The boys lost a heart-breaker today to a game Lightz Out squad, 41-40. This is their first loss in league and drops their record to 6-1.
I could write multiple paragraphs about the refereeing, but you were there. You saw. Nothing more needs to be said.
The Rocket had chances to win this game, but continued to struggle with team rebounding (only Jace and Eckahelo had more than 2 rebounds), Free Throw shooting (6-24) and turnovers (29).
Darric Blockman and Eckahelo Simpson were both terrors in the passing lanes today, each coming up with 5 steals.
The Rockets still control their own destiny in their march to a league championship, but must rebound quickly as they face two more tough teams to end the regular season - The CV Bears and The Chargers.
Player of the Game: Jace Parbon - 9 pts, 14 reb, 2 steals and 1 assist
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Rockets - 40 Hormel Law Bears - 24
The boys began the 2nd half of the Spokane AAU league season with a semi - convincing win against an over-matched Hormel Law Bears team.
The boys struggled all game from the field, only hitting 28% of their attempts, but you wouldn't have known this if you only watched the 1st quarter. The Rockets came out and smothered the Bears with their press. Jace Parbon, Echahelo Simpson and Kobe Simpson each had 2 steals in the opening stanza that led to easy buckets and a big 16-2 lead.
The Bears managed to play us almost even the rest of the way (24-22), which can be mostly attributed to our poor conversion rate from the field and, aside from Echahelo, a general lack of team rebounding. The Rockets received some strong play down the stretch from our bench - Riley Savage (5 rebounds), Griffin Jacobs (3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block) and Antonio DeFelice (3 points, 3 rebounds) led the way.
The boys are now 6 - 0 in league and control their own destiny on their way to wrapping up the Pacific Divisions #1 seed heading into the playoffs. We finish the year with three tough games against Lightz Out, the CV Bears and the Chargers (we are 4-1 against this group this season but all have been tough games).
We're going to find out a lot about our Rockets over these next 3-4 weeks!!
Player of the Game: Eckahelo Simpson - 9 pts, 17 reb, 3 ast, 3 stls, 0 TO's
Rockets v. Hormel Bears
The boys struggled all game from the field, only hitting 28% of their attempts, but you wouldn't have known this if you only watched the 1st quarter. The Rockets came out and smothered the Bears with their press. Jace Parbon, Echahelo Simpson and Kobe Simpson each had 2 steals in the opening stanza that led to easy buckets and a big 16-2 lead.
The Bears managed to play us almost even the rest of the way (24-22), which can be mostly attributed to our poor conversion rate from the field and, aside from Echahelo, a general lack of team rebounding. The Rockets received some strong play down the stretch from our bench - Riley Savage (5 rebounds), Griffin Jacobs (3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block) and Antonio DeFelice (3 points, 3 rebounds) led the way.
The boys are now 6 - 0 in league and control their own destiny on their way to wrapping up the Pacific Divisions #1 seed heading into the playoffs. We finish the year with three tough games against Lightz Out, the CV Bears and the Chargers (we are 4-1 against this group this season but all have been tough games).
We're going to find out a lot about our Rockets over these next 3-4 weeks!!
Player of the Game: Eckahelo Simpson - 9 pts, 17 reb, 3 ast, 3 stls, 0 TO's
Rockets v. Hormel Bears
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
2013 -2014 1st Half Recap
The first half of the 2013-2014 AAU basketball season has seen a new group of boys come together as a bunch of individuals and slowly begin to gel as a TEAM.
The boys have played in 3 tournaments so far and this process of becoming a team has been evident in the up and down play that we have witnessed on our way to a 6-6 tournament record. For every nice win we have (the 32-30 come back win over the Chargers comes to mind) we've got a couple of head-scratchers (losing poorly played games to Lightz Out and Shockwave). Then again sometimes the loses aren't a result of learning each other, but just making free throws. -- (lost by 6 to Who Has it Magic while going 9-33 at the stripe & losing to Northside Snipers by 5 while going 9-27; ouch!!)
Our up and down play in tournaments hasn't carried over to our league play where our Rockets enter the 2nd half of the season with a perfect 5-0 record and on top of the Pacific Division. Our perfect record includes solid wins over Pacific Division rivals, the Vipers and the Northside Snipers.
The boys and their coaches are working hard to keep that perfect record going in league and to develop some consistency in tournament play. We are chasing a league championship and a state qualifying finish in our next tournament. We believe the boys can do it.
We'll see you at the gym......Go Rockets!!!
P.S. - look for individual game recaps coming soon.....
The boys have played in 3 tournaments so far and this process of becoming a team has been evident in the up and down play that we have witnessed on our way to a 6-6 tournament record. For every nice win we have (the 32-30 come back win over the Chargers comes to mind) we've got a couple of head-scratchers (losing poorly played games to Lightz Out and Shockwave). Then again sometimes the loses aren't a result of learning each other, but just making free throws. -- (lost by 6 to Who Has it Magic while going 9-33 at the stripe & losing to Northside Snipers by 5 while going 9-27; ouch!!)
Our up and down play in tournaments hasn't carried over to our league play where our Rockets enter the 2nd half of the season with a perfect 5-0 record and on top of the Pacific Division. Our perfect record includes solid wins over Pacific Division rivals, the Vipers and the Northside Snipers.
The boys and their coaches are working hard to keep that perfect record going in league and to develop some consistency in tournament play. We are chasing a league championship and a state qualifying finish in our next tournament. We believe the boys can do it.
We'll see you at the gym......Go Rockets!!!
P.S. - look for individual game recaps coming soon.....
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