Daniel Boone Preview

Friday's Berks County Title game promises to be a game that promises to be a game that will be exciting as it pits the two highest scoring teams in Berks county.

Boone is probably the only team from the county who can throw three double figure scorers on the court against Reading. But after watching them in three games they are a team who has some big flaws. For one, they are a terrible defensive team. They have given up a lot of points to some bad offensive teams as they gave up 58 to a bad Warwick team, 70 to Twin Valley, and 57 to Ephrata. So I expect this game to be easily played in the 70's. The other thing that I see with Boone is that they will go on scoring droughts from time to time and when they do this we have to make them pay when this happens. I think the one thing going for them is that they did get some confidence from that they played well against us in the last game. But you can only take that so far and I think that point is a big rallying point for Reading to come show that we are a much better team than the last game.

Keys to the game:
1. Get out to a lead early and make them play at an even faster tempo than they are used to.
2. Control the boards. This is a team the last time we played that killed us on the glass. Because if you limit them to outside shots they simply have no chance.
3. Get Jermaine Jackson off early. Because if he gets going early it will also open it up even more for Jordan Burdine. Quite simply there is no one on the Boone roster who can guard Jordan.

Prediction:

Reading 94
Daniel Boone 62

My other random thoughts on this week:

• After looking around at the other league's postseason tournaments, it is clear that Berks County Championship has the best facility to play the game at by far. Just look at where all the rest of the leagues play their title games. Lancaster-Lebanon league is playing theirs at Manheim Township high school, York played their's at York College, and the Mid Penn is playing their championship game at Cumberland Valley. So I think we all should be thankful that we have such a wonderful facility to play our league title game at.
• Memo to the BCIAA why is Jack Carl officiating playoff games? Who does he have pictures of? Im not one to just bash officials but I thought postseason assignments are on merit not on how many years you have officiated. After he blew that call in the Muhlenberg/SV game Carl should have been taken off any more county playoff games.
• Why was last night's game started at 6:00, but Monday's first game started at 6:30. I know there are festivities at halftime but lets start the games at 630 and 8. Its not like their are a ton of people who want to get home by 9:30.