On 2/28/2019 at 11:23 AM, RichlandsAlum said:
Will be curious to see how the Maroon Tide fare against Martinsville (both on March 12th and the 21st). Liberty scrimmaged the Bulldogs pretty even last night at their place (1-2 aggregate score over three 30 minute periods). Very physical team that -- predictably -- plays in the style of their local travel club (PYSL).
Good to hear about Martinsville. MHS's top goal scorer from a year ago is actually still playing basketball. The Bulldogs should have a pretty good season.
10 bucks if you go to VAPreps and tell them that Martinsville will be 4th in region C
now that's funny right there. EH, any MHS fan with common sense shouldn't get too up in arms about that one. we may be lucky to be 4th.
the dogs lost 3 starters and play a brutal schedule again. they'll certainly take some losses in the regular season.
one thing I would take a little exception to in this thread is the comment about the loss to glenvar last year meaning a whole lot. the dogs stunk up the gym that night and glenvar hit everything they threw up there. martinsville won the regular season game at glenvar. glenvar should be very solid again this year, though.
GC can go through the motions against the majority of their schedule and still win comfortably. That could prove to be detrimental to them in the coming weeks. They may have enough talent compared to everyone else that it won't matter anyways. Time will tell.
I think that there is a lot of truth to the fact that these kids play much better when they're challenged and are guilty of playing down to competition at times.
Other than the games GC played at the Arby's, no one in 2A plays the kind of schedule that MHS does.
As far as the basketball, there's not much else I can add. The last 2 games against Giles were similar. Big leads by the middle of the 3rd and then coast home with sloppy, pick-up game basketball.
I collect MHS yearbooks - yea, I know that's odd. The oldest one I have is from 1944. The name on the front says Mavahi. So we didn't just make that one up out of the blue.
Obviously there's no clear front runner this year like maybe there was the last several years with MHS and then DR before that. Unless maybe it's GC?? They're who I'm leaning with at the moment, but I'm not completely sold on that idea just yet either.
Anyways, these last 2 games hopefully will serve as a wakeup to the Dogs that you can't take your foot off the gas in the playoffs, even against an overmatched opponent. This time of the year, mistakes like that can not only cost you the game, but also your season.
yea, to be clear, this had absolutely nothing to do with the game. this was 2 idiots (3 if you count the cheerleader) doing what they do best. the game was over after the first 3 minutes, so there wasn't much to fight about on the court.
in fact, the only thing that was left for me and pdfan to discuss after halftime was the crazy number of tattoos many of the players for GW had.
These statewide rankings are almost always based strictly on W-L record, even though some schedules are as weak as water. Martinsville will likely lose a game or two more before the regular season is over. The Dogs have road trips to 4A GW, 5A Halifax and 6A Franklin County still to go. They'll definitely be prepped and ready for the post season though.
Hate to relive bad memories for the Gate folks, but the starter that MHS lost is the fella you probably remember the most as throwing down a thunderous breakaway dunk in the 3rd quarter of the state semis last year.
The starter was actually the 6th man from last year's team. Very tough player to replace because of his length and athleticism. I guess the good news is that he's been out for 3 or 4 games now already while his situation was getting settled. The Dogs beat a very good Radford squad at RU without him. Time will tell how the other guys step up. We have 2 very winnable games tonight and tomorrow to try and continue to gel this group together.
I can't find the comment at the moment, but someone commented along the lines of - teams everywhere hold people back all the time. That's not the exact quote, but you get the gist. The idea is to have the student repeat the 7th or 8th grade, right? If that's the case, I don't think I've ever heard of a holdback here in the southside region. I mean, I'm sure it has happened, but I'm just not aware of any cases. Further, is it even a true state to say "everyone in SWVA does it from time to time"? GMan seems pretty adamant that it isn't happening in Bluefield, Va.
After seeing Ervin in person a year ago in Richmond, I made the statement to someone that this guy can't be just a freshman. So now I assume that I was right. He should actually have been a sophomore and now a junior?
I gotcha. I wouldn't be overly surprised to see MHS take the L against Lee. For one, Lee is pretty good with a D1 commit and another 6'7 guy in the middle. Secondly, MHS will have played an even better GW Danville team the night before they have to travel 2 hours to face Lee.
Pretty sure MHS has only 2 more regular season games against 2A competition. The game in Lexington against RE Lee and then the last game of the season against Giles.
I've seen Floyd twice. They're not particularly good. They hustle and play pretty fundamental ball, but they just aren't real talented or athletic. MHS beat them by 39, and it could've been way worse. I also saw them lose at Patrick County.
And as for insane moms at games...we just played some JV games in Roanoke at Hidden Valley and we had a kid's mom from HV come in our locker room swearing and trying to get to our kids.
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Good to hear about Martinsville. MHS's top goal scorer from a year ago is actually still playing basketball. The Bulldogs should have a pretty good season.