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[Common Sense]

Here we go...

[LimaJock]

You only get 5 a night. LJ

[PostPlayer]

JV team remains undefeated. Love how people who know nothing about what they are talking about spout off about players playing varsity and jv. Little does this person know - we have 7 total freshman, 2 total sophomores, 1 Junior and 4 Seniors. 3 of the freshman play varsity but still play one quarter of JV and the two sophomores play a quarter as well so we can keep a JV team. Bottom line - a group of talented freshman and 2 sophomores have beat up on the JV schedule that most teams have sophomores/juniors. The next few years are going to be a lot of fun..

[harry419419]

Postplayer.....with such a young team I would think it would be a great experience to try and beat a more talented veteran team playing real basketball. Didn't realize your team was so young. What did this young team learn to make themselves better when they face another team that is better than them because that could happen again this year and in the future.

As a player I would have a hard time accepting our coach telling us we have no chance to win unless we do something drastically different than we did in our other 20 games during the season.

[bvcgrad]

I think our coach's resume speaks for itself ! Maybe I can borrow his state championship ring to punch you in the forehead with .

[harry419419]

Who was the 1 team they lost to that year? I'm thinking they were 26-1 if I remember the t-shirts correctly

Edited by harry419419, 08 February 2014 - 10:32 PM.

[bvcgrad]

congratulations, not sure how that effects his resume. I never claimed Irwin was not a good coach.

[Bluetiger76]

The only game that matters in a one loss season is the outcome of the last game.

Arlington 52
Berlin Hiland 37

nuff said!

[PostPlayer]

Harry - I think the state of Arlington girls basketball, as well as our strategies for success are just fine. Congrats to LB on having a very good team this year - now go represent and make it to state.

[Common Sense]

Holding the basketball is a legitimate and difficult skill and strategy that can be used in basketball. It simply shortens the game and allows one team who thinks it may not be able to play straight up with another team to stay in the game as long as possible. Holgate's boys program was very successful doing this for about 30 years under Paul Wayne. Won a state title and made it to regionals many times playing that way.

[RealDeal]

I think the strategy can be successful but very hard to implement for 1 game, particularly with what I think is a team that doesn't handle the ball particularly well. I think Arlington had the guns to give it a real go with their posts and shooting. Wonder if the strategy would be different if they played at Arlington? Maybe their kids were too tired after the JV game to give it a real go (just joking)?

Edited by RealDeal, 10 February 2014 - 10:02 AM.

[RealDeal]

While I think Arlington has a lot of young talent, success at the JV level doesn't always translate to varsity success. Many of the JV teams in the area have to scrape a JV team together. Arlington and PG had good JV teams last year and thier varsity teams are middle of the pack.

Very frustrating to watch when teams put good varsity players on the JV team as most players on girls JV teams in the area won't significantly contribute at the varsity level in the future, let alone be able to compete with some of the top scorers/rebounders/ 3 pt. shooters on the varsity team in the present year. Having said that, I would prefer they do this than not have a JV team when numbers are an issue. If Arlington only had a varsity team, some of those kids would barely play this year and other teams would lose a game.

Some teams only put a kid down on JV for a quarter (or limit their quarters) and then don't play them in the varsity game (game after game). I find that to be more frustrating as a fan.

[Common Sense]

I think the key is to get your kids as much game time as possible, varsity or JV. Teams with 20-25 kids in the program don't have to worry, you just split the teams and go play. But if you have a decent freshman/ sophomore and they are not playing 2-3 quarters of varsity, they need to be playing JV. Nothing worse than a good young player rotting on the bench. Now, when you have 12-13 kids total, you are just figuring quarters every night, throw in an injury or illness and you are contemplating canceling a JV game. I'm not sure I take varsity starters and play them JV though, you have starter roll and ankle in a JV game and it really blows up in your face.

[PostPlayer]

CommonSense - the deal is this freshman group is pretty good and they HAVE to play everday and every quarter they can. While a few start or play 4 quarters of varsity - the remainder of the freshman kids HAVE to play even at the expense of one of the others playing 1 JV and 4 varsity quarters. If not, these kids won't be ready next year when needed, thus delaying another very good team at Arlington by 1 year. That's my 2 cents.

[NDLOVER]

Postplayer be careful what you wish for!! The younger girls have all spring and summer to work on their game and probably play against better players than they will in the BVC. Perhaps you just might see more improvement then. That is if the girls have the "desire" to live up to the expectations being placed on them. Just relax and let the girls figure it out. Please don't let what happened at Van Buren a few years ago happen to this fine group of talented ladies. Doubt Newlove would allow this to happen.

[Ohswish12]

Holding the basketball is a legitimate and difficult skill and strategy that can be used in basketball. It simply shortens the game and allows one team who thinks it may not be able to play straight up with another team to stay in the game as long as possible. Holgate's boys program was very successful doing this for about 30 years under Paul Wayne. Won a state title and made it to regionals many times playing that way.


Common sense:Holgate did do a great job of holding the basketball during the tournament or if a league title were on the line. Arlington couldn't win the bvc, why not let the girls play to better prepare for tournament? I doubt that is going to be their game plan once the tourney starts.

[harry419419]

Ohswish12.....you are on to something. It's a conspiracy, Leipsic paid Arlington to do this! It all makes sense now, Newlove is Krienbrink's puppet. Who would've guessed.......

[Common Sense]

Ohswish12, on 10 February 2014 - 10:45 PM, said:

Holding the basketball is a legitimate and difficult skill and strategy that can be used in basketball. It simply shortens the game and allows one team who thinks it may not be able to play straight up with another team to stay in the game as long as possible. Holgate's boys program was very successful doing this for about 30 years under Paul Wayne. Won a state title and made it to regionals many times playing that way.


Common sense:Holgate did do a great job of holding the basketball during the tournament or if a league title were on the line. Arlington couldn't win the bvc, why not let the girls play to better prepare for tournament? I doubt that is going to be their game plan once the tourney starts.

Holgate played that way game 1 of the season through the end. Holding the ball may prepare them for the tournament?