Nice win @ Fayetteville Academy

Hi Girls,

The first quarter we actually played well but we missed so many layups. The second quarter we played our worse quarter of the year, it was the first time this year I have been disappointed with our effort and focus. The second half we went back to Playing like a Team and playing hard and smart and pulled away. Remember Play Hard, Play Smart and Play Together? When we drift away from that bad things happen.

Jamie had a great game and really held us in there in the first half when we were struggling. Kelly gave our offense and defense a big lift with a dominant second half. Mer did a great job working hard on the defensive glass in the second half. The domination of the defensive boards and concentrating on staying in front of our man defensively when they had the ball were the keys of the second half along with the fact our relentless pressure began to take its toll on their team.

Here are the Stats:

Scoring by Quarters: 1st: 8-2; 2nd 3-6; 3rd 15-7; 4th 8-2 Final Score 34 to 17

Individual Scoring: Jamie 15pts, Kelly 10pts, Emily 4pts, Lindsey 3pts, Mer 2 pts.

Fay Academy: #25 Sarah Reavis 4pts, #30 Kendal Williams 4pts, #21 Kenan Stiehl 4pts,
#12 Rebecca Gainey 2 pts, #11 Jan Schafer 2pts.

FG%: Team; Team 12/36 33.3%*; Ind: Kelly 5/8**, Jamie 4/12*, Mer 1/3*, Emily 2/7, Kim 0/1, Lindsey 0/5. 33% is the minimum winning percentage

3Pt%: 100%; Lindsey 1/1****

FT %: Team 7/14 50%: Jamie 7/12***, Emily 0/2. Fifty percent is the minimum winning percentage.

Rebounds: Team 5off/14def; Individual: Mer 0/6***, Kelly 2/2**, Jamie 0/2*, Lindsey 0/2*, Megan K 2/0*, M&M 0/1*, Brooke 0/1*.

Assists: Team 8; Lindsey 3***, Mer 2**, Jamie 1*, Emily 1* , Alex 1*(Sideout Play). We had more turnovers than assist. It should be reversed.

T/0's: Team 10: Jamie 3, Mer-Emily-Lindsey-Kelly-Megan K, M&M,Catherine all had 1.

Steals: Team 18** Individual; Jamie 5***, Kelly 3**, Mer 3**, Alex 2*, Lindsey 2*, Megan K 1*, Leslie 1*, Kim 1*.

Blocks: Team 4; Kelly 3***, Alex 1*.

Some closing thoughts: It is always nice to win. We can play so much better than we did in the first half. Even in the second half our execution of plays was terrible except for crisscross. We even ran 4J wrong for the first time ever. Our execution of inbounds plays was exceptional, I think we scored at least 8 points just on good execution of line and sideout. We need to bring some of that same execution to these other plays. They are layups waiting to happen when executed properly. Some day the game is going to be on the line and poor execution is going to cost us if we do not refocus our efforts. We did a better job of pushing the secondary break up the court and letting Jamie penetrate to the basket before the Fay. Ac. defense was set, however we still have plenty of room to improve on that by pushing it harder and running the court harder.

Remember we need to be able score in these ways and we are capable with a little effort:
1- From our Defense, steals.
2- Inbound plays
3- Primary Break from steals and rebounds with good outlets.
4- Secondary Break(discussed above)
5- Set plays (We should score at least 10 points per game here maybe more)
6- Foul Shots (70% is a good goal, 50% is the minimum)
7- Free Lance Passing Game offense(Read Option vs Zone is the same thing). Basically at this point with most of you girls having played for me for 3 years the good stuff in our passing game offense always resembles a play of some type we run, it is just more spontaneous, but it is also more dependent on the passers and the scorers being on the same page mentally to make it work)

Thought for the Day: The biggest enemy of being Great is being good because to many players let being pretty good trick them into not working hard enough on their game to be Great. Dean Smith UNC.

Don't let being simply pretty good make you as an individual not become as good as you can be and for heaven sakes don't let it keep our team from becoming the Great Team it could be just because of not having the commitment to be Great.

Have a passion for being the best you can be and a passion to be the best team we can be.

Our attitude will determine our altitude. Roy Williams UNC

Coach May