harder, but better

We played our last spring season game for the Campbell Rec Novice Women's Basketball League, on Monday. Last season we won the championship, mostly because of a few really good players. This season was much more frustrating, especially since we lost our team captain to a broken thumb in the second game of the season, but in the end, I think we improved more than we did the first season.

We started out losing 8 games in a row; the worst one we lost by a score of 39-9. Over the course of the season, we learned to play a 1-3-1 offense, switched to a man defense, and started to get a little better ball movement going. We won our last two games of the season and squeaked into the playoffs through a tiebreak method that I still don't understand.

Even during the last two games, I was feeling a bit frustrated; we were getting confused picking up men on defense when several subs came in together, and we were giving up a lot of fast breaks. Monday's game was a big improvement, especially since it was a playoff game versus the number one seed. In fact, I was quite happy; they beat us because they were good, not because we were bad.

Now to decide what to do about next season...