Hardwood Tourny

All,

It seems like its been quite a while since I last got in touch with everyone as a group. I've gotten questions about the Hardwood Tourny this coming weekend so I'd like to address them. I received an email from Lora this morning, as some of you may have gotten also, the moral of the story is that we are in as a 16U team. I don't know the reason for this, but I'm sure its something we can't change. So here is our schedule of games:

First game is 1:00 PM Saturday. As in Lora's email if you reserved a room for Friday night and don't plan on staying there Friday since our first game isn't until Saturday, you can call and change your reservation.

Our second game is at 3:30 PM Saturday.

Depending on how we do in those games, we may play again Saturday night, or Sunday morning.

Each team is pooled with 2 other teams, and the top 2 seeds move on into the pooled tournament with the #1 seeds getting first round bye's. Then there is a consolation bracket for the lowest seeded team.

If you will be driving up Saturday morning, let me know, I haven't gotten a coaches packet yet so I'm not sure how early they will require us to be there, but to be safe 45 minutes would be ideal. I will probably still be going up Friday so I will be there early in the morning to watch some of our competition.

I hope everyone can make it to practice tomorrow. Since we were a smaller team in the last tournament, and now that we're playing up an age group, I want to try and use our size and quickness to our advantage, so I want to implement 2 full court presses to try and slow the games down and create some turn-overs and get some easy buckets. Also, we need to work on breaking the press, we tried to do it as individuals too many times the other weekend by dribbling through the pressure instead of looking to pass the ball up the court.

Let me know if you won't be able to make practice tomorrow night 7:30 - 9:00 at Keva.

~coach g