[Red and Black]

Pente and Parsons did anything they wanted the other night against FC. That's a huge problem, man! They shot the lights out from the perimeter and slashed them for layups almost at will. What's your answer to stop or combat that the next time they play? My answer would be to keep a fresh guard rotation on them and play with more size in the paint. If your answer is to hope and pray they "shoot the percentage they should be shooting" next time and try to come out on top of a shootout with BL missing 10 FT's again then you're just flipping a coin. Meade and Spriggs were on Pente all night and he scored 34 on them. Obviously, If they can't beat BL then they can't win the 58th.

To say that they "wont lose another game if..." is silly. Go look at their remaining schedule, it's pretty brutal. I don't think they will beat JC, Lawrence, Martin or Pikeville without Howard starting and playing most of the game. Those teams are all bigger and faster than FC. Doesn't matter if Spriggs/Johnson/Boyd combine for 65 in those games if Howard and Samons don't rebound and guard the rim then they'll give up 90 to those teams. I think the play of Howard and Buck were the main reasons they took BL to overtime, not the Spriggs/Boyd/Johnson/Meade performances. If you go back and watch you'll see that Coach Moore played Howard almost the entire game. He knows how valuable he is but I think he's having trouble working him into the starting lineup over upperclassmen. I think FC has a good team, they just aren't complete without Howard on the floor.

Also, for the record, I'm glad I ain't the coach at FC as well.