[Jean Lafitte]

i think jon conley will have a good senior as well as hawkins and crowe

Hawkins will have a solid year. He won't make the spectacular plays, but he is scrappy and will improve each game, if not each minute of each game . . . as long as he keeps his emotions in check.

Crowe has the ability to be a good player, but he has to get his head in the game. He's TOO emotional and has too much of a temper. A strategic opposing coach would put in a scrub to mess with Crowe's head and get the quick "T" on him.

Everyone else on Powell is a project, but there is a lot of potential there.

As far as big men go, Arvin, Conley, Rice, Blake and Scott are all 6'4"+, with bulky bodies to go with the height. That's a heck of a group to have running in and out without concern about foul trouble.

Bringing the ball up the court will be a bigger concern as Creech, an undersized sophomore, is their only true point guard. Hawkins, Crowe and Reed will have to be able to get breaking a press by dribbling out of their head and be ready to look up and pass the ball up the court incrementally.

Are they district championship material right now? No. Could they be at the end of the year? Most definitely. They can realistically run 10 guys in and out all night long. Fans will have to have patience, though, as they remember that not a one of these guys, with the slight exception of Hawkins and Crowe, received any quality playing time last year and neither of them were starters.

If they play smart and Coach Hall, an X's and O's type of coach, keeps their emotions in check, they could realistically be putting another banner on the wall in Stanton.