Why the blue mood?
Well . . . Constitution had gone to war without its top four players. And of the seven Generals used by coach Rob Moore, only Fajion Jones (6-3, 185) stood taller than 5-10 and weighed more than 145 pounds. Frankly, some of those guys, as brassy as they were, could have passed for sixth-graders.
PET, meanwhile, has one other starter who's even taller than George - Jai Williams, at 6-9 - and all of its rotation members boast a decent amount of height/strength.
"That was the worst game we ever played," PET coach James "Flame" Lewis said.
Added George: "A win's a win and we'll take it, but we definitely played down to the level of competition.
"I give them credit. They played fast and hard, a lot harder than we did. They had all those little guys running around, and we let them speed up the game. They got us out of our game."
Moore said he benched his top four players "because of an accumulation of [basketball-related] things."
He gave that explanation at halftime, then said, "If we were close, I was going to let them play the second half. But you know what? We're up [34-32] and I'm having so much fun coaching these guys, they're going to finish the game."
In the first quarter, in which they were outscored, 20-10, the Generals committed eight turnovers, and six of their shots were rejected. Then, presto, they stormed to 10 straight points in the first 2 minutes of the second quarter, and the game was terrific thereafter.
Well, from the competitive standpoint.
"I had no idea this was going to happen," George said. "Then I saw all those little guys come out for the tap. I thought we'd see their regular guys late in the first quarter, or to start the second quarter, or maybe for the second half . . . "
