We lost to Western Carolina at home yesterday. We played an ok game. We were down by 2 at the half and ended up losing by 11. The game was close for almost the entire second half. Bryson Barnes had a great dunk with around 5 minutes left to cut their lead to 1. The next possession we had one of their guards trapped just over halfcourt but he managed to get a pass off to Brandon Giles who got a dunk of his own. We had a couple of empty possessions and they made the most out of their possessions late. Like the title says, we couldn’t capitalize. We got the dunk and had the momentum but couldn’t keep it. Their leading scorer fouled out with like 6 minutes left but we couldn’t capitalize on that either. Giles scored 20 points in the second half. What really hurt us was not capitalizing on open shots and free throws. We were 5-20 from 3 which is unacceptable because we are all very capable shooters.
Today we went over the film of the game and lifted weights. We went out for dinner as a team and I’ve been hanging out watching college basketball, watching the NFL playoffs, playing Madden 09, and playing with my Christmas/Birthday present (by the time you’ve read this I’ve taken off the “lunch box” from the back).
I’m going to get some extra shooting in this week which brings me to this great youtube video of Tim Duncan having trouble handling “the gun”, a rebounding/passing machine. Enjoy.
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