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Sounds like they try to turn their home games into a And1 mixtape with that type of announcer.

Wish the boys had at least had a more consistent crew. No way anyone can hardly get into a rythm with those kinds of calls. Close game like I figured..... Was just hoping it wouldn't be that ugly. Maybe they both got that junk out of their system and wipe out the top teams in the East.
 
Good luck to Graham against Mason. Hope the Devils can put it on Bluestone.

Wish the boys had at least had a more consistent crew. No way anyone can hardly get into a rythm with those kinds of calls. Close game like I figured..... Was just hoping it wouldn't be that ugly. Maybe they both got that junk out of their system and wipe out the top teams in the East.
 
Good luck to Graham against Mason. Hope the Devils can put it on Bluestone.

Graham and GC will be close today. Hope the Devils don't come out flat.

Very true....."ifs" and "buts" won't win it though. Collier missed the FT at the end but played well beyond what he normally does anyhow which kept us in the game. We missed 6 other FTs besides his final one so if the other guys had made there's it wouldn't have fell on his shoulders. MHS shot less than 50% from the FT line too....so lots of factors could have changed the outcome of the game. Collier was open all night under the bucket behind the zone and no one seemed to really get him the ball. Scored most of his points off of put-backs.
 
I'd love to see GC manage to make it and get another shot at Martinsville. This was one of the best games I've seen all year. MHS is a great team with all kinds of athletes....but they aren't nearly as dominant as I expected them to be against us. Now the question is.....just how good is George Mason and Bluestone?? I feel like GC and Graham both will be able to compete and gives these teams a game.

From the way I looked at it:
 
2ABoys: George Mason and Bluestone
2ABoys: Greensville and Bruton consolation
 
I think the East final 4 is pretty evenly matched. Bruton played Mason really close all the way until the 4th and then lost 68-63 . Greensville had a 7pt lead over Bluestone with 1:38 left and blew it. Guy got a shot off as time expired to win 64-62
 
I'm not real sure about 1A in the East

Best to Gate City in their game tonight against Martinsville.

Prayers for the Appomattox area.  Have several family members in that area.

Thoughts and prayers going out to the town of Appomattox and the surrounding towns and cities to that area. Saw where a tornado bad wreaked some havoc on them. Hadnt heard of any death or injuries yet....but hope that everyone made it out okay. Don't really know the full extent to the situation.
 
Edit: so far I've heard 3 deaths have been confirmed....among those 3 was a 2 year old boy. Reportedly, 7 tornadoes have touched down in VA during this crazy storm. Prayers for the families affected. Some scary stuff and it's hitting close to home!

Thoughts and prayers going out to the town of Appomattox and the surrounding towns and cities to that area. Saw where a tornado bad wreaked some havoc on them. Hadnt heard of any death or injuries yet....but hope that everyone made it out okay. Don't really know the full extent to the situation.
 
Edit: so far I've heard 3 deaths have been confirmed....among those 3 was a 2 year old boy. Reportedly, 7 tornadoes have touched down in VA during this crazy storm. Prayers for the families affected. Some scary stuff and it's hitting close to home!

Thoughts and prayers going out to the town of Appomattox and the surrounding towns and cities to that area. Saw where a tornado bad wreaked some havoc on them. Hadnt heard of any death or injuries yet....but hope that everyone made it out okay. Don't really know the full extent to the situation.
 
Edit: so far I've heard 3 deaths have been confirmed....among those 3 was a 2 year old boy. Reportedly, 7 tornadoes have touched down in VA during this crazy storm. Prayers for the families affected. Some scary stuff and it's hitting close to home!

I sure hope your right. If I had my choice though, id rather lose to them now and take our chances the 2nd time if we got a chance to play them again down the road. If we was to pull out an upset....the rematch may not go as well if we played again.

Does Richlands get absolutely NO credit for winning? Richlands frustrated Graham on defense all night. 
 
