manchester vs ripley

[the mount]

HUGE GAME manchester vs ripley i will take mhs by 12 come on mhs get your heads up WU CAN'T WAIT TO TAKE YOU DOWN

[TribeManiac10]

Im going with Manchester by 9.

[airforcejm]

Manchester by 10+

[HoundsAre4Real]

Ripley by 10+.....Manchester doesn't run an offense and when they get behind its all one-on-one.

[the mount]

ono on one that is the PLAYS look at last year play hard WU your time is comeing

[jchitwood]

Ripley by 10+.....Manchester doesn't run an offense and when they get behind its all one-on-one.

HoundsAre4Real, did someone hack into your account and post that as a prank? Props for giving your honest opinion and not just cheerleading your team.

[HoundsAre4Real]

No, no one hacked my account just giving my opinion on what I have seen this year. I know its early in the year but they need to get things turned around quickly.

[bball14fan]

The turnaround starts with the coach. He has to realize what he has on the floor. The team he is coaching is a fast team not a big team. The same offense that worked last year is not gonna work this year. Manchester is not a half court team, they are a speed team and need to out run everyone else. Coach puts too much pressure on Combs to score and the other league teams know that, just read the post. Everyone else needs to score and take the pressure off of Combs and his 20 plus a game will come to him alot easier. Combs is expected to work too hard at both ends of the floor. He usually gets the toughest defensive assignment but then he is also expected to work hard and score on the offensive end. For example against Peebles, they scored 7 pts first 2 mins, 1 pt the next 10 mins, no adjustments made at halftime, 8 pts 3rd quarter, 4th quarted they played fast paced and put pressure on the ball, caused alot of tos and scored 25 points. Its not rocket science or hard to figure out. If they play same game plan against Ripley I expect it to be a rough game again because Ripley is alot bigger then Manchester but also alot slower. Take advantage of what u have and ur mis-matches. Good luck Hounds and keep ur heads up.

[airforcejm]

I agree with that 100 percent. It's going to be interesting to see how the coach does next year after Combs and 95 percent of the team graduates.

[Regionalchamps2011]

Next year and the forseeable future is going to be a struggle.... Hard to lose players like Cooper,quinlan,Hanson,Blevins,combs and ricketts over 3-4 yrs and expect to just keep "re-loading"..... Man, sure would of been nice to have all of them on the same team lol...would have atleast 1 or 2 div 4 championships!!!!!!!

[HoundsAre4Real]

Manchester will rebuild and be fine. They have lost a lot more talent over a 3-4 yr period than you named and they came through alright so they will be fine.

[Regionalchamps2011]

Uhh obviously this "talent" your referring to must be transferring or moving to Manchester ?? Don't take this as I'm bashing the younger kids in Manchester, cause trust me I'm not, but there is nothing to rebuild with ... I watch all levels of basketball going on in town, and from what I've seen at any level, there is not a winning ball club for atleast a few yrs...

Please dont take any of that the wrong way, im a greyhound and will cheer them on until I'm on my death bed, there's just no talent, the kind of players like we lost or are losing, in the lower levels....Doesn't matter though, 20-0 or 0-20, I'll be at every game!!!

[bball14fan]

Manchester will be in a major rebuilding stage and NO they are not going to be ok after this year and probably for at least the next 4 years or so. Manchester has 4 district championships, this group of boys won two of them back to back. So I will have to disagree, Manchester has not had or lost this much talent in any 3 to 4 year span. This has been the winningest group Manchester has ever had. There has been some great athletes come through Manchester but never this many this good in a 3 to 4 year span and its going to be a long time before it happens again. There was 50 years before this group. I just hope it isnt 50 more. Good luck Hounds this year and years to come.

[GreenDevils#1]

The competition has been pretty easy for these group of boys. Not taking anything away from them but they haven't had to face the competition that teams in the past had to face. Go back over the last 10 yrs and look at the teams from then and now.

[bball14fan]

That is what I knew someone would say and that is what they always say. This group of kids played some of the best talent in the state, not just around here. They played a Harvest Prep team last year that you cant say was not talented. They were very talented and they done everything but won that game. The talent is the same it always is, but some reason teams of the past always feel like they had it harder. Bottom line this group won more then any other group ever has.

[GreenDevils#1]

Yes they have but they are still not the most talented sry. I've watched these boys and played against done of the older players and there has been more talent there. They might not have won but there was more talent. Bball14fan I'm glad your sticking up for your son I'm just saying that there has been more talent.

[BlueJayDad]

Ripley by 10+.....Manchester doesn't run an offense and when they get behind its all one-on-one.

Finally, a little Blue Jays love on the board! I agree, Ripley by 10+

The Blue Jays have a lot of underrated talent this year-as long as they play as a team they will be a force in the league.

[airforcejm]

Manchester will be in a major rebuilding stage and NO they are not going to be ok after this year and probably for at least the next 4 years or so. Manchester has 4 district championships, this group of boys won two of them back to back. So I will have to disagree, Manchester has not had or lost this much talent in any 3 to 4 year span. This has been the winningest group Manchester has ever had. There has been some great athletes come through Manchester but never this many this good in a 3 to 4 year span and its going to be a long time before it happens again. There was 50 years before this group. I just hope it isnt 50 more. Good luck Hounds this year and years to come.

Well said. I have to agree that over the past few years we have seen the best teams Manchester has ever had, regardless of talent. I sure hope it wont take another 50 years but they'll definitely be rebuilding for a while.

[Regionalchamps2011]

You can't compare talent to 5-10-?? Yrs ago.... When people talk about the greatest basketball players of all time, you hardly hear of names like bill Russell , Oscar Robertson etc..... You hear shaq is the greatest center, Kobe, lebron....I played for Manchester 9-10-11-?? Heck idk how many yrs ago .... Around the time north Adams was dominate and had their 26-1 season....the shl had alot of "bigs" back then.... But on a whole, you take the kids I mentioned and I'm sure there's a few others that deserve to be up there , and I believe they would beat a team comprised of the best fro
8-12 yrs ago...yeah we had some really good players then... Carter,Morris , mabalot ( man he could of been something if he stayed on track ) .... And even in the 4-8 yr back group we had Darnell, barr, Palmer etc.... But we've been spoiled these last 4 or so yrs... How many 6'5 and up guys ( with talent ) have we had?? 4-5? How many 1,000 pt scorers have we had in that time? Blevins, Hanson, quinlan, Cooper? Combs will get his this yr.....we've had great guard play little/smith and now ricketts.....we've had back to back div 4 1st team all
State nominees....we were 30 sec from state last yr.... And we have a kid ( combs ) who I would trust in any situation at anytime in any game.... He plays with more heart and more desire to win than anyone I've seen in along time, you can't coach that... I'll remember those 2 3's he made in Columbus ( even though only 1 counted ) for the rest of my life .... I can't think of another player or play that even comes close to that in previous yrs....this prob isn't the place to bring this up, but people have been talking about other teams shutting combs down this and that.... Travis is going through a tragic time in his life , I can't even imagine what he's going through, but he loves to play and he prob needs to play to get his mind clear... No one can ever expect him to get " over " this crisis, but when he can deal with it better, you'll see a whole different player... You'll see the 1st team all-state nominee then

[Out of Bounds]

In the middle 80's you had: Perkins 6'8", Goodman 6'7", Quinn 6'6", Rose 6'2", Davis 6'1", Meyer 6'1", Jones 6'. That was probably one of the biggest teams you will ever have. I believe Peebles won the league that year. Manchester didn't have an answer for Copas. Rose got out coached at home.