Do you play with what you have?

[Cannonball]

I faced this dilemma each year in girl's basketball. I had a couple of young ladies that were on the various Team USA teams for soccer and one for volleyball. We had an opening tournament each year that we hosted. I knew that we would be without 3 starters each year for those four years. (All 3 were 4-year starters) We played. Each year in the seed meeting for regional/sectional play back then, the coaches spoke about who they had beaten. Each year, these teams would mention at the seed meeting that they beat us. I would smile. We would get a lower seed and most often drew one of those teams. We never left any doubt about what team was better in those regional/sectional games. LOL

BTW, as you might guess, we were really talented. We pressed full-court man to man and played man at the half court that was scary at times. Only poor coaching on my part prevented us from winning state those years.

 

[_MIA_]

BTW, as you might guess, we were really talented. We pressed full-court man to man and played man at the half court that was scary at times. Only poor coaching on my part prevented us from winning state those years.

Let me guess..you ran into teams which knew how to break a press and had the talent to do it??

 

[lynx]

Great feedback from everyone...thanks ! Reinforces what I will plan on doing...play ball!

 

[Cannonball]

Let me guess..you ran into teams which knew how to break a press and had the talent to do it??

Short version - one year the team was simply better than us. We played how we played. They beat us by 6.

Following year the result was that we lost but an investigation of video evidence from the game resulted in a referee being banned from officiating all sports in my state.

 

[_MIA_]

Short version - one year the team was simply better than us. We played how we played. They beat us by 6.

Following year the result was that we lost but an investigation of video evidence from the game resulted in a referee being banned from officiating all sports in my state.

Ok well you said you lost due to poor coaching hence my guess.. Sometimes a team is just better than you

 

[Westwind]

We pressed full-court man to man and played man at the half court that was scary at times. Only poor coaching on my part prevented us from winning state those years.

I don’t know much about basketball but I do know that I LOVE watching that kind of team!

 

[CoachJD]

Following year the result was that we lost but an investigation of video evidence from the game resulted in a referee being banned from officiating all sports in my state.

You're such a tease.

 

[quincy]

Boring with the rest of the posts but our entire pitching staff was wiped out with the flu.

Play ball.

 

[bmakj]

Let me guess..you ran into teams which knew how to break a press and had the talent to do it??

DW is sick and tired of hearing me say "you break the press in order to score, not just break the press", you have to make them pay for pressing/trapping.

 

[_MIA_]

DW is sick and tired of hearing me say "you break the press in order to score, not just break the press", you have to make them pay for pressing/trapping.

Yup.