001[Music] let's just wait until after all welcome back to gtv's coverage of ihsa basketball we're live here from greensburg high school sorry for the technical difficulties earlier jason simpson joined here by grant peters getting ready to tip off between the jacksondale eagles and the greensburg pirates greensburg comes in with a 12-2 record while jackson dell sits at 12 and 5. grant what can we expect here today between the eagles and the pirates well as we have the opening tip off here i think the pirates are gonna try to exploit exploit you know some matchups that that could potentially happen with jackson dell here in the first possession they're running some some five out motion trying to step in here with brendan and i think as the early as the game progresses on here in the
002early phases they're gonna have to just check each other out and see what opportunities present itself starters for jackson dell today we have a 6-2 junior number 10 wyatt day 6'5 senior number 20 cameron gayle 6-1 senior number 30 will neal 6-3 junior number 40 caleb simon and a six-foot senior number 50 landon turner our pirates go with their core five 6-3 junior number 12 colin cummer 6-2 sophomore number 14 kai dyer 6-3 senior number 20 lane sparks then a pair of 6'3 juniors number 32 brendan stanley and 34. dakota walters minute into the game now pirates trail two to nothing as cummer surveys the defense gets into the middle of the lane his pass is tipped away gonna be controlled by the pirates i will share coach simpson as we've had these technical difficulties
003we're trying to get the new link for those that want to tune in on the stream we're also on our local etc channel that has been put out on our high school twitter account and we're trying to get this broadcast to everybody that's comers first three-point attempt of the day is no good cool going to be tracked down by jackson dell dave's going to push himself he's on the left wing his shot attempt is up and no good kept alive by day corralled by simon kicks back out today swings over to gail his three-point attempt is no good offensive rebound attempt put back up and no good finally rebounded there by brendan stanley nice job there at jackson dale getting multiple attempts at the rim i think the pirates are fortunate there after giving up
004some offensive rebounds that brendan stanley was able to wrestle the ball away and still get a foul on jackson dell and grant i think this is something here you know the pirates come in with an exceptional record of 12 and two but in their past if you take out the southridge game in their past six games the pirates have been their usual selves on the offensive end but they're still trying to really find that identity defensively as cummer brings it back across the timeline he's going to kick on the right to dyer to stanley who has it tipped away on the wing to cummer for three it's no good offensive rebound there by walters nice job of dakota to get the pirates another one dyer's three-point attempt is up it's no good kept alive again
005on the play by stanley even though it was tipped by jackson dale going to be called out of bounds on the pirates and grant we've got the officials having a conference you know what comes out of a conference between officials um i don't want to go there nothing good um normally you know what normally i just i just believe it's good i'll just leave it there i was gonna make uh so the call will stay jackson dale's ball yeah nothing good for the pirates here as as the eagles retain possession neal swings out top to gale over today dave back to neal surveys the baseline he kicks down in the corner back out to gail his three-point attempt is no good rebound on the play by sparks who's going to push in transition kicks to
006the wing to cummer who kicks in the corner to walters his three-point attempt is up and good pirates lead three to two that's a quality shot as cummer had the dribble drive and found walters in the corner his shoulders were square and he shot it with confidence neal controls he kicks on the wing today over to gail to back today guarded on the play here by sparks in there as simon puts it in for the and one reach in foul going to be called on stanley you know we're not incredibly familiar with jackson dell but i will tell you a move like that by number 40 from jackson dell that took a lot of skill and took a lot of toughness and i think he's going to present a problem throughout the game here if
007that's how he continues to play well you see three very familiar names in the jackson dell lineup from both the boys and girls sides of things you have day gale and simon uh day and simon both had sisters who were top level players in their girls program and then gail i'm just assuming that it's it's brother but gail has had a couple of brothers who were tremendous tremendous players on the boys sides of things all of those former players that we mentioned were part of state championship team so definitely in the bloodline here stanley on the steal he's going to take it to the rack not able to finish on the play but he will be fouled and go to the line for two looking to tie the scores of pirates trail five to three
008halfway through the first quarter the grant jackson dale comes in at 12-5 they're under first-year man clint bowman and as we went through their starters it's a mix of juniors and seniors what are some of the i guess advantages and disadvantages you would have as a because this is obviously his first time as a coach it's his first head coaching job what are some of the advantages and also disadvantages that you would run into coming into such a veteran ball club yeah i think the the players would uh you could presume that they have some basketball iq that they bring they have some leadership they have some obviously experience throw it down big man sparks goes in for the two-hand slam but also i think if if these kids had some poor habits or something
009that doesn't match up with coach bowman's system that could be hard to coach away so there are positives and negatives um at a record of 12 and five it looks like that coach bowman has been managing that well so um i think the leadership will trump a lot when you have that that uh that that leadership and that tone in your locker room good movement here by the pirates as dyer looks to dive inside his shot attempts gonna be blocked pushed up the floor tipped away by stanley gonna be knocked out of bounds there by simon possession goes to the pirates jackson dell is concerned about that last no call coach and worked out for the pirates as they now walk the ball up on offense that was uh number 50 landon turner on that
