The Corry Boys Basketball Team went to North East to get a true test to see where they stand early in the season and came out on the losing side. The taste of losing isn't fun for anyone, but I hope we came out of tonight's game realizing we need to step our game up. I hope my guys can take this game and learn from it, so we can get better for 20 games left on our schedule.

Tonight we were outplayed on both sides of the ball. Both teams started out pretty cold shooting, but we never got on track. Early I thought we were very tentative and not strong with the ball.

I'm seeing a lot of inconsistency thus far into the season, I never know what I am going to get from my guys. I need some guys to step up and be consistent and get a little grit. I have a bunch of really good kids with talent, but they at times don't seem as motivated as they should be on the court. We take plays off and everyone is not on the same page.

Rylan twisted his ankle early and struggled, when he is unable to produce points right now I see us struggle. Markus Lambert led us with 15 points, which I expect him to be in the 10-15 point range every night. Cressley was at 9 points, but after that no one scored more than 4 points. We can't have that inconsistency.

We have a couple days until we play Cambridge and we are looking for some grit and some vocal leaders on the floor.

Defensively we are allowing too many points right now. We need to keep teams in the mid to high 40s, but right now we have people taking plays off and defense has to be our bread and butter to get us some easy looks on the offensive end.

With our pressure tonight we didn't have all 5 guys pressuring and denying the ball. When that happens that pressure becomes pointless.

Tonight Nickerson and Smith led us with 5 rebounds a piece. We shot 29% from the field tonight.  Nickerson looks to be getting a little more comfortable coming off his knee injury.

Chamberlin came off the bench for me tonight and is earning more and more minutes. He is gaining he trust I am looking for to take care of the ball, getting more aggressive offensively, and staying in front defensively.

In the second half we stuck with them scoring wise, but I don't take too much out of that when they are subbing a lot of guys in and out.

I will give some kudos to North East's freshman, Demetrius Crosby. There is nothing freshman about him. He is one of the best players we will see all year. He ended the night with 23 points, with several really difficult three point step backs. Not many high school players can do that.


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