[haroldjthompson79]

New ranking of the 15th after some semi-meaningful games have been played throughout the region. Mine looks something like this:
1. Martin County
2. Pikeville
3. Lawrence County
4. Betsy Layne
5. Paintsville
6. Pike Central
7. Floyd Central
8. Shelby Valley
9. Johnson Central
10. Belfry
11. Phelps 
12. Magoffin County
13. East Ridge
14. Prestonsburg

Martin county is one of the most atrocious basketball teams I have ever seen in my life. I would not be surprised if many of their starters were ejected from future games. I know that these kids are very good athletes but they need to gain some character

As someone who played on some Pburg basketball teams full of football players that were much stronger than all other teams in the 15th I will stick up for Martin in this one and say that if other teams get so frustrated by being physically dominated for 4 quarters that they just want to fight then that’s their fault, not Martin county’s. Martin county plays hard, aggressive, physical basketball. That’s the way the game should be played, IMO. If other teams can’t handle it then maybe they should get in the weight room in the offseason instead of resorting to pushing guys in the back into the bleachers and throwing cheap shots on layups. I haven’t seen Martin play dirty ball against anybody this year, but I’ve sure seen multiple other schools play dirty against them. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I understand what you are saying and I agree with you, but Martin's best player was literally expelled from schools for writing slurs in school bathrooms. That is what I mean by character. I do not mean that they are physical and aggressive when they play when I am talking about "character", I am talking about what they say and how they act.