010drive pirates run a little tiger action they get it into stanley his attempt is blocked gonna be tipped out of bounds belongs to the eagles did you drop a landon turner reference i did yeah blast from the past for those hoosier fans absolutely one of the all-time greats gail drives gets to the rim he ties it at seven nice move nice move and good adjustment and had the soft finish 2 30 to go here we're still knotted up at seven as cummer drives he's going to go to the line for the old-fashioned three-point play nice job there colin getting to the rim and finishing through the contact you know cummer there showed an ability to be rugged and take the contact and be strong with the basketball and yet lay it in colin eyes his
011free-throw attempt it's up and good pushes the pirate lead to three ten to seven here 10 28 two i'm sorry 2 28 to go in the first quarter a little full court pressure being applied here by the pirates forces jackson dale to call a timeout nice little change of pace there by the pirates you don't normally equate full court pressure with them but a good job of changing the tempo a little bit that appeared to be a zone press where they're trying to trap and i i think if we typically when we do press it has more of a man-to-man feel so that zone press i think was really something that jacksondale's not seen from greensburg in the past you know that's something as a coach you throw out there especially if it hasn't been
012in film and things for for somebody to see you throw it out there you've been working on it a couple of days in practice hey let's throw it out in live action and see what we get and if nothing else even though you didn't create a turn over there you did cause them to have to burn an early timeout that maybe they weren't looking to use and here they go right back away from it and just go back into half court man good motion being run here by jackson dale i was getting ready to start on the wings today dave's three-point attempt is no good tipped up and in there very nicely done that's by sophomore 34 matt dickman just subbed into the game i was going to say the exact same thing the pace
013of jacksonville's offensive possession led to a good look and then also the offensive rebound walters able to get to the rack just not able to finish 10-9 now pirates still lead by one as day brings it across gives off to hughes hughes back today day working against dyer on the left wing kicks across the floor to simon simon's three-point attempt is up and good 12-9 now jackson dell with the lead as we approach one minute remaining here in the first quarter sparks kicks to the left wing to cummer gets to the rim his layup attempt is no good kept alive there by stanley nicely kicked over to sparks lane's three-point attempt is up and good pirates retake the lead 13 to 12. that's a prime example of how a 50 50 ball when you don't
014win that battle it usually leads to good things for the team that gets to it difficult play but championship teams make that kind of play nice hard take there by simon who's able to finish at the rim puts the eagles back into the lead 14-13 first sub of the day here for the pirates as addison barnes pettit will see his first action 32.8 seconds to go jackson dale with a 14 to 13 lead addison barnes pettit being in our close to 18th game of the season here he's got a job experience um i think that we'll see if addison can be a spark off the bench and i know we've talked about it in previous broadcasts before all addison does when he comes in is his role he doesn't ever try to do more than
015he's asked to do fills that role very well as day's three-point attempt is no good pirates are going to go one for low action for the last shot of the quarter lane goes to work he pulls up from about 15. it's no good kept alive there by walters [Music] that brings us to the end of the first quarter pirates lead 15 to 14. you usually throw this question to me at the quarter break but i'm gonna i'm gonna trick you here coach you know jackson dallas showed up to play today and when you realize that their pace is good and they're very capable with some scores what do you think coach meyer is saying in the huddle right now well i think it's the same thing that we kind of touched on there early in
016the broadcast you can watch this game and we still don't know what the defensive identity of this team is you know i i thought offensively we had good pace took good looks got to finish a little better at the rim but hey at least you've solved problem number one you're getting to the rim now take that next step and finish but on the on the defensive end of things we are allowing jackson dale to get into the teeth of our defense way too easily giving up far too many offensive rebounds and then um you know the looks they're getting on the perimeter right now are from guys that that they want to shoot it and they've only knocked one down to this point but that's something you know you've got to make sure you're out
017contesting shooters and you can't take the defensive end of the floor for granted yeah i think you made a good point there it can sound if it's worded in a certain way it can sound very cliche-ish but i think it starts on the defensive end for the pirates finishing possessions getting rebounds and then pushing in transition i think will be a catalyst to make a difference in this game and i would say jackson dell has to feel fortunate where they're at because number 10 wyatt day is one of their leading scorers and to my knowledge he didn't make a basket there in the first quarter and they only trailed by one as the pirates come down transition stolen away by jacksondell nice job of them to get that possession back as day looks to attack
018he gets the 15 kicks on the wing to hughes his three-point attempt is no good out of bounds off of the pirates jackson dell will retain possession you know i i as i led into your question at the quarter break i talked about jackson dale's pace there's no question that they they are putting out a lot of effort a lot of intensity here and this is going to be one of those games as lou holtz used to say you better pack a lunch because they're going to be here all day and you can tell in the early going to this that jackson dell's going nowhere and it's interesting you say that because people who have been around this area long enough and seen enough basketball know that you're gonna get very similar things from both
019jackson dell and south ripley two teams that are on greensburg's schedule those are two schools who have a long rich tradition of of quality basketball for for schools their size and it doesn't matter year to year what their talent level is they're never going to come in and just roll over and die and be a walk over victory even though you might look in certain years and you win by 30 or 40 points it still wasn't easy as silly as that sounds they're two schools that like we said they take a lot of pride in their basketball and they they play the game the right way and like the the old cliche as lou holtz would say you are going to have to pack a lunch it's going to be work if you want to
