We will be leaving here in an hour to catch our 8:20 flight. Even though the season did not go as I had envisioned, based on the circumstances I thought we did well, and each player improved. This group of boys was busy...... too busy we only really had al our team together for 25% of practices and less than half of our games. Between prom, summer league, other camps, school testing, graduation, vacations, etc we only had a handful of practices as a whole team together. Best of luck to all of you let me know if I can help out with any recruiting or if you need me to make any calls for in your behalf. Best of luck to all thanks Steve Garrity
Vic 5-9 FG's 18 pts 7-10 FT's
Christian 3 pts. 6 boards and 5 blocks
Noah 3-8 7 pts 2 blocks 5 rbounds
Mike 8 points, 2-7 FT's 4 rebounds
Drake 4 ponts 6 rebounds 2 assists
Tyler 3 rebounds 2 blocks 2 assists
Marc played limited minutes had 2 big threes 7 points
Zach 13 boards 6 points
We had a nice time at the Blue Man show. The whole team went along with all the parents and family. It was a great show but failed to distrct me fom the let down of the loss. Iwas really happy overall how we competed if we just make 1/2 our FT's we win the game. don't know hown many front end of 1-1's we missed. The whole summer AAU season will be playing over in my head for some time. Greatful to the boys forthe time that they put in and effort they gave. All quality kids. As I was on the strip tonight waiting as the boys went off to eat. I saw several groups of young men from other basketball teams using foul language and acting like idiots. Was glad that our boys don't act like that.
A great start to game #4 actually a pretty dominate performance. Defensively we were very solid, offensively efficient and got a double digit lead early and would have been to 20 had we hit our FT's. Mid way through the first half Hayes went out with a severely rolled ankle. Immediatley swelled and left the game for good when it happened. We battled well and maintained a nice lead at the half. Second half we slipped a bit and the FT's we missed in the first half..........well in the second half those misses ....continued to be misses. Back and forth Vic had to play point the whole time in fact don't think he went out of the game. Our bigs wee better than their bigs. drake, tyler, zach, christian and noah combied for 33 rebounds and 9 blocks. As we tired we turned the ball over, and our lead started to shrink to single digits and then tied for the first time with around a minute or so. It was tied with 14 seconds to got it down to 5 seconds where Vic was absolutely mugged no call and they laid it up at the buzzzer. lost by 2 points. I was pretty pleased with the effort and with Hayes out of the game you could see how vulnerable we were on defense and less efficient offensively. Back to Free throws. How bad was it??? We shot 29 and made 12 yep 12-27. No matter what you can't point any fingers anywhere on 12 of 27 free throw shooting.
More later gotta go check bck tomorrow morning
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Pre game #4 5:08
We leave here in 10 minutes or so. I get so focused on basketball. I could do this everyday over and over. I am not always sure my message comes across to the boys. Basketball truly is a metaphor for life. We all need to be teachable and coachable we need to follow a game plan to exactness. We need to re focus try again and make a better effort. Our kids have so much nd where much is given much is required. They don't get much sympathy from me. It is so easy to get off track in both life and basketball without even really knowing. Often it is just too late to avoid the pain and consequences that come with poor choices. In basketball you get yanked out and you sit on he bench. In life it is opportunity wasted. Sometimes just one mistake makes the difference in winning or losing just like in life. The small things tend to become big if they are not corrected. We play a 3 seed from another pool however because there was a forfeit 3 teams from that pool tied at 2-1 and one team 0-3. Which means because of the forfeit we may actually be playing the team that would have ended oup #1 in their pool but because they forfeited the game they may be the #3 seed instead of #1. It is a point system on who beats who and by how much that determines tie breakers. At 10pm tonight we are all going to see The Blue Man Group at the Venetion. However if we lose I won't be much in the blue Man group mood and will go back to my room and mope. The boys are conducting themselves great they are working hard and staying out of trouble, having fun. I just know I can get more out of each of them.
