1. TRAVEL practice starts TOMORROW at 7 PM to 8:30 pm at St.
Stephens. We will go Tuesday and Thursday this week and next at St.
Stephen's. Those dates are Nov 5, 7, 12, and 14. Uniform payments are
due at the first practice. Checks are to be made out to Framingham Jr.
Flyers Basketball. Payment to the YMCA is due before the first
practice at the YMCA.
2. Have your daughters bring an empty binder and a pencil to their
first practice. I was told that most of last year's team can not find
their play books so we will start over. They'll need to bring their
binder to every practice. Email me if you daughter still has her play
book so I don't over print.
3. After two weeks (this and next) at St Stephens, we become nomads
for two weeks since the Y will not have a place for us to practice
until the week after Thanksgiving. Our week 3 practice will be
Wednesday Nov 20 at 6 pm at Ashland Middle School with the Ashland 7th
grade team. We will have one other practice or scrimmage that week at
a time and place to be determined. We WILL NOT practice during
Thanksgiving week. With the race and two tournaments, we have enough
going on.
4. We will play in two pre season tournaments on the bookend weekends
to Turkey Day. We will play in two games on Sunday, Nov 24 at Mass
Premier in Foxboro. We will play a total of 3 games in the Natick
tournament during the weekend after Thanksgiving. Those games could be
Friday, Saturday or Sunday and will be over two days. We will play in
the tournaments as DESTROYERS not FLYERS since the entry fees are
coming out of the FADS funds.
5. The race Thanksgiving Day morning is full. If you did not get your
daughter registered, no worries. They can run with the unofficially.
Building team unity is the goal. I will have Destroyer tshirts for
every travel team member and practice player to wear on race day.
6. Our YMCA practice times and days are yet to be determined. I do
know that they are trying to get us into Walsh on Mon, Wednesday or
Thursday or Friday at YMCA. We will be given two practice times a
week.
7. I ask that during the winter basketball season that BASKETBALL come
before every other sport. The rest of the year it is okay to put the
Destroyers on the back burner as long as your player is doing a little
basketball year round. From mid November to mid March attendance at
two basketball practices a week is expected. One a week is required.
The required practice will be where new concepts will be introduced
and or challenges from the previous game will be ironed out. It will
be the most important practice of the week and will be clearly flagged
on TeamSnap. It is the practice that I would like every member of the
team to attend so that everyone is prepared for that week's game. That
is also the practice to which I will peg your daughter's playing time
for that week.
8. Make sure that your daughter information is entered in to TeamSnap.
Please use TeamSnap to mark your child's availability for games and
practices.
9. Figuring playing time: *Players who miss the mandatory practice
before a game will play but not equally. They will be worked into the
game in such a way and in such times that they will not disrupt the
progress of the players who were at that practice to learn that week's
new concepts. They may play only 5 or 6 minutes in that weeks game. I
will do as equal as I can playing time for each regular season game
for the girls who attend practices.
With 13 girls each player will play about 12 minutes per regular
season game. I will also change the groups from game to game so every
player gets a chance to play with each other, gets to start some games
and everyone also gets a chance to close out some games.
When our team is entered in a tournament where we need to win a
specific game in order to advance and keep playing, I will rotate
players fairly equally in the first three quarters. Everyone who met
the practice requirements for that week will play a minimum of 8
minutes split over the first 3 quarters, most likely in 4 minute
shifts.
I will play our current best players in the fourth quarter in the
"life or death" games. The demarcation line for "current best" for me
is when preparation, talent and athleticism meets an indomitable work
ethic demonstrated by showing up for and working hard in most of the
offered basketball activities in the week leading up to the
tournament.
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