there's no way that bell wants looking over melrose as an easy game they know it's really big for them to win this game tonight and they really want to take first place this year no roses six in eleven may be better than that then that six and eleven record shows they got a lot of hype two guys at six foot five two at six four and three at six foot three how is a team with this much hate only six and eleven like you said i mean a team with this kind of record it's really not reflecting their five thirty five in the second half though they cut a twenty twenty five point deficit i think at the most twenty five they cut it down to one with about a minute a half to play they couldn't get over the hump but so many positives in the last can you talk about some of those positives to going into the tournament absolutely i mean any team can come back that much and one half of high school basketball really has something to be proud of and they're there given it was a tough loss it's a loss they can be proud of yeah lots of children lot of heart i thought determination didn't give up another story line in this game that some of your fellow managers will be have got important task tonight talk about that absolutely my crotty seven away from breaking five hundred assists on the season and out of that would be on the on the career wouldn't serve on the career and i mean there's a lot of pressure on little justice you over there taking the assistance because if you screws up tonight man then it's all over and we have we it's about time for the national anthem will be right back with the league standings and some action from thursday night  anyway moving on now we're about ready for the opening tip we we should mention that the player to watch tonight from melrose is six five center chris mccarthy he's the leader of the team he will be taking the tip i would assume no he wouldn't that will be zero kevin floyd that seventy kevin lee six four senior we may have been misinformed mccarthy not starting out there on the floor doing on defense start out here starting out here on the defense it looks like almost trying to pull out a triangle with the three men tied inside and the two men covering the ball hands off to be one us tonight is mike's father who has been watching that assist total all season and back i remember when as down low that was seven flight his fourth point that's a three point clicking all over the pats alou and i was thinking that they came in to lexington game played the first half the way they were playing some games previous to that game stoneham game they didn't play great shots behind the glass and there will be a foul slow you know and i don't know when they came in they were sorry they they they went in they came out the second half and they just played an entirely it was entirely different team offensively and that seems to be the team that showed up here tonight on offense absolutely i mean i think it's due a little bit over confidence in lexington and they woke up after the second half one of two for kevin flight he leads melrose with five f and we have a yeah they're going to call the violation i believe i i know it was i'm just not sure which one belmont ball anyway my credit over to misinformed about his his leadership maybe he's just standing on the bench i don't know but i would have expected him to start if he was as good as i've heard past on little fight for it this may or may not not known system he gets on rebound in best terry fight for the ball and it's going to down to melrose on a foul oh you know it could just be me but it seems like the entire team is working towards michael of five hundred because i mean they're just given the ball like anything tonight no more so than usual mcevoy couldn't get the lay out yet going back to what you said about the big crowd i mean not only his cronies record on the line here but i like he said before it's a real big game tonight and i mean for the first place position for belmont believe instead they're playing to clinch a tie except that or no excuse me i'm wrong met this is and fifteen now trails belmont and there's a crowd he will go to the one i believe if they say he was in the next winchester played a friday night game the only team in there they took on reading the only middlesex league game going on last  pretty misses the first free throw them a wouldn't have been playing to clinch anything i believe except that winchester lost now they're playing to clinch at least a tie right as probably not chafee doesn't like that call oh he looks like he was giving the ref a little lip and the ref seems to be warning him yeah that seven on belmont twenty three to twenty second one for ro and the first one is good not a lot of emotion coming out of the fans for belmont today you know it makes it that much better that much harder to take it strong and yes green to me to talk it in six four but as you can see there's not a lot of meat on him but he can start power is way through the now when he wants  just a couple feet from his dad and you can just see the pride on his face just just beaming for a son that's worked so hard you know in his is seventeen or eighteen years of playing basketball now it's finally paying off  with a serious career milestone of p h s absolutely as we sit here right now don't want to fight it director donald davening always calling the band a company as we speak by the end of this week i guarantee you mike ryder will have his name on the wall try to tries a bank on us and almost threw it in off of flights hands instead we got a