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Just got back in from Lexington and here are a few thoughts about the game. Paintsville played about as bad as a team as I've seen them in a while. 19 turnovers in the ball game. Lex. Cath's 2-2-1 press killed them early on with their size and speed. They jumped out to a large lead, some of the Tigers started to put their heads down and I was really suprised the score wasn't worse. Paintsville played 6 guys tonight and the starting 5 probably played every minute but the 30 seconds when V come into the game. Paintsville won the battle on the boards mainly because Lex. Cath couldn't miss. The rim was unkind to the Tigers as they missed shots they normally would hit with their eyes closed. The Tigers got into foul trouble early. By half time 3 Tiger players had 3 fouls(VanHoose, Slone, Murry), Grim had 2, and Pack had 1. The Tigers also had two technicals called on them in the first half. After Slone got his 3rd offensive foul in the first half Coach Runyon was T'd up, then later on in the half the Tiger bench got another. Catholic shot about 15-20 more free throws in the game, and I really think they didn't miss a one. A good team knocks down the gimme's, and the Tigers missed several of their attempts. At the start of the second half Grim picked up his 3rd and 4th foul inside the opening minute on little touch calls. To end the game Paintsville had 4 starters with 4 fouls. Getting into foul trouble that early forced Paintsville to get away from their traditional aggressive play and gave Catholic many open looks because they played back not trying to pick up any more fouls. Not sure of the kids name from LC but he knocked down about 7 threes in the game. Paintsville started to make a run in the 3rd but that was quickly haulted on a nice follow up dunk. Also, when the Tigers were around the basket about 10 shots got put up into the bleachers. LC was trying to block every shot that they could, maybe a head fake to get the guy in the air and try to draw a foul would've helped stop the bleeding. It was a tough opponent but I believe they will finish 3rd at the 5/3rd tourney because Cov. Cath refused to play another game according to Mike Fields. They had a nice trip, beat a couple of teams, got exposed on their weak points so it gives them something to work at in the coming weeks. Good job guys, nothing to drag your heads about. Get well soon Blake.

I really like reading this because of how much Valley plays a press, so knowing that Paintsville was rattled by a press really makes me feel more confident as the season goes on and the chance of Valley and Paintsville playing gets closer.