High School Basketball Group

Duke University?

G.O.A.T. 07/04/08

And he's coming to the best school of all.

Escobar Caesar 04/19/08

BJ Mullens is the best player in the class of '08.

Danbash is donebash 04/09/08

MSJ lost in the A Conf. finals to TC and then lost in the BCL finals to SFA.

Tough two weeks.

DJTG_2010 03/09/08

See ya later, hemo.

G.O.A.T. 03/01/08

I'm out of the group, thank you GOAT and DJ. It was fun.

thehemogoblin 02/27/08

I was watching the St. Anthony vs. American Christian game last night and I was somewhat impressed with the Friars. Their defense was remarkable as was their talent. But their shot selection in the third quarter wasn't very good. They started 0-13 and were taking bad shots again and again.

G.O.A.T. 02/22/08

*still on **** referee sabbatical*

thehemogoblin 02/19/08

Is he a pass-first traditional point guard or does he look for his own shot? Does he play hard-nosed defense or is he just average on the defensive end?

G.O.A.T. 02/17/08

He's gotta make the team first GOAT.

I hope he does. Great kid. I think.

DJTG_2010 02/16/08

How good is your point guard? Do you think he'll get some playing time next year at Coppin State? He's pretty small.

G.O.A.T. 02/16/08

Last night was Senior night. We have five seniors. Last year we had three. Year before that we had zero. Next year we'll have eight.

But for our seniors:
7'4" center - scholarship to UCF
6'8" PF - scholarship to Loyola (MD)
6'6" forward/guard - scholarship to New Jersey Institute of Technology
6'6" forward - Recruited by multiple D-III schools.
5'8" PG - Walking on at Coppin State

DJTG_2010 02/16/08

Lost to #18 team in the country last night. Got the guy going to Georgetown.

DJTG_2010 02/16/08

*no longer discussing basketball*

Damn referee.

*still no longer discussing basketball*

thehemogoblin 02/16/08

Haha...thehemo...

G.O.A.T. 02/13/08

And it is cancelled.

DJTG_2010 02/12/08

Crosstown rival is in town tonight. Gonna be great. Hopefully we'll wipe the floor with them.

DJTG_2010 02/12/08

Ok, you guys are friggin' spoiled....

thehemogoblin 02/11/08

Tonight are the two league championships for my area. I'm going to both games. My brother is playing in the first and the next game will feature my future high school. Should be a good set of games.

G.O.A.T. 02/11/08

Sick-nasty pass. Last night I was working on it and actually did it.

And the other night in practice I had the ball in the middle on a three-on-two fastbreak and did a jumpstop so I was facing to my left. I then proceeded to bounce the ball between my legs to the guy on my right for a wide-open layup. It was one of the best passes I've ever made.

G.O.A.T. 02/10/08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnhkJjycnJg

Jennings.

DJTG_2010 02/09/08

Last night was insane.

We lost 71-33. St. Anthony's was amazing. Then we stayed and watched the first half of Oak Hill-Piscataway. Jennings is an amazing dude. I have a bunch of vids of Oak Hill I'm going to put on YouTube soon. And I can get like 3 or 4 blogs out of this.

DJTG_2010 02/09/08

Yeah, well my team's imploding...

thehemogoblin 02/07/08

Yep, I will.

DJTG_2010 02/07/08

Sweet DJ.

thehemogoblin 02/06/08

I think I might see St. Anthony's, Oak Hill, St. Benedict's, and maybe some others on Friday.

DJTG_2010 02/06/08

My brother's team just won 77-68 in a thriller to take the lead in the division with one game remaining.

G.O.A.T. 02/05/08

Sweet. We keep getting throttled. Rrr.

thehemogoblin 02/03/08

We had over 1,000 definitely. 3/4 were from the other school sadly. We pulled it out 71-65.

John Carroll 71, Aberdeen 65

A-Saddler 13, Moore 18, Smith 8, Jackson 5, Branch 17, Johnson 4. Totals 20 20-29 65.
JC-Philmore 27, Jordan 17, Maczko 1, McQuaid 5, Smith 10, McMillan 7, Wiegand 4. Totals 23 20-26 71. Half: A, 31-29.

DJTG_2010 02/03/08

That's incredible. They once had 1600 people in the gym at the high school here. Only once, never since, craziest game I've seen live, we got screwed by the officials that night.

thehemogoblin 02/03/08

So we're playing them today...

DJTG_2010 02/02/08

We were supposed to play our in-county rival tonight that hasn't lost a county game in 5 years. Got cancelled. They actually had to cap the number of people and sell tickets.

