Wow, fell behind here. Having “A Memory of Light” show up on the hotel door-step helped. But I’d better catch up on last weekend’s sports since this coming weekend is a big BIG weekend.
How big? Boys have five games (Cpher 2, Matthew 3). Combined record of the five opponents? 23-3. Yikes!
Last weekend:
Cpher: Beat Mason 32-28. Click on the picture below for video:
Wondered, as I received text updates from Suzanne, why we weren’t beating this team by more….we should have been killing them looking at the standings. Watching the video made it clearer, we were missing the kid I’d call our best scorer and missed almost every free thrown until the fourth quarter (where we had to go on a 12-2 run to put the game away!).
Cpher played hard, played well. A bunch of rebounds, went back up with a few shots but didn’t make any; got fouled twice as he fought for rebounds or moved with the ball, no shooting fouls though.
Cpher ripped the ball away from this guy…if you watch the guy Cpher’s ‘rip’ basically sends the guy spinning to the ground…
last rebound of the game…All Cpher…you can see the Mason’s guy hand up near Cpher’s face, he actually scratched him…no foul called this time.
Prediction for this weekend: Gotta be honest, would be surprised if this weekend were anything but two losses for the team. They can win, I know that, but, those other teams are good and we haven’t shown that we can score consistently this year.
Matthew: Indoor soccer first; crushed some team 15-1. Talked with Matthew later that night and he was a little discouraged, always back on defense, his teammates are scoring tons of goals and he’s not. And it does kind of suck that the parent-coach can’t/won’t rotate him up every now and again…
If you look at the team standings we’ve played one less game than the other teams, everybody has scored about 30….but we are the outliers, we’ve only given up four goals. Our goalie is ok, he’s not great. The reason we are blasting these teams is Matthew and the other good kids in the back; they stop the offense (who are on breakaways even, because our offense is cherry-picking and not coming back to help) and pass it up to the offense.
Annoying in some ways, but, I know I’d rather have my kid be good at offense and defense than just offense. Our talk seemed to make Matthew feel better anyway.
The one soccer game that Matthew will make it to this weekend is against the other league leader. Have a feeling we are going to crush them.
Absolutely blasted East Lansing in basketball, 37-7. Would not have expected that, EL looked to be halfway decent by the standings. 27-3 at the half. Click on the picture below for video.
Missed both his free throws; wouldn’t have expected that times two! Did score four points and had just a great assist on a fast break.
I included the 10 seconds of official call and crowd noise after this play…EL turned over the ball at half court and it bounced over there, Matthew rushed up and got to it first and then (almost at the same time) the EL guy barreled into him…
Of course, the foul is on Matthew(!)
two of his four points on the day….
Matthew’s team plays the two other undefeated teams in the division this weekend. The first one, against Williamston, is the biggie….they were the only team to beat us last year in the finals of the tournament. I expect they will handle the other undefeated team pretty easily on Sunday. I eagerly await text updates during my meeting tomorrow!
Prediction: Will be really surprised to hear this team loses. Ever. Another’s team starting five might be able to hang with our starters for a little bit….but the other six players on our team are just as good and that’s what happened to EL…the second group buried them.
