton... both schools will be in good hands if it works out that way. Good luck to both in whatever they choose to do!!!

Is this true? IF so where did he go and whos the coach at Cloudland now. Thanks for any information you have

anyone know who won the cloudland unaka boys game? how many pts morgan for cloudland and everyone had?

whats cloudlands record right now, do you know? And who have they played? I try to look on johnson city press website, but its no help at all.

when does Cloudland and Hampton play?

Ive heard some good things about the Highlanders! Can someone please post their upcoming games, ive wanted to make it to one but i just dont know when they play. Thanks for the help.. And no they havent got a new gym, if its not broken dont fix it! Great home basketball atmosphere. Good luck to the landers and Ned Smith

people that dont have anything worth saying on here shouldnt even waste their time or our time by just posting stupid questions and posts. Was Cloudland the better team out of the district and region? of course, they won 6 straight games in those tournys, if the other teams where the better they could have atleast win one of the tournys wouldnt u think????? also i think its just stupid on ur parts to look at the record and jump to the fact that we could have been better represented down in the boro.............cloudland split with both Unaka and UH in the season and the one loss to Unaka was in 7 OT's and then beat them twice in the tournys......so theres 2 out that Cloudland deserved to be playing ahead, as for Hampton, they barely got away with a win AT cloudland then beat us there, but we came back and also beat them twice in tournys.....thats no upset to me, thats the better team winning, one time would be a upset, twice is just making an example! its not our Fault that overrated Wartburg came up to Cloudland and got smacked!!! all u can do is make excuses and this and that, but once again the better team one so get over it. the only thing u had to back u up is that u almost beat the number 1 team cosby.........and we see how they did, not much better with the 20 pt loss at the BORO? let me also mention that UNAKA, yeah the team cloudland beat 3 out of 4 teams and went into 7 overtimes in the only loss to gave COSBY all they couldnt handle in a 5 pt loss to them this season! maybe Cosby didnt deserve it huh??? As far as West TN teams being better than East, they didnt really show me much of anything? sometimes the west is up and sometimes the east is up. it goes more in cycles really! Cloudland was just very young and the first time to the boro' kinda got to them. it will only help them the next time they make the trip though, so i have nothing bad to say about tonights came! Theres plenty of players and teams that would have loved to make the trip down to the BORO'!!!!!!!!!!! i can tell by all the jealous post and everything, i mean come on, show a little more class than that people! The 8 teams down there were the 8 teams that earned the right and played their butts off to be down there! so lets stop with all the crying!!!!! yeah Union City might be one of the top 2 down there, no excuses.......even though if they came up to Cloudland High i would bet u anything the game would have game down to the end. Schedule us at our place next year if u dont believe me lol But i mean a Mr. BBALL with 13 pts across a 8th grade team as u say??? seems pretty sorry, but hey thats just me i guess. I for one, am VERY PROUD TO BE A LANDER! Keep ur head up boys and for the seniors, u did alot this season in the post season that hasnt been done in a long time and u should be proud, and for the underclassmen, just get better from this and we will be back in the BORO with a different result soon!!!!!!!!!!

I never said he was a joke, from what i saw he is a pretty decent player. Not a 25+ scoring player though. I think most of his pts come from just getting so many shots up really. Up at Cloudland i saw the kid shot atleast 30 times and ended with 15 pts. if he hit only half his shots a night or close he should have 30 pts, any player should with that many attempts a night. He even plays PG so he can just skip the middle man and just come straight down and jack it. its crazy.

Wow this game was crazy off the charts. It was a even played game all through the game really. Cloudland would go up 2 or 4 then UH would make a run and go up , etc... Cloudland got some great play by everyone that walked on the floor, the boys really played a good smart game and just out worked UH for the win! The refs had a few calls that could have put the Landers down and out near the end of the 4th, but Cloudland kept playing and made some big threes to force overtime, then went on to never trail in OT to win by around 6 and take first place in the Conference . UH got some hugh shoots late that were counted as threes even though the guys were clearly on the line. The only low point in this game was that #4 actually went as low as to SPIT on one of the Lander players. I dont know, but i think he should have been kicked out of the game. Can that be reviewed by TSSAA if the tape is sent in? and the kid be suspended? it should for sure be looked at! Other than that, a great game by both teams, and a big win in conference for the LANDERS!!!

