Booker T vs TCA Region 8A Semifinal

[Intense]

Since the Region 8A thread is very quiet I thought I would give the history of these two schools. They have met four times over the last four years. All have been in the Regional tournament. The history is below. Series is tied 2-2.

 

2012- regional final- BTW 46 TCA 42

2013 regional semi- TCA 54. BTW 49

2014- regional semi- BTW 62. TCA 34

2015- regional semi- TCA 47. BTW 41

 

It has been a defensive battle every year but 2014. I anticipate another defensive battle this year. The PG matchup will be fun to watch. Two super fast, quick guards. TCA will have the size advantage but they must rebound. Booker T will be better leapers and more athletic.

If TCA doesn't rebound it could be ugly. BTW is the favored team but TCA has the firepower to pull the upset. TCA has been the underdog the last four years. Game will be played on a neutral court, Memphis Northside.

[ReitzFan]

The TCA and BTW game on Tuesday will be broadcast on Hippie Radio 105.3 out of Jackson.  You can also listen online at http://hippieradio1053.com  I will be providing the call of the game beginning with The Countdown To Tip Off Pregame Show at 7pm.  

 

I hope you enjoy the broadcast.

Edited February 29, 2016 by ReitzFan

[Btw1993]

This going to be great game. It could go either way. Good luck to both teams.

[Intense]

Game day boys! Time to lay it all on the line! Seniors have nothing to lose! ALL IN! Lions by 3!

[yankees8589]

What was the final score on this game?

[Intense]

What was the final score on this game?

74-44 BTW. You are a little late aren't you! TCA was definitely a top 10 Single A team but not in the league with BT and Mitchell. Beat a pretty good top 10 MAHS team. Go back to your church league and dominate like you always have!

[yankees8589]

TCA WAS NOT, by any fair measurable, a top 10 Single A team. TCA was nothing more than an OK team in the weakest district in West, TN alone. You haven't a clue if you truly believe that. Last season you were the one saying TCA had one of the best teams in the state regardless of class I think. You were the one talking about how they were going to go in UC and win or play to the buzzer of some BS like that....I was the one, saying with others, saying TCA did not stand a chance and it would be an absolute woodshed game which it was. At some point it becomes obvious you see everything through nothing more than performance of the district you play in and really don't have a clue about other districts and the state at large. Your like a snake oil salesman or jock sniffer fan boy. Been tons of those come and go through CoachT, you are just one in a long long list of them. I also seem to remember you talking all this junk last season about you coached a high level AAU team which turned out to be completely false..keep in mind it was you that used thee term HIGH LEVEL AAU team  lol....I know as much as anyone on here about AAU, I had never even heard of this team you spoke of...why? because IT WAS NOT A HIGH LEVEL AAU TEAM AT ALL. You were blowing smoke and really exaggerating , which you have a tendency to do AT A HIGH LEVEL.

 

Now to the point of TCA being a top 10 team in the state as you said..another total fabrication not based in fact. This top 10 BS is another fabrication you pushed.

 

Again, keep in mind TCA is not in what one would call a power house district..far from it.

 

Anyway, to the point:

 

Class A schedule strength TCA comes in at 80 out of 122 teams

Class A Strength + Schedule TCA comes in at 43 out of 122 teams

 

These are not measurable's that would indicate a top 10 team in the state, FAR FROM IT. Again, it was you that said TOP 10. You seem to make lots of brash statements that never seem to be grounded in reality. In fairness the schedule and strength are not entirely an iron clad assessment but nonetheless there is some element of accuracy albeit not 100%.

 

the argument that Billy Joe Jim Bob missed some games because of Football or Cletus broke a fingernail and was missed some games and played some at 25% strength due to the fingernail injury. Well, everyone has an excuse for loosing....Fact is tons of teams have the exact same issues. Football and fingernail injuries are not just isolated to TCA. 

 

You are a discredit to the TCA players and team for the simple reason of over hyping players that play at the absolute lowest level of basketball, that being Single A. Jock sniffers tend to do that, been happening forever and will  continue. Everything you say or your analysis absolutely must be taken with a grain of salt. Just like all the BS last season, the UC game being a great example and like the TCA by 3 over BTW another example....both absolute woodshed games that you were on the wrong side of the argument and on the wrong side by a country mile.

 

I have a really good record over the years on here so I'm not going to belabor the point. I'm simply stating you sir do not have a clue. Ive seen SOOOOO MANY GOOD AN ELITE TEAMS and PLAYERS over the years, from every district. These things are not really that hard to see as they really are. 

