[Houndsmam1947]

Clay Counties Dezarn has now left the team and enrolled at Jackson County.  Dezarn was returning as the number 2 scorer from last season and a 2 year starter. He was also the tigers best 3 point shooter . 3rd team all region last year and definitely a piece the tigers will miss. This will most definitely help the Generals!  This I don't understand and maybe someone can tell us what's going on at BIG CLAY?? Loosing 2 of your your top players from last year, one of the top players in the region sitting the bench, the top 2 point guard in the region averages 21ppg last year and averaging 11 ppg this year and another starter from last year has played a total of 10-12 minutes in the last 2 games?  Something definitely going on ! Not to mention the tigers have lost 4 in a row with a record now 8-7.

[Old School Hound]

Wonder if the new coach was hitting on the young man's girlfriend? lol There was always gonna be a good chance this would be a hot mess of a hire. High risk/low reward, it appears. Good luck to the young man at Jackson County. Might have made a good decision getting out of that mess. They'll come a day when folks will miss a standup guy and coach like Glenn Gray.

[Waitaminute]

Maybe the Coach isn't letting the parents and the kids running the program now and kids aren't like being told no. Sometimes you gotta get the weeds out before you can start to grow.

[DukeBoy]

Sometimes you got to get rid of the cancer

[nedreader]

Nip it in the bud…

[Old School Hound]

Seems like there is a real culture problem over there in Manchester. I can't see that this guy, who was forced out of Baxter, helps with the culture woes at Clay.

[nedreader]

Is Coach Gray coaching anywhere this year?

[cchsfan4life]

Maybe the Coach isn't letting the parents and the kids running the program now and kids aren't like being told no. Sometimes you gotta get the weeds out before you can start to grow.

He is most defiantly letting some parents and kids run a lot more than what most people know.....and that is problem.

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Is Coach Gray coaching anywhere this year?

Maybe he is coaching at the grade school level somewhere because that is the only level he has been able to accomplish anything at.

[Chapin]

Clays basketball program both boys and girls are at the bottom of the dumpster thanks to local politics!! Well almost the bottom. It’s going to get worse over the next few years. Got more grand babies on the way on both teams!

[Old School Hound]

I was a fan of Coach Gray. He was a good coach and seemed like a good and decent man. He beat a lot of good teams and coaches during his tenure at Clay.

[Diablo]

Chaplin, if starts at the elementary and middle school levels. Was at a Clay game last week. That don’t look like the old Clay teams I was used to seeing. Years ago, Clay had several 6 footers and hard nosed grinding guards. Problem starts at the bottom. Can’t expect a HS coach to teach a kid something that they should have learned when the child was 4 or 5 years old. However you constantly have to do fundamentals at all levels but by HS, kids have to focus a lot on X’s and O’s.

[Chapin]

Diablo, I 100% agree with your statement regarding elementary and middle school level coaching. No reflection on current head coach at all for lack of fundamentals. But so you know and in case others don’t. 90% of the current Clay roster was coached in grade school the entire time by now current Clay Co girls head coach and then coached at the middle school by two of the current assistant coaches on Jones staff. So what does the current gurus do? Heck, promote them to the HS staffs!

[nedreader]

First off, Clay struggles to shoot the ball well. Go look at their shooting percentages on KHSAA and specifically look at their free throw percentages. Grittiness is definitely lacking as well for the majority of the team…not all because there’s one that is extremely gritty. It’s actually pretty simple, if you’re a point guard in high school and you’re gonna have the ball in your hands a lot(especially at the end of games) you better shoot 70% or better from the FT line and if you’re 6’5 or more you better average 8-10 rebounds a game for your team to have a good chance of winning.

[Chapin]

nedreader that is a fact!!