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We should all be proud of our boys for their total team effort in our victory against OCO yesterday. As we were leaving the gym we were approached by many who came to watch the game, Norwalk, OCBC, OCO, WPC parents and coaches and they all said the same thing. You played very well as a team !!! This is the highest compliment as we said from the beginning that our goal was to make this a "team" and we wanted the boys to be friends off the court so they could trust each other on the court. Yesterday's 38-21 score proved that it is working. I'm not sure as parents if you saw these little things like Sunny winning the tip, he played great defense, rebounded well and scored a basket and set the best screen for Trevor that I've seen all year. Brad shut down Brandon, made three great steals and ran our starting 5 team extremely well. Troy made some great swing passes to the weak side played great defense on the weak side helping plug the middle on help defense, he also made a great move scoring a basket that was called back for traveling but it looked great. Christian again is bringing his "A" game on defense back again, he ended up guarding 66 Patrick who was their center. He also did a great job in switching to guard Matthew when Patrick set the screen for him. Shaq made the best reverse pivot move this year leaving his defender stuck to the block, his defense and rebounding in the middle took the second unit to another level and started our run in period 6 to put the game out of reach. Kenny took on the task to guard Matthew the whole game, he had the hardest job but held him to 11 points which was their whole team. He also had some great passes from the corner that showed how well our offense can run. Sammy had his best game so far this year, he also took on Matthew, made a great block, scored on our inbound play, and had two other baskets being in the right place on our offense. Jordy also took on the task to shut down Brandon for the second unit, his defense was so good that we took Brandon totally out of the game, he also did a great job running the point for the second unit. Trevor and Reed were able to get to the basket because our offense was spread out, the cutters were cutting, we were swinging the ball effectively and it was giving our shooters open shots. They both played a great all around game. So as you can see it is a "team" that wins and not just a couple of good players OCO had a couple of good players in Brandon and Matthew but 10 beats 2 anytime. Remember we have no practice on Friday this week but we are scheduled at Marina from 2:00-3:30. We are trying to switch to a later time but we will let everyone know later this week. Great game, enjoy the week and we'll see everyone on Saturday. Mark