[The Guru]

The refs can be blamed, as they do almost every game that is lost, especially if you are a fan from the losing team. But as ironic as this may sound, you may think that Paintsville gets bad calls, this must only be including the girls. From what i have seen the past 2 years of playing a game AGAINST Paintsville (boys), at Paintsville, it isnt a good called game AT ALL. Haven't noticed the girls side that much, but as far as the boys games, Refs like to protect paintsvilles "stars".
Not saying anything bad against Paintsville, even if you think that they got a bad called game, the outcome would have been no different then what it is. Magoffin is clearly the better team, and really wanted this game coming off of a loss.
I also wanted to note about Paintsvilles defense. Think about this for a minute, Magoffin, in the 3rd quarter, held the ball on 1 posession for well over 4 minutes and 30 seconds. Paintsville was only down 5 points at the time, but they dropped back and stayed in the zone the whole time, not even contesting the ball. But for some reason, with 2:30 left in the 3rd quarter, he decides the come at the ball. If he was going to bring them out on Magoffin, why wait so long? In my opinion they should have waited, considering they had already let 4 minutes and 30 seconds run off the clock, and let Magoffin hold the ball the rest of the quarter, puting them only down 5 points going into the 4th quarter, instead of 9. Would have given them a better chance for the win..

Read my first post in this thread....we agree on a lot.
I too would have stayed back in the zone...for one thing....Paintsville wasn't picking up fouls....they got nailed with three, in that last 2:30!!! Big one's too.