Seriously, what is going on! We spent the week at practice working on our motion offense, and for the most part things looked really good. We were moving the ball better and had some nice looking fast-breaks in the practice.
So, coming into this weekend, I figured we would do pretty well. And we did, kind of.
First of all, it was kind of a hectic weekend because we only had two games instead of three. Both of them were on Sunday, so we decided to save money and do the whole trip in one day so we didn't have to stay in a hotel.
We left around 6:30am on Sunday morning and headed straight for Montreal. The weather was awful in Cortland, but thankfully it cleared-up as we went north. We arrived at the gym in Laval right before noon, so we were able to do a full warm-up before our first game at 1pm.
We played Sherbrooke first, and we won by a lot: 34-16. We could have done a lot better, the turnovers were high and the defense broke down at times. Still, we did a lot of things well and it was nice to win a game by so many points.
When the game ended, we had thirty minutes to rest and snack before we played our second game of the day against Laval, a team that has several players on the Canadian National team and has come in second in the league for the last several years.
It was amazing, we started the game off with a bang and kept a solid 3-4 point lead through the whole first half. Laval called a time-out right before the end of the half, and managed to go on a three-goal scoring run to end the half with 13-12, with the US up by one.
The second half started off well for us, and we regained the lead and kept it between 1-3 points throughout. Finally, at the very end of the game, with seven minutes left, our lead diminished slowly, and by three minutes left they were ahead. While we missed our scoring opportunities, they capitalized on fast break and we lost the game 28-24. It was awful!
There is nothing worse than losing a game that you could have won- that you were winning for 55 out of 60 minutes! I was extremely bummed at the end of the game because we worked and played hard for most of the match and just couldn't finish.
We still have two games left in the Quebec League next weekend, and if we win both of those, and some other teams lose, we still have a chance at playoffs. Let's just keep our fingers crossed.
Monday is a day-off and then we're back to work, getting ready for Quebec League games next weekend and then Mexico in one week!!
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