Just a little note to the seven people that read this, I got my first head coaching Technical foul the other day when our JV's play against Northwestern. Quite hysterical and all I said was "Are you kidding me? Everyone in the gym heard it." This was after one of my guys essentially got a low five when driving to the basket. At least I got that one out of the way. Now I just need a win. JV's also lost to Elmhurst by 3 yesterday.
On to Saturday night's main event. We took on the Bluejays from Elmhurst. It is a homecoming game for Jordan Schmidt. His family lives about 20 minutes down the road and a lot of friends and family made it to the game. A couple of his high school coaches were there as well. Great to see them supporting their former players (one of many on the college level).
Elmhurst made it quite an event with the lights out and spotlights on their players during the player introductions. Even their cheerleaders had these little lights in their poms poms to create more atmosphere. It somewhat reminded me of Apollo taking on the Russian in Rocky IV. Apollo comes out with all this glits and glamour and proceeds to get pummeled. I was hoping that were going to be like Drago.
The game started off a little slow for us as Carl Hipp lost the tip to 6'2" Zach Boyd (that doesn't happen often). The game was back and forth for a little bit until we decided to pressure the basketball a little more and we created a lot of turnovers and a lot of confusion. We were up as many as 18 in the first half led by some great defense by Levi Wenrich and Brandon Rieg. That burst was the spurtability (I don't know if that's a word but they use it on tv) that we always had with our Brockport teams. The first half ended with us taking a 13 point lead to the locker room. We had very balanced scoring in the first with Mike Campbell, Carl Hipp, Brandon Rieg, and Christian Taber aka Danny Ainge all with 6 points.
The second half did not start the way would we have liked with a bunch of turnovers on our end and our guys not playing at the intensity like the first half on defense. Elmhurst switched over to zone and it made us somewhat stagnant on offense and we weren't able to get the penetration and post passes as we would have liked. The biggest thing for us is that we didn't want Zach Boyd or Sean Fendley to get hot. We somewhat took away Boyd but Fendley made three 3's in the second half because we were either lazy or didn't find him. Elmhurst took the lead on a questionable three point play with about a minute left in the game. We came back down the floor with a jumper by Mike Campbell. We fouled again right after that, just missed a steal, as Mike McCurdy knocked down both free throws. Next possession, we got the ball to Carl inside and he hit a turnaround jumper to make it a one point lead again. On the ensuing inbounds play we trapped Boyd big time and he swung his elbows to create some space. The refs called an intentional foul on Boyd due to the new Manny Harris Rule (not the name of the rule but it is because of him). Noah Aguirre hits both free throws and we take the lead. After a series of back and forth free throws, we ended up with a four point victory. Our first win against Elmhurst in three years.
We were led by Carl's 15 points and 8 boards (5 offensive) and Mike Campbell with 12 points. We had balanced scoring behind that with Jordan Schmidt having 9, Danny Ainge with 8, Noah with 7, Brandon, Levi Wenrich, and Tyler Pannell with 6. Great effort from our guards last night. Much different story than the Northwestern game.
Here is a video of the whole game that is available on youtube.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Northwestern 11/16
We opened up our season with a really tough loss against Northwestern last night. Final score was 62-61. We played pretty well in stretches but it obviously wasn't enough. After watching film and saw how awful we played, changes will probably be made this week before our game with Elmhurst.
We opened up the game holding a 16-9 lead and it quickly turned to a 23-17 lead for them. We got super stagnant on offense and our defensive intensity was terrible. Our "second group" at the moment just isn't getting it done on the offensive end. They aren't moving the basketball at all and are doing a lot of standing, which we can't do at all in our offense. Northwestern was lead by Wade Chitwood with 11 points on 4-9 shooting and Brian Lechler who had 9 points and 4 assists. Halftime score was 36-32.
