On Friday evening we went to Fairfield to play Pollok Central. We knew that it was going to be a tough game. They were 29-5 coming in. We had seen them play in person ( see Scouting Post) and we had watched for of their games on film ( see Scouting II post). We knew what they wanted to do. They were going to get in a 2-2-1 press and they wanted to shoot the 3.
We didn't play very well the first half. In the first quarter we committed 10 turnovers. It didn't help that the refs were very one sided. At one point the foul count was 8-1, not in our favor. At the half we were down by 13.
We came out in the second quarter and got down by about 20. Then the kids woke up and decided to give Central a run for their money. We cut the lead back to 13 by the end of the 3rd quarter. We continued that run in the fourth quarter. We ended up scoring 29 in the fourth. The kids played their hearts out. They never gave up and just kept fighting. They did this in spite of the refs who never got any better. We tied the game up with about 25 seconds left but we just couldn't quite get over the hump. We ended up losing 74-70. Our kids played with a lot of fight in that second half. It would have been easy to fold it up and pack it in but they never did. We just ran out of time.
This was my last game as a Gatesville Hornet. It has been a great 3 years. Who knows were I will be going from here.
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