January 27, 2024: Practice on a Saturday? ( 4 hours)

Today was the first Saturday we’ve had in a while that did not have a game scheduled on it. We cannot afford to give the team the whole weekend off so we decided that practice today is a must. I woke up at around 10:00 a.m. and decided to make a homemade smoothie instead of going to Starbucks. I left the house at around 11:00 and arrived at the athletic center at noon for film. We watched our last game because after dissecting each possession the other coaches and I realized that there were a lot of fundamental mistakes that lost us the game. We watched the first quarter because we started slow and let our opponent go on an 8-0 run and then in the 4th quarter we did not handle their pressure well. After film, we went down to the gym to get ready for our 1:00 practice. Since tomorrow is an off day our practice plan involves a lot of running and up and down. We started with timed down and backs meaning each player had 11 seconds to go baseline to baseline and we kept going until everyone made it. After running we worked on transition and getting into different sets for when we can’t get wide-open layups. To end practice on a good note before our off day tomorrow we ended practice with a game of 500. Coaches joined in on this game and guess who won? Yours truly, Coach Jae. We ended at 3:00, so we huddled up and broke it down then let the girls enjoy the rest of their Saturday. All of the coaches went into the office to just chat and joke around until 4:00. We headed home after to get ready for our day off tomorrow.