Going for 2-0 on Road Trip

Hi everyone, Coach Brady Moore checking in on the road up here in Duluth. We made it in last nigth around 1:30 in the morning, the roads were not too bad and so we made pretty good time. It was a fun bus ride over here as everyone was in good spirits and the movie we watch was okay.

As for the game last night. As a staff we were very pleased with the effort all of our guys gave. It was a total team effort last night as everyone on the team was into the game and contributed in the win. One of the main reasons we won the game was because our rebounding was outstanding. We did an excellent job of getting offensive rebounds and we held Bemidji to one shot on many possessions on the defensive end. It was exactly what we have been looking for in our guys and they did that last night. Another reason was our offense did a great job of moving the ball and finding the open man. We had a ton of open shots because we moved the ball and made the extra pass for the wide open look instead of taking a shot with a man running at them or a hand in the face. It was great team basketball to watch. Everyone played very well last and no one came out flat. It was great to see and we finally had fun winning a game this year.

Moving on to todays game. Duluth is going to be a very difficult match-up for us but we are looking forward to the challenge. They have some very skilled players that play the 4 and 5 position for them and they will be tough to stop but I know our guys can do it. This will be the most physical game that we have been in to date so it will be interesting to see how our guys react to it. I would think we will enjoy the phsycial play as we do have many guys who like to play this style and are good at it. While Duluth might have an advantage downlow on us I really feel we have a huge advantage on the perimeter. Our guards should be able to do a lot of good things against them and if we are knocking down our outside shots we will be right in this thing. Also even though they are very good inside, I do think we will be able to get some points inside and we have to, to win. If we can get some points inside it will make it much easier for our perimeter guys and I think we have a great opportunity to win. But we must score inside and I think we will. It will be interesting what type of tempo this game is going to be played at. UMD is going to want to slow thing game down and really grind it out, while we will want to get out and run some. For the fans sake and ours lets hope the game is at a tempo that we enjoy.

If you want to find more out about Duluth's squad copy and paste this link below:
http://www.umdbulldogs.com/teams-mens-basketball.php?page=news

Well that is all for now. Off to shoot around, hopefully we have another great one tonight.

Go Warriors!!!