 

ELITE TEAMS AND PROGRAMS GET THE JOB DONE and have the banners and hardware to prove it. They have ups and downs of course but seem to be able to sustain success over the long haul.

 

The best Single A teams from West, TN over the last 15 or longer years would have run TCA out of the gym last year. To this year, no point in even arguing that point because TCA was OK at best and from a weak district at that.

 

Excuse me while I go coach up my church league team to another Championship.

[Intense]

I would love to get your sorry butt on the basketball court. You are no more than a blow hard think you know it all wanna be. Certainly not a has been because you never were. I've been to the state tournament the last 4 years and watched every Single A game and am very confident that in 2013 TCA was the second best team in the state behind Humboldt and third best in state last year behind UC and Mitchell. Have you even seen TCA play this year? Probably not! Halls, Mitchell, BTW are the only teams that are for sure better than TCA was. Humboldt, Middleton, TCA and UC would be the next level. I'm Sure there are two or three from East Tn(Hampton, GCA) that would be in that same tier. This would easily make TCA a top 10. You're just a jealous, private school hater. I've been around the game most likely longer than you. Our travel team played at a high level for years. We played in Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, Little Rock, etc. it was not a Team Penny or War Eagle type team but we did play those teams. We got whipped by them and it made us better. Enjoy your church league team! You probably are the coach as well. I'm sure you coach and play! And to your opinion on Southside......horrible opinion! SS lost to a really great team, Westview! By the way, ask the Westview team who beat them for the West Tenn Freshmen championship when they were freshmen? I guess it was that team that is just.....okay!

[tradertwo]

TCA WAS NOT, by any fair measurable, a top 10 Single A team. TCA was nothing more than an OK team in the weakest district in West, TN alone. You haven't a clue if you truly believe that. Last season you were the one saying TCA had one of the best teams in the state regardless of class I think. You were the one talking about how they were going to go in UC and win or play to the buzzer of some BS like that....I was the one, saying with others, saying TCA did not stand a chance and it would be an absolute woodshed game which it was. At some point it becomes obvious you see everything through nothing more than performance of the district you play in and really don't have a clue about other districts and the state at large. Your like a snake oil salesman or jock sniffer fan boy. Been tons of those come and go through CoachT, you are just one in a long long list of them. I also seem to remember you talking all this junk last season about you coached a high level AAU team which turned out to be completely false..keep in mind it was you that used thee term HIGH LEVEL AAU team  lol....I know as much as anyone on here about AAU, I had never even heard of this team you spoke of...why? because IT WAS NOT A HIGH LEVEL AAU TEAM AT ALL. You were blowing smoke and really exaggerating , which you have a tendency to do AT A HIGH LEVEL.

 

Now to the point of TCA being a top 10 team in the state as you said..another total fabrication not based in fact. This top 10 BS is another fabrication you pushed.

 

Again, keep in mind TCA is not in what one would call a power house district..far from it.

 

Anyway, to the point:

 

Class A schedule strength TCA comes in at 80 out of 122 teams

Class A Strength + Schedule TCA comes in at 43 out of 122 teams

 

These are not measurable's that would indicate a top 10 team in the state, FAR FROM IT. Again, it was you that said TOP 10. You seem to make lots of brash statements that never seem to be grounded in reality. In fairness the schedule and strength are not entirely an iron clad assessment but nonetheless there is some element of accuracy albeit not 100%.

 

the argument that Billy Joe Jim Bob missed some games because of Football or Cletus broke a fingernail and was missed some games and played some at 25% strength due to the fingernail injury. Well, everyone has an excuse for loosing....Fact is tons of teams have the exact same issues. Football and fingernail injuries are not just isolated to TCA. 

 

You are a discredit to the TCA players and team for the simple reason of over hyping players that play at the absolute lowest level of basketball, that being Single A. Jock sniffers tend to do that, been happening forever and will  continue. Everything you say or your analysis absolutely must be taken with a grain of salt. Just like all the BS last season, the UC game being a great example and like the TCA by 3 over BTW another example....both absolute woodshed games that you were on the wrong side of the argument and on the wrong side by a country mile.

 

I have a really good record over the years on here so I'm not going to belabor the point. I'm simply stating you sir do not have a clue. Ive seen SOOOOO MANY GOOD AN ELITE TEAMS and PLAYERS over the years, from every district. These things are not really that hard to see as they really are. 

 

ELITE TEAMS AND PROGRAMS GET THE JOB DONE and have the banners and hardware to prove it. They have ups and downs of course but seem to be able to sustain success over the long haul.

 

The best Single A teams from West, TN over the last 15 or longer years would have run TCA out of the gym last year. To this year, no point in even arguing that point because TCA was OK at best and from a weak district at that.

