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Our Spring involved 20 games. We were 9 & 1 in league. 7 & 3 traveling. In Petaluma we lost 2 games to some solid teams.
We won the Championship in Oroville winning all three games.
In Medford, we came in second place at the Kyle Singler Tournament. That is Kyle pictured with us after recieving the second place award. He plays for Duke University and was ACC Player of the Year. Maui Invitational MVP. Rookie of the year.
This gentleman has a great skills as a player. He gave a motivational speech that moved all the players, parents and coaches who attended the events breakfast. Loosing the State Championship as a Junior in high school was great sorrow. Then winning the State Championship as a senior was total happiness. The speech was emotional to say the least. His high school coach said some wonderfull things about Kyle and his hard work ethic. He answered questions, singed some autographs and spoke about how to work hard to get what you want at the college level.
We played 3 games on a Saturday in Medford and won all three. The next day we lost to the host.
I will write about the teams we lost to in the future.
Soon we will begin our Summer Program.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Assistant Coach
Kayanna Walstrand is our assistant coach. She plays for College of the Redwoods. She has been with me playing and coaching for seven years since I started the team in 2002.
Kayanna knows my philosophy on the game through and through. Sometimes we are like one head working with the players. Her skill with court sense brings an atmosphere of good Ballerz Attitude on the floor. She catches all the points I miss during the teaching aspect of the game. She hits the fine details running our drills.
We run a lot of scenarios where defense meets offense and visa versa. There we find what to do explaining the how to's.
Being very supportive with the players helps and the team responds well to her instruction. I believe Kayanna will become a great coach and instructor in the future. The Humbolts would not be the same without her.
Kayanna knows my philosophy on the game through and through. Sometimes we are like one head working with the players. Her skill with court sense brings an atmosphere of good Ballerz Attitude on the floor. She catches all the points I miss during the teaching aspect of the game. She hits the fine details running our drills.
We run a lot of scenarios where defense meets offense and visa versa. There we find what to do explaining the how to's.
Being very supportive with the players helps and the team responds well to her instruction. I believe Kayanna will become a great coach and instructor in the future. The Humbolts would not be the same without her.
SPRING 2008
We started off the last week of December by request of most of the players. Some felt they were taken a step back in their school play. It showed during season. We began working on our Man to Man concept of the game. Ball-handling, shooting form and passing. Not untill 3 weeks before our first League game did we work on the offense. We scrapped many of our plays and added new sets and quick hitters.
The girls requested I give them a playbook and I did. Happy, they worked the plays hard and asked many questions on form and movement. We introduced some new out of bounds plays which worked well during the Spring Season.
The game plan for the team was a surprise to them. Our plays covered all the basic fundamentals used in the game. When we had our first game they asked what to run and I said just put it all together into a Motion Offense. Of course it was a little confusing at first but we managed since these ladies are very smart.
I will probably mention a number of times in these writings that all of our players are straight
A students. That helps teaching and getting through practices with some ease. The good sense
and athletic ability they possess created many opportunities on the court in both scoring and defense.
At first passing and spacing was an issue. Only solid playing time resolved some of spacing. The passing was and is addressed at practice where we use a heavy ball. Decision making on the court can kill any team. We came a long way in that field thrugh good spacing and teamwork.
Team goals for the season and every game are installed as to not get stale in any way. It gives us drive. We have a foundation we have built on with a motivational word printed on a Lego. Each Lego is added after every game . Our losses the Lego is turned around.
We are 16 and 4 for the season. That means 4 of our Lego's are backwards. We treat them as something in our lives that must be turned around. We will turn each one around as we meet certain goals during our Summer Session. I will print these words when our goals are met.
The girls requested I give them a playbook and I did. Happy, they worked the plays hard and asked many questions on form and movement. We introduced some new out of bounds plays which worked well during the Spring Season.
The game plan for the team was a surprise to them. Our plays covered all the basic fundamentals used in the game. When we had our first game they asked what to run and I said just put it all together into a Motion Offense. Of course it was a little confusing at first but we managed since these ladies are very smart.
I will probably mention a number of times in these writings that all of our players are straight
A students. That helps teaching and getting through practices with some ease. The good sense
and athletic ability they possess created many opportunities on the court in both scoring and defense.
At first passing and spacing was an issue. Only solid playing time resolved some of spacing. The passing was and is addressed at practice where we use a heavy ball. Decision making on the court can kill any team. We came a long way in that field thrugh good spacing and teamwork.
Team goals for the season and every game are installed as to not get stale in any way. It gives us drive. We have a foundation we have built on with a motivational word printed on a Lego. Each Lego is added after every game . Our losses the Lego is turned around.
We are 16 and 4 for the season. That means 4 of our Lego's are backwards. We treat them as something in our lives that must be turned around. We will turn each one around as we meet certain goals during our Summer Session. I will print these words when our goals are met.
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