At the end of the year, her coaches made remarks to me about her ability to be a gamer. When she scores eight to 10 points a game, they often won. Jess is a scorer. |
At times, we played our best basketball of the year against them. Our kids came out of that game understanding we can compete with those teams. |
Defense has always been our forte. Even with our good teams, our program's based on defense. We can control our effort on defense. |
For her, it's just clicked. |
I believe the Pinewood game carried over into the Salinas game. |
I have no intentions of changing our non-league schedule. We want to be at another level when league rolls around. League should count for something. |
I think there are too many average teams in the playoffs to begin with. But if we can't go .500 in league, we don't deserve to go to the playoffs. |
It's back to the old style. We're going to have to grind out wins with our defense. We're just not going to score a lot of points. |
It's pretty cut and dried. |
It's taken a lot longer than I anticipated for them to buy into the system. But the kids are understanding their roles. The biggest thing is confidence. |
My feeling is she was a little frustrated at times with her scoring. But Jess was still adjusting to the system and feeling her way around. |
Our record won't strike fear into people. But some of our losses have been to some pretty good teams. We're the kind of team that most don't want to see. |
The big thing is they have seniors and a good point guard. Those girls have been playing together for three years. They're an older team in our league. |
We have some outside presence with them. Both have learned not to be afraid to shoot. It's a development thing. |
We made a couple of rotation changes. But the big thing is we are a lot more aggressive offensively. |