Well today's practice started off not so well tonight ... apparently last night we had a theft in our change room and a couple of our guys had some items taken from them, we had a hat taken, a cell phone taken, a wallet taken among a couple of other things ... this is not cool at all ... so our coordinator at Seneca sent an email to all the coaches that have teams that use that locker room explaining what happened as well we pulled the guys together before the practice started and explained what happened and also provided a solution to return it so no one would know who took it ... we will keep investigating and find the person who took the items ... hope it is not one of our players if so he is GONE!
We also had another player quit the team for personal reasons ... I think work, school and basketball was a bit to much ... glad to hear he made the right decision for himself as school and providing funds for school is more important then playing ... I once had to make that decision ... as hard as it was it was the best for me and sounds like it is best for him ... I wish him all the success in the world.
Practice went very well, we had them warm up led by our vet and then had then do a bit of running conditioning before going into some shooting drills ... Our shooting drills were the same as last week, we had them do V-cuts from the bottom and pop to the wing for a pass and then hit the man cutting for either a jump shot or a lay up ... we then had our high screen, skip n seal drill followed by our side screen, roll, skip drill ... it is starting to look good I will add another drill on Tuesday ...
We broke them up into groups again and worked on defense and offense drills ... looks like the guys are starting to pick up the offense as we again broke it down ... we now have everyone moving now just have to work on the timing ... that will come ...
Our defense looks like it is starting to come along as well ... got a chance to see it in the scrimmage and the guys are starting to pick up the rotation and slides as well as the positions on ball & off ball ... I am starting to like the look of the team ...
The guys are working hard a couple of guys are injured so when they come back we will have to take it slow and work them into it but I am sure that they will be fine ...
Coach D is back on Tuesday so I hope he likes what he sees as I think the guys are coming along nicely ... Next Friday is our first game ... exhibition tournament at the college ... that will be our first test ...
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Coach Hopps
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