[zaga_fan]

I am not from perry county but I have been a fan of coach hatcher and have always thought he has a great basketball mind but after watchin tonights game I walk away with the impression that coach Noble out coached him. Hatchers plan was simple play that match zone/sagging man with huff guarding day and everyone else pretty evenly matched up except cornett guarding gay from buckhorn with the thought that allowing gay to shoot jumpers was what they were going to give buckhorn by cornett just kinda roaming the paint, only problem was both twins made perimeter shots especially trey who ironically knocked down a trey to win it. Hatcher allowed this to happen far to long but did correct it by subbing austin pray but putting him a smaller defender on day instead of huff and what did coach noble do... Day scored the nextthree buckets off the block. I thought Pray played well when he was in it was just a mismatch. Then hatcher went back with cornett and it ultimately got them in the end. PCC also looked very unprepared for the box and chaser on paige. Could not free him up and some of the time they did when he would pick and roll ball never got to him and in the second half it looked as if hatcher decided to just play 4 on 4. All respect to buckhorn and coach noble. Several years ago i coached against these buckhorn kids many games and they have stayed together and improved. Tonight was an example of feeling comfortable playing together sometimes trumps a superior athletic team. To the easterling kid from buckhorn, i was very impressed with how much you have improved and you played a heck of a game tonight as did trey gay. Respect for trevor combs as well, also coached against him and him play and develop. You played a solid game tonight. Good luck to buckhorn in the district championship.

I can't completely disagree with you when you say that Noble outcoached Hatcher...
but I will say this.

If the Commodores execute on offense and make those shots that they should have made......we would be talking about what a good job that Hatcher did.

But there is absolutely no doubt that Perry did little to counter the box-1 that Noble used on Paige and there is no doubt that they were gambling in regards to leaving Gay room to shoot....
Those two things ended up costing them big.