Getting right to it we played a very very small team that was not very good. We won by round 30 did not think we played all that well but playing a much smaller less talented team is hard to do. Everyone played quality minutes and everyone contributed alot. We play in the Gold Bracket tomorrw at 6:20pm. We play a team that took 3rd place in their pool. We will play til we lose. WIll update more tomorrow. I am taking the boys to the strip to eat.
Drake 12 points 5 of 8 shooting 2-2 FT's 5 rebounds 2 steals 1 assist 1 block
Mike 12 points 4-5 shooting 4-4 Ft's 5 rebounds 4 assits and steal.
Marc 4 boards 1 3 pointer
Hayes 8 points 3-6 2-2 from 3 4 boards2 steals 3 assists.
Vic 5 boards 6 points 3-9 shooting
Zach 5 points 5 boards 1 steal
Christian 6 boards 2 steal 3 blocks
Tyler 5 boards 3 assists 3 blocks 1 steal 2 points
Noah 5 points 2 big dunks 2 -8 shing 4 blocks 3 boards 3 assist
9 players scored 9 players had 3 boards or more. We live to play another day!!
Last night we had a great meal thanks to the Sonnemakers. It was 'Taco Thursday' and all the boys got their fill. Thanks so much to the Sonnemakers. They help me stay on schedule and Scott has beome a trusted sounding board and therapist to me so I don'r pull all my hair out. We had a nice breakfast at my place of pancakes, juice, milk, egss sausage, bacon and fruit. All the boys got up OK........... To The GAme
Crazy Game #2 without added drama we won by 6-8. It was a fairly close game most of the way we pulled away with a 14 point lead with 10 minutes in the second half but they lingered around. They hit some shots that they normally don't and we missed a few that we normally do. They spread us out and used their quickness to go around us and got to the basket. Our bigs got lazy and stopped moving their feet and were beat on the perimeter with the drive. I felt the ball bounced their way a bit more and they got some crucial calls during the game, they made some plays we we didn't, but we held on. Hayes made 2 big baskets and a FT in the last minute or two that sealed the win for us. We advance with a win and that is the important thing. We have not hit our stride. We had strange matchups as we were much much taller even 4-6 inches per man sometimes, however their quickness hurt us. We did terrible in exploiting their size disadvantage. They played a zone against us and packed it in, Denied Vic the ball most the time and between some simple missed shots, some not so great shots and TO's it worked out well for them. Bottom line we pulled it off. The guys are resting today some time at the pool and we leave at 6:30 for our 7:40 game. More later..................
Game #2 Stats
Hayes 9-19(but only 2-10 from 3) -3 FTS 23pts 3 assists
Vic 5-9, 3-5 from 3 13 pts. 3 steals 3 assists
Mike 7 boards 3 assists 1 steal 3-5, fg's 3-3 Fts 9 points
Noah 3-6 7-9 ft's 13pts and a Monster dunk down the middle of the lane in traffic
Marc had 5 big points for us on -5 shooting and a great block a couple boards
Christian had a couple baskets a couple blocks and a handful of boards
Zach played solid d and reounded well on both ends.
Game 1. Things started out well I thought this moring guys up at 8:30-9:00 then a hearty breakfast eggs sausage bacon toast milk fruit juice cereal......... we started the game out a bit slow Vic hit 2 threes off the bat the other team a local squad that were giving u 2-3 inches per man matched us shot for shot. We gave them some open threes and they took advantage of our too soft defense. Then in our attempt to pad our resume to work at a bakery, we showed of our ability to make some quick and nice "turnovers" and we just could not make a break from them in the 2nd half. 2nd half started out well and soon we had a nice comfortable lead of 10 points. The we strengthened our bakery application with more TO's. Ended up with around 20 for the game and they were just unforced mental errors for the most part. We were up by 1 with 15 seconds to go we fouled them 35 feet from the basket they hit both FT's our ball 7 seconds to go had a time out but did not want to use it and off we went Hayes with time runing down passe to Vic and missed at the buzzer 0-1. CRAP. Really a game that we should have held on to we had 3-4 critical TO's in the last 2-3 minutes missed opportunities and freebies for the other guys. Tomorrow at 9am.
