{"id":110,"date":"2016-06-06T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:22:40","slug":"first-practice-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/2016\/06\/first-practice-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"First Practice completed"},"content":{"rendered":"

We completed our first practice on this past Saturday.\u00a0 10 of our 12 players were there, including new addition, forward Ian Meyer.\u00a0 <\/strong>Assistant Coach Sam Clubb<\/strong> was not there, as he is returning from a family vacaction, but he texted us, and had his introduction pre-recorded for us.\u00a0 However, former Greyhound Shelomi Miner <\/strong>was at practice, and helped us out.<\/p>\n

We first covered the team rule about injuries;\u00a0 all injuries are to be reported, with no exceptions.\u00a0 They are to be reported to ALL COACHES plus the player’s parents.\u00a0 We did some basic stretching, and we then started learning the Motion framework, which serves as the starting point for our man-to-man offense.<\/p>\n

As always, some players took better to the motion system than others did.\u00a0 Among the better at the beginning were Lindale Baker<\/strong>, Keylan Horn<\/strong>, Kolin Easterling<\/strong>, Cody Koebel<\/strong>, Lemuel Miner<\/strong>, Connor Parrish<\/strong>.\u00a0 As always, the problems that seemed to occur were the typical ones:\u00a0 outside players not cutting immediately after passing,\u00a0big men getting confused as to which direction they go on the inner rotation, or worse yet, not moving.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, we did our player introductions.\u00a0 Kolin<\/strong> kicked it off, and as we went around, bits and pieces started to get funny.\u00a0 We were doing a better job of joking around and having fun during the intros that we’ve ever done.<\/p>\n

We did some motion work against real defense, and before we knew it, it was time for free throws and suicides.\u00a0 Only one player – Connor Parrish<\/strong> – made his free-throw goal, winning the first week for the skill players.<\/p>\n

Of course, I turned 50 this past week, and by Greyhound tradition, each player and coach got to take me one-on-one, to make sure I haven’t lost a step and can still play.\u00a0 Well, the players this year fared better than they have in the past;\u00a0 Keylan Horn<\/strong> absolutely burned me.<\/p>\n

We finished up with some scrimmage.\u00a0 As a whole, I felt we had forgotten too much of our positioning and flow of motion at the scrimmage.\u00a0 I have to give props to two people who were talking with each other and trying to keep the principles in place going:\u00a0 Lindale Baker<\/strong> and Kolin Easterling<\/strong>.\u00a0 They kept it together, and started getting offense late with feeds to Cody Koebel<\/strong>.\u00a0 While Connor Parrish<\/strong> and Keylan Horn<\/strong> were trying to pull the team together, it tended to break down a bit more.\u00a0 However, Keylan’s pushing the ball and Connor’s shooting kept their team in the game.<\/p>\n

My review of the practice:\u00a0 A good, solid start.<\/p>\n

Mason Chandler’s pick for best practice:\u00a0 Lindale Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n

My pick for best practice:\u00a0 Kolin Easterling<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We completed our first practice on this past Saturday.\u00a0 10 of our 12 players were there, including new addition, forward Ian Meyer.\u00a0 Assistant Coach Sam Clubb was not there, as he is returning from a family vacaction, but he texted us, and had his introduction pre-recorded for us.\u00a0 However, former Greyhound Shelomi Miner was at … Continue reading “First Practice completed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houndblog.joev.com\/HoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}