3 posts tagged “bdog basketball”

Just realized that I didn't update from BDog's championship game.  It wasn't really close until the end.  The score was 9-2 after the first quarter and it seemed our team was behind about 5-7 points the rest of the game.  The interesting thing is that we have a very good player who was shut out in the first quarter and then got into foul trouble.  When he was turned loose in the 3rd quarter, we pulled within 2 a couple of times.
Our team policy for this league has been to swap subs at the half way point of each quarter.  Our best player was playing the first half of every quarter and BDog the last half.  So the 2nd half of the 3rd quarter they started to slip away again with a score of 26-19 I believe.  4th quarter comes along and we pull closer to like within 4 points behind the play of our star player.  (Other team swaps their players every quarter so they had what could have been their second string in) 
Our subs vs their subs pulled to within 1 point.  29-28 with about a minute to go.  At this level it's not like College or even high school ball where you have a chance of stealing or rebounding and scoring quickly.  Scores come slowly.  Our team finally was able to foul them with about 8 seconds left.  They sank one free throw making it 30-28.  BDog rebounded the second free throw  but time ran out when he was at about half court.  It was an exciting finish to the game and season.
Now, one interesting point is our coach.  I thought he did a great job all season and was very instructional to the players.  BDog learned a lot from him.  If the coach put kept the star player in for the whole 4th quarter the outcome may have been different.  BUT, I agree with following our season long guidelines.  He coached the game consistent with the whole season and didn't compromise to go for the win.  I salute that.  At this level (5th & 6th grade) it's about learning the game and not winning.
The funny part?  The second place trophy from this year is bigger than last year's first place trophy.  Go figure...

Bdog's basketball playoffs have started.  The association has been great up to this point with the games but Monday night there was only 1 ref and last night no ref until the 2nd period (After the game started 20 min late).  Each team provided a parent ref until the regular guy showed up.  Even with those distractions his team has done well.
Monday they scored over 40 points for the first time and won 44-26.  Last night they won 25-15.  He has a pretty good team of ball handlers and these last two games every shot has dropped.  One of the kids is really good and normally scores at least half of the points himself.  The team is fun to watch.
Bdog is mainly a defensive person.  He is one of the taller ones so he gets to guard the other team's tall players.  His defense has picked up throughout the season and now sticks on his man pretty well.  He gets some shots off too and last night scored the last two baskets of the game.  The other team was pressing and Bdog was the down court out.  Two easy shots from under the basket. 
So on to Thursday night.  If they win, the championship is Friday night.

  Bdog's team won the 5th grade basketball championship yesterday. 

It's actually been a long season starting in late October.  The tournament started Wednesday with BDog scoring 2 baskets.  The semifinal game was Friday and he sank 3 shots.  During the championship, he didn't sink any but he had an awesome blocked shot at about the free throw line.
 
  Bdog is one of the taller boys in the league so I've been telling him he needs to use that to his advantage.  I think near the end it started to click and Friday night especially when he realized he does better when using the backboard.  We also worked on boxing out and Friday he played his nemesis (Shaun who hit BDog with a pitch during baseball).   BDog did good.  He kept Shaun out of the game for the most part.

  For the championship he did better on defense and hustle.  There was one loose ball where he scrambled and dove for it impressing dad if no one else.  It was a fun run and I think BDog enjoyed it.