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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 4206402, member: 5787"] So, the game where I had six players (early vacation for the second home private school folk) quickly became a game with five players. My AAU kid (soft shot, good handle, poor vision, works hard on D but out of shape) forced up an awful three pointer that was able three feet wide. Getting back on defense, he was hobbling and I immediately took him out of the game where he told me that he strained a back muscle in AAU practice on Tuesday. I ran over to check it out with his mom and she confirmed. So midway through the second, I was down to five players. After two awful minutes of zone (we never practiced it), I switched to a heavy help man D where we forced the opponents to take perimeter shots (they looked bad at warmups). To tire us out, the other team went for a lot of deep passes off defensive boards, which my guys did pretty well defending in the moment (with the help of me calling out numbers nearly every possession). My five worked their butts off. Prior to the game, I double-checked with the ref how many TOs I had (he confirmed three per half) and I let him know I planned on using all of them. To that, he looked at my bench and said [I]I'll give you an extra 30 seconds per half[/I] and smiled. It was a pretty close game until midway through the third where my guys were running on fumes. At the start of the fourth, the opponents had five team fouls by that time, so I suggested we attack the rim, draw fouls and then the foul shots would not only help us get easy points, but also give everyone quick rests on the line. We're allowed to press with two minutes to go, so I called my last TO at 2:06 and asked the kid [I]am I crazy to suggest that we try press?[/I] and they all enthusiastically said that they wanted to run it. I freakin' love this team. They're so young (we're in a 7/8 league and all my players are 7th graders), so they'll be a heck of a squad next year (plus a few of our 6th graders can ball). We have three more practices before our last game of the season, so would love to finish with a W! [/QUOTE]

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