Maybe Piscataway is not as much of a lock to remain our No. 1 team as I originally thought.
The Chiefs blew a 12-point third-quarter lead and lost their first GMC game of the season to Perth Amboy on Thursday night. Piscataway has lost two of its past three games, and suddenly looks far more susceptible to upsets than expected.
For more on Thursday's game, click on this link:
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070112/SPORTS03/701120320/1047
Here are additional thoughts from coach Pat Mayo:
"My girls, instead of being patient, our passes were not accurate and we had very poor shot selection. Instead of going in for layups, we settled for outside shots."
"I know I have high expectations and sometimes my expectations exceed our ability. Even though we're very talented individually, I have to do a better job of pulling them together as a team."
"That's what I'm hopeful for -- that this is (merely) a learning experience."
"Our weaknesses were exposed tonight. We have position for boxing out, but we didn't make contact to favor that position. And my team likes an uptempo game, but we only played eight kids. It's difficult to keep that uptempo 24-7."
AND MY FAVORITE QUOTE:
"I either have to get them not to fall asleep when we're not playing uptempo or get them in good enough shape to play uptempo all the time."
The Chiefs' next test comes 12:45 p.m. Sunday at Kean University in the Player's Choice Showcase, which pits top teams from New York against top teams from New Jersey. It's a great chance to see college-level talent, including Piscataway's Asia Jenkins (University of Cincinnati), Tiffany Patrick and Brittany Myatt.
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6 comments:
Hillsborough should be No. 1. Look who they've beaten. Piscataway's slumping too much to be 1.
I liked your notebook today. I agree the work teams put into during the off-season is very important and underrated
I am the first non-anonymous poster...does this mean I win a fruit cup?
WOW, It amazing when a team has a few losses they are now over-rated. Damn its still early yet and if you look around alot of schools are doing the same thing so why pick on Piscataway, or is it the expectation because they won the GMC championship. Its not how you start thats important its who wins at the end!!!!!!!!!!
A Piscataway FAN
Piscataway is a very athletic team. They have 3 major players that really are the team and 2 of the players are highly under-rated. Tiffany Patrick and Brittany Myatt. These 2 girls are powerful. The news media needs to look carefully, these 2 girls are doing a lot of work under those boards, they are doing their job and has kept the game alive. The newspaper only talks about the other player, only because she is a shooter, and thats not always important. I look at defense, assist, rebounds, team playing and Tiffany & Brittany do that. So come on reporters lets give them more credit or does the coach not realize this. Coach Mayo--give them their props.
Mr. Boulware- Piscataway Fan--18 years.
As far as the comment on Hillsborough should be #1. You can't compare the talent. Piscataway plays far more tougher teams than Hillsborough. They have beaten half of the teams in the Skyland Conference division. Hillsborough might be great in their division but there is no way they can beat Shabazz, Bloomfield Tech, Perth Amboy, So. Plainfield, Plainfield, Morris Catholic etc. Piscataway actually beat these teams with seconds left to go, in this case it was a poor coaching decision. Piscataway girls and the girls in the Red Division play tougher ball.
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