This morning we headed over to the National Museum. This place was flat out history. I've never so many artifacts in my life. They had huge marble statues and a bunch of bronze statues as well. The artistry for everything was amazing. Once again, the pictures will be up once I get back.
On to our game vs. Argonaut Basketball Club. This squad was just promoted from the 4th Division to the 3rd Division and kind of had a rag tag group of players. Many of them were students, a couple of them worked full time, and another one was in Greek Navy Seal program. This guy actually played in the 1st Division for a couple of years but his career is winding down and his waistline is bulging out.
Once again we started off pretty well and clearly was the better team. At the end of the first quarter we got the turnover bug and ended up blowing a nine point lead to go up by two at the end of the first, 21-19. We started to push the tempo and really get after it starting the 2nd quarter. We ended up outscoring them 27-13 in the 2nd and really took control of the game.
Our second half started off terrible as our leaded dwindled pretty quickly. One of the players, #7, scored their first 13 points. We really didn't have an answer for him. They got as close to seven points before we finally decided to start getting back in transition. We pulled away in the 4th with some great 3 point shooting from Christian Taber and Brandon Rieg. We won 85-70. We were led in scoring by Carl Hipp with 16. Christian Taber had 15 on five 3's. Brandon Rieg also reached double figures with 12. Andy Voigt was our final double digit scorer with 11. Four guys also had six points (Noah Aguirre, Charlie Choiniere, Victor Easter, and Dan Andersen).
We finished the tour 4-0 and played much better in spurts. Our next step to control the other team's spurts and control the game. Part of this is being young and part of it is still lacking the strength to sustain for long stretches. I believe that our team MVP for the trip was Brandon Rieg. He really gave us a spark off the bench and provided great pressure on defense and he really showed us something.
This trip clearly gave us a head start to next year and hopefully our incoming guys will buy in to what we want to do.
I guess the film will be up later.
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