VThokie

The reason they beat Abingdon is because it was Senior night and he actually played the Seniors. The Seniors scored over 80% of the points against Abingdon. My point all season long, he meeded to play the right people. He even stated in the paper that the players deserved all of the credit. Another case in point, Senior night and he didn't even shake these kids hands whom have been in this program for over 6 years. Sullivan East had Senior night Saturday, Coach Dyer shook every players hand, players parents hands and they even had a reception afterwards for all of the Seniors. Doesn't cost anything to shake a kids hand.

Yea, you are probably right, he is doing the best that he possibly can and unfortunately, that is the problem. But anyways, enough said, only 6 more regular season games and one in the tournament and this season will be history and hopefully the powers that be will see fit to make a change with the VHS boys varsity basketball coaching situation next season. Sorry, to disappoint you, but no he has not won more games than I have but of course only winning 11 in two years doesn't take a whole lot for someone to outdo. Thank the good lord for the new football coach. Hopefully, he can continue to turn that program around and continue to draw fans into the stadium. Large crowd at the game last night wasn't there? Also, the Hoover comment was in reference to you sucking up to Coach Mitchell, not in reference to me. Players overcoming adversity from people trashing the coach.....good one.....they trash him more than anyone.

Can anyone say Hoover. Suck, suck. As far as the VHS win, even a blind squirrel finds a nut eventually. Yea, good win, but ask any player on that team if they are happy playing for him. Out of 11 probably 9 would say no. But anyways, congrats to the players for overcoming all of the adversity and still coming out with a win.

Day after Monday could not apply for the job. He obviously knows to much about basketball and what it takes to have a winning and successful program, something we are lacking now.

I agree, #12 for you guys was having an awesome first half and like you said never returned until the end of the third quarter. After that, he never got back into a rythmn. That is what I do not understand as to why a coach would pull a kid and sit him when he is playing well and having a good game. The same happens at VHS and I am sure other schools. It just makes no sense. If there was reason behind their decisons sometimes maybe it would be easier to understand.

Question, why do you have a burr in your butt over the seniors on the basketball team? Are you an underclassmen, teacher, coach or what? again, no need to bad mouth only the seniors. Everyone on that team last night had turnovers.

White and Hurt. You must have seen a different game. Granted White played a good game. He should be starting over Pete. I have said that all along. But Triplett had the best game and everyone on the court had turnovers, that is part of the game. McClanahan only had one turnover the whole game but of course he did not play the fourth quarter. Most of the turnovers from the seniors comes from Pete and Shankel but they play more than any of the other seniors. C.J. Tillie hardly played last night, maybe 3 minutes at most so what is the deal with that? I just do not understand Coach Mitchell's philosophy as to who plays and who needs to be out on the court. My point is, the object is to outscore the opponents and win and everyone is going to make mistakes just coach them and learn from them. Even the million dollar a game pros make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, including you and I, we just need to learn from them. The only thing I figured out from last nights game is that Richlands basketball program is in worse shape than ours.

This coming from someone who probably doesn't even play basketball. I could take those seniors and produce a winning team. Yes, the parents, fans, except you of course, know these kids have talent. And it is not right for you to bad mouth them. If and I mean if you actually play sports I bet you would not like it if someone bad mouthed you and said you had no talent. So, lets keep it civil and not bad mouth these kids or keep your comments to yourself. I, for a fact, have known these kids since grade school and they have played together ever since then. They were winners on AAU teams together and in middle school but once they got to high school........hmmmmmmm. I guess the dedication just left them right? I don't think so. I believe it is more than that. Either the coach cannot get it out of them or what but it is definetly something. I am just looking for answers as to why this team has all of this talent and can produce only 3 wins so far this year and a total of 10 wins in two years. The team last year had talent and senior leadership but could not produce victories but I guess T.J. Slagle and company were not dedicated last year either. Must be a senior thing.

These kids did miss practice and were punished by running 20 laps; however, a sophomore missed practice without letting the coach know and he started and played most of the game. As far as dedication goes, these seniors went to every open gym, every camp, every scrimmage, and have been dedicated to this program through Coach Lee and now Coach Mitchell. I guarantee if these seniors were starting along with Triplett then they would have maybe lost one or two games at best. So, again, you can point fingers, but it starts with the Coach and as far as the dedication goes to the program. I for a fact know that these seniors have busted their butts to finally have a winning season. But that is hard to do sitting on the bench. The players are frustrated along with the fans. As far as the turnovers goes, if they were left in their longer than 3 minutes at a time to get some cohesiveness between the players then maybe that would not happen. That goes for the underclassmen as well. Leave the kids in there long enough to get used to playing with each other. Plus, if you make a mistake, DO NOT pull the kid out after the mistake. These boys are constantly looking over their shoulers and are scared to play the way they are capable because they know if they mess up, out they come, to maybe not play the rest of the game. this team is to talented to not be winning ball games.

It is hard for me to comprehend what is going on with VHS varsity boys basketball. They have 5 seniors returning and one senior who transferred from another school. They have the talent to compete with anyone on their schedule but yet they stand 3 and 7 with 6 straight losses. They lost two district games last week at home to Marion and Lee and both games led going into the fourth quarter but yet you look and in the fourth quarter he has freshman and sophomores playing and even so does not allow the kids to get into any kind of rythmn without pulling them out of the game. Friday against Lee, the fourth quarter consisted of McClanahan, Triplett, Barb, Stevens, sitting on the bench. That is probably 4 of their better players so it looks like to me the name of the game is to out score your opponent. Word had it this year that VHS would make the playoffs, it doen't look like they will win a district game. I agree, with the talent that is on this team and the senior leadership that they should make the playoffs but with the current system in hand, they may not win another game. I would like someone else's perspective on this who has seen VHS play this year.