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Clear Lake 52 – Deer Park 49 (OT)
What an exciting, close game between two well balanced teams! The game was tied at the end of each of the four quarters, a very rare occurrence. The lead changed ten times in regulation play and the game was tied fourteen times.
Clear Lake was coming off an impressive win over previously undefeated Elkins in the championship game of the CCISD tournament and Deer Park was trying to bounce back from a hard fought contest with Connally, the state ranked (7th) 4A powerhouse from Pflugerville in the tournament. Those who watched the Deer Park team play this past weekend knew the game with Clear Lake would be a good one.
As is almost always the case when we play long-time rival Deer Park in the first game after the tournament, the Falcons did not look like the same team who walked away with the first place trophy three days earlier. Write it off as just another proof that there is no explaining the teenage brain. Or maybe it is the phase of the moon. Or maybe it was because Clear Lake rose to number 17 in the state rankings immediately after the victory over Elkins and the boys let it go to their heads. Doubtful. Anyway, it was obvious that the Lake squad was not playing up to their potential but do not lose sight of the fact that Deer Park has a very good basketball team.
It was a thrilling game with Lake’s Cody Kinsey leading all scorers with 15 points, 7 of 8 free throws, and four steals. Lake’s scoring was spread across the team, always a pleasing sign (46% of Lake’s scoring came from the bench, a fact that will become increasingly important as the season progresses).
Clear Lake has a better team than Deer Park but in this matchup Lake got outplayed in most aspects of the game especially offensive rebounding. By my count Deer Park got 20 offensive rebounds! Deer Park also played better defense than Lake which yielded 26 Lake turnovers. 26! Deer Park’s shooting percentage from the field was also much better than Lake’s.
How do you win a game where you allow twenty offensive boards and you turn the ball over twenty-six times? Well, as a minimum you have to make your free throws. And boy did Lake make some free throws! The Falcons went 24 of 27 from the line versus 6 of 10 for the Deer. That was the difference in the thrilling game. It took overtime for the Falcons to come out with a three point victory and it could have gone either way with just a couple of different bounces of the ball.
Photos for this game can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/falconhoops200708 by Thursday noon, Dec 6.Individual Scoring:
Cody 15 (8 rebounds, 7 of 8 free throws), Steven 14,
Andrew 7, Jay 4, Kyle 4, Mark 4, Jason 2, Brian 2
|
FALCON STATS |
FG made |
FG attempts |
% |
|
2's |
8 |
31 |
25.8% |
|
3's |
4 |
15 |
26.7% |
|
free throws |
24 |
27 |
88.9% |
|
SCORE BY QUARTER |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
OT |
|
Clear Lake |
13 |
21 |
37 |
43 |
52 |
|
Deer Park |
13 |
21 |
37 |
43 |
49 |
|
LINESCORE |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
OT |
|
Clear Lake |
13 |
8 |
16 |
7 |
9 |
|
Deer Park |
13 |
8 |
16 |
7 |
6 |
|
REBOUNDS |
LAKE |
Deer Park |
|
Offensive |
10 |
20 |
|
Defensive |
15 |
13 |
