Sunday morning features back-to-back games; Cpher takes the court to battle East Lansing Blue and Matthew follows against Fowlerville. We brought the camera so it’s a letters and pictures post from this game.
Matthew had control of the camera early so, well, there aren’t as many good pictures here as there are to come of Matthew….
We won. We won big, 50-18. I would have thought EL would have had a better team but it wasn’t close at any point of the game. This is early; this shot doesn’t go in but, in a trend, one of the ‘bigs’ gets the rebound and puts it back in. All of our points in the first quarter came from down low where we dominated the boards (and the scoring). 14-2 after the first quarter…..
Cpher with the first of many rebounds….
and dumping it off to a guard to head up court.
I think we are offense here so we have moved to the second half. We must also be on some sort of fast break since nobody else is around. Wish Cpher felt a little more comfortable just going up for the shot…..need to work (a lot) on his confidence in these situations….
A typical Cpher rebound Part One. In the best position and can reach higher than everyone else….
I like that Cpher is dribbling here….it didn’t end well, another EL guy came from where he was guarding #42 and stole the ball….
The most frustrating moment of the game….we had stolen the ball on the fast break, the guard passed it up to Cpher who was late getting back and so, was still down near the basket. AND HE DIDN’T TAKE THIS SHOT!!! Ended up passing it off to Brook here who put in the easy basket…..but really wish he had dribbled and taken the layup himself.
Solid on defense….we played man-to-man the entire game and he was aggressive towards the ball and here, has just reached in and stolen the ball from the guy in front of him.
This is the Cpher-special….rebound, reload, and put the ball up for a basket (he did score here). We worked a lot this week on having Cpher take the extra time to get in a good shooting position; where last week he would be leaning back and shooting with the ball starting from a position right behind the top of his head, here, he’s taken the ball and gotten behind the ball before he shoots. With better results….
A typical Cpher rebound Part 2: He misses this shot, and is out of position for the rebound, but, he can reach more than the smaller EL kid in front of him, so, when the ball comes down he can yank it away before the EL kid can get possession….
Cpher finished with four points, the first basket of the game and next to the last…..next week? We play a team that lost to EL by 21! It’s going to be ugggggly!