Second half was more of the same, as we couldn't get things going offensively. We had a bunch of transition opportunities that we didn't convert. Can't expect to win games, especially on the road when not converting transition layups. It also didn't help that we were 14-25 from the line. Not making transition layups + not making free throws = losing ball games.
Carl Hipp led us with 19 points and 20 rebounds. Mike Campbell and Noah Aguirre rounded out our double figure scorers with 13 and 11, respectively.
Back to work today with some film and lifting. Our JV guys play their opener against Northwestern's JV in my head coaching debut.
Next game on Saturday vs. Elmhurst, who lost their opener to Cornell College (IA) in overtime. Elmhurst played small ball for most of the night and it should be interesting how we match up with each other.
We opened up the game holding a 16-9 lead and it quickly turned to a 23-17 lead for them. We got super stagnant on offense and our defensive intensity was terrible. Our "second group" at the moment just isn't getting it done on the offensive end. They aren't moving the basketball at all and are doing a lot of standing, which we can't do at all in our offense. Northwestern was lead by Wade Chitwood with 11 points on 4-9 shooting and Brian Lechler who had 9 points and 4 assists. Halftime score was 36-32.
Second half was more of the same, as we couldn't get things going offensively. We had a bunch of transition opportunities that we didn't convert. Can't expect to win games, especially on the road when not converting transition layups. It also didn't help that we were 14-25 from the line. Not making transition layups + not making free throws = losing ball games.
Carl Hipp led us with 19 points and 20 rebounds. Mike Campbell and Noah Aguirre rounded out our double figure scorers with 13 and 11, respectively.
Back to work today with some film and lifting. Our JV guys play their opener against Northwestern's JV in my head coaching debut.
Next game on Saturday vs. Elmhurst, who lost their opener to Cornell College (IA) in overtime. Elmhurst played small ball for most of the night and it should be interesting how we match up with each other.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Northwestern Preview
As a beautiful Sunday evening rolls to an end here in St. Paul, I've decided to give everyone a preview of our Northwestern game coming up on Tuesday. We play at Northwestern on Tuesday at 7:30pm Central time, directly after the women's game.
Northwestern is a perennial power in the UMAC (small Christian based institutions throughout Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin). Last season they won the NCCAA Division 1 National Championship. I'm not exactly sure what the NCCAA is but for a team to play a bunch of extra games is certainly beneficial, as well as being one of the few teams throughout the country that actually ends their season with a win. We had a really close game and controversial game with them at our place last season, you can check out the summary HERE.
The Eagles lost three of their top scorers from last season which included Hamline killer Reid Berens. He was a big bruising forward that could shoot 3's, we always had a tough time matching up with him. I will be happy to enter their gym and not see him in uniform. They also lost Stephen Hanson and Eric Garst, their second and fourth leading scorers from last year. Even though they lost these players, I still expect Northwestern to play hard and compete for all 40 minutes.
Returning for them will be Sr. Brian Lechler, their third leading scorer from last season. He is a very solid guard and a pretty good shooter. A trio of sophomores will also be significant contributors after stellar freshmen campaigns. Their three sophs are Robbie Anderstrom (got a tough introduction to college hoops last season when Carl Hipp had 25 and 12 on him in his collegiate debut), Tom Gisler, and Wade Chitwood. Anderstrom is a solid 6'7" center with solid skills inside and out. Gisler is a very good shooter and played better as the season progressed last year. Chitwood is very capable of shooting the lights out like his namesake Jimmy from Hickory High. Their probable fifth starter will be Gabe Jefferson, a junior from Omaha. Jefferson will probably play the 4 for them and has shot close to 40% from 3 for his career.
Hopefully, what you'll see from us is a faster tempo with a lot of transition baskets. We really need to push the ball up the wings and try to get the ball to our bigs in secondary break look. Our guys need to be patient if nothing is there. We will get good early looks in our offense but we need to look to score on our second and third catches instead of trying to score right away.
Here is the link for the Northwestern Athletics Website. I am not sure if they will have a live broadcast or live stats for the game but from the looks of the website, I have to believe they will.
