Scrimmage 1 report card

November 23, 2014      Marlborough 7th grade 

 

Shots Taken

Shots Made

%

3-Point Shots

%

Foul Shots

%

Rebounds

Fouls

Points

Did Well

Challenge

Jazlynn

DNP

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Spirit

DNP

Zaria

4

1

25%

x

x

0-1

0%

5

1

2

Hustle

Stopping Ball

Chloe

DNP

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

DNP

Jomi

5

0

0%

x

x

0-2

0%

0

0

0

Hustle

Completing Passes

Hannah

DNP

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Spirit

DNP

Katie

4

0

0%

0-2

0%

x

x

1

1

0

catch and shoot

Taking enough Shots

Nilijah

2

0

0%

x

x

x

x

1

1

0

Good on ball Defense

Completing Passes

Sofia

2

1

50%

x

x

x

x

1

1

2

Good Passes

Traps

Tayja

26

7

27%

x

x

3-10

30%

21

3

17

Breaking Traps

Foul Shots

Brooke

6

1

17%

x

x

x

x

4

1

2

Hustle

Finishing

Selina

3

0

0%

x

x

x

x

0

1

0

Toughness

RUN on FASTbreak

Britney

1

1

100%

x

x

x

x

1

0

2

Hustle

Stopping Ball

Gianna

19

9

55%

3-5

60%

2-8

25%

2

0

23

Shooting 3s

Foul Shots

Vienna

17

4

24%

x

x

x

x

14

2

8

Rebounding

Driving

Emma

4

0

0%

x

x

x

x

1

2

0

Hustle

Traps

Paige

DNP

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

DNP

Summer

DNP

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

DNP

TEAM

90

24

27%

3-7

43%

5-21

24%

51

13

46

Hustled!

Traps Stopping ball Help and Recover

Shots Taken

Shots Made

%

3-Point Shots

%

Foul Shots

%

Rebounds

Fouls

Points

Did Well

Challenge

 DNP - Did not play.

 The goal for each player is to take at least 4 shots, gather 4 at least rebounds and get to the foul line 2 times. At this point in the season, we strive to shoot 70% from the foul line, 25% from the field and 20% for the 3 point line. Bold means that the goal was met.

PGC Shooting Clinic

Some of the girls and I attended the Point Gurad Colleges shooting clinic last weekend.

This video, produced by PGC, talks about a bit of what the team learned.

How I can be more precise in my approach to practice

Vienna:

1. Sharp passes.

2. Straight passes to the person.

3. Taking good shots.

4. (Work on not) missing to the left.

5. Cut to the basket ( at speed, after every pass).

Jazlynn:

1. Sprinting while cutting or running to a spot in 5-out.

2. Getting ready for practice faster.

3. Hustling to water and back.

4. Paying attention when coach is talking.

5. Trying my best in everything I do.

Katie:

1. Stay two steps away form the 3 point like in 5 out.

2. Cut all the way underneath the rim.

3. Always keep ball in power position.

4. Slide, don't run, on defense.

5. Talk / communicate.

Nilijah:

1. Pass straight to the person.

2. Shoot right at the backboard on a lay up.

3. Go to defend right away.

4. Do not give up when you're playing the back (on defense).

5. Set a pick right away if needed.

Tayja:

1. Pass and cut all the way to the basket every single time.

2a. Play help defense.

2b. Guard the ball, not a person.

3. Cheer teammates.

4. When I put the ball on the floor, explode to the basket for a layup.

5. Don't react. (NEXT PLAY!)

Zaria:

1. When I shoot a free throw, I make sure I follow the finger and make sure my shot is straight and accurate.

2. When I make a pass, I always look and aim the ball to where it needs to go.

3. When I dribble, I need to make sure I have my arm guarding the ball and I am looking up.

4. If I am in 5-out position, I will make sure I am at least 2 feet off the arc and I am trying to get open for a pass.

5. When I cut to the basket, I always look up for a pass, and I'll be ready to shoot.

Sofia:

1. Stop talking.

2. Listen closely.

3. Hold the ball firmly (power position).

4. Don't talk when Coach Robin is talking.

5. RUN (hustle)

Chloe:

1. Being on time.

2. Not talking while I'm in line for a drill.

3. Listening to all directions given.

4. Pushing myself to do my hardest every drill.

5. Not fooling around during practice.

Hannah:
1. Getting my homework in on time.

