NW4A Week 9 Scores...

A Meltdown ?

How can you say that when they took Freedom to the wire and played HARDER than McDowell did when they beat Freedom a few weeks ago? If a team lays down and quits trying or just tends to play when they feel like it (EB) then you have questions about where things are going. ACR is giving their all on the floor and I thought it was a well coached game so I don't think thats the problem. If that team had McDowell's talent and played as hard as did last night they would be awesome , they just don't have the players that some of the top teams have. Sounds like Tony is wishing so hard for Silvers to go there he is looking for anything.. and BTW.. ALOT of teams get blown out by McDowell but that dosent mean they are in a meltdown. JMI

 

I agree that ACR has not lived up to the TBR experts, but they played well last night. They played very hard and had a good game plan. The were wearing us out in the first and it looked like it couldv'e been ugly. We'll have to see how they respond to losses at home to McDowell, East Burke, and now Freedom will affect them.

Carlee Taylor shot the lights out in the first, but we got Brinkley in fould trouble and that was about it for her.

After Taylor tied it up with a three Amber called timeout and chose to hold the ball for the last shot. I was very suprised they let us do that, but no one expected Brown to take the last shot. Ford made a great pass and created the opening for her.

ACR is good, and will be fine. They played hard, just got beat and that's going to happen in the NW 4A from time to time.

 

If only coaching one sport is the ticket, maybe then Coach Parham should give up coaching baseball, ..

Coaching another sport has absolute nothing to do with each other

 

Ain't gonna happen, but if Parham gave up one of the 2 sports I don't think it would be baseball. Not at SC anyway. He does fine coaching both sports though and I don't see him changing any time soon

 

You never stop do you. When are you going to learn that maybe its not the coaching up in Boone. They've ran 4 coaches out because of parents complaining and because the kids aren't winning. And the girls are getting a coach that put his full concentration into it because he would go from football right to basketball at the beginning of the year. I don't think the baseball parents at SC are complaining about Parham splitting his time with basketball. Just stop posting on here please. It's annoying.

 

I'm looking at Reynolds overall performances this year. Their point total is way down. I believe they lost one game while scoring only 29 points. That is not the Rockets team we have grown to know in the NW4A. I also hear the AD is not getting along with the coaches. Just saying.

 

This was not to say that Jeff should or would even consider giving up baseball,

It was to point out that a coach could coach two sports successful

 

I probably never will until I feel like they have the right person for the job or until I no longer watch WHS play. WHS is not as talented as other teams, but we should not be losing lall of these games and should not be losing by the spread that we are. The group of kids at the HS now are used to winning. That is what they have done in MS, JV and travel ball. But not now on the varsity!

Let's get your facts straight before you go talking about what coach did with basketball. The girls had a 4 day mini camp this summer and that was it. No team camp, no skill development, no weight training, nothing!!!! Do you think Coach Hardee or Coach Snow gives their players the complete summer off? I don't think so. And the reason why the girls did nothing is because Anderson was with football all summer. I fellow parent told me about 4 weeks ago, that it looked like we were 2 months behind everyone else. That was end of may, June, and the beginning of July! Next, during the fall pre season workouts, was Anderson around much? No, his incompitent JV coach ran most of the stuff, and it was only open gym. No skill work, nor weight lifting, just pick teams and play. Oh yeah I forgot, Anderson did do a 6-7 am conditioning program. How many girls are going to be at school at 6am to run. That was the only time he had available, because of FOOTBALL. Next, when basketball started, the girls did not get his full energy. He spent 2-2 &1/2 hours on the football field and THEN came to basketball practice. Coaching open practice and day would seem like it would be hard enough.

Coach Parham has QUALITY ASSISTANTS on the basketball and baseball team to help him out. Anderson does not. Parham is a seasoned coach and has done this for a very long time. Anderson has not. Parham gives of his time equally to both programs. Anderson does not. It's like comparing apples and oranges!

If you don't want to read my postings then don't come to this forum!!

Oh by the way McDowell thumpped us 82-44 tonight. Nice showing by Anderson's girls.

 

Is there any question as to why there are not many applications for the administration to go through when the basketball jobs are open??? Just read the prior post. And don't ever bring we're use to winning in middle school up again in Watauga. That doesn't even compare to any other program in the conference. At Watauga they play each other with the exception of ashe, and they rarely win those games since they are one school with 2 teams and Watauga has 8 teams. Other schools in the conference have middle schools that play in conferences.

 

You are 100% correct. And that travel ball they say they were successful with is an age group and financial deal. Not all girls teams can afford to go to Orlando to play in nationals like you guys did. In varsity basketball you have freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors playing on the court. And the teams who can't afford travel ball are playing in the high school level because it doesn't have to do with money. There is no comparison from middle school ball to high school ball in Boone because, as rams said, they only play each other throughout the county.

WHSHOOPSFAN - About the off-season deal. A coach isn't going to set up times for everything you need done in the off-season. Sometimes, and i know its going to be hard for you to understand this, but sometimes you have to do the weight lifting and the shooting individually. And when you say who's going to get up at 6am to run, thats the attitude your'e taking into the season. It shows commitment to do little things like that which obviously not many people related to the girls team do. It's high school basketball, you can't expect to have a fully scheduled off-season plan, sometimes the work has to be done on your own.

About his assistant, he played varsity basketball under Mark Payne which is a very knowledgable coach, so yes he is a good assistant. Parham's assistant is one of his family members, which doesn't take anything away from his basketball knowledge, I'm just saying not many high school basketball teams are going to have very quality assistants. I think Anderson's assistants are good coaches. And I'm going to bring this up again but what does the assistant coach have to do with the performance of the girls on the court. Assistant coaches don't cause 40 point losses. But in your mind it probably does because you parents can't blame anything on your own kids. It's always going to be the coaches fault at Watauga.

It blows my mind how narrow minded you are. Oh and btw all this talk that you say about how these girls should be beating these teams and how you raved about it last year , I looked at your prior posts and on every NW4A pick 'em last year you picked Watauga to lose, and one game you picked McDowell to beat them 89-31. So you can stop talking about how YOU think they should be beating teams more often. Funny how that works isn't it.