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Valley can definitely ruin some teams dreams & aspirations come March. Taylor is a great coach, his teams play hard and very disciplined. Things got a little chippy in the 4th quarter, but overall it was a clean game, still a lot of missed/questionable calls but you're gonna get that every game around here.

Paintsville gameplan early on was to drive the basket, make solid cuts, just feed it in the high post to Woods or Cole on the baseline, and there wasn't a thing Valley could do about it. Cole is definitely the go to, but Woods really impressed me with his footwork, he was in the high post for most of the game, whenever he got the ball he didn't settle for a jumper, Valley didn't have the size to contend with Paintsville, so Woods just went to work backing the smaller defender down, even had some nice spin moves & drop steps to get easy baskets. Cole does so much of his damage on the baseline, which is something you teach pretty early on in basketball is to cut that off, but just the way he uses his body to get to the basket in penetration is impressive.

One thing I noticed, they had a 15 point lead toward the end of the 3rd, but they were playing like they were down 15, just like that Valley cut it to 8 going into the 4th, and got it to as close as 5. Paintsville held strong tho and made some clutch free throws down the end to extend the lead and hold on.

Balanced scoring from Paintsville, Cole, Woods, Kinner, and I think Lauffer all in double figures. Great win for the Tigers after being off for nearly 2 weeks.