Dave Newton
Dave Newton
boards causing defense felt good kenneth numbers playing presence
Kenneth didn't have a lot of numbers offensively, but his presence on the boards was felt out there and I think defensively he made some contributions as well. So did Will before he fouled out. He was playing some pretty good defense and scrambling around out there, causing some havoc.
ball basket bit break court decisions far hold job kids looks open passes second telegraph though
We got to where we made some better decisions as far as passes were concerned. We didn't hold the ball as much and telegraph passes. I though we had better reversal. We got out on the break a little bit better where we were able to get some better looks at the basket and not get into so many half-court sets. We do want these kids to get out and use some of their athleticism and play in the open court a little bit and I thought we did a much better job of that in the second half.
kids smiles
There are some big smiles on our kids after that game.
basketball good hill pleasant
Pleasant Hill just has too many horses, they're a good basketball team.
games watching
I will be out and about watching games and players.
boards game great jeremy minutes played steady tried
I thought Jeremy played pretty steady for us. He played a lot of minutes and he just had a great game on the boards and he tried to do what he could defensively.
jeremy nine rebounds seem steady
I thought Jeremy had a steady game. For having 16 points, it didn't really seem like he had that many. He just did so many other things. He had nine rebounds and that's key.
ball floor four game great handled hitting job kenneth looking loose moving nine patient played points quarters scores solid trap wing
I thought we played four solid quarters of basketball. We started out with a great first quarter. I thought we handled their half-court trap very well. Kenneth (Bradley) got loose for some big points down low. He scores nine of his 16 in the game right there. I thought we did a better job of looking up the floor and being patient about moving the ball from point to the wing and hitting the middle.
chance ended gave half kids league playing problem pull second seven themselves win
I thought the kids gave themselves every chance to pull out a win in their first league game. We are playing better basketball, and that's encouraging, but our problem in the first half is that we had 19 turnovers. We ended up with only seven in the second half.
four good problem quarters season together
We just didn't have a good first half. Our problem has been inconsistency to put four quarters together all season long, and that's been our downfall.
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We just didn't get the shots up that we needed to get up and you just cannot do that at the varsity level. You're just not going to get away with that. We have to do a better job taking care of the basketball and then on the offensive side, executing and getting some movement in the offense and giving it a chance to get into a flow.
against care coach couple effort good hard kids line next score scramble situation start success teams until work
Their effort - they scramble and work as hard as they can until the end of the game. And I coach them to the end in that situation - I don't care what the score is. I want to see them get better and see those young kids have some success down the line here in the next couple years and it's going to start against good teams like that.
gives grow leeds
This gives Leeds something unique, something special. And it could grow to become something really big and long-lasting.
bad basketball coaches hang happening hard hopefully loss negative parents playing positive practice quit realize scramble seen spectators start watch
There were some encouraging things out of a loss like this from some individuals out there that a lot of spectators don't see because we as coaches watch them every day in practice and we watch them in all the games. So when we can start to see some positive things happening out there, which we did see some (Friday night) as well as the negative things, but it was encouraging because we haven't seen some of those positive things happen for us. Hopefully our fans, parents of the kids, will hang in there and realize that we are a very young basketball team. They've got a lot of heart. They try hard. They don't ever give up. They don't quit. There's no quit in this team. Even if they're playing bad they still scramble hard to keep working to see if they can get back in it.