HUDSON HIGH VS. LEBRON. 5 on 1. WHO WINS?

A local high school team will get its shot at LeBron and nobody’s quite sure what will happen. We’ll explain later in this article. But, first a few observations about some basketball. The season is old enough now where we can safely say that there are no runaway favorites in any division.

Here’s a quick peripheral opinion of the races and how they may shape up as the season winds down. D1: The favorites: SJ, North, Fitchburg. The Team or Teams none of the favorites will feel very good about playing in an elimination game: Marlboro, Wachusett, South, Doherty. The deal: Can we please recognize that Fitchburg is also a basketball town? With no superstars, the Raiders do, in fact, play “a tough schedule.” That’s a fact. Because the Burg is sorta out of the way from Worcester and extensive media coverage, we don’t get to see their players “grow up” the way we do with players from the I-High and the Worcester privates. Because these guys weren’t grabbing headlines from a few good games as sophomores, doesn’t mean they can’t play.

D2: The favorite: Groton-Dunstable. Teams they might not want to play: St. B's (obviously) Tantasqua (obviously), any team from the Mid-Wach C, including but not limited to Hudson, Clinton, Oakmont, Lunenburg, or Grafton and Northbridge.

D3: Favorite: Sutton. Teams that have a shot to take down the Sammies: Whitinsville, Maynard, Nashoba Tech, WB.

Here’s the LeBron thing. Move over Greatest Baseball Player Ever, step aside “Will anybody ever drop 100 in an NBA game?” This debate took place during water breaks and puffs of inhalers at a local gym where about a dozen “former athletes” play pickup hoops. Scenario: Take any above-average local high school team as it stands right now. For this argument, let’s use Hudson High. Hudson leads by 20 points heading into the fourth quarter. The other team benches everyone and sends only LeBron onto the floor for the final 8 minutes. So, it’s Hudson High, with a 20-point lead against LeBron. Five on one. Who wins? Amazingly, 75 percent of the debaters said LeBron would win.

“He would just pull up and shoot a trey, which is like a free throw to an NBA guy.” “If he missed, he would just rebound until he scored.” “He would block every shot the high school team took.”

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