Team Weekend and Practice Match

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On Saturday the 3rd of September Arriba HS1 started it’s practice weekend. It contained 2 practices and a game against Arnhemia Eagles 2 on Saturday and one practice on Sunday.

When the first practice began, a new player showed up. So we had to teach him some of the plays we had. Considering Arriba has a lot of new players, it will take some time to get to know each other and play with each other.

The practices went really well, so we were excited to see where we stand against our first practice opponent, also just promoted to the Rayon Hoofdklasse, Arnhemia Eagles 2. This team consists of a lot veterans who know how to play with each other.

They immediately started with a full-court press, to give us a lot of pressure in the backcourt, which gave us a lot of problems in the first quarter. Although we did score a few times, A.E. was in front by something like 10 points.

When the second quarter started, they came out with a lot of aggression, so at the midpoint we were down by 19 or 20 points. We did put it together after that, and went on to close the lead to 8 at half.

During halftime, our coach told us how to break the press, which we did execute a couple of times. However, the lead still hovered around 8-12 points, so didn’t get any closer. The same went on with the fourth quarter, so in the end, we didn’t get the win.

We had some problems with their big guy, who scored a lot of points and was really good. He even scored a three in the last minute, when the game was already over.

Considering that the team is new and that we hadn’t had a lot practices together, nor did we had a pressbreaker, nor did not everyone know how to run the plays, we played a pretty decent game. Even though we lost, everybody had a good feeling about the game and the progress we have made as a team this weekend.

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