City of Palms - Malachi Moreno

[JPFisher]

I do remember the couple of times that Reed competed against 5 star high school guys he always showed up and more than held his own. But then maybe he was just super special.

Benefit of being a guard versus a center, I imagine. No having to hope the ball carrier can get it to you.

We will likely have Garrison and based upon the observations on this game we will probably need a big man portal transfer of talent. Relying on Freshman who aren't the very very elite has been a poor outcome in their one and done year.

Ostensibly, it's easier for a team full of D1 talent to single out one great player and shut them down, a la Moreno. I think Malachi will need time, but I don't think we can draw any conclusions about his freshman potential based on this game.

 

[sjk0000]

Great Crossing is currently 33 in the rankings nationally but was 10th prior to getting beat by Newport. As a KY native, I was just expecting more. It is sad that we were not playing a smarter game. They were not playing through their best player(Malachi). They played undisciplined, uninspired. Lots of runouts and poor defense.

I get that Columbus is a prep school that recruits. They are ridiculously talented. Just hate that GC got embarrassed.

St X is the best team in KY this year…. By far.

 

[JonathanW]

Lol...so if a public high school in the 26th largest state in the country gets their a$$ handed to them by a private prep school from Miami this is some sort of indictment on basketball in the state?

How about the fact they were even invited to play?

26th largest state, but…KY has the most counties per square mile, meaning outside of the few cities, KY is divided into more counties than the population should dictate. This there are a lot of smaller schools. I bet most HS in KY have <1000 students.

 

[JonathanW]

We will likely have Garrison and based upon the observations on this game we will probably need a big man portal transfer of talent. Relying on Freshman who aren't the very very elite has been a poor outcome in their one and done year.

I don’t think we or Pope are or ever should expect a FR to come in playing starter minutes unless he is an elite player (Wall, Cousins, Murray, Randle, etc…). So I think we probably were and still are hoping for 12-15mpg from Moreno, max.

 

[kywildcat41035]

10 points 6 boards

That don’t sound bad at all considering what he was up against!

 

[NerlensCat]

St X is the best team in KY this year…. By far.

GC was ranked above them in National and State rank until they got beat. Now GC is ranked about 10 spots nationally behind St. X.

I will say that Columbus(No 3)was putting it on Grayson, Ga (Holt and Wilkins) in the first half. But I did not see Wilkins playing much when I was watching. Grayson made a much better game, at least early in the second half. Didn’t watch the whole game. Columbus has some great players, but they play smart/sound basketball. IMG(No1)was getting beat by La Lumiere in the 3rd quarter. But, I think IMG came back to win. From what I have seen Columbus takes it easy.

 

[catsfan325]

Some highlights from the game against Columbus if anyone is interested. Several good Moreno plays.

 

[ccukuk]

Pope is not Cal. Give CMP a chance before blasting him...

Uh, that will be hard because he’s not coming to Kentucky.

 

[ccukuk]

Lol...so if a public high school in the 26th largest state in the country gets their a$$ handed to them by a private prep school from Miami this is some sort of indictment on basketball in the state?

How about the fact they were even invited to play?

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