NW4A schools begin play this week...

Well, the time for waiting is over for some teams, regular season play begins this week. Here is the schedule of games for this week. I don't have all the NW4A teams schedules so if I am missing anybody please let us know...

Tue. Nov 16:
AC Reynolds @ Asheville

Thur. Nov 18:
AC Reynolds @ Owen

Fri Nov 19:
Freedom @ Burns


Thoughts, predictions and other comments for these games...?

 

11-19 Wilkes Central at ACHS
Game may be rescheduled due to Football playoff

 

ACHS game

When I find out I will let you know. We are hoping that it get rescheduled to the next week, only one game.

 

I predict we have a tough time with Asheville. We are minus one starter (Brianna Worley) for at least two more weeks, and even with her we would have our hands full, so tomorrow might not be too pretty. However, I think we will be able to get by Owen, although they are still a very good team, and will be a very formitable foe. I think Alex Thompson, Katie Rybacki, and Michelle Bennett will have to carry the load against Owen and Asheville along with our defense. Rebounding might be a problem, so we better shoot well, and hit our free throws which we did in our scrimmage. I am predicting a 1-1 week for us, I just hope we play a good game against Asheville and keep it respectable, and our young girls play well and gain some confidence.

 

East Burke is at home Tuesday night against Hibriten

 

First off, I wanna thank EB77 and homerun for the info on their respective teams. I should have everybody's schedule tomorrow when the Observer does their hoops preview. I will post it on the schedules thread...

As far as the games go...I think Reynolds needs to make the pace of the game as fast as possible. A lot of full court basketball needs to be played to have a chance against Asheville. What that does is that Danielle Burgin can become less of a factor and McCants will be touching the ball at 60 feet from the basket instead of 15-20 feet from the basket. In a half court setting, McCants is gonna likely play a high post and wing instead of being down on the block. I think Reynolds can keep it pretty close most of the way, playing @ Asheville is brutal.

No clue what Hibriten brings to the table, hopefully for East Burke they can start the season on a good note. Freedom should beat Burns easily.

 

I have no doubt Reynolds will play a full court game with Asheville, it appears looking at our scrimmage that is all we know. We love the pressure defense, just like last year, and will run up and down the floor after missed shots. Regardless who gets the rebound on our team, we are running! We do have a lot of depth it's just very young and not very experienced, and limited in our size without Worley. That is what concerns me, their size advantage over us. So I am sure we will try to make it a full court game.

 

If Owen still has all those tall girls back from last year, that game will be a challenge. When they beat McDowell last year, even though it was early in the season, they looked as good as any team I saw all year. I was very surprised that they didn't cruise through the 2A season. Maybe they just played over their heads that day, but they looked really good!

 

Game change

The ACHS vs Wilkes Central game scheduled for Friday the 19th had been moved up to Thurday the 18th. Just for information.

 

I could be mistaken but I think they only return 1 of those tall girls and also lost both guards. Again I am not 100% sure, but I think this to be the case. They were very good last year, as we played them as well and only won by 6 or 8 points and had to come from behind in the 4th to do that.