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The Push for the Playoffs!
The end season is in sight. This is a time filled with excitement, anticipation, jubilation, celebration, disappointment, and elimination.
At this point in the season, most leagues will see a championship boiled down to two possibly three teams. Big rematch games with losing teams, hoping to avenge losses, winning teams, hoping to finish off opponents.
Critical games: We know that if you ask most coaches, they will say no one game is more important than any other. However, at this point in the season that is not true. There are matchups with first place on the line. There are matchups with playoff births on the line. And there is the dreaded toilet bowl matchup between the bottom teams in each league, some who are possibly winless.
Regardless of the records, some of these matchups will take on the intensity of a Duke – North Carolina game. Stars will be made, and there will be defining moments in the game and possibly the season. Players will take and make game winning shots. Like the great opening for ABC’s Wild World of Sports. There is the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
Champions Will Be Crowned: Not all league championships to come down for the final week of the regular season of the last game, but many do.. At this point in season several teams will already be crown league champion.
Teams will be eliminated. Most states. have a minimum standard to qualify for the post season tournament. Unfortunately for some teams, their season will end with the last regular season game.
Senior Night: Most programs will have a special night to honor seniors in the program. Whether a senior has played one year, or for all four years, it is a chance to acknowledge the sacrifices the players and their families have made. The players and their families have made.
Playing time, as always with basketball, varies on the special nights. Some programs will start all seniors and have the other seniors as the 1st substitutes. Some teams treat it like a regular game, acknowledging the seniors, but still following a regular rotation with no guarantee of playing time for the seniors.
Whatever the program’s philosophy, it doesn’t matter. It is a night for the entire community to celebrate the seniors. The program will thank the seniors for all their hard work in the driveway, in the off-season leagues, camps, during the season, vacation weeks and everything that goes into being a high school basketball player.
To all the seniors and their families. Congratulations! You did it. You played varsity basketball, something that most Americans cannot say the die. Be proud of your teammates. Be proud of yourself. And be sure to thank your parents and family for the support.
Power Rankings and Seedings: At this point in the season there are several individuals in the state who are trying to figure out all the different scenarios and matchups. As each game is played, with technology. on a computer or iPhone, or the old school fans and coaches using a pen and paper, the match-ups will be planned out.
Scouting: At this point in the season, league coaches are very aware of league opponents. phones. However, when the state tournament comes around, teams can be matched against very unfamiliar opponents from different leagues with no connections. Coaches will do all they can to gather as much information about possible opponents.
Embrace Your Team Identity: With only a few games remaining, the team identity is pretty well established. Embrace everything with your teammates, whether it’s great defense, great rebounding sharing the basketball, pushing the ball in transitional offense. Love every aspect of your team. Don’t change who you are!
Control and control. Sorry for being redundant but now it is true today as it was on the first day of tryouts control your attitude control your effort control your emotions control what can be controlled.
tournament for teams that qualified. Each state is different. However, they usually is minimum win requirements or power ranking to qualify for the tournaments in some cases teams have already qualified for the tournaments and others have been eliminated. However, this is a big week for lots of teams that are on the mobile. One or two wins could be the difference between postseason. In preparing for the spring season.
Teams that have been eliminated need to continue to work hard finished with pride Reeves underclassmen also have to how are you have to work hard to improve following season. And seniors want to finish the year with an upset a to going out with the head held high.
Thousand points scored some public players will reach this incredible milestones some may fall a few points short new cars.