Step Back And Reflect

Winning is habit forming just like losing.  Losers always find a way to lose another game.  We have all heard the phrase "Here we go again" when ever that losing team makes that mistake that they make every game and it results in a lost.  Winning is the same teams that know how to win seem to make the play needed which puts you over the top. Then there are the times when two winners meet and both who know how to win do what it takes to win .  When that happens you are witness to great athletic skill and some where along the way one or the other will make one more good play than the other.  That's what happened last night.  The Gryphons were one more good play from winning.

There is no need to hang their heads they have proven to be winners.  They played like winners last night.  When ever you have the success that Rocky Mount basketball has had especially the last four years you meet up with teams just as good as yourselves.  Last night that happened.  We lost to an outstanding team it took a supreme effort from Webb to beat the Gryphons.

We can all look back and what if any game to death.  11 for 19 at the free throw line, 19 turnovers the most in any game during the playoffs.  I thought for the most part the officials did a good job. We just scored four points less than Webb.  Something we have not spoken about which has become a trend in Rocky Mount sports.  2008 baseball, 2010 basketball, 2012 basketball.  We are on the even year cycle for winning championships and this is the odd year.  It seems the planets were not lined up right.

Mike Gainey has brought Rocky Mount High School basketball to a powerhouse level.  Two state titles in the past four years and 103 victories.  I don't have enough fingers and toes to count all the wins.  I do have enough to count the losses 16.  That is an average of 26-4 during this run.  It is news any time anybody beats Rocky Mount.

I would like to remind all Gryphon fans that during our two trips to Chapel Hill in these last four years every other school in the area got behind us and were there supporting us in our quest. There are a lot of Gryphons fans in this world but the throng of people in Chapel Hill have been Rocky Mount people not just Gryphon fans. Don't forget Prep come next Saturday.

Once again this year there will be a Gryphon playing in the Carolina Classic Basketball game held between North and South Carolina.J'Kyra Brown will represent Rocky Mount in the game to be played March 23rd at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach SC.  Game time is 6:30pm.