DJTG_2010 02/01/08

Quite possibly the worst school in D-1. But then again, D-1 is D-1... It's better than I could do.

thehemogoblin 01/31/08

Our sixth man accepted a scholarship to play at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

DJTG_2010 01/30/08

So we were supposed to have a game tonight, but our opponent's school had a flu outbreak...

No game.

DJTG_2010 01/29/08

It's one of those unwritten rules of sports. It's just really hard.

DJTG_2010 01/29/08

Yeah, we played them in two tournaments and one league game. We won twice; they won once.

Or were you trying to say that it's very difficult?

G.O.A.T. 01/29/08

Tournament-league game-league game.

It's not impossible, DJ.

thehemogoblin 01/28/08

You can't beat a team three times GOAT.

DJTG_2010 01/27/08

My junior high team lost last night in overtime by four points. It sucked. It was a team that we had beat twice before.

G.O.A.T. 01/27/08

St. Frances 52, John Carroll 44

JC-Philmore 22, Jordan 2, Maczko 2, McQuaid 4, Gaspic 2, Smith 8, Wiegand 4. Totals 15 11-17 44.

SF-Mosely 20, Sparrow 8, Williams 9, Oquendo 6, Washington 4, Holmes 5. Totals 16 12-14 52.

Half-SF 29-25.

DJTG_2010 01/26/08

So we lost to St. Frances by 8 last night.

I'll get the stats in a second.

DJTG_2010 01/26/08

I play in the band, and I'm one of the two people in the crowd who'll consistently heckle the other team. I couldn't tell you a high school player outside of my conference.

thehemogoblin 01/25/08

Nah you aren't. When I go I just watch the game with my dad and other faculty members.

DJTG_2010 01/25/08

You guys are harder core fans than I am apparently.

thehemogoblin 01/24/08

Ok I'll see what I can do. I'll do a little write up on Sims in February after we play MSJ.

DJTG_2010 01/24/08

DJ, I guarantee you will lose to St. Anthony. That's a Bob Hurley team right there. I believe they have 5 Division I guards and play ferocious defense. Good luck is all I can say.

And a write-up on the game would be great. I'm pretty sure you already have privileges.

G.O.A.T. 01/24/08

And MSJ lost to Oak Hill 73-70. Sims put up 32 in that one.

DJTG_2010 01/23/08

One squad in my area, Poland, is 14-0. They raped one of the better schools, Campbell, 100-72 in our downtown arena.

Escobar Caesar 01/23/08

We play St. Anthony's 2/8 at the Primetime Shootout at Rutgers.

2/15 we play Mt. St. Joseph's. Their center is Henry Sims who recently committed to Georgetown. I think he's the No. 54 prospect in 2008. If you want, I could type up a little thing about him after the game.

DJTG_2010 01/23/08

Ohh, my school just got jobbed. Most BIASED OFFICIATING EVER. We were to the point of asking how much money the refs were paid by the other school. We had 10 fouls at the end of the first quarter and 3 were legit.

thehemogoblin 01/23/08

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/basketball/boys/rankings?week=5&id=3207084

Most recent ESPN rankings. #16 Mt. St. Joseph's plays in my school's league. They just lost to Oak Hill by 3.

DJTG_2010 01/22/08

Wow, your team was vastly overrated this season, huh, DJ?

G.O.A.T. 01/21/08

Lost again. We're 14-7.

DJTG_2010 01/21/08

We won our first game in quite a while, 81-78. That was fun, I lost my voice.

thehemogoblin 01/18/08

Same here on the games, as for the exams, we don't really have finals here. Because 2/3 of the student body is incapable.

thehemogoblin 01/16/08

It's exam week, so no games till Friday...

DJTG_2010 01/16/08

Sweet apathy, eh, DJ?

thehemogoblin 01/14/08

Here is the top ten from the area I live in:

http://207.126.120.29/pages/pages.php?page=15

The school I'm going to next year is #4.

G.O.A.T. 01/13/08

Lost again. Meh.

DJTG_2010 01/13/08

thehemogoblin 01/13/08

Ouch, it proves you can't rely on Croatians with weak wrists. Intensity, and the fact that there is a lot of body development in those three years. The kid's probably really small in the body (muscle wise).

thehemogoblin 01/09/08

How's he done so far? It's a big step to go from playing 8th grade basketball one year to playing against seniors the very next. It's also hard to match the intensity that is guys play with in high school ball.

G.O.A.T. 01/09/08

That's one way to do it. Unfortunately, they canceled the game tonight, so the first league game is friday.

thehemogoblin 01/08/08

We pulled a freshman point guard up to varsity and he starts. Quite convenient.

DJTG_2010 01/07/08

Ohhh. School. EWW.

thehemogoblin 01/06/08

Damn, school starts on monday. RRRR.

thehemogoblin 01/04/08

Haha.

