Thoughts from Tuesday night on the OC boys prep hardwood

BH Lahser SUPER SOPH Yante Maten (25 pts, 14 rebs, 6 blocks in win over Groves to clinch at least a share of the OAA Gold crown) is the best big fella in the county…..YEAH, I SAID IT!!!

Holly senior Blake Ordiway has been playing out of his mind lately. Last week in the first start of his career he went for a career-high 12 points in a blowout win over Swartz Creek in hostile waters. Then, on Tuesday, starting his first game in front of the home crowd, he exploded for another career-high of 16 points in leading TEAM HORSE to a 57-44 fleecing of Fowlerville . Move over Larry Sylvester, it looks like the OC has ANOTHER Jeremy Lin on our hands……

Oak Park's Donovan Moore went all DWAYNE WADE on Tuesday, sinking a game-winning trifecta at the horn to send the Knights to a 76-75 win over Berkley in OT

CONGRATS to Rochester head coach John Pleasant and the FALCONS CAGE CREW - with Rochester's 70-49 defeat of Farmington on Tuesday, TEAM PLEASANT captured their second straight league title for the first time since the 1980s…….WOW!!!

Lakeland's Nick Troxell got BUCK WILD in the Eagles 58-51 win over Livonia Churchill, scoring 25 points and bringing down 8 rebounds!!! The Eagles are only 4-15 this year, but Troxell is only a sophomore, so TEAM BRUGGER appears to have a bright future ahead for itself

Great win by TEAM PORRITT aka OL St. Mary's on Tuesday, sneaking past Detroit Cass Tech 54-53. The Eaglets needed some momentum heading into a tough district next week and they got it thanks to a balanced scoring sheet; junior Matt Linehan put up a team-high 15, with Danny Furlong, putting in 14, Ethan Woelke scoring 13 and Chewy Ukandu notching 12.

Pontiac's Dijon Cogdell is the straw that stirs the Phoenix's drink…..I love me some Jarod Jones, Mark Hoover and Jamerea Samples, but this season has shown that if Cogdell isn't on, the Purple People Eaters struggle……no struggles were uncovered on Tuesday, as my man DJ went for 11 points, five dimes and five swipes in 'Yacktown's beatdown of West Bloomfield.

BH Andover head coach Jeff Rubin getting the Barons to 10 wins is downright REMARKABLE!!!!

Mark my words, Southfield, which destroyed FH Harrison 71-30 on Tuesday, will be REALLY REALLY GOOD next year

Troy's ZAK ATTACK aka junior point guard Zak Noor showed why he's a BALLER and a SHOT CALLER by scoring 21 points and dropping 11 dimes in the Colts lopsided victory over AH Avondale.  Noor is a big reason why the Colts train didn't derail this season amid an emotionally-taxing conditions and a major factor in snaring Troy at least a share of a league title for the second consecutive campaign.

SUPERIOR JOB by coach John Hall and his staff over at RH Adams keeping the Highlanders focused and playing their best ball of the season the last week or so, putting together a pair of huge wins - sat over Berkley and Tue over Ferndale - in the wake of SUSPENSIONGATE 2012 to keep them alive in the race for a league title....Watch out Rochester, John Hall or no John Hall, the ultra-motivated Highlanders are going to be hot as a pistol and hungry as heck entering your district clash next week