The Week that Was (11/24 - 11/27) ...
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2021 6:45 pm
The official Week #1 rankings will be out on 12/5/21 ... still 28 teams to hit the court for the first time in the regular season ... on the positive side we had 43 teams open the 2021-22 season this past week/weekend - as a Cheap Seat guy, I learn something about all of the teams I put eyes on whether a team wins or loses ... Pfloyd got to see 8 different SEO teams this past week - unfortunately when teams play in the Tip Off events they usually bring in teams from Above the Lancaster-Dixon Line which is what happened at ZT's classic - Whetstone/Bishop Ready/Lancaster/Berne Union/New Hope Christian (teams outside the SEO district) ...
A few thoughts from around SEO:
Zane Trace 47
Col Bishop Ready 76 a final
Hard to tell if Ready is THAT good or if ZT isn't nearly as good as thought by the committee of one - me ... BR totally outplayed the Pioneers in every phase of the game ... with the big glaring hole in the ZT armor being the lack of PG play ... ZT had 17 turnovers/ only 2 points from the PG position ... the highlight was Xzander Ream (20pts/ 5 treys) ... the size of Stonerock,Robinson,Baker, Edler, Langley, Ream - all 6-3 and bigger was a nonfactor - allowing 42 points in the paint/ 8 pts off of offensive rebounds ... Coaches Kellough & Martin will take on Greenfield McClain on Tuesday at ZT with an opportunity to show me something better than what they showed Saturday night.
Pfloyd's official "UNofficial" Napkin Stats - Bishop Ready
Scoring ... Kaleb Schaffer 25, Troy Hixson 15, Charlie Russell 14, Luke Ruth 11, Josh Paul 5, Micah Germany 4, Kayden Schaffer 2
3 Pointers ... 7/16 ... Troy Hixson 3, Charlie Russell 2, Kaleb Schaffer 1, Josh Paul 1
FTs ... 5/8
TOs ... 15
PnP ... 21 fgs/42 pts
PnT ... 2 fg/ 4 points in transition
Pbk ... 4 fg/ 8 points off of offensive boards
Pfloyd's official "UNofficial: Napkin Stats - Zane Trace
Scoring ... Xzander Ream 20, Kyle Stonerock 6, Austen Ison 6, Carter Hill 5, Nalin Robinson 4, Trey Edler 4, Ben Nichols 2
3 Pointers ... 7/17 ... Xzander Ream 5, Austen Ison 2
FTs ... 4/8
TOs ... 17
PnP ... 11 fgs/ 22 points in the paint
PnT ... 1 fg/ 2 points in transition
Pbk ... 3 fgs/6 points off of offensive boards
... Coach Maddox's Warren Warriors took on Washington CH in a battle of 2 SEO district teams ... Court House showed improvement by addition - addition of PG Reico Colter ( Trotwood Madison senior transfer - 3rd school in 4 years) ... it looked like Colter would outscore the Warriors on his own ball as the 5-9 PG/SG put up 40 points for the game (4 triples, 10/11 FTs) ... Courthouse will go as far as Reico can carry them as he creates, gets into the paint/to the rim anytime he wants which opens up the kick out pass - which he does well/finding the perimeter scorer in John Wall or finding the big man 6-6 Tanner LeMaster under the basket ... Colter will most likely be the best player on the court in every game in SEO - almost unstoppable as he is so quick off the dribble, THEN throw in that he can pull up for the midrange jumper and hits the 3 ball - he's a player ... any deficiencies other players may have - he negates ... as players can BE a spot up perimeter scorer, or that BIG man around the rim who can catch and go up at the rim ... nice player for sure - 40 points will happen multiple times this season - mark it down ... Washington CH travels to Unioto for what should be a really good Tuesday night matchup ... Warren? offensively challenged - right now ... the Warriors are looking to find the role players who will score the ball - Coach Maddox graduated more than 85% of their offense from last season ... the sign reads "Perimeter scorers wanted" ... returning varsity experience - Brayden Sallee/Dennis Pettey ... both players HAVE TO stay on the court for 32 minutes - right now ... injuries/lack of depth & experience at the varsity level will take time to fill - right now ... Warren lost 76-86 to CH - any positives? freshman Julian Stadelman got the opportunity to guard Colter in the 2nd half - a lot - looked a little star struck for a couple of minutes BUT fell right into the "big stage" - did a great job/scored 4 points - JS WILL SEE more playing time at the varsity level this season ... Sallee/Pettey ARE the leaders, the duo scored a combined 12 points in the first 2 quarters of action (10 by Pettey) ... in the final 2 quarters the duo of Sallee/Pettey scored 38 points (Sallee 26/Pettey 13) ... the quarter breaks :
Warren ... 13 ... 20 ... 44 ... 76
Wash CH . 16 ... 39 ... 58 ... 86
... at the 2:58 mark of the 3rd Warren trailed 33-54 , down 21 ... by 1:02 in the 4th period they had battled back to being down 71-77 with the ball in their hands ... the final margin was the result of 13/20 FT shooting by CH in the 4th... Colter/Wall going 11/13 down the stretch ... very little varsity experience, pg by committee , no quit/lots of energy - better get the Warriors early as the youngin's have started to get their feet wet - Trent Taylor 6-5 added 10 points in that 2nd half blitz ... Coach Maddox, youngin's, teaching/coaching the game for 32 minutes - I was smiling listening to Coach coach/teach ...