G.O.A.T. 01/03/08

it's your days like that that make me glad to be a maryland fan...

thehemogoblin 01/03/08

So we lose by 16 or 17....and I can see why that kid is going to Maryland.

DJTG_2010 01/02/08

as do i, goat. because my area=my high school. sweet ruralness.

thehemogoblin 01/02/08

I wish the high school basketball in my area was as good as it is in DJ's.

G.O.A.T. 01/02/08

Going to see the game tonight. Playing #2 team in the Metro area. Have a recruit named Mosely that's going to Maryland.

DJTG_2010 01/02/08

pretty good dude. i am scared to look, so i'll just ask the coach 1st period a week from yesterday.

thehemogoblin 01/01/08

Let's see, looks like we're 3-1 over break.

DJTG_2010 12/31/07

there's a private school an hour and a half away that my parents contemplated me joining 12 years ago, there's a high school for hoightytoighty nerds which i chose not to join, and there's the craptastic high school, where i go. that's my options... dj, that's one of the perks of living in a major metro area... i hate basketball lulls...

thehemogoblin 12/31/07

There's four high schools in my town. Three public, one private. I'm at the private one. But I could also go to one of the 8 private schools down in Baltimore or to the vo-tech high school outside of town or to the Science and Math Academy a town over. Options.

DJTG_2010 12/30/07

i live in a one high school town, i've had an allegiance since 1st grade... yeah... that's right... i'm podunk...

thehemogoblin 12/28/07

I'm not even in high school yet so I haven't an allegiance to any school. haha

G.O.A.T. 12/28/07

games are games i guess... beats what i get here... the next home game isn't until january 10th i believe... but hey, the band is going to be playing, so it makes up for it...

thehemogoblin 12/27/07

They were in Florida last week. They're hosting a tourney this weekend. I have to miss the first round games so I'll probably check out the Championship game on Saturday.

DJTG_2010 12/26/07

neither would i for that matter goat... hey, you get to see possible nba stars while it's still cheap... run with that...

thehemogoblin 12/24/07

I guess. haha. Why doesn't DJ go to the games? His team plays teams like St. Benedict's for crying out loud!!! I wouldn't miss a game all season.

G.O.A.T. 12/22/07

goat, at least the group is active... kinda wondering how dj's team is doing right now...

thehemogoblin 12/20/07

Interesting topic you guys got going here. haha

G.O.A.T. 12/20/07

ouch dude... homework... eech... esco, i tanked middle school... but high school is really just me getting b's everywhere but english...

thehemogoblin 12/19/07

Actually, I haven't been doing that good lately. Got a D in trig.

I got all good grades until the middle of 6th grade when I got bass in my voice and started to grow facial hair.

Escobar Caesar 12/18/07

Yes, it is. I'm too smart to go there. Too many average people.

Escobar Caesar 12/18/07

is that where you would have gone had you not been smrt?? and pretty sure there's a game tomorrow night...

thehemogoblin 12/18/07

one*

Escobar Caesar 12/17/07

Our school is an Early College on (we have high school and college classes) so that's why there is no team. I'd go with the first one. Campbell has been doing pretty good, they're undefeated so far.

Escobar Caesar 12/17/07

sux to be dj, you need to get a team that doesn't end up playing against murderer's row... and esco, that shows you're a true fan, you'll root for any high school basketball... or it shows that you ride bandwagons...

thehemogoblin 12/17/07

Well, my school has no team. I go for any school in my city doing good.

Escobar Caesar 12/17/07

We play Helen Cox in Florida tomorrow. Apparently, they have the #1 player in the nation. Any insight?

DJTG_2010 12/17/07

sorry about your loss dj... lol... jacoby did too, long long ago... anyways. that marriage thing is cool... something about the middle of nowhere being gorgeous ...

thehemogoblin 12/15/07

We lose by about 20 to the #1 team....

Jacoby Ellsbury's college roomate got married at my uncle's farm in OR.

DJTG_2010 12/15/07

oh, and dj, i am the jealous

thehemogoblin 12/14/07

happened to my baseball team a couple of years ago... we went #1 then #2 though... we didn't lose any of the three games... you know jacoby ellsbury?? his little brother played center field for us...

thehemogoblin 12/14/07

I wish I had a high school like yours, DJ. haha

G.O.A.T. 12/14/07

He went somewhere else first in Baltimore.

Tonight we play the #1 team in the state. #1 & #2 in the same week...

DJTG_2010 12/14/07

and dj, they are who we thought they are..

thehemogoblin 12/13/07

wtf dj, you beat oak hill? dang... or did he go somewhere else first...

thehemogoblin 12/13/07

We beat the defending champion last night. We might be better than we thought. It was Carmelo Anthony's alma mater.