2. Making better passes.

3. Being an encouraging teammate.

4. Running for everything.

5. Reviewing my PGC notes more frequently.

Emma:
1. Look at the cutter.
2. Run on my cuts.
3. Look at the ball when I cut.
4. Dribble towards the basket (in a straight line.)
5. Look up when I am dribbling.

Brooke: 

1. Listen.

2. Put in 100%.

3. Come prepared.

4. Pay attention when the coach is talking.

5. Stay focused even when I am in line for drills.

Developing a Stronger Core

Do you think your core is just your abs? WRONG! Your core is everything below your shoulders and above your knees. And your core is the center of everything you do on the basketball court.

Why play multiple sports?

Please keep your kids playing more than just basketball. I encourage multi-sport participation for many reasons. An athlete is an athlete because they can play any sport well - with practice - and that starts early on. Playing multiple sports gives children the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills as opposed to the narrow skill set that is cultivated through single sport specialization and they learn to use their bodies in numerous ways.

Sport specialization is the year round participation and dedication to a chosen sport, at the exclusion of all other organized sports. Pretty simple. An athlete (or their parents) picks a sport and dedicates all their athletic development time to training and playing only that sport. Nothing else.

In my opinion there is only one decent argument for specializing at a young age, and, if we’re honest, it’s a darn good one.

"The more you train, the better you get."

Providing you’re working on the right things when you’re training, that’s an absolute fact that no one can argue. There is a clear correlation between time spent practicing and skill attained.

I have also heard people say that not everyone has the talent to play multiple sports regardless of how much they want to.

When I say that I want kids to play multi-sports I don't mean that they need to play every sport at a club or even a travel level. Regardless of base abilities, whatever the child may have had naturally in one sport will improved by doing other sports.

Walk away from coaches who pressure you to have your child specialize in any sport, even basketball, before late high school.

1. An offseason spent playing soccer or lacrosse or golf or dancing or gymnastic, etc., will reduce over use injuries.

2. Playing soccer, lacrosse or field hockey or any running sport will help maintain fitness and potentially enhance speed endurance.

3. Playing different sports creates a wider social group and is a fantastic way to develop social skills. Children that play two or more sports have the benefit of interacting and making friends with more children. This is especially important for basketball players as there are usually only 10 – 12 other players on the team.

The Destroyers are darn lucky to have about 20 core players of various ages.

4. Multi-sport athletes tend to develop a high level of athleticism and once they specialize late in high school or in college, they blossom in their chosen sport.

5. Multi-sport kids develop a far more useful skill: how to learn. They learn how to adapt to different situations, make connections, and to take true ownership over the improvement process.

6. They grow into well-rounded athletes who have an ability to accept different coaching styles. That helps them get a big-picture understanding that teams do things differently — philosophies, styles — and athletes must pull what they can from a coach, a style, an environment to play. The great byproduct of those differences is that it helped them in so many situations — life, sports, the classroom — to communicate differently and assert themselves

7. They understand the dynamics of being on different teams and working together as a group with a wide range of people.

8. Maybe in one sport the kid shines and is a leader. In another sport, they may not even be competent. So they learn to be humble, to be a good teammate and to support the go-to players. That is why Tayja, my talented hard working basketball player, plays lacrosse. She SUCKs at it and has to work hard at it.

Tayja did and still does a lot of different sports. Some she excels at. Others she is terrible at. At all she learns to use her body in different ways. My greatest failure is that I have never convinced her to try any type of dance and hers is that she has been unable to talk me in to letting her play tackle football.

