More of the same today. A sterling defensive effort in the first half scuttled by the offensive ineptitude.
Nova jumped to a 7-0 lead three minutes into the game and the defense held St. Joe off the board for the first seven minutes. After the quick start we managed to score just two more baskets over the next 17 minutes to "lead" by 12-11 at the half. Just awful. We should have rolled over them and won the game by halftime.
We quickly fell behind by more than five points and were still behind by 42-31 with a little more than five minutes left when we started to wake up.
Sweeney then scored ten straight points on two drives and two three balls to singlehandedly bring them to within 44-41. Kane then got an open layup to close to 44-43 with 28 seconds left. St. Joe then was able to get the ball up court without being fouled and found a wide open layup with eight seconds left to secure the final score. After a time out, Harry called Sweeney's number again but her tightly guarded three from the top of the key hit off the front of the rim.
Sweeney was a demon the whole game, scoring 25 and ripping down nine hard earned boards, fouling out her defender. Kane was solid in bringing the ball up through the press which once again created havoc with the other guards in getting the ball up the court. Only four Nova players scored, six others shot blanks, five for 28 from long range and numerous silly turnovers killed us. At one point we had four travelling calls in five trips up the court.
Temple visits next Sunday and we will need to do more than play defense to have a shot at that one. I will have seen them all by that game and then will take a 3 or 4 game break from seeing the live games and try to recover my sanity.
Nova jumped to a 7-0 lead three minutes into the game and the defense held St. Joe off the board for the first seven minutes. After the quick start we managed to score just two more baskets over the next 17 minutes to "lead" by 12-11 at the half. Just awful. We should have rolled over them and won the game by halftime.
We quickly fell behind by more than five points and were still behind by 42-31 with a little more than five minutes left when we started to wake up.
Sweeney then scored ten straight points on two drives and two three balls to singlehandedly bring them to within 44-41. Kane then got an open layup to close to 44-43 with 28 seconds left. St. Joe then was able to get the ball up court without being fouled and found a wide open layup with eight seconds left to secure the final score. After a time out, Harry called Sweeney's number again but her tightly guarded three from the top of the key hit off the front of the rim.
Sweeney was a demon the whole game, scoring 25 and ripping down nine hard earned boards, fouling out her defender. Kane was solid in bringing the ball up through the press which once again created havoc with the other guards in getting the ball up the court. Only four Nova players scored, six others shot blanks, five for 28 from long range and numerous silly turnovers killed us. At one point we had four travelling calls in five trips up the court.
Temple visits next Sunday and we will need to do more than play defense to have a shot at that one. I will have seen them all by that game and then will take a 3 or 4 game break from seeing the live games and try to recover my sanity.