Most intriguing quarterfinal? Start with Wheeler vs. Norcross
Let’s update this blog for the quarterfinals. Miller Grove beat Sequoyah fairly easily Tuesday in our ”most intriguing” second-round game.
I’m sitting in Fort Valley waiting for Fayette County to tip it off against Lovejoy in one of the top QF games of the weekend. Eager to watch Adam Smith, one of the state’s premier scorers. This should be a good one.
On Saturday, the top game is Norcross vs. Wheeler at West Georgia. These are the only teams in AAAAA that can challenge Milton. There, I said it. Not sure I’m going out on a limb with that.
Speaking of good QF’s, I see that Kentavious Caldwell scored 40 in Greenville’s 2-point win over Wilcox County, the team I picked to win Class A. Nick Marshall had 16.
As far as girls go, I don’t think there’s a better team in Georgia than Fayette County. Just saw them hammer Warner Robins. hard to defend a 6-4 post w/ skill, plus a UConn signee. The sophomore PG is smooth. We need an all-clas tournament.
OK, got to go. Smith just hit a 3 at the first-quarter buzzer. Fayette leads 17-14.
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Just a question
March 3rd, 2011
10:25 am
my bad FC won by 2 RC was missing one of its best players
BullDOG
March 3rd, 2011
10:53 am
WE are going to SMASH SWD. So all you PANTHER fans get ready to shut it down for the SEASON!!!
Watch IT I said it first!
There will be no MG v/s SWD rematch, so scratch that.
Mudcat
March 3rd, 2011
11:28 am
The AAAA State Championship game was played last night at Sequoyah High School. Congratulations to Miller Grove on their Three-peat! Seriously, it is a shame that the playoffs are set up the way they are. If Miller Grove had won their region, then we could have seen the top two teams in the State play each other in the championship game. As it is, we had to settle for a second round match-up. Miller Grove will not see another defense the rest of the way to compare to Sequoyah, and they should have no trouble breezing to another title! The real test was last night and they managed to survive!
Just a question
March 3rd, 2011
11:45 am
Mudcat you are foolish if you believe that the otrher teams still playing dont have just as good if not better defense than Sequoyah. I am glad you guys made and played as hard as you did hopefully they can build on a great season.
AAAA-Fan
March 3rd, 2011
12:30 pm
The MG & Sequoyah was no act of survival and clearly it was not a test you could not have been at this game mudcat ……
There are four teams I have seen play this year that are still in the competition that have a better defense that Sequoyah and could get MG’s big 3 in serious foul trouble.
Mr.Coach
March 3rd, 2011
12:41 pm
I don’t know what makes you think Rockdale will smash SWD….they have no one that can stop William Goodwin, Jordan Price or Kadarius Turner.
Mr.Coach
March 3rd, 2011
12:45 pm
Mudcat….you must no leave your area if you think Sequoyah can beat SWD or Rockdale, last nights game may have been your Championship game. SWD can beat any team in the state when they come to play, and I do mean any team.
AAAA-Fan
March 3rd, 2011
12:58 pm
Mr. Coach, u are outta yo mind if you think SWD is going to defeat us(Rockdale). Tomorrow SWD can hang those hoop shoes up because they will be sitting in the stands on the 9th.
They beat MG and you think they are unstoppable. Get out of here!!!
Rockdale beat Heritage by a large margin both times and SWD barely beat them so that LUCK is about to run out!!! The only reason luck lasted this long is because they were home now that they are on a neutral court IT’s OVER!!!
Mr.Coach
March 3rd, 2011
1:44 pm
AAAA Fan Just answer the question ……who is going to stop William Goodwin and Jordan Price. Yall can meet at Golden Corral in Conyers and try to figure that out after the game…but it will be to late then. Lol
BullDOG
March 3rd, 2011
2:00 pm
LOL. but really all jokes aside.
I got this one AAAA-Fan,
Box William out the prevent him from guarding the basket and getting so many put back rebounds and make price come inside that 3-pt line and since there was no mention of Turner in your second comment you must know he’s not a threat!!!
Problem solved on to the next one!! Your are probably thinking easier said than done but RC can do it watchout FC we are on our way !!
Mr.Coach
March 3rd, 2011
2:44 pm
I just tried to make it simple for you by leaving Turner out the second time he will get to the basket at will.. Price will be able to do whatever he wants to do….and Goodwin is one of their leading 3 point shooters. Rockdale better come to play thats for sure. Its going to be a good game, will you be there Bulldog?
