By Drew Terhall
DailyAdvocate.com
COVINGTON — The Girl Railroaders basketball staff fell to Houston, 65-29, within the first spherical of the Buccaneer Vacation Event on Dec. 29.
The Girl Wildcats received this large win with their press and defensive stress inflicting turnovers. Houston was in a position to get out into transition and rating with out Bradford getting again and organising their protection.
Head coach Josh Siedling mentioned they knew Houston would attempt to stress them with the press and their zone. They simply couldn’t keep away from falling into the entice.
“We knew form of how they ran their 2-2-1 and their 2-3 that they needed to grind us out on each ends of the ground. We knew so long as we may preserve management of the ball, we may perhaps reverse that impact. However, we form of gave into it and wore down in direction of the tip,” Siedling mentioned.
Houston led 35-13 at halftime and continued to cruise to the win. Bradford did make some performs and have been in a position to put factors up on the board.
At instances, the Girl Railroaders broke the press and received up some high quality photographs. However as soon as the deficit continued to develop, then Bradford began to pressure lengthy passes which have been picked off by Houston.
Siedling mentioned as soon as get they previous this hump of letting the lengthy runs by opponents get to them, they are going to be superb. He has already seen this staff enhance on that space from final season.
The staff is beginning to repair their errors and be taught from them on the fly.
“We’ll go in spurts of breaking presses one or two instances. Then, as quickly as we get a turnover on one finish it’s form of an avalanche impact,” Siedling mentioned. “We’re getting higher on not letting these runs occur as lengthy. Final 12 months, we let these take the entire recreation. However, we’re doing lots higher job of feeling it out and realizing you make one mistake, let’s come down and repair it the subsequent time.”
The offense did look higher within the second half. Freshman Lily Canan had six factors on two made threes within the second half. Sophomore Ryleigh Dotson additionally had six factors on two made threes. Senior Brooklyn Crickmore had 9 rebounds after not being within the recreation for a lot of the second half. She first checked into the sport with 6:20 left within the fourth quarter.
After getting Houston into foul bother within the first half, they couldn’t preserve that development going. Bradford solely had 4 journeys to the free throw line.
The Girl Railroaders will go up towards Covington within the comfort recreation on Dec. 30 at 3 p.m.
Contact Day by day Advocate sports activities editor Drew Terhall at [email protected]
Originally posted 2023-12-30 04:41:26.