020come away victorious against jackson dell i i agree completely with that and i think this game we're not only gonna have to you know bring our lunch pails so to speak but we're also going to bring execution of the game plan that coach meyers laid out this is this is going to be a test and we're going to have to see how this unfolds throughout the next three quarters 6 34 to go here pirates lead 17 14. brett stringer making his first appearance in the lineup for the pirates enter to sparks lane gets into the lane it's going to be blocked over again by jackson dylan turned right back over by the pirates day's layup attempt is no good barnes pettit kicks up the floor to sparks laying over to stringer on the wing to
021cummer colin kicks out to stanley brynden's three-point attempt is no good rebounded there on the play by turner and i think that uh grant i think you found your new favorite player and unfortunately he's not wearing pirate blue today number 50 mr turner has a very strong hair game today and you were definitely singing his praises before this game started yeah you can tell you could tell he takes a lot of pride in it and i am admiring it here from the from the booth um and not to mention he's also playing a nice game today he's trying to deny sparks and here he is matched up so he's not only looking good but playing good isn't that the old adage if you look good you play again that's golf that's that's golf man you
022go to the first tee if you look good you're gonna nice spin move back in the lane just unable to finish there great job elaine to keep it alive just fumbles it out of his reach possession goes back to jackson dell 509 to go here in the first half pirates still leads 17 to 14. kind of things have gotten a little sloppy here to start this second quarter both teams it didn't fro it isn't sloppiness from a lack of effort just looks like that ball might be square right now for some reason yeah and i it's true for both teams that see which team can settle in and have a poised possession to get to get rewarded with a good bucket they step down the end line another turnover there against jackson dell now it's
023greensburg's turn let's see if they can go possession without a turnover yeah i mean with the way this has been played here this first half of the second quarter if one team could have made a couple of shots they feel like they've had a big lead kai dyer who just entered back into the game swings to walters walters out top back to dyer looking inside the stanley kicks over to cummer colin into the lane gonna be stolen away i need to keep my mouth shut because i'm just a jinx greensburg there on that possession another turn up hex on him i know neal drives in he gets to about 10 feet it's good good touch brings the eagles back to within one nice job in transition there the pirates dakota walters does exactly what you
024want your four to do in transition and run straight to the rim nice find by lane pushes that lead back out to three for the pirates we're halfway through the second quarter we've talked about brendan stanley and dakota walters value on this team and dakota walters brings what you can't coach he brings he brings length and enough athleticism that he can finish at the rim like that he we've seen him knock down threes and we also see him contest for rebounds and that that length you cannot coach it you just cannot coach it another great job there the pirates getting out quickly in transition earns colin a trip to the line for two his first one is up and good pirates biggest lead of the game now they lead by four 20 to 16 3
02547 to go in the first half colin eyes this second one is no good but nice job elaine there on the rebound puts it back up and in 22-16 now pirates with a six-point advantage day hands it off to turner back today he's going to drive that right baseline it's up and no good well actually i don't know if that was a pass or if it was tipped away but whatever the case dickman is able to grab that loose ball and he will be fouled and go to the line for two i'm i'm getting challenged through text message about making any kind of reference here i'm going to give a shout out to dave alexander who's tuning into the broadcast so uh he knows what it is to wear pirate blue and shout out to
026you big fella there's one thing that can definitely be said about coach alexander there was never a jump shot that he met that he didn't like and wouldn't take you know what most the time he'd make it as lane does a phenomenal job slicing through the jackson dell defense getting to the rim pushing that pirate lead to seven they're going to be called against number 30 will neal are the eagles as the pirates look to extend this seven-point lead and that's a good segue the pirates have been able despite the sloppy play to extend this to a seven point lead i think this possession is really important you can ex you can extend it even further or you know get the jacksonville eagles a chance to get right back in and right on cue walters
027makes the three it results in a timeout for jackson dell a big possession big bucket at this time in the game talk a little bit that last shot was set up by brett stringer talk a little bit about what the importance is of kids like brett to a team because everything that he does on the floor 99 of the time will never show up in the scorebook after the game but talk about how important kids like that are well as as you know as you coach it's it's necessary for championship basketball you can have you can have a great team of individuals and they're going to win some games but when you want to win championships tournament play where teams scout you you got to have kids that are willing to drive and kick or
028hustle for a loose ball or create deflections or guard a difficult assignment battle those sorts of things i had an old coach that used to call moxie place they don't show up but yet they're important to winning games and playing championship basketball as i said before so i'm good on brett stringer there he's that kind of kid it shows in the classroom too as you know as he walks our hallways in the building absolutely pirates do a great job pushing a transition again lane gets to 10 feet his fade away jumper is good 29 to 17 now as lane sparks has decided gentlemen enough is enough i'm taking over yeah i was a little extra saucy there so he he was able to create separation not only by the dribble drive but to fade away
029a little bit and finish another offensive rebound here by jackson dale short corner jumper there by simon is good brings the eagles back to within 10. 29-19 just under two minutes to go here in the first half we talked about this earlier jackson dell has some nice pieces they have different different kids with different skill sets and they all battle and there's a follow on the hustle with the rebound and two offensive rebounds technically there but like they have some nice pieces that complement each other and they trim the lead to eight and we told you they're not going anywhere they're in it walters for another corner three it's up and good i tell you i think dakota has found a spot on the floor he likes pushes the pirate lead to 32-21 that's dakota's