Northwestern is a perennial power in the UMAC (small Christian based institutions throughout Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin). Last season they won the NCCAA Division 1 National Championship. I'm not exactly sure what the NCCAA is but for a team to play a bunch of extra games is certainly beneficial, as well as being one of the few teams throughout the country that actually ends their season with a win. We had a really close game and controversial game with them at our place last season, you can check out the summary HERE.
The Eagles lost three of their top scorers from last season which included Hamline killer Reid Berens. He was a big bruising forward that could shoot 3's, we always had a tough time matching up with him. I will be happy to enter their gym and not see him in uniform. They also lost Stephen Hanson and Eric Garst, their second and fourth leading scorers from last year. Even though they lost these players, I still expect Northwestern to play hard and compete for all 40 minutes.
Returning for them will be Sr. Brian Lechler, their third leading scorer from last season. He is a very solid guard and a pretty good shooter. A trio of sophomores will also be significant contributors after stellar freshmen campaigns. Their three sophs are Robbie Anderstrom (got a tough introduction to college hoops last season when Carl Hipp had 25 and 12 on him in his collegiate debut), Tom Gisler, and Wade Chitwood. Anderstrom is a solid 6'7" center with solid skills inside and out. Gisler is a very good shooter and played better as the season progressed last year. Chitwood is very capable of shooting the lights out like his namesake Jimmy from Hickory High. Their probable fifth starter will be Gabe Jefferson, a junior from Omaha. Jefferson will probably play the 4 for them and has shot close to 40% from 3 for his career.
Hopefully, what you'll see from us is a faster tempo with a lot of transition baskets. We really need to push the ball up the wings and try to get the ball to our bigs in secondary break look. Our guys need to be patient if nothing is there. We will get good early looks in our offense but we need to look to score on our second and third catches instead of trying to score right away.
Here is the link for the Northwestern Athletics Website. I am not sure if they will have a live broadcast or live stats for the game but from the looks of the website, I have to believe they will.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Exhibition Game vs. Concordia St. Paul
Last night we met the Golden Bears from Concordia St. Paul. It's an easy game for us in a sense that we are right down the road from each other. Plus, it's another solid test for us before we start our regular season schedule. With them being a D2 team, it gives us another chance to play against higher level competition just like St. Cloud State.
We started off with a 10-0 run and they looked a little shell shocked. Any time a lower level team (us) plays a higher level team (them), the lower level team usually comes out guns a-blazin and that was true last night. We were really running the floor and getting out in transition just like we talked about the whole preseason. After a Concordia timeout, they settled down which led to a pretty even keel first half both ways. We ended up being up by five at the end of the half with a pretty mediocre first half for us. Frequent visitor to open gyms this summer, Peter Olafeso kept them in the game with 17 first half points. We had no answer for his size and strength at the guard spot. We were pretty balanced as a team with Mike Campbell leading the way with ten points. Halftime score 33-28.
The second half started off with a bang from the Golden Bears. They got back to back "and 1's" to start the half. It was certainly the momentum booster they were looking for. After three minutes of back and forth lead changes, Concordia took control with some quality inside play. They were getting layups basically every possession and we were settling for early bad shots against their 2-3 zone. We just couldn't get it going offensively against their zone. Their length really bothered us for the second game in a row (St Cloud as well). We ended up shooting 7-26 in the second half and that's just not getting it done. We "held" them to 17-25 shooting in the second half. Needless to say, us not making shots gave them better opportunities on the offensive end because our intensity was not good enough.
The final ended up being 76-58. The game was much closer than that and I believe we could've made a little run on them if we wanted to show our other offensive and defensive sets. We knew that a lot of future opposing coaches were there and there was no reason to show them everything. Mike Campbell led us with 14 while Carl Hipp had a good all around game in limited minutes with 10 points, 9 boards, 4 blocks, and 5 steals. Looks like AK47 numbers if you ask me. We shot 34% overall from the floor, 5-17 from 3, and 15-22 from the line. That's just not going to get it done when playing against good teams.
