East Bay boys basketball poll — 1/22

Interesting that DLS and Newark actually went up in the polls, despite both blowing 4th quarter leads last night in consecutive games. Salesian kept their top spot, but MV took a dive despite putting a scare into Dublin.

MV has quality wins over San Leandro, Cardinal Newman, DLS, McClymonds, Montgomery and St. Mary’s of Stockton. Newark’s only quality wins are both over Dublin, but they have a close 1-point loss to Salesian. DLS has no quality wins, only a close loss to Salesian and bad losses to DV & MV. DLS’ top rated win is over SRV, who isn’t even ranked in the top 15 poll above and is ranked #24 in NCS per CalPreps.

DLS has a solid team, but they’ve lost to the only 3 good teams they have played so far. They’ve got an incredible amount of mileage out of having Frank as the coach. MV should be ranked ahead of them at this point based on the number of quality wins and having beaten them head to head. DLS may very well be the better team when all is said and done, but they need to beat some good teams first.

Yeah Salisian dodged a bullet. The DSL coach needs to go to a camp for clock management 6 point lead with 3 minutes to go. All he needed to do was call time out with the instructions to not take a shot prior to the shot clock running down to zero. He was already in a spread offense. Instead he doesn’t call an out of bounds play and get the ball stolen. Runs up the court on the press and gets an off the glass 3 pointer from the corner. Salisian scores again and then decide to give the ball to the play-maker who should have been isolated the whole game.” Mr big shot” Jabari Byrd who nails the three pointer. The the DSL coach calls time out. I could have choked him. Congrats number 22 from DSL , Mr Montgomery should be calling for you soon.

Wow Gdog so angry! All I was trying to point out was that there were 6 possessions left in the game and you have 3 time outs left. (2)two 30 second for each minute. If you do the math all you have to do is get your 30 seconds prior to a shot and force them into fouling you down the stretch. They were going to take at least 15 seconds each of there possessions. They would have to make all there shots with a maximum of 45 seconds left. Highly unlikely. The DSL coach really coached up his freshmen led class and his offense as well as his defense is outstanding. I thought it was a well coached game. Strategy was correct and he does know how to stop a motion offense. Why Salisian is running a motion rather than a 1-4 with there talent is beyond me, but that’s not the point.
The coach got caught up in the moment and didn’t use his time outs or manage the last three minutes of the game well.
I heard that 22 was going to Montana, but good luck at Arizona if that’s the case. They’ve got a lot of talent at Arizona.That would be a hard line up to crack. Is that Tucson or Tempe?

Mckbooth, I wasn’t angry I was just questioning your credentials to criticize the coach. Let me quote you. “The DSL coach needs to go to a camp for clock management…”. “The the DSL coach calls time out. I could have choked him.” Who is the angry one here? Choking someone… really? BTW Mellis has two State Championships but should be running a 1-4 offense in your opinion. Anytime you lose you will be questioned and thankfully for both of them it doesn’t happen very often but I am sure you could do better.

Well Gdog am I wrong? Would you have done the same if you were the coach of DSL or Salisian? Did you see the game?

Hard to beleive that was the first time those two teams have played in 20 years. They should play each other every year, as it would help both teams get stronger and makes for a great game for the fans.