DJTG_2010 12/12/07

we won... the crowd won the JV game... we started the 5-4-3-2-1 countdown with a minute to go, up one, and they hucked it from halfcourt, airballed, we went, drained a three, and presto, instant win...

thehemogoblin 12/11/07

sucks man.. next game's tomorrow...

thehemogoblin 12/11/07

haha. Wow.

G.O.A.T. 12/10/07

we lost against a perennial doormat of our former conference by 15... we got our best player the ball maybe 10 times in the entire game, and we run a lot... i mean a LOT... i was embarrassed... it was the first game i have ever left early of ours that wasn't because of my mother wanting to leave

thehemogoblin 12/10/07

How bad?

G.O.A.T. 12/09/07

uh-oh... not talking about tonight's game... it was that bad...

thehemogoblin 12/09/07

They sound very...bad.

G.O.A.T. 12/08/07

i feel loved. and goat spelled my name right. yay. anyways. yeah. there's a girls game tonight. but they suck. so i am at home instead.

thehemogoblin 12/07/07

I agree with thehemogoblin.

G.O.A.T. 12/07/07

hey dj, you can't coach height or speed... those are what make the nba's tallest (yao ming) and shortest (earl boykins) good...

thehemogoblin 12/06/07

impressive there DJ... we've got a five foot eight player who went a good 8 inches over the rim with his hand doing a fingerroll during warmups, and another kid who threw it down during a JV game... a black kid inappropriately named CJ... anyone else played San Andreas? i say one of the things that Carl Johnson says in the game to the kid every time i see him

thehemogoblin 12/05/07

Then another guy is going to Loyola College (MD).

DJTG_2010 12/04/07

Our tallest player is 7'4" and he signed a letter of intent to play at UCF.

We won our first "A" Conference game ever tonight. We beat Rudy G*y's alma mater.

DJTG_2010 12/04/07

Hey, can I blog? I don't play, but I'm friends with everyone on my school's team.

Escobar Caesar 12/04/07

getting two seven footers in consecutive games when your tallest player is 6'2'' tends to cause you to lose... twice... on the bright side, our team is actually pretty dang good...

thehemogoblin 12/04/07

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/basketball/boys/rankings

DJTG_2010 12/02/07

http://hssmtv.blogspot.com/

DJTG_2010 12/02/07

Darn. I was interested to see how your school did.

G.O.A.T. 12/02/07

Nevermind, St. Benedict's pulled out.

DJTG_2010 12/02/07

Yep. Gotta find out how they did...

DJTG_2010 12/02/07

St. Benedict's? Wow, they're in the top ten nationally, I think. They have Samardo Samuels who's going to Louisville next year if I'm correct.

G.O.A.T. 12/01/07

I'm not in high school but I will be...next year.

G.O.A.T. 11/29/07

our coach got jobbed out of the athletic director position though... shame...

thehemogoblin 11/26/07

it was amazing... our tallest player was 6'2'' but he had amazing timing... i covered the team for journalism, and he had something like 2.5 blocks per game...

thehemogoblin 11/26/07

I think you're underestimating your team, DJ. All you do is trash them. Haha.

G.O.A.T. 11/26/07

My high school's basketball program is so-so. But that's mainly cause we are a football school, second in NorCal baby! But still, I have some friends who are on the team.

49ersfan11 is Brennan 11/26/07

Well, I like my high school team, but thats it. I can keep you guys updated on our season if you want. Yah? Nah?

EFB **** THE MODS!! 11/26/07

85 points a game? I would love to see your team play.

G.O.A.T. 11/25/07

... oh yeah... my team's first game is tuesday... ohhhh yeaahhhh... we're going to get killed... we lost to them last year in state and we lost our 5 best players... we did average 85 points a game last year.... we run... and run... and run...

thehemogoblin 11/25/07

Yeah, I'll be one of those people who only follows my area...

Super Squirrel 11/25/07

By the way, I more follow teams than I do players. I follow St. Anthony, Rice, Mt. Vernon, and usually I pick up one or two more throughout the course of the year.

G.O.A.T. 11/25/07

I'm eager to see where I am this week. I find them interesting.

G.O.A.T. 11/25/07

By the way, G.O.A.T., why are you agonizing over the FN top 25 rankings?

Danbash is donebash 11/25/07

I follow players more than I follow teams. BJ Mullens and Greg Monroe are the ish

Danbash is donebash 11/25/07

I would first like to say that Rice from New York City has a good chance to work their way up into the top 5 by the end of the season. (They're #13 right now.)

G.O.A.T. 11/25/07