Cpher; More text, less pictures. This is because the 7th and 8th grade games are at the same time; one set at home and one away. I’ve been travelling to the away games and haven’t seen the big guy in action yet.
Obviously, he made the team. He is on the ‘B’ team and early report are that he’s at the back end of that team…..I’m not sure that he is applying himself here and the reports from Suzanne from the game are discouraging. Had 2 points in a season opening loss to Jackson Parkside; had zero points in a win against East Lansing and cut short any chance of getting even his equal share of playing time by picking up two quick fouls in the first quarter. Spent a lot of time on the bench after that. I look forward to watching him in action on Monday; hope things go better for him.
Matthew: Matthew is also firmly established on the ‘B’ team but in his case I certainly think he is in the top half of that team not the bottom half. The strengh of this team, to me at least, is not the guards, it is the four or five kids they can rotate in at forward. All of them can dribble like guards and all of them are strong and fast enough to drive inside and score.
Both games this year for the team have been running-clock blowouts; 50-19 against Parkside and 44-18 against East Lansing.
Click on the picture below for highlights of the first game; really, if you don’t want to watch the 7 minute video just go ahead and start at about 0:45 and watch until Matthew scores his three straight baskets (we were winning 16-0 after the first quarter). Matthew finished with 7 points and I’m going to guess about 5 rebounds. He got a little wild in his shooting late in this game…more than a few airballs. Talked about him driving to the basket when his shooting goes south like that….
He is #11 in the picture below…..
Not as many points against East Lansing but the three that he scored were what I hope he continues to do; grab the rebound at one end and dribble down the floor and score (or try and score and get fouled). I think he is better off keeping the ball when the guards are the hot-turnover-mess that they tend to be at times….
I won’t see Matthew this week but imagine Suzanne will have a more….enjoyable…time at the game since Matthew is more of a threat to score at any given moment. Hope to….motivate….Christopher to some better results this week!
