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!