[ImNotD.Newsome]

Pikeville being able to recruit while everyone else can’t always makes it unfair. How can you say pikeville has a good coaching staff when they receive 1-2 good players almost every season.

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Betsy Layne is looking at a very uncertain summer and season.  Allen may or may not play, but why assume he will?  Collins and B. Hall are very much in play as transfer candidates.  Pente and Parsons are the two most likely players to show up in August.  Pente is one of the most well balanced players in the region and Parsons could score 20+ a game easily.  The biggest problem is who is going to guard anyone over 6 feet tall?  Granted, the region will be amiss of those type players for the most part next year, but they will be outsized and outrebounded every night.  They could be anywhere from 2-4 in the district depending on who actually plays.  JC, Paintsville, Pike Central and Pikeville seem to all have the talent or are drawing in the talent for next year.  Lawrence will win the very weak 58th by default.

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If the May Valley star isn't going to FC next year- and I'm assuming this is the kid that has a brother finisihing up his hs career there this year, where will he go?

May valley has another player just about as good as him, Id say as good honestly. Just does not get the coverage.Just as tall, but built bigger Heck of a baseball player too

I don't follow middle school much, but I haven't heard of anyone but the one and I probably only heard about him because he is dunking in games as an 8th grader.  MV was good this year from what I've heard, but they didn't win their county championship.  So idk.

Don’t see anybody from May Valley going anywhere else in Floyd County. Possibly see them going to Knott or Hazard.

Why Knott  or Hazard?

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Yea we got two really good defenders with Pente and Parsons, Andrew will be solid and Isaiah may be best defender of the bunch

Pente is one of the best defenders in the area. Allen is a good defender. Parsons was one of the worst defensive guards in the region, but one of the best offensive guards at the same time. Collins struggled defensively in the games I watched, but he makes up for it with effort.

Yeah I agree Pente is a great defender, Allen was solid also. But I watched Parsons slack a lot on defense. Looked like he was conserving energy for offense. Collins didn’t get to play enough for me to judge the defensive aspect, playing towards the end of games is hard to judge, due to subs playing people slacking off etc