030third three of the first half somebody may want to get a hand up on him maybe nice job there colin cummer deflects that one away turnover jacksondale 106 to go here pirates lead by 11. hey when you have possessions like this coach do you think coach meyer is going to call a set are we just going to run continue to run motion here or i think he's going to stand out here and hold it or they're going to go 41 to a lay-up try to get a good one now as sparks gets into the lane and scores 34-21 pirates with the 13-point advantage i don't think you're gonna get a higher uh percentage shot than what we just got on that possession not not that i would ever say coach meyer has been spoiled but
031i'm gonna say coach meyer has been spoiled you've got number 20 in white out there right now you just graduated andrew wellage you had a little guy by the name of brian mcintosh who you know for the last what do we say eight or nine years when you get to end o'clock situations like this you don't have to worry about a special set or anything like that you just say get them the basketball and they are so skilled that you know you're going to get a great look at the end of the clock in about every single situation and there's a lot of teams that do have to run specific sets to get those looks yeah i i would go one step further too as we're getting here in february and closing down the season
032those type of players are invaluable because when you're in crunch time and you have to have a bucket you don't have to work so hard as a team to get it you have to have a magic set or you don't have to get the ball to go to a certain spot on the floor you just got to get it to that player so that's a big deal when you get in tournament time and you try to close out games dakota walters at the line here foul was called there jackson dale trying to blow through a screen dakota both free throw attempts are good 36-23 here jackson dale going gonna try to get one last heave off at the basket it's no good that's the end of the first half our pirates lead 36 to 23.
033we're gonna step away here for one [Music] minute [Music] so [Music] so [Music] all right welcome back everybody we're joined here at halftime by two very special young ladies two ladies that i have the privilege of coaching each year each year well i guess one of them each year one of them for the first time we have freshman janae cummer and sophomore jenna foster joining us here at halftime ladies unfortunately we didn't get to uh get together this morning and and have our next walk through in preparation for a sectional championship game lost our semi-final last night to rushville and actually what was a very well played game not not something that you like to hear after you lose but just an indiana high school basketball game that was well played on both sides they
034just happened to be the better team last night with with the two of you jenna even you as a sophomore this was both of your first experiences as ver true varsity basketball players so jenna will start with you since you were around the program and around varsity basketball for a year what would you say was the biggest adjustment that you had to make coming into this season and becoming a full-time varsity player for the first time just like scouting a lot was so different and just preparing so much more and getting ready for games and especially who i was going to guard last night with marlo being someone that had played varsity all three years and just preparing myself for what i had to do and i knew the role that i had to play
035and just preparing myself for that talk about that a little bit you obviously you two know that that a lot of preparation goes into what we do each and every day going through scouting reports and going through film and knowing knowing those things how does it help you on game nights it just lets you know what to expect and especially with marlo i knew that she wanted to shoot that step back jump shot and i let it get to me right before half time and she hit that three and like from then on i knew like i have to guard this better all right janae i guess the same question would be for you here but in a little different way because you're stepping right into the varsity level from the eighth grade level and
036so you know huge differences between playing junior high and then and then playing at the varsity level what were a couple of things that that were eye-opening for you but then a couple of things that you're like this isn't as different as maybe i thought it would be um i feel like the pace of the game was so much faster and everything was so much faster and everyone was so much stronger especially coming in a smaller freshman it was a lot harder to compete against stronger players and but some things were the same like ball movement i knew would always had to be really good for our offense and everything and i think that's through all levels the good ball movement is really important well i will say that um i know at times that
037as your coach i don't do a good enough job bragging on you guys in the moment because my head is always you know in fast forward we got to get ready for the next opponent we got to get better but i i have to brag on you two because to see the growth that you two had through the season was phenomenal you know um we're still trying to figure out why janae won't shoot it as much as she needs to because she is an excellent shooter but um and jenna you kind of mentioned it yourself you knew you had a role to play and there were times this season early where you might get away from some of the things that make you successful but then you really settled into that role and you know
038i was i was talking to mr peters and i don't remember turnovers at the end of the season you became one of our best defenders um so both of you kind of talk about what it's like to come in and know as a freshman and know as a first year varsity player that there's going to be a specific role that you have to play and you know maybe in junior high you're one of the top scorers or whatever it was so so what's it like coming in and just having to fill a certain position a certain role um at first this year especially it was pretty scary knowing the history of the program and the team that we had last year and i felt like i really needed to fill just a huge role but
