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