As far as improvement goes, we have to get the ball into the post more often. For Carl to only take seven shots, that's just not cutting it for our team. He is too good not to get 12-15 shots a game. We have to get better at attacking a zone. We obviously didn't do a good job of that. The ball must get to the short corner or our zone offense will be effective. We need to take care of the basketball better. Twenty turnovers just won't cut it for us. We have to give ourselves extra possession at every opportunity.
On a positive note, we forced another D2 team into playing zone. They couldn't cover our penetration at all. We normally don't play against a lot of teams that play zone, so that will be interesting as the season progresses if we see any. We outrebounded them. They had a distinct size advantage and we still had 16 offensive boards. Hopefully, that will continue throughout the year.
I believe we are still adjusting to playing with each other and as a coaching staff we have to get the guys to play harder and longer for us to be successful. In time, I think we have a chance to be very good as long as we work hard on the court and in the weight room throughout the season.
We started off with a 10-0 run and they looked a little shell shocked. Any time a lower level team (us) plays a higher level team (them), the lower level team usually comes out guns a-blazin and that was true last night. We were really running the floor and getting out in transition just like we talked about the whole preseason. After a Concordia timeout, they settled down which led to a pretty even keel first half both ways. We ended up being up by five at the end of the half with a pretty mediocre first half for us. Frequent visitor to open gyms this summer, Peter Olafeso kept them in the game with 17 first half points. We had no answer for his size and strength at the guard spot. We were pretty balanced as a team with Mike Campbell leading the way with ten points. Halftime score 33-28.
The second half started off with a bang from the Golden Bears. They got back to back "and 1's" to start the half. It was certainly the momentum booster they were looking for. After three minutes of back and forth lead changes, Concordia took control with some quality inside play. They were getting layups basically every possession and we were settling for early bad shots against their 2-3 zone. We just couldn't get it going offensively against their zone. Their length really bothered us for the second game in a row (St Cloud as well). We ended up shooting 7-26 in the second half and that's just not getting it done. We "held" them to 17-25 shooting in the second half. Needless to say, us not making shots gave them better opportunities on the offensive end because our intensity was not good enough.
The final ended up being 76-58. The game was much closer than that and I believe we could've made a little run on them if we wanted to show our other offensive and defensive sets. We knew that a lot of future opposing coaches were there and there was no reason to show them everything. Mike Campbell led us with 14 while Carl Hipp had a good all around game in limited minutes with 10 points, 9 boards, 4 blocks, and 5 steals. Looks like AK47 numbers if you ask me. We shot 34% overall from the floor, 5-17 from 3, and 15-22 from the line. That's just not going to get it done when playing against good teams.
As far as improvement goes, we have to get the ball into the post more often. For Carl to only take seven shots, that's just not cutting it for our team. He is too good not to get 12-15 shots a game. We have to get better at attacking a zone. We obviously didn't do a good job of that. The ball must get to the short corner or our zone offense will be effective. We need to take care of the basketball better. Twenty turnovers just won't cut it for us. We have to give ourselves extra possession at every opportunity.
On a positive note, we forced another D2 team into playing zone. They couldn't cover our penetration at all. We normally don't play against a lot of teams that play zone, so that will be interesting as the season progresses if we see any. We outrebounded them. They had a distinct size advantage and we still had 16 offensive boards. Hopefully, that will continue throughout the year.
I believe we are still adjusting to playing with each other and as a coaching staff we have to get the guys to play harder and longer for us to be successful. In time, I think we have a chance to be very good as long as we work hard on the court and in the weight room throughout the season.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Scrimmages
We are now three weeks into practice and guys are finally starting to get their legs under them. We are still having a tough time with a couple of guys to do what we ask. It's really tough for players to adjust from being the man in high school to being an "average" player in college. By "average," I mean that you aren't "the man" right away. That rarely happens at the D3 level.
