An all-Cpher edition….Christopher’s team travelled to Perry for the season-opening tournament.
Game 1: All pictures below are from this first game, a 27-17 win over Triple Threat
Cpher had a bucket (the last basket of the first half)….and that’s a good thing because last year was a disaster on offense and he’s become very timid about shooting the ball. We were on fast break in the 2nd half and he got the ball all alone about 6 feet from the basket….and didn’t shoot, waited for his teammates to come down and then passed it off. And I guess that’s fine, but, everyone, coaches, teammates, parents, want him to shoot in that spot.
Not sure what kind of mystic marital-art mumbo-jumbo defense Cpher is doing in the photo above…..
Cpher is back to his setting-awesome-picks ways…..and he set a good one here; the guard with the ball just drives in afterwards for an easy layup and the defender gets up off of the floor…..
I like this picture as well…he, out of all of the Okemos players you see in this photo, has done what we ask him to do…box your guy out! And….
…he gets the rebound because of it.
Cpher scored one basket….if you wish, you can click on the picture ABOVE and see 114 seconds of the game, Cpher has a pick, a box out, a rebound, and the basket. The rest of the video from the game (and Matthew’s games last weekend) is uploaded to that site as well
Took a shot in the 2nd half and got fouled….and didn’t make either of the free throws. Offense is not a strength.
But, we won pretty handily, and the team did a nice job of scoring and running our plays….
Cpher will pass this ball back out….and we wish he would just drop his shoulder and go to the hoop. Oh well.
Game 2: A 34-11 shellacking of Grand Ledge’s ‘B’ team. We had scrimmaged their ‘A’ team last Monday and that would have been a good game. Instead, I think it was 18-0 as the first half came to an end. Cpher was the only player on our team not to score….I don’t think he even had a shot (I know I remember one play where he got the ball down low and passed it across the lane for the even easier bucket). He was open in the low post, but, when layups are that easy, passing becomes less of a priority.
Game 3: Sometimes, in soccer, Matthew’s travel team ends up playing community teams. And those community teams get hammered; it’s just tough, even if you are the best kids in that community, to compete against travel teams that take the best of the region and practice twice as much as you do.
So, that’s what happened in Game 3. By winning two games we ended up in the Gold Bracket, and got absolutely utterly annihilated, 54-11. It was 34-5 at the half. There is nothing good to say about this game except that the kids hustled to the end (Cpher got stuck on the floor at one point, he was clearly tired and we had a sub waiting to go in but there was no stoppage…..and he still ran all the way back and fouled a guy to stop an easy layup. You can only look for little things when you are getting your asses handed to you.)
Regular season, for both boys, begins next week.