Pfloyd's official "UNofficial" Napkin Stats - Washington CH
Scoring ... Reico Colter 40, Tanner LeMaster 18, John Wall 11, Isaiah Haithcock 6, Raleigh Haithcock 5, Karson Runk 3, Noah HIcks 2, Brayden May 1
3 Pointers ... 8/22 ... Reico Colter 4, John Wall 2, Raleigh Haithcock 1, Karson Runk 1
FTs ... 18/28
TOs ... 15
PnP ... 19 fgs/38 points in the paint
PnT ... 4 fgs/ 8 points in transition
Pbk ... 4 fgs/ 8 points off of offensive boards
Pfloyd's official "UN-official" Napkin Stats - Warren
Scoring ... Brayden Sallee 27, Dennis Pettey 23, Trent Taylor 16, Julian Stadelman 4, Ayden Cornell 3, Hunter Hanes 2, Trent Dowler 1
3 Pointers ... 5/19 ... Brayden Sallee 2, Dennis Pettey 1, Ayden Cornell 1, Trent Taylor 1
FTs ....... 17/27
TOs ... 15
PnP ... 20 fgs/ 40 points in the paint
PnT ... 5 fgs/ 10 points in transition
Pbk ... 2 fgs/ 4 points off of offensive boards
... Logan vs Columbus Whetstone [media]https://www.loganhockingtimes.com/artic ... on-opener/[/media]... interesting game as neither team looked good - it looked like a first game of the season - as it was ... Logan had only 4 players score the ball with 22 points each coming from seniors Mason Frasure and Tegan Myers. Other than that nothing special as Logan is looking to get their 3rd scorer back from injury - Ashton Mahaffey ... Logan is a guard loaded lineup/offense - if a guard isn't shooting the perimeter shot, they are creating one on one to get to the rim - very little goes through the post ... The Chiefs get a chance to see their first SEO opponent as Unioto comes to Jim's Gym in Logan next Friday night ... a battle of preseason top 8 teams ...
Pfloyd's official "UN-official" Napkin Stats - Whetstone
Scoring ... Shiaman Diawara 14, Micha McGonable 11, Jaqulen Cook 3, Mason Addy 3, Pat Knostman 3, Jasper Tidd 2, Noah Knostman 2
3 Pointers ... 6/22 ... Micha McGonagle 3, Shiaman Diawara 1, Pat Knostman 1, Jasiri Gibson 1
FTs ... 2/10
TOs ... 12
PnP ... 8 fgs/16 points in the paint
PnT ... 2 fgs/ 4 points in transition
Pbk ... 0
Pfloyd's official "UN-official" Napkin Stats - Logan
Scoring ... Mason Frasure 22, Tegan Myers 22, Cayden Alford 6, Max Black 2
3 Pointers ... 4/15 ... Tegan Myers 4
FTs ... 18/23
TOs ... 9
PnP ... 11 fgs/22 points in the paint
PnT ... 2fgs/ 4 points in transition
Pbk ... 1 fg/ 2 points off of offensive boards
... other scores of note from the week that was :
Fairland 54
Fairfield Leesburg 46
... Aiden Porter the sharpshooting sg for the Dragons was held to 9 points but Will Davis picked up the slack with 18 points for FHS along with 16 from JD Thacker & 9 more from Ethan Taylor ... a good start for Coach Speed as he adjusts to the 2021-22 edition of the Dragons ...