Really
March 3rd, 2011
3:50 pm
no comments on MG, i think Rockdale and SWD will be a real good game. The key match up may be CJ vs. Turner, the PG’s. I take CJ in this one. Also not sure either team has been in big games before, but each ROckdale. K ware may have a big game, I see Mr. Price getting furstrated. Who ever wins may have there hands full with a well rested MG team in the finals. SWD might have done MG a favor by loosing…looks like Cedar SHoals, Sequoyah, Villa Rica, and ? on the way to the championship. They may only get tested once. Does anyone know how many teams in GA boys history that have 3peated as state champs/Hell i know its early but can MGHS 4peat? They seam to be the only other team in 4AAAA bringing back as much talent.
Just a question
March 3rd, 2011
8:22 pm
LOL J. Price will be on lock he is a good big gaurd but he faces 2 gaurds faster and just as tall. he will not be able to get the ball down to Shaq. Mr. Coach how do you only consider one side of the ball who will stop Ware, Thompson,Wilson or Clark. they will impose there will on SWD, they will shoot them out of a zone and run them out of man-man. no more options. Only the Refs can save them
Just a question
March 3rd, 2011
8:25 pm
@Really that is a very true statement what do you thin about Jonesboro they seem to have some size to compete against MG?
4Real
March 3rd, 2011
9:46 pm
What you should be asking is can MG compete with Villa Rica, everyone is already counting Villa Rica out and the first buzzer have not sounded.
Mudcat
March 3rd, 2011
10:44 pm
I was at the Sequoyah vs. Miller Grove game and I stand by my statement. That was for the championship. The winner will go on to the AAAA State Title. No defense in AAAA is quicker and more aggressive than Sequoyah. Miller Grove will have no trouble the rest of the way! Mr. Coach, I have seen S.W. Dekalb play and they would have no shot against Sequoyah. Rockdale either. We used to pound Rockdale when I was at Newton County!
just a question
March 3rd, 2011
11:15 pm
Use to past tense the best matchup for MG is the Rock no other team has the quickness length or depth to compete. MG did not get beat by SWD they lost knowing DC,SWD,FC would beat each other up. Smart move Mudcat please be quiet no more silly chatter from u ok . Time to go to sleep rocka-by
SportsFan31313
March 4th, 2011
2:21 am
SWD Panther Paw, Metro ATL, and Rudbuck,
I have’nt disappeared a all. I was out of town on business and was unable to respond to you all comments. However; I will address them all now. But first let me first congratulate McEachern on their victory over Number 1 Region 3-AAAAA Bradwell Institute Lady Tigers. Clearly they were the better team that night.
SWD Panther Paw, and Metro ATL maybe you are right. maybe the schedule need to be strengthen to play stronger opponents. But I take absolutely nothing away from Bradwell Institute. They had a great season, and they played their hearts out. I belived that this years Lady Tigers would go all they way. They were not ranked No. 1 in the State Class AAAAA Polls for nothing. But you know, I was not the only one who thought that they would have went further in the Tournament. As I can rember, Rud Buck, you predicted them to make it to the Final Four. You even stated that they would get passed McEachern. You forgot to mention that in your comments.
I make no excuses for Bradwell Institute loss, and I can take the loss in stride just as well as I can take the numerous wins that they have achieved too. 80 wins and 8 losses over three years is very impressive in any Class. So I will tell you this: No one on this Blog can shut me up nor silence me. I will speak up, and for my Bradwell Institute Lady Tigers as long as Bradwell Institute still exist. I find it funny that you three, and myself were the “ONLY” one taking in stide the spirit of competitiveness for our favorite teams here in the blogs, Now all of a sudden the quiet ones whom I call the silent minority now begin to speak out and jump on the bad wagon to send wise cracks. It only shows the cowardbess in them. Had Bradwell Institute won, their mouths would have still been shut.
But again, I send out a Kudos to MCEachern on their victory over Bradwell Institute.
SWD Panther Paw
March 4th, 2011
7:29 am
SportsFan31313 – It’s all good…..the only comment I have is that the polls should always be taken with a grain of salt. The polls don’t indicate anything other than someone’s opinion that may or may not have seen the teams they decide to place in the poll’s play. It’s all just based on a teams record and that point is proven during the play-off’s………..
RUDBUCK
March 4th, 2011
8:50 am
Yes i did sporstfan31313, but I must tell you to refer back to the statement, I mentioned that Bradwell Institute should be a final 4 team. I also went on to say, their toughest opponent was McEachern, and if they get pass them, it would be no problem to the final 4 as I believe they could beat any of the 2 other teams in the lower part of thei bracket.
