Harbour View Junior Lady Vikings

The team played very well tonight and I really think it is their best game yet. Everyone that played contributed. They passed better, they used the backboard when they shot, they dished the ball to other players when getting double teamed, they pushed the ball up the floor better etc. Doing all the little things we want them to do. I think if they play like that then we will have a good tournament this weekend. I like it when our team plays a team that they have not played in awhile and they are not ready for our new and improved team. We keep shocking teams with how much we are improving.

I would like to meet after the Simonds game to discuss our plans for next weekends trip to Perthandover.

J

I only have a few rules for the team one is to be dressed up for an away game. We are representing our school at a visiting gym and I would like the players to present themselves in a professional manner. If they are not dressed I will not be letting them play for the first quarter for the first offense unless the other players need a substitution. The second offense will be for the first half and so on. The second thing I would like to see is that the players arrive early before a practice and a game. 15 minutes before a practice so we can get as much as we can out of the practice. Practices are more important than games since we need to fix the problems we are observing in our games. This means we need everyone at practice so that we can work on fixing our mistakes as a team. If someone misses a practice and we learn something new then that player should not be playing in the next game since they are lost when we do something new in a game and this hurts the team as a whole. I write up a practice expecting at least 10 players and when less then that show up that practice is not usable and I have to create a new one on the fly. We also are not able to learn new plays or fix old ones. I would also like players to be at games 45 minutes early, this will give them 15 minutes to change, 10 minutes for us to discuss our game strategy and what we need to work on and 10 minutes for a good solid warm up. Most games we are only getting 2-3 minutes for discussion and 10-15 minutes for warm up. This is not good enough for any team to properly prepare for a game.

I have 3 rooms booked for the players 4 per room. 1 for the other coaches and one for me. Making that a total of 5. Then I have one booked for Dorthy Mallet, Carrie Beckett, Mary Fulton, Chris Ferguson, and Lori Hudson giving us a total of 10. Let me know ASAP if you would like to cancel a room or get another one for yourself. I need to know this information ASAP.

I am going to schedule some practices on Tuesday and Wednesday. I am having the practices in the evening because I have to work during the day.We will not be having any on December 31st or January 1st of course because of new years. The Pro Kids tournament is from the 2nd to the 4th so the players will not be able to practice on these days as well and then Monday January 5th, we will be playing Simonds. So we do not have much time to prepare to play them, this is a team I think we could beat so we need to practice.