Miami Trace starts out 0-2 on the week ... a 50-56 loss at Unioto with a good showing from the 4 sophs that Coach Ackley has in his rotation ... MT lost to Lancaster 43-58 at the ZT Classic ... the sophomores played as sophomores do in the opening weeks of their first taste of varsity ball - inconsistently ... the one consistent piece for MT was 6-8 Andrew Guthrie as he had 17 points vs Unioto and followed it up with 22 points vs Lancaster, the big junior is the real deal - big, strong, great footwork, excellent touch in the paint, battles under the boards ... don't let the 0-2 start fool you, Miami Trace will be a solid team this season imo.
Gallia Academy 60-49 winner over Meigs ... a good start for the Blue Devils vs a good Marauder ball club ... [media]https://www.mydailytribune.com/sports/6 ... eigs-60-49[/media]
Vinton County losing to Circleville was a surprise - a great start for the Tigers (1-0) (I incorrectly reported that Circleville lost to BC - that was the girls score/ Coach Carpenter's squad takes on BC THIS weekend) ...
South Webster with a big win over Portsmouth Notre Dame 68-45 ... lots of talk of my Jeeps Elite 8 ranking in the top 8 as being waaaaay too high ... ND was projected to be "good and very good" going deep into the D4 post season - they still may! but SW gets kudos for the good opening W over the Titans ...
Portsmouth 2-0 to start the season ... putting up 80+ points in both games ... 87-66 vs Ripley [media]https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/s ... e-pointers[/media] and 80-40 vs Hillsboro Christian Academy... lots of pressure defense for the Trojans, add in scoring from Burg transfer Kenny Sanderlin (21 vs Hillsboro Christian Academy) and Dariyonne Bryant with 20 ... good start! looks like a scrimmage on Tuesday at Waverly, with the PHS next regular season games 12/7 vs South Point and @ Chesapeake 12/10 ...
Fairfield Union 1-0 picked up a W vs Chillicothe 59-30 ... FU with a new coach this season ... Chillicothe 0-1
Teams who I'm watching to move up quickly in the first rankings next weekend:
Alexander (1-0) 76-58 win over Belpre
New Boston (1-0) 62-31 win over West Union on the road
Valley (1-0) 65-47 win over Adena
Whiteoak (1-0) 68-44 over Felicity host New Boston Tuesday night ... Ashbaugh for Whiteoak 8 treys/33 pts vs Felicity while Grady Jackson had 32 points/ 6 for 6 from downtown for the Tigers
... should be a fun Week that IS!
A few thoughts from around SEO:
Zane Trace 47
Col Bishop Ready 76 a final
Hard to tell if Ready is THAT good or if ZT isn't nearly as good as thought by the committee of one - me ... BR totally outplayed the Pioneers in every phase of the game ... with the big glaring hole in the ZT armor being the lack of PG play ... ZT had 17 turnovers/ only 2 points from the PG position ... the highlight was Xzander Ream (20pts/ 5 treys) ... the size of Stonerock,Robinson,Baker, Edler, Langley, Ream - all 6-3 and bigger was a nonfactor - allowing 42 points in the paint/ 8 pts off of offensive rebounds ... Coaches Kellough & Martin will take on Greenfield McClain on Tuesday at ZT with an opportunity to show me something better than what they showed Saturday night.