Zach had perhaps his best game of the year 16 + rebounds, 5 of 8 13 points.
Hayes was 7-14 4-4 Ft's 2-4 3's 20 points 5 asists
Vic 4 of 13 struggled from 3 2-11.
Christian was 2-4 34 blocks 8 rebounds
Mike was 4-6
Tyler drake riley and marc did not play many minutes
We simply had way too many TO's in the worst possible times.
flight 626 is a full one. 6 of the 10 players are on this flight. Tyler comes directly from St Louis, Mike, Drake and Marc on later flights. We are on time and should be in to Vegas less than an hour. It is nice to have access to the internet on the flight!! Upon landing I wil runn off and take the shutle to get the rental Van load up and try to work my magic to check in early to the resort. We have 2 2 bedroom sues for the boys with full kitchens so I will make a grocery run to stock up. Today we check in at tournament HQ and we play tomorrow at 11:40 and then Friday at 9am and 7:40 at night. Then we wil be seeded depending on how we do. Our line up is as follows:
Tyler Sonnemaker 6-7 Post
Christian Parrott from the Boise Idaho area is a 6-9 Post
Noah Kone 6-7 Post
Zach Sweeney 6-7 Post
Mike Moyer 6-3 wing
Hayes Garrity6-2 guard
Drake whitehust 6-6 wing
Victor Aguero 6-0 Guard
Riley Wiggins 6-0 Guard
Marc Eppinger 6-6 wing
I hope to report some good news throughout our stay and will have people (I hope) to keep acurate stats that I can post with results. I am glad the Vegas will a bit cooler as the temp has dropped from 110 yesterday to 108 today and by the weekend should be a chili 106. Darn I only brought shorts. I hope Marc brought his sunscreen!! ( an inside joke)
Getting right to it we played a very very small team that was not very good. We won by round 30 did not think we played all that well but playing a much smaller less talented team is hard to do. Everyone played quality minutes and everyone contributed alot. We play in the Gold Bracket tomorrw at 6:20pm. We play a team that took 3rd place in their pool. We will play til we lose. WIll update more tomorrow. I am taking the boys to the strip to eat.
Drake 12 points 5 of 8 shooting 2-2 FT's 5 rebounds 2 steals 1 assist 1 block
Mike 12 points 4-5 shooting 4-4 Ft's 5 rebounds 4 assits and steal.
Marc 4 boards 1 3 pointer
Hayes 8 points 3-6 2-2 from 3 4 boards2 steals 3 assists.
Vic 5 boards 6 points 3-9 shooting
Zach 5 points 5 boards 1 steal
Christian 6 boards 2 steal 3 blocks
Tyler 5 boards 3 assists 3 blocks 1 steal 2 points
Noah 5 points 2 big dunks 2 -8 shing 4 blocks 3 boards 3 assist
9 players scored 9 players had 3 boards or more. We live to play another day!!
Last night we had a great meal thanks to the Sonnemakers. It was 'Taco Thursday' and all the boys got their fill. Thanks so much to the Sonnemakers. They help me stay on schedule and Scott has beome a trusted sounding board and therapist to me so I don'r pull all my hair out. We had a nice breakfast at my place of pancakes, juice, milk, egss sausage, bacon and fruit. All the boys got up OK........... To The GAme
Crazy Game #2 without added drama we won by 6-8. It was a fairly close game most of the way we pulled away with a 14 point lead with 10 minutes in the second half but they lingered around. They hit some shots that they normally don't and we missed a few that we normally do. They spread us out and used their quickness to go around us and got to the basket. Our bigs got lazy and stopped moving their feet and were beat on the perimeter with the drive. I felt the ball bounced their way a bit more and they got some crucial calls during the game, they made some plays we we didn't, but we held on. Hayes made 2 big baskets and a FT in the last minute or two that sealed the win for us. We advance with a win and that is the important thing. We have not hit our stride. We had strange matchups as we were much much taller even 4-6 inches per man sometimes, however their quickness hurt us. We did terrible in exploiting their size disadvantage. They played a zone against us and packed it in, Denied Vic the ball most the time and between some simple missed shots, some not so great shots and TO's it worked out well for them. Bottom line we pulled it off. The guys are resting today some time at the pool and we leave at 6:30 for our 7:40 game. More later..................
