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.
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