The high school spring sports season could officially start on Monday yet not one Big East Conference baseball team has been able to get on the field to practice much less play. If baseball sits idle so does tennis, soccer, softball and track and field.
Many teams if they are able to make up some of these washed and cold out so far may not be made up, if they can't get three games in a week in up to conference play. Who wants to waste pitchers on a third game per week once you start two conference games per week. The quality seen on the field will be suspect early when ever the games start because there has simply been no way to practice to prepare for a season.
The fifth time in the last six years the Big East will have a boys basketball team playing in the East Regional Final. Tonight Hunt beat Havelock 59-53 to advance to Saturday's final and they will meet Fayettville's Terry Sanford. This is the second year in a row that Hunt has played in the east final.
Tabias Hilliard the junior at Methodist University has made the Conference USA South second team all conference in basketball. Hilliard averaged 12.4 points per game 12th overall. 3.0 assist was eighth best in the USA South.
TaShawn Mabry has made honorable mentions all conference playing in the Lone Star Conference for Tarleton State. Mabry averaged 11.7 points per games and 5.3 rebounds. Tarleton State won the Lone Star Conference with a 27-2 record and are 7th in DII basketball
Both Mabry and Hilliard played on state championship basketball teams while at Rocky Mount High. Mabry played on the 2010 team and Hilliard on 2012 squad.
The NFL season is over and the next big item on the agenda for the NFL is the draft which does not come until the first week in May. All the talk right now is who is the number one pick and right now the consenus slants toward Jamis Winston. History tells us the last 15 players picked at # 1 are generally at best not worth being picked # one. The last 15 number one picks have 21 Pro Bowls picks among them. The so called best player in any years draft is only going to make the all star game 1.5 times among them all.
Winstons seven acts while at Florida State which either required action by police or some board at FSU to decide his conduct is enough for me. This guy is cancer at the pro level. The quarterback is the CEO of any team. On offense he directs which way the offense goes. He should be a high standard guy. How many of the top 50 CEO's in this world had more than one issue while in college if they went to college or since they have been in charge of their business?
If I owned the #1 pick this year I would be unloading the pick to somebody desperate to make a big splash. Let somebody else belly flop and sting for a while.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
It Takes Lots Of Luck
The Lady Knights of Northern Nash went the entire regular season undefeated and earned the right to play home games in the first three games of the playoffs. They finally lose in what was going to be the last home game of the season because all games from this point on are on neutral sites. Well equip to win it all the Lady knights come up short. The answer to why is not as simple as here's why they lost. There are so many mitigating circumstances into play.
It doesn't matter how good any team is luck is a major reason any team wins any game. The ball bounced right straight to our players instead of the other team. Luck encompasses more than the bounce of the ball. Injuries, did a player have a nagging injury that kept them from playing at top performance? Was there more than one injured?? Luck sometimes is even a player was injured but came back just in time for the playoffs. UVA men's basketball team continues to win basketball games with two starters out of action. Will those two come back this year? Probably, Will they have time to get back in playing shape before the playoffs where they can make a difference to the team.
Even the schedule is a matter of luck. Did it hurt the Lady Knights missing practice time during all of this winter weather we have had? Was a huge factor that the Lady Knights played three nights in four days instead of playing every other night which is the norm in the playoffs. All teams had the same problem with practice time during this weather so it may have come down to in the fourth quarter of the third game of basketball that Rockingham County was in better shape at this point with the situation all teams had to deal with.
Here is where luck may not matter. Rockingham County was a really good team and when you deal with all the factors all the teams had to deal with RC was in a better position than Northern to deal with all the factors.
It was reported that the Lady Knights missed 12 layups in the game was it fatigue, defense by Rockingham County. My guess you can give the reason any of the above and you might add in luck where the ball didn't roll on the rim like it does most of the time.
