Chuck Grant
Chuck Grant
credit fall kids open played shots
Give Orion the credit. Their kids played really hard. I like their team. They do a lot of things well. Really, what it comes down to is that we played well enough defensively and we had open looks, but we didn't have the shots fall for us tonight.
cause defensive early half happened olympic potent rotation third
In the first half and early in the third quarter, our defensive rotation was a little slow. Aledo has one of the most potent offenses in the Olympic Conference, but if your rotation is good, then they can be stopped. If your rotation is not good, then they will cause you a lot of problems, and that's what happened to us.
couple excuse five gave good improve innings job jon mental missing players
Jon pitched a very good game, but there were two innings when we gave them five outs. We're a pretty young team, and we were missing a couple of players today, but that's no excuse for mental errors. We have to improve in that area, and it's my job to see that we do.
address area ball brian coming couple few game guys head hit last pitching seems silly struggled though trying
The guys hit the ball really well today, that part of our game seems to be coming around. Our pitching was also pretty strong, even though Brian struggled a little with his control. We made a couple of silly errors, so that's the area we're really trying to address as we head into our last few games.
account brian flat game gave good helped improve pitchers saw throwing today walks
Brian (Thompson) was a little uncomfortable out there throwing off the flat ground, and that helped account for all the walks we gave up. It's also the first game of the season, and we'll get better out on the mound. I saw some good things today from our pitchers and we'll improve on that.
battling believe committing early errors game hole kids mental parts
We've been committing mental errors early in the games, and it's put us in a hole every time. I like the way we keep battling back - these kids don't believe they're ever out of the game - but we've just not executed well in the early parts of the games.
game josh line plays won
Those were two outstanding plays Josh made out there. It's not out of line to say that those plays won the game for us.
couple errors few mental missed throws
We still had a few mental errors out there, a couple of throws that missed a cutoff man, and a couple of missed signs, but it was a lot better than it has been.
drawback dribble good job looking settled
We play up tempo. The only drawback to it was that we didn't do a very good job of looking into the post. We settled too much off the dribble tonight.