Who has the highest avg on teams from Northeast TN? i heard crazy rumors that a south greene kid and a university high kid were avg 30 pts per game. haha its one of the many good jokes i have heard recently. I know the south greene kid ( kyle something) only had 14 or 15 against cloudland, so he would have had to score atleast 32+ pts in all other 13 games to avg that high. So lets hear some real facts and avgs around the area????? thanks guys

Whats going on with the Hampton people on here? Talking like you have the best team that has ever played high school football Yes maybe that is the case at your school. But there are many that would question even that. Hampton fans are on here saying that Cloudlands on here talking like they beat Cherokee, yeah they played a good game, and yes they lost at home. But what happen to Hampton against Johnson County, you played at home and LOST! Come on people from Hampton your not Unbeaten, both Cloudland and Hampton are good 1A schools (not great 1a schools, good 1a schools). They do a great job with the number of students they have and the equipment they get. And for the coaching being worst now at Cloudland, thats just a false statment. Yeah Coach Lunsford had one play, big deal, now hampton has that. Run up the middle! Good luck with that!

yeah these Threads do seem to get pretty stupid from time to time on here. This hampton stuff is really starting to get old though for sure, it kinda reminds me of something.........hmmm.........oh yeah UNAKA last year hahaha atleast they were unbeaten coming up to play us!!!! what has hampton done, oh yeah beat Jellico and Unicoi Co. good job guys, my bros 3rd and 4th grade team could beat Jellico hahaha and Unicoi, well i dont even have to say really. and i watched the Hampton/Johnson County game and i never saw anything to great. So whats with all the talking, i dont get it at all, why not focus on ur other games and try to win them first............sounds smart to me but then again i am not from Hampton so i dont know how u all think!!! I know personally i tell all the Highlander players the same thing when they try to waste time talking about Hampton, who cares, lets win out the rest of the games and work on improving what we need to and then be prepared and ready to play when the Hampton week comes! JUST THINK ABOUT THAT ONE FOR A MINUTE.

well well, the one game that i heard the team played their best, and i missed it! that stinks, but yeah i heard only good things so congrats to the highlanders for that!!! nothing to wins from here on out, good luck guys!

yeah the poll is orginially from Murphyfair. a pretty good poll source i would say! the best u are gonna find!

1. Jackson Chri. 2. Trousdale County 3. Friendship Chri. 4. Wayne County 5. Mount Pleasant SIDENOTE: CLOUDLAND #14 , HAMPTON #29 MIDWAY: #10 Coalfield: #7 Oneida: #23 UNAKA: #45 hahaha lovin it Jellico: #54 Cosby: #56 Grace Chri. : #60 ----unakas only win lol

at first i would have said no way, but actually the highlanders are looking pretty strong as of late, the d is great and the o is starting to pick up, so i wouldnt put it past them to be a Top 1 or 2 in the state! at Cherokee will tell us. i mean it wont say alot cause we are ranking in 1A and not asking the team to compete with good 3A or 4A team, but it will still give us a little something to go on! GOOD LUCK LANDERS!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah this game got really bad really quick for the West Greene guys! if that is a better team then its been in the past then somethings wrong! i mean just terrible, no defense, no offense, nothing! like playing a 8th grade team! I actually wasted 5 bucks to get into it, but of course i left in the second when it was 41-0 and went down to Hampton to watch that game! Still didnt show me just how good our boys can be this season, cause no way to know if that was us being that good or West just being that terrible! i am going with answer number 2 at the monment! All the guys played great, number 8 had a break out night! Congrats to all the Highlander players! Just keep winning!! Landers #1

Mike is overrated as a coach in my opinion. just his luck of teams, and his ability to move to schools that have a good returning team! its mostly his teams, not any of his coaching that wins games! Next year where is he gonna be??? hmmm who has a good returning team next year............? i will give him one thing, he does do a pretty good job of making his players play hard every friday.

