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I saw Ashland play today without davis and jennings who are both good pieces and they looked pretty good. They can compete or even beat Great Crossing especially if Boyd about did because this Ashland team is levels above boyd even without their 2 starters out. For anyone to say they are going to lose to Boyd or Hazard hasn’t watched basketball. Hazard didn’t impress me at all but I didn’t see that Evin Eversole play for them. I still didn’t seem impressed with them and I can’t see them being considered a top 25 team in the state. Like i’ve said Ashland AT WORST will start 2-1.

GC will beat APB by 15-20 points easily. APB has no inside presence and doesn’t rebound well. BC killed them in the post. Sperry is very out of shape or was playing sick. He stood bent over majority of the game. If BC was in the 16th. They’d be in the bottom just above 2-3 teams. That was not a good test for a scrimmage. Either was Paintsville. Hazard played Newport who is a very good and athletic team and lost by 8.  That’s without Eversole. Who is their guy.  The big Hazard has will give APB fits. BC played Adair who is Present #7 returning 7/8 seniors from last years Rupp team. BC tested themselves in both scrimmages with #1 and #7 ranked teams in the state.
APB was not impressive at all. Outside of Carter. They struggled offensively and definitely are not very deep. To make a run at state they are going to have to improve vastly. That’s with Neel who is currently ineligible.

Ashland was impressive, that’s the worst they could’ve shot and they still played well. I was wondering how they would do when shots weren’t falling and they still put up 80 and looked good while doing it. Hazards big will not give them fits at all. He didn’t score against Newport, all he is out there for is to complain and rebound. I’ve watched him enough to know. You must be a Boyd Co Fan. No matter how good Boyd is they can’t ever show up when it matters. Ashland has one of the best shooting teams in the state and has IMO the best guard in the state and possibly the best player in the state.

Hazards best player is a big who was not in attendance due to an illness. If Breathitt countys big gave Ashlands Problems then Eversole will dominate the paint.

When Jennings and Davis comes back that’s 2 strong guards who will help guard some of their stronger guys so Zander can match up with the other teams big. Zander is taller than Eversole and will play good defense on him. They shoot it too good to be beat by a Hazard Team. Newport wasn’t a good shooting team and was missing their 2 best players that were on the bench sitting, so you can’t take the newport game into account too much. Hazards decent don’t get me wrong but I wasn’t that impressed at all and even with Eversole it don’t make them an amazing team or a good enough team to compete with Ashland. You can run a zone on them if you want and shade their better shooters but Ashlands up in your face defense will cause issues with Hazard. Hazard was sloppy with the ball at times. Come back to this post in April when Ashland is the 2025 State Champs.