Basketball Games

Hello all,

What a LONG DAY! I was up by 6:00 and at the gym by 7:40 for the Little Rattlers first game of the season. It chaos in motion. Everyone wanted the ball. I had teammates guarding each other instead of the other team. It was the keystone cops on a 1st grade level. In my teams defense, they were doing what they had practiced. They guarded the person they normally guard and the concept of guarding the other team is 'new'. All in all, it went as I thought. The person who got the rebound took the ball down the court and shot the ball. Then the other team came running the other way. I am looking forward to Wednesday to continue the process.

As for the Lady Gators, these girls like to shoot. They LOVE to shoot the ball. Not a lot of defense being played though and very little rebounding was practiced. The offense will be changed to be more intuitive. The defense does not guard the player, so ball screens do not create an advantage for the offense. I'm thinking we will do something of a swinging-gate where the ball will be lobbed over the top of the defense to a cutting player off of a back door. Dad, you would be happy with this play I think. It is just how you and Danna use to work on it in the back yard.

OK, for the record, Ali had 2 baskets, 2 blocks and 5 steals.
Zac never had the ball to shoot, 3 rebounds and 2 steals.

I was very tired by the end of the afternoon!

-Andy