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I am NOT a huge ER fan, but guys we really need to quit blaming officials for basketball games. I was at the game and actually Coach LeMaster played the final side out inbounds play very well. He took Wolter off the ball and doubled Shane Hall and made it difficult for JC to enter the ball to him. They threw it in to another player who immediately got it to Hall, but once Hall got the ball Kasongo actually sat down and played defense and stayed right in front of him and Shane lost control of the ball and Johnny Miller swooped in for the steal. There was NO foul that should have been called period. JC was actually in the double bonus towards the end of the 3rd or early 4th quarter and ER never shot the bonus in the 2nd half, so I definitely would not blame the officials guys. Johnny Miller continues to impress me every game for a freshman in high school, probably the best shooter in the Mountains that I have seen this year, believe he was 5-6 from beyond the arc last night. Shane Hall is a very nice, well-rounded player and he did out play Kasongo for the 1st 3 quarters. But Kasongo definitely got the best of Shane in the 4th period. Both Kasongo and Hall are extremely athletic and if you put Shane's work ethic into Kasongo, then he would be a monster and would definitely be D1. Kasongo had two monster dunks in the last 4 minutes of the game, one he took off from way out and dunked on top of JC player, quite impressive!! But good luck to both teams in district play! Coach LeMaster has ER playing fairly well to finish the season, believe they have won 8 of their last 10. Coach McKenzie has his squad playing well also, this was not a bad loss @ ER, East Ridge has potential to win this 15th Region guys. They have only had Shane back for the past 2 games and played pretty well without him and that experience for other players (Truman Saylers) will help them in the post-season!! Again, good luck to both teams in their respective districts and hopefully they meet again for the Regional Finals!!