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Dear Force Parents,

We wanted to explain a few more things to everyone who has been watching our SEYO games. If you have noticed the other two competitive teams only carry 6 or 7 players while we have 10 on our team. In SEYO each player must play 5 continuous minutes so the smaller the roster the better. Our goal is to play in tournaments where we will be playing two games in one day and a third game the following day. This is where a larger roster is needed as players get tired quicker and the play of tournaments is much more intense.

We are working on so many things with different players to cover all the fundamentals properly, there is just not enough practice time each week. Those players that are attending the Jason clinic on Friday night are getting professional instruction on defense which is great. We are going to try to add individual instruction on the small things that will help our team get better overall. These things are setting screens properly, using proper footwork in the post, taking charges, pick and roll, inside shooting, rebounding, etc.

Hopefully after the SEYO season ends we will have time to both prepare for tournaments as well as improve on our individual skills together. We will look at maybe doing a different schedule for the month of March to accommodate all our families schedules. Due to baseball schedules we are looking at having our optional Jason clinic on Friday evening, a possible optional practice on Saturday if we are provided free VFW gym time and then one mandatory practice on Sunday late afternoon for maybe up to three hours. This is just an option so please let us know if you cannot make Sunday's in the mid to late afternoons starting in March 2008 for four weeks before our SASF Tournament.

Thanks again,

Mark