Game #2 Stats
Hayes 9-19(but only 2-10 from 3) -3 FTS 23pts 3 assists
Vic 5-9, 3-5 from 3 13 pts. 3 steals 3 assists
Mike 7 boards 3 assists 1 steal 3-5, fg's 3-3 Fts 9 points
Noah 3-6 7-9 ft's 13pts and a Monster dunk down the middle of the lane in traffic
Marc had 5 big points for us on -5 shooting and a great block a couple boards
Christian had a couple baskets a couple blocks and a handful of boards
Zach played solid d and reounded well on both ends.
Game 1. Things started out well I thought this moring guys up at 8:30-9:00 then a hearty breakfast eggs sausage bacon toast milk fruit juice cereal......... we started the game out a bit slow Vic hit 2 threes off the bat the other team a local squad that were giving u 2-3 inches per man matched us shot for shot. We gave them some open threes and they took advantage of our too soft defense. Then in our attempt to pad our resume to work at a bakery, we showed of our ability to make some quick and nice "turnovers" and we just could not make a break from them in the 2nd half. 2nd half started out well and soon we had a nice comfortable lead of 10 points. The we strengthened our bakery application with more TO's. Ended up with around 20 for the game and they were just unforced mental errors for the most part. We were up by 1 with 15 seconds to go we fouled them 35 feet from the basket they hit both FT's our ball 7 seconds to go had a time out but did not want to use it and off we went Hayes with time runing down passe to Vic and missed at the buzzer 0-1. CRAP. Really a game that we should have held on to we had 3-4 critical TO's in the last 2-3 minutes missed opportunities and freebies for the other guys. Tomorrow at 9am.
Zach had perhaps his best game of the year 16 + rebounds, 5 of 8 13 points.
Hayes was 7-14 4-4 Ft's 2-4 3's 20 points 5 asists
Vic 4 of 13 struggled from 3 2-11.
Christian was 2-4 34 blocks 8 rebounds
Mike was 4-6
Tyler drake riley and marc did not play many minutes
We simply had way too many TO's in the worst possible times.
flight 626 is a full one. 6 of the 10 players are on this flight. Tyler comes directly from St Louis, Mike, Drake and Marc on later flights. We are on time and should be in to Vegas less than an hour. It is nice to have access to the internet on the flight!! Upon landing I wil runn off and take the shutle to get the rental Van load up and try to work my magic to check in early to the resort. We have 2 2 bedroom sues for the boys with full kitchens so I will make a grocery run to stock up. Today we check in at tournament HQ and we play tomorrow at 11:40 and then Friday at 9am and 7:40 at night. Then we wil be seeded depending on how we do. Our line up is as follows:
Tyler Sonnemaker 6-7 Post
Christian Parrott from the Boise Idaho area is a 6-9 Post
Noah Kone 6-7 Post
Zach Sweeney 6-7 Post
Mike Moyer 6-3 wing
Hayes Garrity6-2 guard
Drake whitehust 6-6 wing
Victor Aguero 6-0 Guard
Riley Wiggins 6-0 Guard
Marc Eppinger 6-6 wing
I hope to report some good news throughout our stay and will have people (I hope) to keep acurate stats that I can post with results. I am glad the Vegas will a bit cooler as the temp has dropped from 110 yesterday to 108 today and by the weekend should be a chili 106. Darn I only brought shorts. I hope Marc brought his sunscreen!! ( an inside joke)
Friday, July 9, 2010
8:00pm Update
Made it to the final 16 of 112 teams, then saw us play the worst game this year. Hayes and Vic normally pretty steady were worse than bad on the offensive end.
here is the ugliness Hayes 3-14, Vic 4-23 Zach 0-2, Mike 1-4, Christian 0-3,
Tyler 1-3, Dimitri 2-7, Drake 2-5. We shot 24%. Amazing. For the most part they were good shots just did not fall, we are coming home tonight.
