1A Boys Quarterfinals: #1 Altavista (65) #4 Honaker (48) - FINAL
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I thought it was interesting that Altavista still had starters in with a minute to go and leading by 20. I believe they even called a time out about that time also. Coach was complaining about calls leading by 20.
He did the right thing . 1) The starters came out with a minute and a half left 2) Hoanker was still pressing so why put in a bunch of kids in that hasn't played all game in against that ? That's why he called a timeout anyways because he didn't want to get a 10 second call. 3) Any person at the game clearly seen it was 10 to 2 fouls called & we had the 10 . 4) Atown ran delay offense for almost 4th quarter ,the only shots that they took is what Hoanker gave them fast brakes etc. .
I had no problem with anything the Altavista coach did saturday. They had a really good game plan and came out and executed pretty well. It's the state quarterfinals if you don't want embarrassed play better that's it.
Altavista did not run up the score, but I thought he should have cleared his bench late in 4th quarter. Give the younger players some playing time on the "big stage". Radford cleared their bench in same type game with 3 or 4 minutes left.
Heck, I was sitting near some Colonel fans, and we discussed it in final minutes of game. Also the coach seems more upset when he wins, than most Coaches do when they lose. I noticed the Norththumberland Coach after game vs. Radford, he was smiling shaking hands and speaking to people all around.
Colonel Coach hung his head after game as if he had lost by 20
Colonel Coach hung his head after game as if he had lost by 20
That is true, big shoes to fill. Colonels have exceeded expectations so far I think. Getting back to Richmond is big step.
From my view the coach was smiling and laughing and talking with former players. And radford was up by almost 30, altavista was only up by 15. If subs were put in too early, they could easily have gotten it down to single digits and possibly made a game of it.
Lots of good players where left ! Being in single A helps , I didn't really know what to expect this year I'm going to be honest with you . But I really think he is a exceeded everybody's expectations . The scary thing is they could Evan better next year! There losing one starter that's pretty darn good . But return a lot of good players .
I agree, no one saw them coming back to Richmond, and that is what has motivated them to do it.
Maybe he was disappointed because of the mistakes his team made although there wasn't many there were still some break downs. Have you ever seen Bill Belichick happy after a win? Sure the coach will say it's a good win and all but even though we're talking about 15-18 year old kids your still striving for perfection! It's called not being satisfied and always seeing room for improvement and pushing your kids to be the best they can be. He shouldn't be criticized for anything he done Saturday. I think he has done a hellacious job filling those shoes with all the talent that team lost last year!
Altavista has tradition and with out tradition colonels don't get back to Richmond . Remember the kids been Practicing against the best talent anybody's ever seen the last two years . They been there ,they seen and Watched the older kids how you take care of Business . Once you start a winning tradition the next Group that comes up doesn't want to be that Group to not get there .
Since 2002 been to final four 10 times this is number 10 in 15 years been to finals 6 times That's incredible for small school like Altavista .
