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.