Pfloyd's official "UNofficial" Napkin Stats - Bishop Ready
Scoring ... Kaleb Schaffer 25, Troy Hixson 15, Charlie Russell 14, Luke Ruth 11, Josh Paul 5, Micah Germany 4, Kayden Schaffer 2
3 Pointers ... 7/16 ... Troy Hixson 3, Charlie Russell 2, Kaleb Schaffer 1, Josh Paul 1
FTs ... 5/8
TOs ... 15
PnP ... 21 fgs/42 pts
PnT ... 2 fg/ 4 points in transition
Pbk ... 4 fg/ 8 points off of offensive boards
Pfloyd's official "UNofficial: Napkin Stats - Zane Trace
Scoring ... Xzander Ream 20, Kyle Stonerock 6, Austen Ison 6, Carter Hill 5, Nalin Robinson 4, Trey Edler 4, Ben Nichols 2
3 Pointers ... 7/17 ... Xzander Ream 5, Austen Ison 2
FTs ... 4/8
TOs ... 17
PnP ... 11 fgs/ 22 points in the paint
PnT ... 1 fg/ 2 points in transition
Pbk ... 3 fgs/6 points off of offensive boards
... Coach Maddox's Warren Warriors took on Washington CH in a battle of 2 SEO district teams ... Court House showed improvement by addition - addition of PG Reico Colter ( Trotwood Madison senior transfer - 3rd school in 4 years) ... it looked like Colter would outscore the Warriors on his own ball as the 5-9 PG/SG put up 40 points for the game (4 triples, 10/11 FTs) ... Courthouse will go as far as Reico can carry them as he creates, gets into the paint/to the rim anytime he wants which opens up the kick out pass - which he does well/finding the perimeter scorer in John Wall or finding the big man 6-6 Tanner LeMaster under the basket ... Colter will most likely be the best player on the court in every game in SEO - almost unstoppable as he is so quick off the dribble, THEN throw in that he can pull up for the midrange jumper and hits the 3 ball - he's a player ... any deficiencies other players may have - he negates ... as players can BE a spot up perimeter scorer, or that BIG man around the rim who can catch and go up at the rim ... nice player for sure - 40 points will happen multiple times this season - mark it down ... Washington CH travels to Unioto for what should be a really good Tuesday night matchup ... Warren? offensively challenged - right now ... the Warriors are looking to find the role players who will score the ball - Coach Maddox graduated more than 85% of their offense from last season ... the sign reads "Perimeter scorers wanted" ... returning varsity experience - Brayden Sallee/Dennis Pettey ... both players HAVE TO stay on the court for 32 minutes - right now ... injuries/lack of depth & experience at the varsity level will take time to fill - right now ... Warren lost 76-86 to CH - any positives? freshman Julian Stadelman got the opportunity to guard Colter in the 2nd half - a lot - looked a little star struck for a couple of minutes BUT fell right into the "big stage" - did a great job/scored 4 points - JS WILL SEE more playing time at the varsity level this season ... Sallee/Pettey ARE the leaders, the duo scored a combined 12 points in the first 2 quarters of action (10 by Pettey) ... in the final 2 quarters the duo of Sallee/Pettey scored 38 points (Sallee 26/Pettey 13) ... the quarter breaks :
Warren ... 13 ... 20 ... 44 ... 76
Wash CH . 16 ... 39 ... 58 ... 86
... at the 2:58 mark of the 3rd Warren trailed 33-54 , down 21 ... by 1:02 in the 4th period they had battled back to being down 71-77 with the ball in their hands ... the final margin was the result of 13/20 FT shooting by CH in the 4th... Colter/Wall going 11/13 down the stretch ... very little varsity experience, pg by committee , no quit/lots of energy - better get the Warriors early as the youngin's have started to get their feet wet - Trent Taylor 6-5 added 10 points in that 2nd half blitz ... Coach Maddox, youngin's, teaching/coaching the game for 32 minutes - I was smiling listening to Coach coach/teach ...
Pfloyd's official "UNofficial" Napkin Stats - Washington CH
Scoring ... Reico Colter 40, Tanner LeMaster 18, John Wall 11, Isaiah Haithcock 6, Raleigh Haithcock 5, Karson Runk 3, Noah HIcks 2, Brayden May 1
3 Pointers ... 8/22 ... Reico Colter 4, John Wall 2, Raleigh Haithcock 1, Karson Runk 1
FTs ... 18/28
TOs ... 15
PnP ... 19 fgs/38 points in the paint
PnT ... 4 fgs/ 8 points in transition
Pbk ... 4 fgs/ 8 points off of offensive boards
Pfloyd's official "UN-official" Napkin Stats - Warren
Scoring ... Brayden Sallee 27, Dennis Pettey 23, Trent Taylor 16, Julian Stadelman 4, Ayden Cornell 3, Hunter Hanes 2, Trent Dowler 1
3 Pointers ... 5/19 ... Brayden Sallee 2, Dennis Pettey 1, Ayden Cornell 1, Trent Taylor 1
FTs ....... 17/27
TOs ... 15
PnP ... 20 fgs/ 40 points in the paint
PnT ... 5 fgs/ 10 points in transition
Pbk ... 2 fgs/ 4 points off of offensive boards
... Logan vs Columbus Whetstone [media]https://www.loganhockingtimes.com/artic ... on-opener/[/media]... interesting game as neither team looked good - it looked like a first game of the season - as it was ... Logan had only 4 players score the ball with 22 points each coming from seniors Mason Frasure and Tegan Myers. Other than that nothing special as Logan is looking to get their 3rd scorer back from injury - Ashton Mahaffey ... Logan is a guard loaded lineup/offense - if a guard isn't shooting the perimeter shot, they are creating one on one to get to the rim - very little goes through the post ... The Chiefs get a chance to see their first SEO opponent as Unioto comes to Jim's Gym in Logan next Friday night ... a battle of preseason top 8 teams ...
