Heads up to anyone who may be thinking about playing an East Texas basketball team by the name of Cayuga---------DON'T!
They have incredible athletes for a class A school. I haven't seen so many dunks before and during a game since...since...since...........I never have by a class A team.
The last time I saw that many high percentage shots was last year's Dallas Madison team, and then just barely.
Cayuga had two starting guards who dunked four or five times during the game, not to mention their other position players. In fact, I can only remember three or four players who didn't slam during the pregame warmup. Their second bunch, who played two or three minutes in each of the first three quarters and almost the entire fourth, was talented as any team I have seen this year...and I've seen some of the best, including Alto, Bloomburg, Neches, Slocum, Laneville, Jim Ned and Navasota. Oh, I forgot Tatum, Corrigan-Camden, Broaddus and Center.
Cayuga has a freshman who came off the bench who has the finest all-around game of basketball I have seen since the Childress kid from Coleman. He played maybe ten minutes all night. Their bench was ten players deep.
They press full court and trap in the frontcourt even when they don't press. They pressed maybe a third of the game. They beat a fine Alto team...well I left with two minutes left and the score 107 to 51.
If they get by the Tenaha/Martin's Mill winner, it will be interesting to see how a fundamental basketball team from the panhandle does against them, one who can slow the game down while beating the press. Right now the only team that can beat them is Cayuga, themselves. I did sense a confidence that hovered near arrogance, and that could be their achilles heel. Not much to hope for, is it. And these guys played football two weeks into December... :shock:
They have incredible athletes for a class A school. I haven't seen so many dunks before and during a game since...since...since...........I never have by a class A team.
The last time I saw that many high percentage shots was last year's Dallas Madison team, and then just barely.
Cayuga had two starting guards who dunked four or five times during the game, not to mention their other position players. In fact, I can only remember three or four players who didn't slam during the pregame warmup. Their second bunch, who played two or three minutes in each of the first three quarters and almost the entire fourth, was talented as any team I have seen this year...and I've seen some of the best, including Alto, Bloomburg, Neches, Slocum, Laneville, Jim Ned and Navasota. Oh, I forgot Tatum, Corrigan-Camden, Broaddus and Center.
Cayuga has a freshman who came off the bench who has the finest all-around game of basketball I have seen since the Childress kid from Coleman. He played maybe ten minutes all night. Their bench was ten players deep.
They press full court and trap in the frontcourt even when they don't press. They pressed maybe a third of the game. They beat a fine Alto team...well I left with two minutes left and the score 107 to 51.
If they get by the Tenaha/Martin's Mill winner, it will be interesting to see how a fundamental basketball team from the panhandle does against them, one who can slow the game down while beating the press. Right now the only team that can beat them is Cayuga, themselves. I did sense a confidence that hovered near arrogance, and that could be their achilles heel. Not much to hope for, is it. And these guys played football two weeks into December... :shock:
