A light weekend; three games. And I get to see two in person!
Cpher: Beat Eaton Rapids 43-34; beat East Lansing 55-29. These two wins basically seal our fate as one of the lower seeds in the top half of the bracket for the end of the season tournament; we have two games to go, but, they will be walkovers.
Click the picture below for highlights from the Eaton Rapids and EL games; Cpher had six points in the ER game and only two in the EL game…..the offense was set up ‘different’ in the EL game and had Cpher way away from the basket. Which is too bad, because we were really hoping to see more of what happened against ER!
(about to score his first basket of the day)
For years, Cpher has been this big guy in the post with no moves…he would get the ball and shoot, or, he would get the ball and pass. Period. He has been encouraged, repeatedly, to take a dribble or two and then do something. That Has Never Happened. Until Saturday, where he got the ball in the low post, took two or three dribbles and backed his man back towards the basket, turned, shot, and scored.
Maybe the best part of that video is me laughing afterwards….just couldn’t believe I had seen that! Sadly, the ref is in the way and my view (and the camera’s view of Cpher) is blocked for the end of it. But the head coach said the same thing I thought when Cpher came off the court….we’ve been asking you to do that for 2.5 years! Hope he can find himself in another situation where he can do it again before the end of the year. Never really had the ball under the basket against EL on Sunday except at the end, where it was just shoot the ball (and he did, for the last two points of the game).
(gets completely shoved in the back on this attempt at a rebound and doesn’t get it. Does come back to block the shot of the guy who pushed him and take the ball back. Justice is served.)
Matthew: (the video from the last soccer game is now linked to the earlier post, if you are curious). His soccer team won 21-0. Not much to say here. He scored a goal, but, it would have been hard not to score a goal given how things went.