Grover Battle is a coach who loves to be physical with other teams. Pressing all over the floor. I sensed the last week of there regular season the players seemed tired that last week. They have as close of games with Fike and Rocky Mount as they had all year. So now you have a tired team, lays out two weeks with no activity from the weather and now you are forced into three games in four days in order to get the schedule back on time.
Then there is another factor. the burden of carrying the weight of an undefeated season on your shoulders. Don't care what you say any streak winning or losing straps teams down. Kentucky carries that burden into the NCAA tournament. I personally don't think they will win the title because they are undefeated. Whether any team can feel it or not you forget the lucky bounce three weeks ago that keep you undefeated then and you loose the perception that you can be beaten.
Winless teams always some where in a game ask themselves is this where we fall apart? Would it have been better to lose one time in mid season and as a team rededicate yourselves because you found out that you are beatable at the right time. a playoff game is an awful time to find out you are beatable.
The Lady Knight basketball program at this point is the premium basketball program in our area. They have for the most part been dominant for the last five or more years with interruptions by Rocky Mount ever so often. When they have ventured out into the real world of North Carolina High School playoff basketball they have held their own and have served us all proud representing us.
There is that old NASCAR saying "if you run up front of the pack sooner or later you are going to finish first once in a while. I'll take running up front every year and once in a while the luck will fall my way and the Lady Knights are going to win another State title..
It doesn't matter how good any team is luck is a major reason any team wins any game. The ball bounced right straight to our players instead of the other team. Luck encompasses more than the bounce of the ball. Injuries, did a player have a nagging injury that kept them from playing at top performance? Was there more than one injured?? Luck sometimes is even a player was injured but came back just in time for the playoffs. UVA men's basketball team continues to win basketball games with two starters out of action. Will those two come back this year? Probably, Will they have time to get back in playing shape before the playoffs where they can make a difference to the team.
Even the schedule is a matter of luck. Did it hurt the Lady Knights missing practice time during all of this winter weather we have had? Was a huge factor that the Lady Knights played three nights in four days instead of playing every other night which is the norm in the playoffs. All teams had the same problem with practice time during this weather so it may have come down to in the fourth quarter of the third game of basketball that Rockingham County was in better shape at this point with the situation all teams had to deal with.
Here is where luck may not matter. Rockingham County was a really good team and when you deal with all the factors all the teams had to deal with RC was in a better position than Northern to deal with all the factors.
It was reported that the Lady Knights missed 12 layups in the game was it fatigue, defense by Rockingham County. My guess you can give the reason any of the above and you might add in luck where the ball didn't roll on the rim like it does most of the time.
Grover Battle is a coach who loves to be physical with other teams. Pressing all over the floor. I sensed the last week of there regular season the players seemed tired that last week. They have as close of games with Fike and Rocky Mount as they had all year. So now you have a tired team, lays out two weeks with no activity from the weather and now you are forced into three games in four days in order to get the schedule back on time.
Then there is another factor. the burden of carrying the weight of an undefeated season on your shoulders. Don't care what you say any streak winning or losing straps teams down. Kentucky carries that burden into the NCAA tournament. I personally don't think they will win the title because they are undefeated. Whether any team can feel it or not you forget the lucky bounce three weeks ago that keep you undefeated then and you loose the perception that you can be beaten.
Winless teams always some where in a game ask themselves is this where we fall apart? Would it have been better to lose one time in mid season and as a team rededicate yourselves because you found out that you are beatable at the right time. a playoff game is an awful time to find out you are beatable.
The Lady Knight basketball program at this point is the premium basketball program in our area. They have for the most part been dominant for the last five or more years with interruptions by Rocky Mount ever so often. When they have ventured out into the real world of North Carolina High School playoff basketball they have held their own and have served us all proud representing us.
There is that old NASCAR saying "if you run up front of the pack sooner or later you are going to finish first once in a while. I'll take running up front every year and once in a while the luck will fall my way and the Lady Knights are going to win another State title..
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