The intensity level at practice needs to increase significantly for us to be better. Our veteran players have a decent understanding of where we want to be in practice but we need to take it up another notch. Our newcomers don't really know what it's like to practice hard. Part of the reason for that is that many of these guys have been allowed to play in cruise control while playing throughout high school. That just can't happen at our level.
We scrimmaged our alums ten days ago today and we came out on top 114-76. Needless to say, there wasn't a lot of defense especially from our alums in the second half. We scored pretty much at will and it certainly gave our guys some confidence.
That confidence was quickly taken away after we scrimmaged D2 Final Four team, St Cloud State. They are ranked in the top ten in two different preseason polls. We scrimmaged them on Monday and got a rude awakening (not Ravishing Rick Rude's finishing move). The Huskies played hard, tough, and executed their offense very well. We certainly didn't back down but their size, strength, and length gave us some problems. We didn't shoot the well very well from the floor, from 3, or from the free throw line in part because of the factors mentioned above.
I do think we gave them a little trouble with our offense. They couldn't seem to keep us in front of them and I believe we forced them in a couple of different zones. We still need to find a balance of attacking the rim and finding our bigs. Our bigs showed that they could hang with their D2 counterparts throughout the scrimmage. Their zones definitely made us stagnant and forced us to change our gameplan. We haven't practiced against zones that much so it took our guys a lot of time to adjust.
Overall, I thought it was a great scrimmage for us because of the learning experience of playing against a high level opponent. They are where we want to be. Our guys are going to have get in the weight room throughout the season and in the offseason for us to challenge them next year when we scrimmage them again.
We have an exhibition game coming up on Tuesday against Concordia-St Paul. They are picked to finish 7th in the NSIC (same league at St Cloud). It will be another great challenge for us. We will open up on the 16th vs. Northwestern (MN) and have a JV game the following night against Northwestern again.
Quote of the blog, "You are what you repeatedly do."
The intensity level at practice needs to increase significantly for us to be better. Our veteran players have a decent understanding of where we want to be in practice but we need to take it up another notch. Our newcomers don't really know what it's like to practice hard. Part of the reason for that is that many of these guys have been allowed to play in cruise control while playing throughout high school. That just can't happen at our level.
We scrimmaged our alums ten days ago today and we came out on top 114-76. Needless to say, there wasn't a lot of defense especially from our alums in the second half. We scored pretty much at will and it certainly gave our guys some confidence.
That confidence was quickly taken away after we scrimmaged D2 Final Four team, St Cloud State. They are ranked in the top ten in two different preseason polls. We scrimmaged them on Monday and got a rude awakening (not Ravishing Rick Rude's finishing move). The Huskies played hard, tough, and executed their offense very well. We certainly didn't back down but their size, strength, and length gave us some problems. We didn't shoot the well very well from the floor, from 3, or from the free throw line in part because of the factors mentioned above.
I do think we gave them a little trouble with our offense. They couldn't seem to keep us in front of them and I believe we forced them in a couple of different zones. We still need to find a balance of attacking the rim and finding our bigs. Our bigs showed that they could hang with their D2 counterparts throughout the scrimmage. Their zones definitely made us stagnant and forced us to change our gameplan. We haven't practiced against zones that much so it took our guys a lot of time to adjust.
Overall, I thought it was a great scrimmage for us because of the learning experience of playing against a high level opponent. They are where we want to be. Our guys are going to have get in the weight room throughout the season and in the offseason for us to challenge them next year when we scrimmage them again.
We have an exhibition game coming up on Tuesday against Concordia-St Paul. They are picked to finish 7th in the NSIC (same league at St Cloud). It will be another great challenge for us. We will open up on the 16th vs. Northwestern (MN) and have a JV game the following night against Northwestern again.
Quote of the blog, "You are what you repeatedly do."