phone saunders but yeah this is the first captain captain second and it took fifteen or twenty minutes to get the lights back on so there was a stoppage in the game just kind of a weird night you know all this you know it's big games over the place the injury and then the lights go out in the middle of the game it would figured  yeah it's slightly confusing but it's not that bad minute forty seven the plates thirty two twenty seven belmont given him a game as we said better than their six and eleven record to me gets in both and it's three twenty example of that right there absolutely like i said before i mean very reminiscent of how rob ramsey from last season come up very big on anything ned and i mean make it blocks and put shots up behind them i mean to me he's been shaped into a thirty five twenty eight with thirty seven seconds left to play   seven plus assists we stopped counting after the after he got to five hundred joe to me with seven and lost folks with five as the teams take the floor when you start out of breath are you ok we had further technical know didn't want to leave him out tonight chafee goes over to flight turn around and goes up and that was a great shot out last year when he was sidelined with a back injury because that's about all he could do you know that that is crowd favorite move to a catch a little speed and pull up right on the inside of the foul line and it's not surprisingly but other coaches have picked up on it because i i can remember overhearing  talking about travel friday let's use any cost for the travel trying to change directions and go back towards the who it's back to a three point game with seven twenty seven to play forty eight forty five and it's still anybody's and right now really trying to keep the pressure on defensively move lost the ball sizing with the defense can't convert moment doesn't seem to be willing to let the jumper again friday fourteen tonight and someone doesn't seem to be willing to let to let melrose get closer than three every time they get it down to three belmont seems to turn it up a little bit bubbly back up and there's and he didn't know what to do with that recovers though and coach online sets up an office telling the team to slow down a little bit there's really no need to rush for belmont i mean they can pretty much do what they want with it with the five points they got burn ten in five eleven and five overall they've killed a little bit lately i believe they've lost three out of the last five years karate gets the free throw make it a nine point game reading ten and six eleven and in this day of an identical at a league record and say i don't know i'm still hasn't won oh in fifteen oh and seventeen overall you know like we said about melrose at the beginning of the game a lot of these records don't reflect the team's true ability i mean lexington eight they should definitely be at least eleven in five simply i mean any team that can blank bell on the season should should not be doing that badly it's not that bad but you know and i mean there are some records that really don't point out all the stops so it's sixty three fifty three four thirty four to play belmont pulling away a little bit here with under five minutes to play and we've got is this a time out it's the first the fifth person to follow there on a number twenty four scott shafi so he's done he's done for the game and you'll see chiffon in the game  five ten senior guard saying watertown falling off quite a bit they were when they came in here in december they were i believe in third in the middle six league they've fallen off now to a third or seventh eighth now seventh at seven and eight just their kids just aren't used to winning and they don't know how to handle being you know a contender in league has gone on to get the turnover as shavon throws it out of bounds now i'm not quite sure is a sly playing style and his slick looks like it and that's going to be another turnover lots of turnovers this may be home games i haven't seen them play it this year but if this is the norm you know you're not going to win it too many games thank you please you know turning the ball over this many times in a game it's out now three fifty two to play and it's sixty five fifty three and that's would be too easy points oh no i spoke too soon it was an easy shot it was not too easy points for too much turnover some dumb us really been struggling this week i mean speaking from a statistician's point of view because that's something we keep track of every game and that meant that many games were belmont and less than twelve turnovers in the whole game to thirty eight to play it sixty seven fifty five i think brian it's nice might be good alternate post game interview if we can't get my crowd here maybe he doesn't he doesn't like to get interviewed though he's a politician he should be used to it you can't get the first free by seventy five fifty nine those guys might not get to check in with fifteen seconds left to play clincher share of the middlesex league title on the night that mike writing passes five hundred career assists seventy five fifty nine the final will be right back with us a post game maybe maybe an interview stick with us how does it how does it how does it like how does the team feel little pretty little pressure off what's it like yeah i mean clinching it is great we definitely wanted a long and you know i'm not going to guarantee anything but i'm going to say i bet we get along with playing well you know but it definitely takes a lot of pressure off knowing that we at