039the support of the team and especially our seniors really helped and they helped me through a lot of that stuff and getting past the word how worried i was at the beginning janae same question to you definitely in eighth grade i people were looking for me to take that last shot and i knew coming in like that's not my role anymore and i was just ready to give give what i could to our team and become successful as a team well we know that we lost five very important seniors to our program who who brought so much of the success that we've been fortunate enough to have and so you know you you flip the script to next season and you guys will be wiley veterans we won't have any seniors in the program we'll
040have juniors and sophomores and freshmen so granted we're still months and months away from that and a lot of things are going to happen between now and then but as we sit today what what do you guys feel how do you feel your roles might change next season and then how do you think that they might still say stay the same in a way i feel like we lost a lot of our scores and that maybe next year i'm gonna have to be looked at more to score but i know that still next year i'm gonna have to just be locked in defensively and have to guard and chase whenever we need someone to i think we're definitely going to have to be leaders for our freshmen incoming freshmen they they are a really good
041group of basketball players and you know just making that transition easier for them is going to be really important well in looking looking at the success that you guys were able to come in and have and i told you all all through the season that it really wasn't fair to you guys but it was like this for everybody you guys didn't get to experience a summer of being together and getting better and kind of understanding things we were learning on the fly as the season went on so you know the way things are looking now we should get to have a normal summer and thing so if those things happen what what do you guys hope for and what do you look for to be some of your maybe individual goals but especially our team
042goals next year knowing how inexperienced we could be i really want to get stronger offensively because this year i know that i wasn't much of an offensive threat so i want to really work on that and work on my ball handling and being stronger with the ball and i feel like especially since i'm going to be a junior on the team with no seniors i'm really going to have to step up into that leadership role i definitely want to improve on my defense and offensively too you know i'd like to mean offensively you're going to shoot it yes that would be good but i'd like to pick up my defense for sure because i know that is super important to everything okay now now it's time for honesty question was there and especially for you
043janae because it was the first time that you experienced it were there any times this year that um coach simpson brought out the coach voice that you may have gotten a little concerned um yes for sure it was a very scary experience scary experience when the coach voice comes out but we know what he he means well yeah i agree but especially after south dearborn you got on me and then we played rushville the next game and it really gave me the push i needed to be able to know my job and what i had go go ahead janae go ahead the first time we played rushville halftime he said we we were losing because my defense cousin couldn't do it by the end of the game he said these second half freshmen really pulled
044it out see and i think that's what people fail to realize and at times when coach voice comes out you've got two choices you can crumble into a heap and be done with it or you understand why coach voice comes out i would never ask you guys to do something you're not capable of and sometimes you just need to refocus and things and i give you guys kudos for that all year really looking forward to being able to coach you for the next two and three years i think that there's still a lot of special basketball ahead of us and um you know hopefully this is something that even though we're not happy today that there's happier times ahead because i i think there's a lot of success in our future and know that you
045guys are going to be a big part of it thank you thank you all right thanks guys that was greensburg girls basketball players sophomore jenna foster and freshman janae cummer as we're back here to second half action pirates have pushed the lead out to 40 to 25 5 38 to go here as jackson dell will take it out under their own basket coach peters you'd never know it but those two came up here and were nervous wrecks and were maybe some of the best player interviews we've ever had actually willing to talk did a great job as day gets his first three-point attempt at the day to go down bringing jackson dell back to within 12 40 to 28. you know as i take the microphone back over we're definitely downgrading uh because those two
046individuals are pretty quality nice dump down there by cummer to stanley good high low action there by the pirates against that zone pushes that lead back out to 14 42-28 going to be a travel on the play nice job there elaine not falling for that spin that's a wily veteran there he's uh he's done that move a couple of times and lane made sure he didn't jump and try to take it away knew that he where he was coming back to is able to force that turnover pirates will walk it up now against the 2-3 zone of jackson dell running the la play little indiana action there run by the pirates so on on that particular set coach is there like a seal or a screen on a particular couple spots on the zone you
047you um you send your your weak side big across the lane and you want them calling for the but you want everybody in the gym thinking man there's there's a screw loose on that kid because they're screaming for the ball but what that does is nice high-low action run there by jackson dell but what that what that does is that even makes the defense turn its head and then you send your ball side big across the lane to screen the bottom of that zone and it and most of the time it opens up a lob for your opposite wing lane gets to his favorite spot there on the floor that mid-range jumper kind of a lost art in a game of basketball but one that lane has made his bread and butter that is very
048true lane excels on that mid-range and you know the game how it's evolved that's not really coached much anymore because it's not usually deemed a high quality shot and what's funny about that when you watch kids do individual workouts and things that's actually a shot that that they take quite a bit in their workouts but then once the once the game starts happening you know those bright lights come on they're either getting to the rim or they're corking threes i think i saw a study done where teams if if they attack the rim and they shoot threes and they shoot a lot of free throws there's not much better off offensive efficiency out there well and it makes a lot of sense because you they've always said the old stack goes back to you only
