Gramps Braggin Rights Boys Basketball Pre-season prognostications - Suburban Green Conference 9/21/2021

I received good news on the foot yesterday.  Healing nicely but might need a skin graft over the wound in a month.  And the doc allowed me to start exercising again so I will be on the exercycle or rowing machine, trying to get down to fighting weight.

Today's pre-season predictions are for the Suburban Green conference, which U City dominated on overall season record, but technically, McCluer North won with three wins to the Lions 2-0 record.  Of course, we all hope that the pandemic will not impact teams like the Stars, Hazelwood East and West, and Ritenour, who didn't even start practicing until January and only played a handful of games in February or March.  Let's hope everyone is vaccinated and they won't have to wear masks again for this season.  Actually, the mask mandate on courts was a little comedic, as most of the players wore them as chin straps anyway.

So, while U City lost some other world talent in Jalen Hampton and others, I still think the Lions have the upper hand in the Suburban Green.  McCluer has longtime assistant, Trevor Laney, taking over and they might surprise a lot of people.  I believe Summit has settled on Sam Haug but there is still a question mark behind his name on the Rockwood Summit website.

I found a number of teams in this conference that do not report full statistics to the Post-Dispatch, often sending in shots made for the initial box score but never going back and adding shots taken.  For those teams, I have given them an "Incomplete" grade and I hope they will do better this year.  Your kids work hard!  Give them the respect they deserve by reporting their successful statistics.

You can find all conference discussions HERE:

Here are my thoughts on Suburban Green:









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