Sunday, October 17, 2010
And so it begins...
Friday was the official start of practice and it turned out to be a good one. The intensity was very good for the first 30 minutes of practice. Guys were all over the place and it was obvious that there would be a lot of competition at every position. I believe this team is the most athletic team Hamline has had in a long time. Even with our guys not really having a clue about our defensive concepts it's plain to see that our length and athleticism will cause other teams problems.
After about twenty minutes of practice we had our first casualty, first to injury and then to an apparent lack of commitment. Noah Aguirre, one of our best returning players went down with a turned ankle and hasn't practiced since. Hopefully, he'll be ready to go by Wednesday (we have Tuesday off). We had a freshmen decide that college basketball wasn't for him. He said his heart wasn't in it and he left. We wish him the best, hopefully he continues his studies at Hamline and finishes his degree here.
As a coach, we don't want to have guys that aren't committed to our program. It's unfortunate that a kid that we spent a decent amount of time and money on decided it wasn't for him, but that's the reality of our situation at the D3 level. It's survival of the fittest a lot of the time.
So far we have had four practices in the past three days. It's been quite the shock for the newcomers. I think they were expecting to work a lot but not at the intensity level that we are working at. As time goes on, everyone's body will adjust to amount of work we do but it will be a while before the body completely adjusts. We want to be in great shape in order to wear teams down in the last eight minutes of every game.
As far as the tryouts go, we've handled everything like we are practicing. We have way more guys than we did last season and it has increased our intensity in every drill. We still haven't decided exactly how many guys we will keep but we are at 20 right now and have only been practicing with 18 because of injuries. We will decide after tomorrow's practice what are plans are.
We will be scrimmaging our alums next Sunday. We will once again scrimmage against Div. 2 St. Cloud State on Nov. 1. They made the D2 Final Four last year with a lot returning. Should be a great test. Our final "scrimmage" will be an exhibition game vs. Concordia-St. Paul on Nov. 9 at their place. It should be interesting to see how we respond to playing against outside competition.
Ray Brown Update - Last weekend Ray traveled to Vermont for a tryout with the Vermont FrostHeaves of the Premiere Basketball League (PBL). He said the tryout went really well and he got a callback for their training camp in a couple of months. He also had a tryout for the NBDL this weekend in Sioux Falls, SD. Not sure how it went but from my understanding they had some representatives in Vermont and really liked his game. He will have to "sign" with the NBDL to be able to be drafted by the league. Ray will be around campus and working out with me to prepare for the leagues. We wish him the best.
After about twenty minutes of practice we had our first casualty, first to injury and then to an apparent lack of commitment. Noah Aguirre, one of our best returning players went down with a turned ankle and hasn't practiced since. Hopefully, he'll be ready to go by Wednesday (we have Tuesday off). We had a freshmen decide that college basketball wasn't for him. He said his heart wasn't in it and he left. We wish him the best, hopefully he continues his studies at Hamline and finishes his degree here.
As a coach, we don't want to have guys that aren't committed to our program. It's unfortunate that a kid that we spent a decent amount of time and money on decided it wasn't for him, but that's the reality of our situation at the D3 level. It's survival of the fittest a lot of the time.
So far we have had four practices in the past three days. It's been quite the shock for the newcomers. I think they were expecting to work a lot but not at the intensity level that we are working at. As time goes on, everyone's body will adjust to amount of work we do but it will be a while before the body completely adjusts. We want to be in great shape in order to wear teams down in the last eight minutes of every game.
As far as the tryouts go, we've handled everything like we are practicing. We have way more guys than we did last season and it has increased our intensity in every drill. We still haven't decided exactly how many guys we will keep but we are at 20 right now and have only been practicing with 18 because of injuries. We will decide after tomorrow's practice what are plans are.
