Week at La BBall Tourney.

We are now down to the finals at the Cajun Dome.

I thought you may want a quick recap.

1. )LA has some really special Sophomores in Louisiana. 2012 will be a huge year in recruiting.

*We can discuss this later, but Peabody starts two at 6'7 pf and 6'2 pt grd and two more in their top 8 rotation. They are now 40-0.

*Riverside has two at 6'7 and 6'2 that are even better. Marion's best players was also 6'2 gd.

*best player at Bossier is also a soph who took over in the 4th again. Marion had the ball down 4 and he proceeds to steal the ball and score 10pts in a row.

2.) The 5A finalist would lose to both of the 4A and 1A finalist. Not to mention Riverside in 2A.

3.) The private school contingent on the I-10 have some special talent and are well coached.

4.) I-10 teams play more zone than the north LA teams. Not as quick usually, but a different brand of Ball.

5.) Funniest and yet most obnoxious thing I saw.

After Peabody's freak athletes pulled away from Glen Oaks with 3 minutes to play.

A group of Parents stand up wearing the green and starts hollering "are ya'll ready" to the fans.

Then a fat man hollers 1-2-3.

A hundred Peabody fans STAND UP and scream.

"HEY GLEN OAK's: Get your Hat, your Coat and Leavvveeee! "

The funny part is the entire Glen Oaks community and team turned around and at looked them in shock. The gym went quiet as the game continued. Then Peabody started up again, which upset the Glen Oaks crowd and they started screaming back. A little hate was found from the proud Baton Rouge group.

Peabody and Bossier will be interesting, You will have an arrogant group of fans from Peabody vs a relatively mild Bossier Group that have a mean streak. Why Lafayette should never host a tourney, Last night after the games some of the fans from Marion thought they wanted to fight, the Bossier neighborhood would not back down and had them scrambling for back up. No police in sight. I hit the door at a jog and never slowed down.

My guess for the game, Peabody comes out intense and gets ahead early. Hopefully the refs will call it tights which will help Bossier, if Peabody gets in Foul Trouble. By half Bossier will have it close. The start of the 3rd will decide the game, if Francis gets in foul trouble Peabody will go up by double digits.

But, if Peabody insist on playing man to man and Bossier gets hot and avoids foul trouble, Peabody will implode, they seem to get lazy many times against the other night.

j