First, I heard from Nate this afternoon and he said Ryan is doing much better. Not sure if he went to school or not, but main thing is he's OK. Thank you, Lord!
I've edited the game video from Thursday. It was exporting when I left for work, and I'll load it up overnight.
Notes on the KBA game: We played so well defensively in the first half. If not for the pressbreaking issues - not setting up wide, not being patient, not using the entire court - we wouldn't have fallen behind 23-9 in the second half. Everything before and after that was excellent, though. We scored 9 points in the first 22 minutes, and then we outscored them 22-8 in the final 10 minutes to force OT.
Tomorrow (Saturday), we'll play H4C, a team that usually has shooters and likes to run with us. If we have our usual 8-9 players, I'm looking forward to seeing us play our usual game and run, run, run, press, press, press. If H4C shoots well and scores 70, good. We'll keep running and score 80! If they score 90, we'll just have to score 100. Yeah, we can do it. We probably will some day fairly soon.
I'm not exaggerating. In one of our games last week, the other team played zone all game and we got 35 3-point shots, almost all of them wide open. We missed that night, but the point is that when we're shooting well, we can score big points real fast. When we hit 10 treys against Asing Park, that was more normal. Or when we hit 14 treys against Swish. Neither time did we take 35 3-pointers.
If we shoot hot and hit half of those 35, that's 18 treys which equals 54 points just on outside shots alone. The college record is 21 treys (set last week) and their games are twice as long as ours (stop clock, longer total minutes). And when we stretch defenses out to the 3-point line, it opens up the paint for a lot of easy layups. Fun times!
That's what I mean when I say it's not going to be unusual for us to score 70-80 points per game once we really get used to it.
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