First day of practice
I still have no idea if I'm going to be covering girls' basketball this season, but I'm just going to proceed as if I will be until I find out differently.
I did a story today, for Saturday's C-P edition, about the first day of winter practice and the reporting brought me to Camden Catholic, a real contender for a preseason No. 1 ranking. I don't know exactly what the Irish's starting five will look like, but there aren't many players better than Junaid, Crews and Matera. Actually, three bona fide stars is probably the limit, because there's usually not enough ball for four. When you have star players like that, simple, tenacious-minded athletes like Katie Gallagher and Steph Sharpe become even more valuable than another slick baller would be.
Ra is going to get her touches, and Crew is going to have to learn to be more of a distributor. But if she does, all she needs to do is wait for the D to collapse and wait for the kickout. The girl can hit an open jumper, no doubt. Matera already knows how to play with stars. She's always had either Ra or Killion there, but it will be interesting to see how she and Crew sort out the PG/SG division.
It seems like the first day of winter practice is more exciting than the others are. I think the fall practice starts before classes do, in the summer, so kids are bummed about summer being over. And by the time spring rolls around, everybody's already got the sports hangover that tends to last all the way through June. Winter is just an explosion. It seems like there's so little time to cut down to 12, learn the offense and defense and then find some chemistry before the season starts that there's an urgency right from the start.
It also gives the athletes in the state a whole other perception of Black Friday than other kids.
I did a story today, for Saturday's C-P edition, about the first day of winter practice and the reporting brought me to Camden Catholic, a real contender for a preseason No. 1 ranking. I don't know exactly what the Irish's starting five will look like, but there aren't many players better than Junaid, Crews and Matera. Actually, three bona fide stars is probably the limit, because there's usually not enough ball for four. When you have star players like that, simple, tenacious-minded athletes like Katie Gallagher and Steph Sharpe become even more valuable than another slick baller would be.
Ra is going to get her touches, and Crew is going to have to learn to be more of a distributor. But if she does, all she needs to do is wait for the D to collapse and wait for the kickout. The girl can hit an open jumper, no doubt. Matera already knows how to play with stars. She's always had either Ra or Killion there, but it will be interesting to see how she and Crew sort out the PG/SG division.
It seems like the first day of winter practice is more exciting than the others are. I think the fall practice starts before classes do, in the summer, so kids are bummed about summer being over. And by the time spring rolls around, everybody's already got the sports hangover that tends to last all the way through June. Winter is just an explosion. It seems like there's so little time to cut down to 12, learn the offense and defense and then find some chemistry before the season starts that there's an urgency right from the start.
It also gives the athletes in the state a whole other perception of Black Friday than other kids.
posted by SMc. @ 5:31 PM
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