I agree with the poll statement. Most of these in-state polls are based on what the record is. It seems like it doesn’t take strength of schedule into consideration. The proven teams go and play the good teams of other regions via tournaments and rivalry matchups. Others also go on to national tournaments and play top competition. But that percentage is small, but yet some of the schools that beat up on other local schools get the chance to be ranked, which of course get weeded out during the state tournament, and some of these ranked teams have been blowned out. So the polls aren’t truly representing.
Mr.Coach
March 4th, 2011
9:24 am
I am so tired of hearing about Sequoyah Mudcat…..you think they can beat SWD the team that beat Miller Grove once and almost beat them twice. You must be kidding me!!! Good luck tonight to all teams that are still in the tourney.
SWD Panther Paw
March 4th, 2011
9:26 am
MUDCAT —- what have you been drinking?????? Sequoyah would have a hard time beating Columbia and South Atlanta….they don’t play anyway near the tough competion as some of the top teams in 4-A. You guy’s got beat by 19 points at home!!!!!!!!!! they were a paper tiger…….and spare me the ‘we used too’ stuff. This is 2011….when has Newton County been a power in anything???????
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
11:32 am
Okay, is Sequoyah at least a Top 10 team in the eyes of people on here? I believe so. Remember folks, MG killed Rockdale even worse, beat Milton by 10. Although, I understand that doesn’t mean anything. I think Sequoyah should end up ranked 5-7 at the end. They’re obviously better that Cass and Hooch because they’re 4-0 against them. I think they are probably better than Villa Rica from what I hear from the Creekview Bunch. Say what you will 29-1 is an accomplishment. All you hatorade drinkers never stepped foot in a gym and saw that team play this year, because if you did you wouldn’t be hatin’.
SWD Panther Paw
March 4th, 2011
11:52 am
ChiefSupporter – the difference with the Sequoyah game is that it meant more than a regular season game. ‘It was the play-off’s!!!!!!!! and you guy’s were at home. No one is interested in a 29-1 team that when faced with the only true test on their schedule they failed miserably……. but in spite of that you want us to believe that somehow they are still the cream of the crop. So what are you basing your assumption on that you’re better than the 8 teams that are still in the 4-A play-off’s……….having not seen most of them play yourself???????? You Sequoyah people need to let it go ready.
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
12:25 pm
SWD Panther Paw- Have you seen Sequoyah play?? If so, and you don’t think they’re a TOP 10 team. Then you must be snorting blow with Quincey Carter.
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
12:28 pm
Or are you hatin’ because Sequoyah is mostly white SWD PANTHER PAW?
Mr.Coach
March 4th, 2011
12:48 pm
I got your back Panther Paw I don’t care if Sequoyah”s players are green……..they played in a cake ass region and you know it Chief Supporter. If they had played in the Region with SWD, Miller Grove, Tucker and Chamblee do you think they would have been 28-0? Of course you dont!!! And leave Quincy out of it.
Paul Mokeski
March 4th, 2011
12:52 pm
I think that many of us would agree that Seq would not have made it out of Reg 6-AAAA. They would’ve finished behind Mays.
Of course, if you’re from the S.Canton area, you probably don’t agree.
Chief…………J. Adams is a very good coach. I know his family, and they are wonderful. However, 6-3 centers don’t hack it in the Big Boy Leagues
Paul Mokeski
March 4th, 2011
12:53 pm
Also, MC………how ’bout a thread on this weekend’s games……….PLEASE!
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
12:58 pm
I think they could beat Tucker. I think they’d be the 3 seed in region 6. Honest to goodness. What the majority are saying in this blog is white folks can’t play basketball. Whether you like it or not, you know that’s why you’re hatin” My question is why not comment on how Chattahoochee, Cass, and Villa Rica played in a cake region as well? Why all the white boy hatin’? Whites were also included in Dr. King’s dream.
SWD Panther Paw
March 4th, 2011
1:07 pm
Wow!!!! ChiefSupporter ….playing the race card……… the color of your team has nothing to do with anything. What a ugly turn……I guess you had no more valid point’s to make…… I must have a struck a nerve……..No matter how bad you cry that still won’t make Sequoyah any better……your season is OVER!!!!!!! Quincy Carter????????? seriously. :>)
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
1:15 pm
So, you aren’t denying it then SWD Panther Paw? Also, you didn’t answer my question did you ever step foot into a gym that Sequoyah was playing at this year?
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
1:23 pm
Let me hear ya SWD PPAW “I LOVE WHITE PEOPLE!!!” Can you say that? You know that’s why you are hatin”.
Paul Mokeski
March 4th, 2011
1:23 pm
Ugh! So be it MC………….
