Upward Bball 2019 - Week 4

** Guest Blogger **

Eric Hendrickson

Silas Game #4 vs. Nuggets - February 2nd

Silas's team was playing against his friend Gavin's team.

Silas always irritates the person he is guarding because he sticks on them like glue.

Silas has been working on layups and doing a pretty good job.

Phoebe Game #5 vs. Sun - February 2nd
Phoebe's team, the Supersonics, got to play back to back games today.

All the girls were there and ready to go.

We practiced doing screens this week, and the girls did a good job of utilizing them in the game.  Phoebe does an excellent job of moving off the screen.

Phoebe shot some free throws and had a nice form.  We won 34-24 and Phoebe had 24 points.

Phoebe Game #6 vs. Rockets - February 2nd
We played another game immediately after the first one.

Phoebe started off the day not feeling well.  She had a much harder time the second half but she pushed through with all her might.

Phoebe played good defense against a girl who is very good, fast, and aggressive.

In this league, the teams are to play man-to-man defense.  The other team's coach decided to run a zone with all his players in the lane.  It made it difficult to score and he would not get out of the zone even after he was told to do so by the referees and me.  Very frustrating.  We couldn't run our normal offense against the zone and we ran out of gas.  We lost the game 30-20.  Phoebe had a lot of shots that didn't fall and ended up with 1 point.

Sarah Game #4 vs. Celtics - February 2nd

Sarah's team, the Nets, were geared up to play.  For this game, I wanted to put the ball in the hands of our girls that haven't scored often this year.

The other team played better and used an offense that set some screens.

Sarah shot (4) free throws, making (2).

We won 20-10.  Sarah had (4) points and passed the ball extremely well.

Good job playing basketball this weekend.