Last night's practice

It was too bad we only had 4 ladies make it last night because we had a good opportunity to run through our set offense. With the help of one girl from Lora's team, our four ladies did a good job running the swing offense; we easily got the motions down but we need to continue to buckle down on using the fundamentals along with those motions. We were anxious for a lot of the screens and ended up running past the oncoming screen instead of waiting, taking a few steps in the opposite direction to get the defender moving, and then exploding off the set screen. If we can use good fundamentals along with the movements of the swing offense, I think we'll be in good shape.

Also, yesterday we got the opportunity to run a 1-2-2 full court trap against the 14u team. It was our first time but we did well. I would like to implement a couple different traps in our games in order to help us control the flow of the game and try to force some turn-overs. With any full-court defense we have to be ready to sprint back on defense once the ball gets behind us, we don't want our full-court pressure to lead to their easy lay-ups.

Our next practice is not SUNDAY. Lora has 2 teams playing in a tournament this weekend and won't be available to get Edgewood High School for us, so our next practice will be WEDNESDAY APRIL 23RD. The time isn't finalized yet, but we're hoping around 7 pm or later, hopefully that way we can get a few more ladies there that have other sports, school or other responsibilities right after school lets out.

Finally, Lora is working through the details of getting us jersey's and shoes, she may resort to doing the order herself to make sure that we have everything we need in time for our tournament.

-Coach G