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> "InfoSuperHwyRoadKill"
hellsgate.com> wrote in
> message news:_iwzk.33375$Ep1.13001@bignews2.bellsouth.net...>> "Can the former high school basketball point guard out maneuver the
>> "agents of change" and deliver the
>> ball? Barracuda! Barracuda! Barracuda!" -- Master Kent
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>> I saw on TV footage of what I assume was that now famous state
>> championship game sometime last week. It was at least footage of Sarah
>> Palin playing roundball. Her basketball legend is about as much hype as
>> her executive experience. While it is true she was a state champion in
>> Alaska in 1982, that team would not have won a district championship in
>> the state of Tennessee. Her skill set would not have earned her a
>> starting point guard spot on any team playing at a state championship
>> level in Tennessee.
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>> The Tennessee State Champs in 1982 were Bradford (still a perennial
>> power), Giles County w Coach Billy Mayfield (probably w Shelia Frost),
>> and Smyrna.
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> That's like comparing Ali to Marciano via computer.
No, dumb ass, it's not. That's two era's. If I compared her to this years
state champs, then you'd have a point because compared to today, she
couldn't hold a Tennessee State Champ's sports bra. Nor is it like
comparing a 2 hour private plane trip from PA to TN to a commercial odyssey
half way across a continent.
>There is no way to compare the Alaska 1982 team to any of the 1982
Tennessee teams.
Well, actually you are wrong again, dribble breath.
It's not hard at all to see & evaluate the skill set, and the catfish had
very little. During this period, I, unlike yourself, saw plenty of
Tennessee High School Basketball, both boys and girls, from the mid Eighties
until the mid Nineties including State Tournaments. I coached several who
went on to play college BB -- one lead her conference in free throw shooting
and I taught her her shot when she was a sixth grader. What was difficult
was recruiting for a Community College. It's hard to go to Pearl Cohn and
watch a game with Ron Slay and John Henderson on one side, and trying to
evalute a 2nd tier player from McGavock's abilities to see if he is
scholarship material.
The famous free throw of the big fish in a little pond was a 60's style
granny shot with both elbows out and it didn't drain the net, it was one of
the bounce around the *wooden* backboard until it falls in luckily variety.
The only thing that's not fair that I did was compare Alaska, a state that
is hardly a hotbed of basketball talent (see how many Alaska women's college
basketball players you can find on rosters and compare it to Tennessee
school girls, bookkeeper) to that of Tennessee, known far and wide in the
80's, 90's, and still today to a great extent for the finest women's high
school basketball in the nation. Not even Lisa Leslie was able to visit
Tennessee in the 80's and leave with a win. Her CA team of national renown
left Shelbyville with their only defeat. Tennessee teams were leaving the
state and winning National Tournments all over the US.
While I don't recall point guards from the early 80's, other than maybe
Shelly Sexton from East Tennessee as well as some from the late 80's like
Kelli Jolly, whose White Co team never won a state championship, would have
beat that pathetic team from Alaska by 50+ points. Then there was Leslie
Henley at Coffee County (state champ), one of the best ball handlers I've
ever seen (for a girl) and there was the National Player of the Year Tiffany
Woosley (multiple championships) of Shelbyville.
If you think you want to argue hoops with me, you are out of your league.