Tayja's list of sports includes:
Fastpitch softball - pitcher, short stop, center field, third base, first base
Baseball - T, coach pitch and minor leauge
Golf
Tennis - singles and doubles
Yoga
Martial Arts - Kempo, Taekwondo, Boxing, ShitoRyu, Fencing
Juggling Rock climbing - indoor and out
Gymnastics
Lacrosse - midfielder and goalie
Soccer And Futsal
Skating - roller, inline, ice
Archery - recurve
Biking
Swimming
Rowing - single and double scull, coxed four and eight,
Boating -single kayak, canoe, rowboat, single jib sailing
Curling
Jump rope - single, group, double Dutch
Track and field - sprints, hurdles, long jump, high jump, javelin, discus
Cross country, road racing

9. Each sport teaches different skills and installs different motor patterns. Lacrosse players understand angles, footwork and how to get low on defense. They also learn to dodge and evade people who are chasing them and whacking at them with sticks. Soccer players can run all day. Those are critical skill sets for basketball players.

Volleyball and basketball each requires lateral movement, hand-eye coordination, ball skills and vertical jumping. There is a transfer between blocking a ball and contesting a shot, between moving laterally for a dig and moving laterally to prevent an offensive player’s penetration.

The lateral movement that basketball players use to stay in front of defenders is the same skill that shortstops develop to field ground balls. Softball players also learn anticipation, focusing on the pitch, reacting to the crack of the bat, and tracking the ball.

When you play multiple sports, you develop whole-body skills like balance, quickness, core strength. You cross-train skills from one sport to another. Things like spacing, vision and defensive footwork carry over from one sport to the other.

10. Kids have more opportunities to learn to manage tough losses. Sports build resilience.

11. Playing multiple sports also keeps sports and competing fresh for kids. My son, Ryan, played one sport - soccer - since age 7. To please me, he also played a little rec basketball in middle school. By junior year of high school, he had burned out on soccer, rejected all his soccer scholarship offers and attended a college which did not even have a soccer team. A player must have a burning passion to compete, to work hard and play at high level. Ryan's passion was used up before college.

Athletic development is a process, and skill development is only one piece. Each sport uses some muscles more than others. When an athlete gets in an awkward position, other sport muscles may kick in. Using general skills, a good athlete can adjust to the situation. Kids used to develop broad athletic skills by playing multiple sports and neighborhood games, like tag or dodge ball, which develop agility, balance, coordination, evading skills, body control and more. That does not happen any more.

Farewell, Celine!

Our team has not lost a player in over TWO YEARS. Until now. One of the Original Eight is moving 15 hours away. 

The team came together last night to eat pizza and celebrate Celine #1 (who went 6 for 8 on 3s in her two games this week.) 

She will be missed. 

 The rest of the girls are trying to figure out how to include their missing sister in future practices via Skype.

Best Camp EVER

Coach Jason DeVeau and I missed the summer league games last week to take 8 Destroyer athletes to a sleep away basketball camp on the Wheaton College campus in Norton. It is one the best basketball camps that I have attended in over 30 years.

We attended the Point Guard College Prep School, a "course is designed to give athletes a vision of who they can be as a basketball player, a student, a leader, and a person. In addition to learning everything needed to play smart, strong basketball on the court, players receive five days of training in how to be a special athlete, student, and leader."

The most important of what the girls learned, in my opinion, is how to lead themselves in to special player / a player status on the court, in the classroom and in the home. The bonus that they learned are drills and skills to defeat pressure, protect the ball and break a press.

Here is a link to a highlight video from the PGC Prep School session at Oklahoma City University from June 16-21, 2014.

http://youtu.be/HaNugbKmStA

Jason and I sign a contract pledging that we would not take any video so we don't have any of our girls. This video IS what our girls experienced.

We will be returning to the camp next year with these 8 girls and any Destroyer girls who are going in to grades 7 to 10 in the Fall of 2015 who would like to attend. Point Guard College also  offers other
equally as enriching camps for older players.

Here is the link to the program:

http://www.pgcbasketball.com/courses/select-a-course/