Boys basketball loses tough game vs. Thornton

By Justin Lawton

Editor in Chief

Crete vs Thornton was a highly intense matchup for the books, but the Crete basketball team sadly came short. The score was 52 - 36 as Thornton ended the game with a crazy posterize dunk on Zyheir Gardner.

Photo by Damola Yusuf

Students gave their opinions on the game and how the Crete basketball team messed up.

“Crete basketball started hot, and the team had the energy in the first and second quarter, but by the third quarter, the energy was off, and it was starting to go down, and that led Thornton to get a bigger lead on us,” Shane Shores said.

The team has some very talented pieces. It’s just that our basketball team needs to find a way to work together as a unit and be one team instead of being a basketball team with good players on it.

“Crete always comes out strong, but then they start playing badly in the second half. They start doing their own thing, and then they lose momentum, which causes us every time to lose. We need to learn how to keep the same energy as how we start,” Nazr Thomas said.

Fans are very frustrated with our team for starting well but not finishing it. We are known for having one good half, and then in the second half, we give up and start playing lazily, which causes the team to look at that as one of our weaknesses. For example, we were down three points versus Homewood Flossmoor, but we were down 12 points in the second half.

Jaylin best said forward Morez Johnson from Thornton was having his way with Crete, but the team was responding very well in the first half of the game. But Crete-Monee was playing very badly in the second half.

“That is what I feel like our team needs to work on finishing because, after the second half, they started letting Morez Johnson get hot, which was bad because we started to lose by a significant margin,” Jaylin Best said.

They went against Thornton, a top-ranked team, and they didn’t even lose by that much. Even though CMHS lost, this game served as a lesson to see our weaknesses and strengths.

“I think Crete did a great job defensively up until the third. Going into the fourth quarter, they were getting multiple stops, but Morez would just get his. Offensively, I feel like they didn’t have one of their best offensive weapons, Jyaveion Green, but Crete still fought hard,” Isaiah Lovett said.