049have to shoot 33 percent from three to equal what it would be to be shooting 50 from two and so you know you think about that that's out of 10 field goal attempts that's basically two less field goals you have to make and yes they are from farther out on the floor but if you have the right guys shooting them you know that that's pretty good math in your favor another offensive rebound there by jackson dell as they trail here 44-32 trying to cut into this pirate 12-point advantage get it in today his 15-footer is no good rebounded onto play by kai he's going to be fouled pirates will take it out of bounds you know you just referenced kai dyer he's a kid that's trying to round in a form as well we talk
050about walters and stanley and cummer and sparks and and kai is a kid whose contributions also sometimes don't show up on the stat sheet the pirates need him as we go down the stretch to be assertive advantageous and and look for opportunities but yet flow into the system that stacy wants to have for his team so kai's trying to round into form and i think he's doing a good job of doing that you know i just noticed something here grant you know it is super bowl weekend and it's been a few years ago but we had the notorious wardrobe malfunction during the super bowl we've had a wardrobe change here the first half colin cummer was playing in number 42 and now he's back to his original 12. not sure if uh had it was
051a blood situation or what but calling back to his familiar number 12. that's a that's a good pickup you know when is there a process you got to go through and reporting that to the scores yeah to make sure the book is correct and it's it's strange that he would have gone back to 12 because normally once you change it in the score book they just go ahead and they keep it there for the game but for whatever reason we've gotten it back as lane gets into the lane and scores at the rim 46-32 now pirates push that advantage back up to 14. jackson dale comes back on the attack nice job there as simon staying under control finishing at the rim i i'm going to go ahead and make a bold statement here i
052think that jackson dell is going to compete to the very end as we discussed but this pace of play with the running back and forth that does not set up well with jackson dell and what they want to do i do not think they can run with our pirates as they do score a transition layup there but i think if they're wanting to really challenge and win this game they're gonna have to settle in and grind it by eating the elephant one bite at a time instead of having this track meet because i think that goes in the advantage of greensburg that was 32 christian cummer on the run out there brings jacksondale back to within 10 minute 47 to go into third quarters coach meyer calls his first timeout of the basketball game here
053i think maybe not upset just one of wants to re-corral the troops and settle things down that last couple possessions been rather sloppy a little helter skelter yeah and you notice i'm peeking over i'm behind we're behind the bench and i'm peeking into the huddle it appears that coach meyer is trying to teach a specific point that he's wanting to make here and explaining it to all the guys so it's probably more on a team flow concept more than an individual mistake and i think it's a timely uh situation to take a timeout here and and just kind of settle in and remind the guys hey we're fine we're still at 10 let's just calm down a little bit both teams break their huddles pirates will bring it the length of the floor stanley inbounds
054to sparks jacksondale's still back in their 2-3 zone brett stringer back into the game for the pirates swings over to sparks skipped across the floor to comer inside to stanley going to be recovered by jackson dell gets it to gail who scores on the right hand side brings them back to within eight did that have a little george girvin feel on the finish a little although there's one thing he could do and it was finger roll tell you what the pirates have done a nice job here on a few different possessions finding walters opposite he does a good job pinning hit the backside of that zone high opening up that lob on the backside you know i'm looking at the foul count here and jackson dallas 4000 greensburg has not been called for a foul
055yet the officials you know you can debate but they have been consistent with letting these kids play throughout the game i think that's key i would definitely say you walk away from this game you can say that the referees let them play like this last take down there lane is a big strong kid but he got fouled on his way to the rim able to finish through the contact they didn't call it but will take the two points as day's three-point attempt is no good rebounded on the play inadvertent whistle there might have taken away two points for jackson dell but they will retain possession impressive rebound there by number 40 caleb simon as he went up with two hands and rebounded up above everybody inadvertent whistle there by the official but jacksondell will retain
056possession stolen on the play by sparks he's going to race up the floor in transition emphasis on race fumbles it away boy turnover you know they do pirates they do the stats and nfl games where they do the top speed elaine sparks might have had the top speed of the season there um i can't believe that uh coach moore hasn't sprung for the the amazon next gen stats for our broadcast to see what the top speed elaine sparks was oh gotta get a side jab in there too bad it's off the mic two straight misses at the rim by jackson dell leaves the pirates with that ten point lead sparks gets inside kicks across to comer his three-point attempt is good that's the end of the third quarter the pirates lead 51-38 you reference brett
057stringer's unselfish play earlier in the game where he found an open shooter laying there got in the paint and then was able to elevate and find colin and make make the three those are championship plays and it's good to see that that can happen from a bench player that would be number six or seven and also from your marquee star player so good basketball good unselfish play and that is how you win games well obviously grant we're in the midst of tournament time for the girls and we're a few short weeks away from the boys side of things kicking off here i think their sectional draw will be in about two weeks time gonna be the all eiac conference tournament as it normally is and you know judging by recent results and conference results looks
058like this year could come down to the pirates and the connersville spartans who were actually able to get the best of the pirates here on their home court earlier this season when they came into town and beat the pirates 49-42 in overtime that was a game that the pirates trailed the entire way and were able to tie it at the buzzer to send it into overtime lane sparks fouls out of that game and after he fouled out they were able to take control and pull out that eiac conference victory but the pirates are hoping for revenge when it really counts the most in the post postseason you know i can't remember were we both on the call for that connersville game yes we were okay that that i i would call that for a high
