Lets be honest.
Did anyone really think Palma would be back in the Central Coast Section Division IV basketball finals this year after Orlando Johnson graduated?
Of course not.
Or when Palma was under .500 eight games into the preseason?
What a masterful job Palma coach Paul Alioto did. He took a player that spent his junior year on the JV team and turned him into a dynamic point guard.
He helped groom Clark Fox into the best player in the Tri-County Athletic League. He got players to buy into their roles and excel in them.
The reality is Palma was a poor shooting team. Yet, it found a way as a collective unit to win 20 games, a TCAL title and reach the finals.
John Devine has been writing about high school sports in Monterey County since, well, practically since he was an athlete at King City in the days just after leather helmets. In PrepNation, John has even more in-depth analysis of the latest results and news he's brought to you in The Herald and in his weekly videos.
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