Pfloyd's official "UN-official" Napkin Stats - Whetstone
Scoring ... Shiaman Diawara 14, Micha McGonable 11, Jaqulen Cook 3, Mason Addy 3, Pat Knostman 3, Jasper Tidd 2, Noah Knostman 2
3 Pointers ... 6/22 ... Micha McGonagle 3, Shiaman Diawara 1, Pat Knostman 1, Jasiri Gibson 1
FTs ... 2/10
TOs ... 12
PnP ... 8 fgs/16 points in the paint
PnT ... 2 fgs/ 4 points in transition
Pbk ... 0
Pfloyd's official "UN-official" Napkin Stats - Logan
Scoring ... Mason Frasure 22, Tegan Myers 22, Cayden Alford 6, Max Black 2
3 Pointers ... 4/15 ... Tegan Myers 4
FTs ... 18/23
TOs ... 9
PnP ... 11 fgs/22 points in the paint
PnT ... 2fgs/ 4 points in transition
Pbk ... 1 fg/ 2 points off of offensive boards
... other scores of note from the week that was :
Fairland 54
Fairfield Leesburg 46
... Aiden Porter the sharpshooting sg for the Dragons was held to 9 points but Will Davis picked up the slack with 18 points for FHS along with 16 from JD Thacker & 9 more from Ethan Taylor ... a good start for Coach Speed as he adjusts to the 2021-22 edition of the Dragons ...
Miami Trace starts out 0-2 on the week ... a 50-56 loss at Unioto with a good showing from the 4 sophs that Coach Ackley has in his rotation ... MT lost to Lancaster 43-58 at the ZT Classic ... the sophomores played as sophomores do in the opening weeks of their first taste of varsity ball - inconsistently ... the one consistent piece for MT was 6-8 Andrew Guthrie as he had 17 points vs Unioto and followed it up with 22 points vs Lancaster, the big junior is the real deal - big, strong, great footwork, excellent touch in the paint, battles under the boards ... don't let the 0-2 start fool you, Miami Trace will be a solid team this season imo.
Gallia Academy 60-49 winner over Meigs ... a good start for the Blue Devils vs a good Marauder ball club ... [media]https://www.mydailytribune.com/sports/6 ... eigs-60-49[/media]
Vinton County losing to Circleville was a surprise - a great start for the Tigers (1-0) (I incorrectly reported that Circleville lost to BC - that was the girls score/ Coach Carpenter's squad takes on BC THIS weekend) ...
South Webster with a big win over Portsmouth Notre Dame 68-45 ... lots of talk of my Jeeps Elite 8 ranking in the top 8 as being waaaaay too high ... ND was projected to be "good and very good" going deep into the D4 post season - they still may! but SW gets kudos for the good opening W over the Titans ...
Portsmouth 2-0 to start the season ... putting up 80+ points in both games ... 87-66 vs Ripley [media]https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/s ... e-pointers[/media] and 80-40 vs Hillsboro Christian Academy... lots of pressure defense for the Trojans, add in scoring from Burg transfer Kenny Sanderlin (21 vs Hillsboro Christian Academy) and Dariyonne Bryant with 20 ... good start! looks like a scrimmage on Tuesday at Waverly, with the PHS next regular season games 12/7 vs South Point and @ Chesapeake 12/10 ...
Fairfield Union 1-0 picked up a W vs Chillicothe 59-30 ... FU with a new coach this season ... Chillicothe 0-1
Teams who I'm watching to move up quickly in the first rankings next weekend:
Alexander (1-0) 76-58 win over Belpre
New Boston (1-0) 62-31 win over West Union on the road
Valley (1-0) 65-47 win over Adena
Whiteoak (1-0) 68-44 over Felicity host New Boston Tuesday night ... Ashbaugh for Whiteoak 8 treys/33 pts vs Felicity while Grady Jackson had 32 points/ 6 for 6 from downtown for the Tigers
... should be a fun Week that IS!