This was a game that we needed just to see how good we had gotten. We had had a couple of big victories since our last loss and we wanted to see how we would respond to the Gators. We played poorly the first half the night before and I think they took us for granted.
Jonathan Phelps came out the box looking to do damage. He may have scored about 10 pts straight. We had our best defender on him and he had made him look really bad, the crowd was into the game and they were uuuhing and aaaahiing at his every move.
We countered with Montrell, a junior that we use for defensive purposes. He came in the game and chased and bumped Phelps until he got tired. Then we came back with Jason and he continued his pursuit of the crafty Phelps.
About midway through the 2nd quarter we saw a crack in the armour of the Gators when Phelps got tired. But when Phelps does get tired, the other players on the court start to take their games to a higher level. They ARE not a one man show. They got role players that play their roles well. And they kept the Gators in the game when Phelps was not scoring. I think the half time score was 21-21. Alot of D was being played.
We started the 3rd quarter very well, Phelps still couldn't find a rhytmn and our shots started to fall. Q got into early foul trouble and had to sit for from the half way point of the 3rd until about 5 minutes of the 4th.
Ju took two big charges and got a steal late in the game to pretty much seal the win.
"Deville did what Deville Do," and that was score and point pressure on the D. Q came down and shot a big three in transition. Then came back and hit another 3 from the top of the key. One of his biggest shots of the night came off of a curl when he stepped in the paint and knocked down a big mid range jumper.
The young Chargers are maturing! As a coaching staff we are starting to raise our expectations. We are talking NOW instead of NEXT year!
Record: 6-4
next up: @ Canton
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