059school contest that was a slugfest and i i hope that the pirates are destined to meet them in in the sectional final or wherever it comes in in post-season play um because i i think it'd be a heck of a ball game and i think the pirates have what it takes to come out victorious it will be good basketball and it will be earned whoever whichever team comes out on top cummer fouled there on the play looked like a little bit of wwf wrestling action there i think he might have gotten head butted on the play thank goodness there were no turnbuckles involved in that play is jake the snake out there there might have been a rock bottom by four right there somewhere i did not think we'd get a hacksaw jim duggan reference
060on the broadcast today the only thing that would have been better when i brought up turnbuckles if you would have thrown out george the animal steel oh but i digress and we just talked about how the entire game they've been allowing them to let them play and then a little ticky tack foul called there on kai dyer that had no bearing on the play whatsoever you got to love referees that are consistently inconsistent yeah you know the jacksondale fan base is applauding because it is the first team foul on the pirates and we're at seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter so they i don't know if that was an exceptional play or an exceptional read but either one that was a great job there by number 40 caleb simon on that last out
061of bounds play gail's three-point attempt is up and no good sparks on the rebound he's going to be fouled he'll go to the line for the one and bonus pirates have been able to push this lead out to 15 now they lead 55 to 40 with 6 41 to go in the game you know 6 40 to go as you said and the pirates do not have anybody lined up for a rebound do you see that a lot would that be a strategy that you would employ on the girls side well sometimes you do that to maybe save legs sometimes you do that because you actually talk to them during the first free throw and you don't want to risk a foul because of foul situations but right now with only one team foul against
062the pirates and sometimes it is because the other team's been exploiting your lack of transition defense and we have seen that a bit today by jackson dell being able to get out in transition so that might have been something coach meyer was looking at as well ball caught on to play possession belongs to the pirates kai dyer jumping in there and getting some extra hustle and causing the jump ball and ball alternative possession goes to parts again let's just say we are consistently charge inconsistent called on the play against colin cummer i i will not i'm not referencing this particular crew but you can it's okay i'm having trouble as i watch different basketball games at all levels i'm talking junior high boys girls what is the definition of a charge like how is it
063how is it called how is it defined because and and i'm not even referencing the nba because it's a whole other thing but a charge call i don't i don't understand what it is anymore uh to be questionable it's almost like past interference where you know they've come to the point where past interference is called on every single play that the ball is throwing in the vicinity of a wide receiver there's going to be pass interference called whereas now with a charge if a kid basically is standing square to the offensive player doesn't matter if they're moving doesn't matter anything a lot of officials are starting to give them charges even if they're walking backwards and things which if they're going to be consistent on that that's fine but here again it goes back to
064lack of consistency and that's where the frustration comes in because they never call it the same way twice and i'm all about rewarding a kid who's got the guts and toughness to step in and check take a charge because that's not something that's very common that you find a lot and when you find a kid that's willing to do that they should be rewarded for it but what i hate is when they reward a defender who actually endangers the offensive player when they get up in the air to go finish at the rim and they allow a defender to slide under and just because they say they were stationary you know that's a dangerous play that you're allowing to happen and and i hate to see a defender that's rewarded in that way i just
065struggle with understanding like an official will call it one way on in one instance and then you go to another game or you know or maybe even the same official have a different interpretation in the same game it just it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me but you know what i'm not the smartest guy that's ever lived so we'll have to deal with it pirates now up 19 with about five minutes to go colin cummer surveys the floor as they try to get a good quality look on this possession lane didn't like the lack of a call on that play pirates still lead here 59 to 40. biggest lead of the game here for the pirates at 19. coach meyer gave him the zipper lip uh expression just play move forward rebound
066on the play there by stanley simon's three-point attempt was off the mark kicked up the floor to dyer kai looked at the three thought better of it swung across the floor now to walters good back door cut there by lane and a lot of times in motion offense even though you don't get a a pass on a backdoor cut like that it does does so many good things for your offense because you're shifting the defense and really i think what what a lot of fans may not see is that such an unselfish play for a kid to make you're cutting just for the betterment of your team and even though you know you may not receive the pass with the ability to score all you're doing is helping your team because you're running meaningful offense
067i think we touched on this on a previous broadcast where kids that uh want to get open and want to score oftentimes it's set up by a back screen or there's action before that and they do that you know selfishly for for themselves to get open but i think from a team concept a kid finishing a cut curling hard and then someone to be able to replace behind their action will get another teammate open as you as you can nice look into the post there by brandon stanley lobs over to the defense dakota walters did a great job pinning his man on the high side he finishes at the rim for two more and here again i know you and i have been together on a few different broadcasts now this year and every time
