Good start to the week

As I commented to a number of people who asked, "It wasn't a great game, but it was a good win!" We didn't play as well as I had hoped at South Side, particularly in the area of ballhandling, but we made up for it in other areas. For the first time all year, our shooting percentage was over 50% and we were deadly at the line too, knocking down 12-14. None of those free throws were bigger than Cassie's with just under 8 seconds to go, effectively icing the game. We had great balance again, both in scoring and number of scoring opportunities. One of the things I really like about the team right now is the simple fact that our offensive attack is spreading the shots around and we have kids like Madison, Paige, and Bailey stepping up to support the scoring load. That only makes us more difficult to prepare for and to play against. I also thought, for the first time all year, we got some defensive stops when we needed them, holding South to just six fourth-quarter points. That wasn't an accident; we made a defensive adjustment at the end of the third quarter that completely changed the flow of the game and took South out of a pretty good rhythm. This team has always demonstrated the ability to switch things up when we need to, and last night's game was just another example of that.

Now we set our sights on Wawasee. It will be a pretty good week if we can knock off another team who dealt us one of our four losses last year. Revenge is for suckers, but a good performance up there Saturday would be another sign that we are moving in the right direction. It's only early December - we're two months away from the time we want to start playing our best. Still, it's nice to have these measuring sticks along the way. Wawasee will be a good one.