Basketball- 5

This week is one if the biggest weeks of my 7th grade basketball career because this is the week we get ready for the Big 4 tournament in Watertown. This week we have just gotten back from Brookings winning a close one, 29 – 26. We are now getting ready for our tournament by doing tough drills like the zig-zag drill where we play one-on- one defense against each other up and down the court. We also are conserving most of our energy though and not going very long for practices. We are playing a certain kind of defense in practice to stop Huron because lately they have lined up around the perimeter and taken their guy one-on-one to the basket and get an and-one or two foul shots. We have developed a defense in which they won’t score more than ten points off of it. Our offense is coming along really well now that we have put a lot of back cuts or backdoors. We can score a lot of points off of our new offenses. We play Huron at 10:15 in the morning and whoever wins that game basically wins the whole tournament. We can beat Watertown and we have already beat Brookings just this week so if we can get past the first game, we’ll be able to get past the second one. Bye for now!

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This week in my seventh grade season of basketball we are getting ready for the big Yankton tournement, Tuesday's game against Brookings and our Big Four or our state tournement. Lately, we have been doing this certain drill to help with our defense and it has two poeple in it and it's like one-on-one only you don't shoot, you just go from one side of the court to the other and we do that for about fifteen to twenty minutes. Then we usually play three-on-three. the coaches usually split up or play on the same team. After that we work on our post up moves. We have one guy post up another guy and one guy pass it in from the wing. Then we switch. When we are all done with drills we shoot free-throws. Each player shoots one or two. If you make the first on, you shoot the second one. if you make the second one, we go to the next guy. If you dont we have to run a sprint. If you miss the first one then we run a ladder. We had to run alot yesterday because some of our teamates couldn't make a free-throw. Today I don't think we will have to run because Mr. Moller doesn't make us run if we have a game the next day, especially if it's a tournement where the "A" team has three games and so does the "B" team. It's going to be a long day of basketball and a tough one. Bye for now!

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Well, we lost yesterday against Yankton at home by 8 points. Our coach said we played some nice defense in the first 3 minutes and then we got lazy and quit playing defense and offense. Now we have to put that loss behind us and get ready for Aberdeen tommorrow. They will be tougher than Yankton but we will try our best. Today everyone wants to have the game canceled for Saturday but I dont want it to because then today after school at practice coach Moller is going to make our lives miserable for the hour and a half that he has us. If our game isn't canceled he won't make us do the hard stuff because he doesn't want us to get all tired out before the game. As I said in my last post, we got killed by like 20 and this game will be one of the toughest games of the year, "but we will have to play like were capable of and we will do just fine," is what coach always says. their whole team, including the guards, are humungus! they are really hard to get rebounds off of and hard to move and box them out. We will really need to man up and try to stay with them the whole game , defensively and offensively.