068we we've talked about the importance of dakota walters and what what his offensive aggressiveness could mean to this team and today it's been no different i know he had at least nine in the first half because he made three threes but then i know he got to the rim a couple of times and then to say he's got to be getting close to 20 points we had a foul called on the play foul was called on lane sparks we have a technical foul on the play called against lane not sure what he did lane looks as confused as anybody else you know i didn't i'm taking a second here to survey people's reactions and also kind of collect some information as to what happened i am not sure what warranted that call okay so after
069the two and they've changed this in in recent history grant it used to be on a technical fall it automatically would be two shots in the basketball along with what and now it's turned into point of interruption so there was a foul called on the shot he got those two free throws and it goes in the order that it happened so the point of interruption was afterwards that's why they would have gotten they got the two free throws for the technical foul but then they got possession yeah because they still had possession when the technical foul was called not because it was a technical which used to automatically mean you were going to gain possession no matter when it happened so in theory what could happen is you could get called for a technical foul
070while your team has the ball and the opposing team would get their free throws for the technical but that you would retain possession of the ball they've changed how that works a little bit i would think with some of those subtle changes as an official that'd be demanding to know the execution of the rules in all situations because you could get some um unique unique circumstances that you might have to talk through that and make sure that you get it right um that one i think was pretty easy for the officials there in that instance but i'm still kind of confused as to what warrant to the technical call there but um fortunately the pirates are up 21 and as the officials try to manage this game we hope we can not let it get
071too chippy and and have a successful finish you know and as it looks obvious here that the pirates are are going to come away with the victory i still have to say you know and we kind of touched on it earlier they're up by 23 now 64-41 it's not been near as easy as as what the the score says that it looks like it could be as cummer's going to go in he's going to get the two-hand dunk but jackson dale you look at this team at the 1a level this is not going to be a team that's going to go away quietly once it becomes tournament time for them yeah i i i said earlier i like some of the pieces that they have the the flow of this game kind of got away
072from them and the style that they want to play and you know what greensburg is a very good team so they just put it on jacksondale here today but as jacksondell looks to compete in their sectional with morristown rising sun southwestern shelby oldenburg hauser and waldron i think they i think they match up pretty well i have happen to be looking at you know common opponents here they're three and one against sectional teams as morristown is 4-0 so those two teams are are probably likely to meet to contest for their own sectional championship that is hosted at southwestern shelby so um i don't think jacksonville has anything to worry about when it comes to a successful close their season and i think something that can be said for for both of these programs and and
073then even i hope can be said about about our program on the girls side is you know success breeds success and past success does nothing for you as far as getting you a win in the current year but what it does is it builds it builds that character in your kids that they expect to win there's not a fear of losing they expect to win and they they work to do the things that it takes to win and you know both of these programs on the floor have multiple state titles um and so even though none of these kids were involved in any of those that's now the expectation of the program you can't come in and work halfway you can't come in and be half speed and i i think that that that just
074goes such a long way in even though it was past success and what you do in the present i really do feel like that that has some bearing on each current year's team i agree whenever you establish tradition history legacy in some of those long-term concepts um there's just an unspoken expectation in a uh a level of excellence that happens all throughout the program and it gets developed in the younger players as you as you look at your feeder system so once you have it you need to maintain it and we've been fortunate to have a lot of success on both sides of the program here at greensburg community high school hey i do have a no here uh coach simpson that our next broadcast will be february 18th that is a thursday night contest
075and that is a reschedule from our rushville game that was lost um this past thursday night at this time it does look to be a jv varsity contest and we will be bringing varsity action to you probably around 7 15 7 30 depending on how the night unfolds we will get the link out for that contest when we get a little closer but that will be our next gtv broadcast and hopefully we can avoid the technical issues that that we had today but we're going to try to get that live stream and get that on our etc local channel as well through all the services that gtv provides and i'm pretty sure that the a team will be back on the call nice job there i'd say that's probably pretty likely um i i'm a
076little close to full committal being the father of five because every day is an adventure for me typically but um well i mean the pay is so good that i don't know how we could turn it screams at me every time i take the mic so um that's back that's back at coach moore for the comment made earlier that didn't reach the microphone so good for him pirates going to dribble it out here they're going to come away with a 28-point victory at home against jackson dale 73-45 but one that was a lot closer than what the final score is going to end up being yeah much agreed much agreed a lot of a lot of respect a lot of respect between these two programs and also these two schools being so geographically close and
077also just good communities so um happy for the pirates get a 28-point win here and um they they move right along in their schedule we want to thank everybody for joining us today on gtv like mr peters said our next broadcast will be thursday february 18th 18th here on gtv that link will get sent out as quickly as we have it if you can't join us in person join us on gtv february 18th ballpark 7 15. between then and now the boys are at madison and at seymour our boys are at madison on february 13th and at seymour on february 16th but our next home contest will be against the rushville lions as a reschedule day and gtv will be here to bring the action all right this is jason simpson for grant peters thank
078you for joining us today goodbye everybody