Reading 101 McCaskey 78

The Red Knights continued their hot start to the season with a very impressive victory tonight at the Geigle over JP McCaskey. Here are my thoughts on the game:

1. The game tonight was plain and simple a statement game. This was a statement to the rest of District 3 that the Red Knights will be a major player. It told a lot about this team that they brought this kind of performance after a tough game against Wilson.
2. The player of the game tonight has to go to Macho. He continues to play with the heart of a champion and gives this team the swagger that they need. He has it in his mind that when he attacks the basket he wont be denied. Plus his mid range jumper has improved by leaps and bounds.
3. I was one of many who called out Jermain Jackson out for his sub par play in the first four games, but he came up with a strong effort in scoring 16 points in limited time since he got in foul trouble. Tonight just proves how unstoppable our offense can be when Jackson comes to play and is a force on offense.
4. Jordan and Trenity Burdine both had solid efforts again tonight. It seems that at times when we have needed it Jordan just goes on stretches where he scores 6 or 8 points in a row or hits a couple of three's in a short stretch and it seems to really be deflating to the opponent.
5. On the defensive side of the ball I thought we came out really aggressive and played good defense in the first half but the second half we fell back into the same mode we did in previous games and let them get easy layups. When we got our big lead in the first half a lot of the easy buckets were off long rebounds from missed McCaskey three point shots.
6. I don't know which was more surprising tonight, the offensive output against a quality McCaskey team or that McCaskey coach Steve Powell didn't have another sweater out of the Cliff Huxtable collection. All kidding aside Coach Powell is a class act and was nice to see him looking great. It really seemed like he dropped some pounds too.
7. Also tonight a wonderful national anthem was sung by the young lady. I hope this is the first of many times that she sings before our games.
8. With the win tonight we really have a great shot to go into the holiday tournament with a perfect record, but lets take things one game at a time.
9. Even after the impressive win tonight the thing we must remember it is still December and the regular season is only two weeks old. Things can change in a hurry.
10. Weather permitting I will be heading up to the Academy Park game on Tuesday, hope to see the rest of you there.