Edmond Memorial-Union 6A Title Game

I just got back from the game, so my numbers may be a little off but I believe Edmond Memorial went something like 11 minutes--the entire 3rd quarter and the first part of the 4th--without a field goal.

EM was up by 9 at the half, but it was all Union in the 2nd half. Johnson for Union was the best player on the floor in my opinion. For the most part, both Woodard brothers seemed pretty quiet.
 
Edmond Memorial got what they deserved. Going into the stall game to start the second half. Come on man. When will Oklahoma high school bball get with the times and get a shot clock? I did like the Johnson kid for Union. Who's recruiting him? He looks like he may be a pretty good player down the road if he continues to improve.
 
Ed memorial coach said that he wasn't coaching to hold the ball, he said union length was preventing them to run there zone o. Both really good teams... Ugly and sloppy game for both teams...
 
Shot clock won't happen too much cost for all the schools.
 
Chiefdaddy said:
Edmond Memorial got what they deserved. Going into the stall game to start the second half. Come on man. When will Oklahoma high school bball get with the times and get a shot clock? I did like the Johnson kid for Union. Who's recruiting him? He looks like he may be a pretty good player down the road if he continues to improve.
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He's committed to Avila, an NAIA in Kansas City.
 
I'm surprised Johnson is only heading to an NAIA school. I've watched him several times, 2 of those being from the bench, and he is a great player. He can shoot the jumpshot, create his own look off the bounce, and is a pretty quick defender.

As far as Edmond Memorial goes, I thought they had plenty of looks when attacking and passing the ball against the Union zone and didn't take them.
 
Sedrick has only verballed and several small schools in the state really want to get him now.

The biggest reason he wasn't recruited more was he was not aggressive offensively most of the year. He is the best defender in the state and many times deferred to his teammates on offense.

THAT IS HILARIOUS THAT COWHERD said he wasn't stalling. He is known for that. An OKC area coach told the Union coaches that if Memorial got up even at 2-0 and Union went to zone that Memorial would hold the ball.

It just didn't work.
 
Edmond passed up look after look after look in the 3rd quarter passing the ball around. Ended up turning it over and Union would go and score. There's no way, in my opinion, that their coach wasn't trying to stall.
 
I was at the game. The memorial coach stalled the game out, plain and simple. If he says he didn't, he is lying. They had a thousand open shots they passed on. There were a lot of people at the game, I don't know how he can say he didn't stall the game out when a gillion people were there and saw him do it.

As someone above said, shot clocks cost too much. And it isn't just the clocks, you have to have someone run them. I could see 6A getting them at some point. If there are many more Union/Memorial games (a complete joke of a game), then maybe we will see it. The game was miserable to watch.

Johnson kid is good, but don't know how good. He didn't do anything, but you can see the talent in the young woodard kid. I haven't seen Clark, but I would love to have the young woodard kid.

First time I have seen Union this year, they are a very very well coached team in my opinion.
 
Didn't see the game, but the most anticipated championship game in New Mexico was between the #1 and #2 teams in one classification...final score was 31-30. Both teams completely took the air out of the ball from what I heard.

I know the costs may be too much given budget cuts, but it is time for a shot clock in high school. California already does it, Texas is thinking about it, rest of the states need to do it as well. Completely killing the game.
 
cowboysooner said:
I was at the game. The memorial coach stalled the game out, plain and simple. If he says he didn't, he is lying. They had a thousand open shots they passed on. There were a lot of people at the game, I don't know how he can say he didn't stall the game out when a gillion people were there and saw him do it.

As someone above said, shot clocks cost too much. And it isn't just the clocks, you have to have someone run them. I could see 6A getting them at some point. If there are many more Union/Memorial games (a complete joke of a game), then maybe we will see it. The game was miserable to watch.

Johnson kid is good, but don't know how good. He didn't do anything, but you can see the talent in the young woodard kid. I haven't seen Clark, but I would love to have the young woodard kid.

First time I have seen Union this year, they are a very very well coached team in my opinion.
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Johnson shut down the younger Woodard and guarded him well all night.

He is a lock down defender who can score when he looks to be aggressive.

The reason that game was miserable to watch is Edmond can't run with Union so they knew once they got the lead they had to stall. Everyone else in the OKC area found that out the hard way early on in the year losing by double digits when Union was healthy.
 
I am not sure what game you were watching. Memorial ran Union in the first half and wore down the bigs, that is why they had a 9 point lead. Memorial slowed the game down and played into the hands of Union. Big mistake. Union has bigs that rebound well and they get the ball out to there guards real well.
 
I don't know squat about Union, but from looking at several box scores, I wouldn't say they were a running team. They played several games in the 40's and 50's during the year.
 
WTSooner said:
I don't know squat about Union, but from looking at several box scores, I wouldn't say they were a running team. They played several games in the 40's and 50's during the year.
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That is becasue so many teams stalled on them this year.

Go look at their scores early. They were in the 60's, 70's, 80's, and even 100's one time. They wanted to get out and run, teams just tried to stall on them.

Union's Big's didn't get tired, they just couldn't hit a shot first half. Memorial was sprinting back on defense to try and stop their break, you could even hear Memorial's coach talking about this at halftime.

Lawton Ike stalled.
Memorial Stalled.
Santa Fe tried to slow it down.

I would call them a fast break team, teams just learned to slow the game down and run everyone back on defense, much like Memorial did.

Just ask Sam. He tweeted about PCW outrunning the Redskins in the PCI and then PCW found out quickly that wasn't going to work.
 
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All I know is Memorial has a bunch of speed and were up 9 at the half when they were running the ball. They made a mistake slowing it down because it allowed the bigs to get involved and Union get back into the game and end up winning it. Union is able to hit the big men and do a lot of backdoor cuts to the basket for layups but I wouldn't consider them a fast break team. They play very well as a team.
 
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