Callaway vs Yazoo City

A perfect night for an upset! Yazoo City is not the type of team that you like to play with a young group. (As I type this I just got a text message saying that Yazoo City beat CL Super 10 #6 Clinton last night.) They sit back in a 2-3 zone and dare you to make a 3. On offense, they are patient. Rarely do they shoot 3's, they pound the ball into their big man and he gets the job done.

We played some 3/4 court zone and backed up into a man once they crossed half court to speed up the tempo. It didn't have much of an effect during the first 3 periods but it finally paid off in the 4th. We hit a stretch where we couldn't score at all but our defense kept coming up with steals to keep them from scoring.

With the clock under a minute, we had just scored to tie the game at 36. We got into our press and they kicked it up to their big man who caught the ball on the wing and attacked the basket. Our charge taker(Phillip Ross) was standing under the basket waiting on him, he decided to pull up instead of trying his luck with senior Phillip Ross. He missed the shot and Q wrestled the ball away from Yazoo City's Jontavious Singleton and we called timeout to set up for the last shot.

We were in our basic spread offense, Q kicked the ball to the wing and cut through. Deville came up top but instead of catching the ball up top he cut to the basket where Ju hit him with a perfect pass. Deville went into his snake maneuver and hit Phillip on the baseline for a layup with 3.9 seconds left.

We have been begging Deville everyday in practice to cut to the basket sometimes instead of just catching it up top everytime. I'm glad he decided to FINALLY do it! I hope the whole team FINALLY starts to do some of the other things that we have been begging them to do!

District: 2-1
Record: 9-5
up next: JPS Tourny-Terry @ Wingfield HS