Predictions:
SWD over Rock in a close one. Ware gets a sweet dunk in the 2nd Q, and is happy lookin pretty and losing.
MG over Villa Alabama big
FC and Jones advance………but that’s the end of their runs
SWD v. MG in the Championship proving once again how dominant Reg 6-AAAA is in GA
SWD Panther Paw
March 4th, 2011
1:31 pm
ChiefSupporter – what you’ve done is expose your true color……….I have wasted more than enough time with you. As Paul Mokeski stated earlier it’s time for a new thread concerning this weekend’s games……Todd Holcomb please start another one we’ve run this one in the ground.
Mr.Coach
March 4th, 2011
1:32 pm
I love White People…….especially Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie. Lol
Paul Mokeski
March 4th, 2011
1:35 pm
I’m white…….but I love Halle Berry:-)))))))))))))
Sequoyah Fan
March 4th, 2011
1:35 pm
For those of you who really don’t believe white folks can play hoops, check out Duke – year after year. Check out the Boston Celtics teams of the 1980s. For those of you who think Sequoyah is not as good as SW DeKalb and other teams in Atlanta, that may be true. Nevertheless, Sequoyah was good. They won 12 games by 5 points or less, a big-time overachieving, high-spirited group that was finally brought down by a basketball-player mill. They knew how to finish a close game. Final record: 29-1. Not too shabby.
@ Joe: Thanks for the optimism. Sure hope you don’t live in Cherokee County. The Chiefs definitely don’t need “fans” like you.
SWD Panther Paw
March 4th, 2011
1:42 pm
Sequoyah Fan – The only people making race comments are you Sequoyah fan’s. What going on up there in Canton?????? We get you guy’s are very proud of your 29-1 record………….but your season is over now……….
MGHS 3-rings
March 4th, 2011
1:46 pm
SEQUOYAH HAVE NOT HAAD THIS MUCH PUBLICITY EVER SO AS LONG AS THIS BLOG IS HERE THEY WILL CONTINUE TO POST.
WE are on to the next 1 no time to discuss could’ve, would’ve,should’ve and maybe next year it’s over good run for your guys but move on and don’t take away from the Elite Eight.
Too bad for Sequoyah, MG lost to SWD in the Regional Tournament otherwise they would have been playing SWD in the 2nd rund and all these disputes could be put to rest. Futhermore no need to fret Sequoyah if SWD pulls off anymore wins through the finals we will be waiting for them at the finish line getting fitted for another ring.
Not saying that it is impossile to beat MG but we have been here too many times within the last few years and we know what it take to WIN and by no means would SWD come out with another victory!!!
Not at Gwinnett Arena that’s our HOUSE!!!!
Good Luck Tonight MG boys and girls, oh & you too SWD!
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
2:04 pm
I like Beyonce myself. Eva Longoria too. Something about Queen Latifa is hot too.
just a question
March 4th, 2011
2:06 pm
@paul did you miss your ride or is the circus still here, because you are a clown if you think SWD will beat the Rock where is the help for Price and Goodwin? Price will struggle against faster guards that can get in his face. There is no height or speed advantage for SWD. Until then go fall down somewhere CLOWN
SWD Panther Paw
March 4th, 2011
2:10 pm
MGHS 3-rings – If you guy’s do win you will only be following in the foot step’s of the SWD girl’s basketball team that won three in a row 08,09,10…… the first team to do that in dekalb county…..nothing new.
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
2:11 pm
SWD PPAW. You can’t even type “I LOVE WHITE PEOPLE!!!!”. You’re showing your true hate now. That’s a shame. Dr. King, Andy Young, and John Lewis would be sorely dissappointed in you. I bet your favorite movie is “White Men Can’t Jump”. You see Sidney you’d rather look pretty and lose. (Woody Harrelson)
Mr.Coach
March 4th, 2011
2:11 pm
Halle Berry doesn’t count Paul, now if you say you love Whoopi Goldberg I would really be impressed.
Paul Mokeski
March 4th, 2011
2:14 pm
Like they got in that little guard’s face from Chamblee last week, as he busted 3 staright 3’s right in y’all’s eye?
if Chamblee had any D1 talent on their team, Rock would be at home this weekend
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
2:15 pm
No, whoopi for whoopi, but the co-star in stella got her groove back is very attractive.
Paul Mokeski
March 4th, 2011
2:16 pm
Sorry, Mr. Coach, I don’t do guys
ChiefSupporter
March 4th, 2011
2:24 pm
I guess SWD PPAW decided to leave. Too many crackers on the blog I suppose.
Rodney King
March 4th, 2011
2:25 pm
Can’t we all just get along?