We will be scrimmaging our alums next Sunday. We will once again scrimmage against Div. 2 St. Cloud State on Nov. 1. They made the D2 Final Four last year with a lot returning. Should be a great test. Our final "scrimmage" will be an exhibition game vs. Concordia-St. Paul on Nov. 9 at their place. It should be interesting to see how we respond to playing against outside competition.
Ray Brown Update - Last weekend Ray traveled to Vermont for a tryout with the Vermont FrostHeaves of the Premiere Basketball League (PBL). He said the tryout went really well and he got a callback for their training camp in a couple of months. He also had a tryout for the NBDL this weekend in Sioux Falls, SD. Not sure how it went but from my understanding they had some representatives in Vermont and really liked his game. He will have to "sign" with the NBDL to be able to be drafted by the league. Ray will be around campus and working out with me to prepare for the leagues. We wish him the best.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
School Has Begun
School officially started two and a half weeks ago and all of the guys that we expected are there. I'm really looking forward to this year's team because it will be the most talented and deepest team Hamline has had in years. As of right now, we will have 22 guys trying out. Though, we will have a JV team, there is no way we will keep everyone. There could be some interesting cuts.
Speaking of JV team, we are planning on playing a full JV schedule with 13 games this year. It will be the first time we have had a JV in my time at Hamline. We will use JV as a stepping stone to varsity just like they do in high school. Here is the almighty question for us as a coaching staff. Would we rather have a kid play 5 to 10 minutes on varsity compared to 30+ minutes on JV? That is something we are going handle in our own way. One thing about the JV team is that kids can only play 25 total regular season games. That basically means that if they play in a JV game they won't be able to play varsity. There is a little leeway in that but not in the total amount of games. We could possibly have some guys that played minutes for us last season get some JV time.
As far as recruiting goes, here is our freshmen class for this year.
Sam Gullickson - Academy of Holy Angels
Tim Markoe - Hill-Murray School
Joey Osinski - South Kitsap HS (Seattle, WA)
Tyler Pannell - Centennial HS (Portland, OR)
Josh Pratt - St. Anthony Village HS
By the way, for those people that think that basketball coaches don't do anything during the summer, here is my schedule from this past summer.
Greece - May 23 - June 5
Mr. Basketball Showcase - Sioux Falls, SD - June 20-23
Chicago Summer Classic - Chicago, IL - July 9-11
All Sports Camp - July 12-15
All Sports Camp - July 19-22
Fab 48, Adidas Super 64, Center Stage - Las Vegas, NV - July 22-26 (no, sitting in a gym for 12 hours a day is not a vacation like many people think Vegas is)
Speaking of JV team, we are planning on playing a full JV schedule with 13 games this year. It will be the first time we have had a JV in my time at Hamline. We will use JV as a stepping stone to varsity just like they do in high school. Here is the almighty question for us as a coaching staff. Would we rather have a kid play 5 to 10 minutes on varsity compared to 30+ minutes on JV? That is something we are going handle in our own way. One thing about the JV team is that kids can only play 25 total regular season games. That basically means that if they play in a JV game they won't be able to play varsity. There is a little leeway in that but not in the total amount of games. We could possibly have some guys that played minutes for us last season get some JV time.
As far as recruiting goes, here is our freshmen class for this year.
Sam Gullickson - Academy of Holy Angels
Tim Markoe - Hill-Murray School
Joey Osinski - South Kitsap HS (Seattle, WA)
Tyler Pannell - Centennial HS (Portland, OR)
Josh Pratt - St. Anthony Village HS
By the way, for those people that think that basketball coaches don't do anything during the summer, here is my schedule from this past summer.
Greece - May 23 - June 5
Mr. Basketball Showcase - Sioux Falls, SD - June 20-23
Chicago Summer Classic - Chicago, IL - July 9-11
All Sports Camp - July 12-15
All Sports Camp - July 19-22
Fab 48, Adidas Super 64, Center Stage - Las Vegas, NV - July 22-26 (no, sitting in a gym for 12 hours a day is not a vacation like many people think Vegas is)
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