We played a weak team from Vanouver BC won by 50 pts 89 to 39. Looking at the stats we shared the ball pretty good Dimitri brings much needed toughness and energy he had several inside buckets 12 points 4 assists. Hayes had 6 assists 4 steals 16 pts vic 15 pts 5 assists and 4 boards. mike 2 steals 4 boards 8 points, christian 3 blocks 6 boards 8 pts. Drake 5 boards a steal 3 pts zach 6 pts a steal a block 3 boards and tyler 8 boards 10 points 1 steal. Marc had p pts. We move on to the top platinum bracket and will play the top competition first game at 5:45 tonight. Out of 112 teams we have made it through to the top 16. Hope we can make some noise and will down to the final 8 tonight. Will post again after the game.
We played ICP a team from Portland in game #2. We did not play well. We got out-hustled, out rebounded and I was sad that it was not a very good performance. Mike Moyer played huge for us on both ends, hustle points, hustle plays, plays of toughness. I struggled finding a productive group out there. We struggled because we had some that were not playing 100%. We must take it more personally when we get outworked. It is kinda the mental attitude to play like it is your last game. Bottom line is we are 2 and 0 and it is great to win when you do not play very well. We play at 11:30 am tomorrow and hopefully we will come with more attitude and energy like we have something to prove! Zach hustled like always and played tough for us thoght it was a turing point when he put back a miss from Hayes that seemed to give us a big lift. We fouhgt off a couple of runs they came at us with. Though the game was close we lead most of the way by a bucket or two. Hayes and Vic did ok hit a bunch of key shots for us our bigs in general struggled. I thought Dimiti stepped up in a big way for us with his energy and fight!! He coul have been the difference. The game was close for most of it and then we won by 12 or 14 points.
Nice game 1-0 won by around 40 pooints. The team we played, played hard and though they were overmatched we played hard throughout. Everyone played a lot and played well. It was a good warm up game for us as we haven't played together in a while and we have a couple of new players. Christian Parrott joined us from Idaho. He is a 6-9 post and wing that played amazingly well on both ends of the floor his presence was greatly needed and we are happy to have him with us. Mike Moyer despite rumors of inactivity and less than game shape, played great for us rebounding on both ends and double digit scoring. (His conditioning will be tested as we move forward so I am holding my judgment!!) Luke Mones our 6-6 post from Catlin Gable got a bunch of quality minutes in the second half which was HUGE!!! He scored 2 big baskets and had some nice boards. But what was most important he was able to give some of our bigs some rest so they will be fresh tonight. Zach was great and played some wing for us which is a nice addition to his game he impresses me with his toughness and is becoming more versatile. Hayes and Vic played very solid minutes, each had several
3's and dominated the guard play in a big way the whole game---They lead us in scoring. Dimitri Posey was solid on O and D and had several key baskets, FT's a couple of steals. He is a pitbull and tough and will be a valuable asset if he can continue to give quality minutes on both ends. I am sure he had 10 + points. Marc was able to play a bit on cruise control. Hit some big threes again and just ads another threat from deep that needs to be respected. We did not need to call his number much tonight. Drake though not one of his most productive offense games is always tremendously valuable becasue he is unselfish and his work ethic on defense and on the boards always pays dividends. I thought Tyler played his best game of the year for us. Was effective on d changing shots and rebouded well. The key will be if our bigs can play well when they are also matched up with equal sie and talent. Everyone played productive quality minutes which will help us stay fresh and hopefully will pay dividends later in the tournament. We play ICP a team from Oregon Tonight at 7:30 then our third game of pool play tomorrow at 11:30 am.
here is the ugliness Hayes 3-14, Vic 4-23 Zach 0-2, Mike 1-4, Christian 0-3,
Tyler 1-3, Dimitri 2-7, Drake 2-5. We shot 24%. Amazing. For the most part they were good shots just did not fall, we are coming home tonight.
