Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Blogging the Journey: Against All Odds


I loved our teams approach to our game on Saturday at Hilbert. While the game was won on Saturday, 100-95, we actually won the game in the two days of practice leading up to Saturday's game. We practiced with passion, we prepared and we disciplined ourselves to doing the little things that we needed to do to win the game. Despite being against all odds of winning that game...down two starters, long road trip, hot shooting opponent and foul trouble throughout...we continued to fight, stay poised and determined and found a way to win.


Give Hilbert credit for playing hard, too. We knew we were in for a battle when they came out and shot 6 of 6 from three point range to start the game. Luckily our own Joey Stevenson found himself hitting his first 3-point attempts and we managed to find ourselves with a 7 point lead mid-way through the first half. However, that did not last as we had a few untimely, but unforced turnovers against a good full-court press by Hilbert. We got great contributions from our bench and were able to stay close at half-time. In the second half, Hilbert continued to put on a three point shooting clinic, the finsished the game with 16 total. They were able to extend their lead to 11 at one point in the second half. We lost our leading scorer late in the game due to fouls. But we were determined to not let this game slip away. We have lost four games by six points or less this year so far due to untimely turnovers or lack of execution. But you had a sense that this was a different day. This day was going to be a turning point in our season. This day we were executing, we were getting stops, we were converting our turnovers, we were making the extra pass and we were stepping up at key moments. On this day, we were playing with toughness!


As all odds were against us and all indications leading to another "L" in the column, we did what tough teams do...we found a way to win!

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