Fun Road Trip

Coach Brady Moore here wrapping up our first weekend on the road for NSIC play. We got in last night right around 2:15 in the morning. The roads were not bad and our bus driver did a great job of getting us back. I must say we cannot be happier with our play this weekend. Both nights we came out with everyone on our team ready to play and it showed. We set the tone once again last night jumping out to an early lead and then extending the lead throughout the game.

Offensively it was one of our better shooting nights of the season. The reason for it was we pushed the ball, had excellent ball movement around the perimeter, made the extra pass and then finally we knocked down the wide open shots we had. It was exactly what we wanted to do against UMD. We knew if we could control the tempo of this game it would be a huge feather in our hat and it was. We wore them out by getting up and down the floor, keeping our spacing and always moving on the offensive end. It was a great shooting and passing display let just hope we can carry it over to our next game.

Defensively we were again outstanding for most of the game. Other then a few break downs here or there, which will happen, we were awesome. Our help side was great, we did an outstanding job of helping and recover in the post, digging the ball out of the post and doubling the post when it was possible. On top of that our rotation on the help side if the ball was swung was excellent as well. But the most impressive performance of all was our defensive rebounding. We won the rebounding battle and we did a great job of holding them to one shot on the defensive end. That was a huge key as they are a great offensive rebounding team and we did an excellent job of not letting them push us around. It was very fun to watch. Everyone one of our guys should be proud of the effort they gave this weekend, it really showed what type of team that we can be. At the same time I hope we realize this is the type of effort it takes every night when we step on the floor. Carrying this effort over is going to be huge and hopefully we do on Wednesday when a tough Truman St. team comes to town.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I know I am going to enjoy my off day by watching some football and basketball.

Go Warriors!!!