First, I want you salecreekrules, and every other sale creek biased fan that gets on here to know that if you're going to boast about how good your team is and how much they've improved then you better be ready to accept the criticism that follows. I'm sick of this attitude that you deserve accolades but constructive critiscism is unacceptable.
What was witnessed Friday in McEwen Gym wasn't basketball, it was an embarassment. Sale Creek didn't come out with the intentions to play with any fire or any intensity, they wanted Whitwell to lay down just because a few days before they had given CSAS a game. Instead of coming out looking to put the same kind of pressure on Whitwell that they put on CSAS they came out flat and stagnant on defense. Instead of getting their butts down and their hands out, they are content to handcheck and roll the red carpet out to the basket. There was flat out no effort on defense -- I would hate to think that I was 6ft or taller and I would allow a 5'7 wingman to post me up on the block and score on me. That is just a lack of pride. If a player cannot find it with himself to put it all on the line and guard someone with intensity, then maybe that player needs to be sitting on the bench taking stats.
Compliments to the coach for pulling the starters and putting the JV in during a stretch in the 3rd quarter. That really got Sale Creek into the game. I like what I saw out of Travis Hodge. Not only did he get a clutch 5 points that gave them a lift, he was also crashing the boards on defense, harder then I anyone else I saw on Sale Creeks team. I was also very impressed with James Hankins. He stepped it up for Sale Creek during the tournament and he is the one truly deserving of any kind of award for tournament play. To not give him an award for his play is biased and whoever decides upon the awards should be ashamed of themselves because he was robbed. And on his 3 pointer, yes I agree that the three seconds in the lane call was bogus since there was only 1 seconds left, but when the shot left his hands the buzzer had already went off so it would not have counted anyways.
The Sale Creek fans shouldn't of been booing the officals; they should of been booing the players for giving the fan base such a poor effort and cheating them out of their hard earned money.