by CoachC » Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:11 pm
Our first exhibition against Grand Valley St. was encouraging. We lost 82-74 in OT, but the final score was irrelevant, especially with us giving everyone equal minutes and them playing a 2-3 zone throughout.
The Good: We were able to control the tempo and shot a respectable 45.5 % against their zone and 8-18 from 3, so it does appear we have some shooters. We also had 8 steals and turned them over 15 times. We also hung in with them on the boards.
The Bad: we turned the ball over 17 times ourselves which is way too many, even in an OT game. Our guards need to get better at chasing after those long rebounds on offense as well.
Individually I was impressed by our guards Lemeke and Gilchrist who combined for 25 points in 31 minutes. Gilchrist in particular seems to be a sharpshooter going a perfect 5 for 5 from the field. Center Josh Brown had 5 points and 8 rebounds in 15 minutes, but needs to get into better conditioning. As a group our big men did a pretty good job on the boards but the guards need to help out.