The Frac and the Fric
Fric – After the Cracker Barrel breakfasts started he came on like gangbusters for the rest of the season (note to self: food is a good motivator!). He’s always been pretty good on defense; a lot of that is that he’s quick for his size and when he gets that size in front of someone they are going to stop….but as he started getting more comfortable he was capturing more rebounds, intercepting passes, and taking (and making) shots.
Frac – A weird season; his team had some really good kids that were all friends with each other. So, they passed the ball almost exclusively to their buddies (and it sure did look in the last game that they had been working on plays away from the practices, and ran those plays among themselves). This frustrated Frac to no end. At the last game I commented to Suzanne what a nice kid Frac is; he still was passing the ball to open players even though he could hardly expect the same in return.
Needs to work on going to the basket; seemed content to just hang around the edges….luckily for him he can drain some of those shots and he also did a good job of passing into the open kids in the middle after drawing the other team out to him with the ball. Like his brother, he’s a stalwart on defense…picked off a bunch of passes to start fast breaks. Sometimes dribbles too high (the ball is up at his ears) but this is a minor nitpick. Not sure if basketball is in the cards for him next year; he really wants to do Winter Walden next year and that would wipe out any games he would play.
