Graceketball

Marc was at a bootcamp he was running in NJ this afternoon so Brian and Anthony ran the training session today. They did an awesome job! Dyasia, a new Storm teammate, is now attending and she is much less experienced than the other girls. Both Brian and Anthony saw right away that she needed a little extra attention and they were right there to give it to her. These guys are that good! Every single kid in this program gets all the tools they need in order to succeed. They're not going to baby you but they're certainly going to support you if you put in the effort. It was a tough workout centered mainly on ballhandling... the girls LOVED it!

Evangelia, Amara and Woody went back to bootcamp at Game7 with Marc VonEssen this past Sunday. Can't think of a better way to get ready for the upcoming CYO season than to go hard at Game7. In this clip Marc talks about the importance of being strong with the ball, staying low and ripping through.

GraceAnne will be attending Game7 Fall Boot Camp starting this Sunday. Game7 has been great for her and after such a great experience with the Rockville Centre Camp and the Ganon Baker Clinic this summer we are expecting big things from these training sessions!

GraceAnne will be attending the Pursuit Beyond Offensive Skills Clinic at Newtown Youth Academy in CT on October 8th and 9th. See if Brittany Hunter will show her some low post moves.

GraceAnne's CYO team had their first practice on Wed nite. It was great to see all the girls together out on the floor again working as a team! Looks like coach is going to run some simplified variation of a dribble drive motion offense in the halfcourt. Had the girls in a set where the floor was spread in a 5 out and the guards attacked the seams. Great offense for ball handlers, jump shooters and point guards that have good decision making abilities. Very little to no post play and very little screening, no pick and roll, all these things clog up the middle. We'll see if this is where we are going but if so the function of the bigs becomes cleaning up (which is what it has been up until now) and receiving dump passes from penetrating guards that can't get to the rim. Kinda a weird offense when we have two of the best bigs we have seen anywhere but we'll have to see. We'll have to find some other way for GraceAnne to develop her post play if this is the case. ...