 

Excuse me while I go coach up my church league team to another Championship.

You seem to be on top of the who's who and the what's what in 1A ball...just list the teams better than TCA for the time period so he'll be able to see it for himself.

[yankees8589]

My goodness..do you have any idea how foolish you look. Making an argument going back to Freshman championships is sooooooo meaningless  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!   it really is. SS lost because the margin for error was slim against a really good team like Martin Westview. In fact , SS had in essence a home game as well, being it was played in CC. 

 

Again, TCA was not by any fair measure a top 10 state team this season in Single A. All you have is your opinion which your entitled to..however opinion does not square with the facts.

 

Oh and I am not a private school hater..i'm not a hater at all. I love basketball i've seen tons of games over the years from allover. I been to the state tournament lots of years as well. My introduction to basketball goes as far back when Kentucky beat Duke for the National Championship with Goose Givens. i was jsut a boy but hooked from that day forward....look it up, that was a long time ago. I've most likely forgot more basketball (at every level) than you have even seen.

 

Now back to my church league. We have not lost a fame in 17 years so i know my stuff hahahaha.....kinda like that High Level AAU team, NOT!  you get em jock sniffer! 

 

Do you even know what a power Single A team really looks like? Let me give you an idea, OK.

 

these are justt a few but their are others:

 

 

South Fulton with Pearson

Trenton with Nochias Doaks

Middleton team that beat Trenton for the state championship

UC with MJ Brown and Weddle

UC with Brown and the other kid (his name escapes me)

Manassas with Reginald Buckner

Humboltd that lost to Manassas in the state

Lake County team that won it all recently

the back to back Mitchell teams

 

I can even go back to the Sylvester Gray and Lang Weisman years when Bolton was dominating 

 

 

so don't give me the BS like i'm a chump outta high school that doesn't understand the game. This ain't my first rodeo...see when you have see good teams, great teams, elite teams at every level for as long as I have it's really rather easy to see what teams are really made of in terms of potential championship caliber teams...let me give you a few simple rules to apply so maybe you can learn something ok.

 

(1) what is a teams REAL margin for error once out of the comfort zone. Elite teams typically can overcome even the most horrendous performances because they tend to have such a large margin for error. This applies to whatever the classification a team play in.

(2) Elite teams typically have at least one player that is mostly head and shoulders above everyone else or at least close and has a solid number two that is a level below who would be a number one on most other teams. This rule doesn't always apply but far more times that not it does.

(3) Many elite teams at the single A level have a low/mid/high D1 type prospect

(4) always be mindful high school players have more bad habits than you can shake a stick at no matter the player...awesome players are gifted to the point the bad habits are rendered meaningless. A gifted player that is coachable makes for a very tough opponent. A gifted player on his own can overcome alot for a team however it shrinks the margin for error no matter the team.

(5) PLAYERS WIN not coaches altho coaches play a very important part.

(6) there is no such thing as high basketball IQ form a 16/17/18 year old kid All hihg basketball IQ means at this level is a kid actually listens and tries best he can to do what the coach says. 

(7) watch a team and then think how would this team REALLY stack up against teams past before even entertaining the thought of elite

(8) is said team REALLY the type of team that is capable of betting good teams in a higher classification...for single A especially. If the answer is no that's all you need to know. If the answer is yes you just might have a scary team. I don't mean beating bottom feeder or just above that AA teams ether. I mean good solid teams.

(9) and lastly elite teams do not fold on the road even in hostile places.

 

 

oh and I typically go to 20 to 25 games a year allover. Now I only try to see the best match ups. I do not go to games like TCA vs Madison because they are usually neither competitive nor fun to watch and nothing is gained in terms of learning about a team in those type of games.

 

Again, TCA this year was good at best and ot a top 10 state team...BOTTOM LINE......the facts do not say that no matter how you try to spin it.

[yankees8589]

West TN alone (no articular order) 

Halls

UC

Humboldt

Mitchell

BTW

Middelton

GW Carver

heck even Gibson County maybe could be thrown in there

 

thats just from West TN (1/3rd of the state)

 

 

Whatever the case. I'm under no obligation to prove a TCA team that went 19-13 in in the weakest district in West TN is a top 10 state team. A team that just lost to BTW 74 to 44 in a 32 minute game. A team that finished the last 11 games at 6 and 5 with two of those losses in post season.

 

BTW 74 TCA 44 in a 32 minute games is really all that needs to be said. I mean this is an elimination game..you know you loose there is no more basketball. Again BTW 74 TCA 44 in a 32 minute game.

[Galilee]

This is a great debate.