We played a weak team from Vanouver BC won by 50 pts 89 to 39. Looking at the stats we shared the ball pretty good Dimitri brings much needed toughness and energy he had several inside buckets 12 points 4 assists. Hayes had 6 assists 4 steals 16 pts vic 15 pts 5 assists and 4 boards. mike 2 steals 4 boards 8 points, christian 3 blocks 6 boards 8 pts. Drake 5 boards a steal 3 pts zach 6 pts a steal a block 3 boards and tyler 8 boards 10 points 1 steal. Marc had p pts. We move on to the top platinum bracket and will play the top competition first game at 5:45 tonight. Out of 112 teams we have made it through to the top 16. Hope we can make some noise and will down to the final 8 tonight. Will post again after the game.
We played ICP a team from Portland in game #2. We did not play well. We got out-hustled, out rebounded and I was sad that it was not a very good performance. Mike Moyer played huge for us on both ends, hustle points, hustle plays, plays of toughness. I struggled finding a productive group out there. We struggled because we had some that were not playing 100%. We must take it more personally when we get outworked. It is kinda the mental attitude to play like it is your last game. Bottom line is we are 2 and 0 and it is great to win when you do not play very well. We play at 11:30 am tomorrow and hopefully we will come with more attitude and energy like we have something to prove! Zach hustled like always and played tough for us thoght it was a turing point when he put back a miss from Hayes that seemed to give us a big lift. We fouhgt off a couple of runs they came at us with. Though the game was close we lead most of the way by a bucket or two. Hayes and Vic did ok hit a bunch of key shots for us our bigs in general struggled. I thought Dimiti stepped up in a big way for us with his energy and fight!! He coul have been the difference. The game was close for most of it and then we won by 12 or 14 points.
Nice game 1-0 won by around 40 pooints. The team we played, played hard and though they were overmatched we played hard throughout. Everyone played a lot and played well. It was a good warm up game for us as we haven't played together in a while and we have a couple of new players. Christian Parrott joined us from Idaho. He is a 6-9 post and wing that played amazingly well on both ends of the floor his presence was greatly needed and we are happy to have him with us. Mike Moyer despite rumors of inactivity and less than game shape, played great for us rebounding on both ends and double digit scoring. (His conditioning will be tested as we move forward so I am holding my judgment!!) Luke Mones our 6-6 post from Catlin Gable got a bunch of quality minutes in the second half which was HUGE!!! He scored 2 big baskets and had some nice boards. But what was most important he was able to give some of our bigs some rest so they will be fresh tonight. Zach was great and played some wing for us which is a nice addition to his game he impresses me with his toughness and is becoming more versatile. Hayes and Vic played very solid minutes, each had several
3's and dominated the guard play in a big way the whole game---They lead us in scoring. Dimitri Posey was solid on O and D and had several key baskets, FT's a couple of steals. He is a pitbull and tough and will be a valuable asset if he can continue to give quality minutes on both ends. I am sure he had 10 + points. Marc was able to play a bit on cruise control. Hit some big threes again and just ads another threat from deep that needs to be respected. We did not need to call his number much tonight. Drake though not one of his most productive offense games is always tremendously valuable becasue he is unselfish and his work ethic on defense and on the boards always pays dividends. I thought Tyler played his best game of the year for us. Was effective on d changing shots and rebouded well. The key will be if our bigs can play well when they are also matched up with equal sie and talent. Everyone played productive quality minutes which will help us stay fresh and hopefully will pay dividends later in the tournament. We play ICP a team from Oregon Tonight at 7:30 then our third game of pool play tomorrow at 11:30 am.
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