Please over look THE KING or whatever, nothing he ever says is on target, just alot of opinions and made up talk coming from his direction! Bringing things back down to the real life, Cloudland battled it out with a decent if that S. East squad. Cloudland's offense had signs of actually being alive, with one or two big touchdown plays, but other then that there really wasnt that much going on in the game! Cloudland as last years team, is having to deal with a lack of size and talent and is again back to relaying on the always hard nose defense to keep them in the game, and last night they showed that a below avg offense can still win if the defense is played well! As for the Game coming up against South Greene.........yeah i believe it will be a good game. I dont really know that much about South Greene's team this year, but if the Landers dont quit talking all this about beating a 4'a team and this and that, yeah they might just get the beating of a life time and be left wondering why they didnt just play instead of talk! Not taking anything away from the Landers at all, thats my TEAM, and they played a good all around ball game, and like good teams found ways to get big plays when they needed them, and just find a way to win, thats the KEY! The Cherokee game is the only game where we will be able to really see where we are as a team, early in the Schedule.

I think its stupid when people that cant even play a sport think they can talk about a sport. Your like a 6 year old little girl trying to tell a person about to get their license how to drive. If u dont know what ur talking about, then just dont talk.

Hey Lander33, do u actually think a team plays not to win? hahaha But you wouldnt know anything about winning now would u??? thats what i thought! Anyway weather it be a jamboree or not, u can still see what each team is going to be able to bring to the table. I dont care if ur playing 1 minute or 20 minutes, the one that wins is the better team. Lander33, quit hating just because u were never anything!

Wait, didnt Unaka lose to North Greene??????????? if what i heard is right then why would any of u unaka fans even be talking about a state title run, maybe u should just be trying not to lose to Clinch! Think about it!

The score to the game clearly doesnt tell the story of the game. Cloudland played tough with a 28-27 halftime score but ran out of legs later on and slowly found theirselves down. It wasnt a blow out or anything. Cloudland mostly got beat inside, which having their senior 6'4 center out might have something to do with that. Cloudland played a junior, sophmore and a freshman inside all night. And the Sophmore, Cody Hughes, was doing a good job scoring inside against the Volunteer defense. I mean he's good but u cant stop a soph.? Staying with the press really killed Cloudland saturday night. Volunteer won on layups along, which didnt impress me at all. If Cloudland would have been able to dress the two seniors that didnt play, it would have been a completely different game. Also everyone would have to take into account that Cloudland was playing Volunteer after playing in the jamboree thursday, playing Sullivan North on Friday night, then having to play Volunteer. So were the legs an issue, probably so! But of course theres nothing to do now except to start getting better for the Oneida tournment. Cloudland has two tough games down there, and is hoping to have both seniors back before atleast the second game. Then we will see how good Cloudland really can be. Robbie Tolley isnt playing ball anywhere, and Mark Byrd decided on Milligan for baseball over Tusculm.

First off i think what HonestAbe is trying to say is that u should remember him for helping hand Unaka the same on killing on the football that goes on every year. But then again why would Unaka people try to remember all the Cloudland players that have just ran over them? To many to count huh? Yeah Cloudland lost a few players, but the only one really that will be at all missed is Robbie Tolley and thats only because this years team really lacks any size and experience inside. The most experienced and skilled big man for the landers, Possum, will atleast 3 weeks of play due to injury. So that leaves Cloudland just a little short handed in the post position. But from what i have seen in the practices, they have some young kids that have good foot work and work hard. So if we can get them some experience then we will be fine. As for guard play, Cloudland has the best outside shotting of any team i have seen at Cloudland. But as everyone knows theres more to basketball then scoring. Its unclear yet on how well we can play defense and how we will do when the pressure is on. With Cody Jones returning, it gives Cloudland a very experienced guard. Who all around could be the best guard in all of upper east tennessee. Add in Ronnie Jones, J-Buck, Adam, and Jack the snake if he gets back and Cloudland has a very soild back court. Only thing that really worrys me is how will the young and new guys will be able to hang the press from unaka. But with Coach Smith, i know the guys will be more than prepared for anything unaka has. Cloudland may take some tough losses early, but if they do i look for them to build off them and come through with a all and all good season. Either a Conference championship or district tourny championship. Good Luck Landers. The Season starts in 7 days, so be ready!