And if Graham truly didn't care about winning, why did Miller get frustrated and kick at Lowe when he fouled out? Graham may not have needed the win, but I saw a rather upset team on the floor that night.
 
Give Richlands a little credit. 

Thoughts and prayers going out to the town of Appomattox and the surrounding towns and cities to that area. Saw where a tornado bad wreaked some havoc on them. Hadnt heard of any death or injuries yet....but hope that everyone made it out okay. Don't really know the full extent to the situation.
 
Edit: so far I've heard 3 deaths have been confirmed....among those 3 was a 2 year old boy. Reportedly, 7 tornadoes have touched down in VA during this crazy storm. Prayers for the families affected. Some scary stuff and it's hitting close to home!

I don't disagree with any of what was stated above. Graham may or may not be the best team from this area. The only thing I disagree on is the comment that Graham is the only team from SWVA that could handle Dan River. Anyone that's seen any ball in SWVA this year knows that's not true.
 
And I wish I had got to see both games last night. I'll be there early on Friday to watch both games. Good luck to Graham....would like to see them and GC play for the championship. That would be one heck of a turnout.

Not saying that Graham is the best team in SWVA, but just confirming what G Man has said.... having watched Graham play a lot this season... the game against Richlands this past saturday was not near one of their better performances.  That being said... i hope all of our teams in SWVA do well in the state tourney and I hope they knock off Martinsville and Dan River.
 
The Union game was intense, both teams came to play, glad I got to see it. 

Congrats to the Wolfpack and Union!! Well done

G-Man you are right about the Dogs away from home. Loss by 3 @ Radford after beating them by 20 at home, loss by 4 @ GW-Danville after beating them by the same margin at home, and loss to a 1 loss Northside team by 8 @ Roanoke College after leading the whole game but the most important part, the last 3:15 of the game.G-Man if you remember last year I said that Mavahi would have trouble with Graham because of Graham's great guard play, this year I say that GC can give the Dogs fits because they have more than 1 good 3 point shooter. They have several after seeing them last night against Richlands. In the 3 losses by the Dogs this year the same theme came up, they got hurt by multiple 3point shooters. Martinsville is going to try and turn you over, run and run some more and get it inside to Holland. They are senior heavy and these sr. Have been to the final four the last 2 years. GC is very capable of winning this game if they shoot well.

It's the VHSL, when the hell have they ever cared about anyone?

I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't get chippy. Both teams showed some class and didn't let emotions get the best of them. The foul that Barnes got hurt on was just a good, hard foul and Barnes took an unfortunate fall where his head hit first and dribbled off the court. Ervin also suffered a busted lip on that loose ball where they collided at half court....looked pretty rough. For the most part, really well officiated game other than few typical bad calls but that's the usual.
 
Alot of streaky shooting tonight... That's for sure. Ervin played a rough first half and so did Barnes. They came out very sluggish. They finally got heated up in the 2nd half.
 
Congrats on making it to the region tournament. Was a great atmosphere tonight and a pretty decent game to watch other than the first qtr.

That's what we're all hoping. But if it's the same crew that we've had the past few weeks.....you can forget either team getting into a rythm unless the 3 ball is falling from half court while the defense plays a zone.
 
It's really not just the fouls though that have been bad. Its the walking violations that are clearly legal moves and the timeouts that are allowed without anyone having possession of the ball during a scrum that are real head scratchers.

Well, I'm 90 minutes early.....lol.

Floyd is always tough.... They are pretty much a constant you have to go through to get to state.

The one that got me was when the opposing team was rolling the ball across the floor so the clock wouldn't start, our players ran toward them, thr player panicked and called a timeout when he wasn't even touching the ball and they gave it to them.

That's what we're all hoping. But if it's the same crew that we've had the past few weeks.....you can forget either team getting into a rythm unless the 3 ball is falling from half court while the defense plays a zone.
 
It's really not just the fouls though that have been bad. Its the walking violations that are clearly legal moves and the timeouts that are allowed without anyone having possession of the ball during a scrum that are real head scratchers.