Swarm Basketball

Very apropos team nickname. Island Garden's Super League has started and The Swarm has won the first two games of their season. Both wins were not exactly unexpected but... well, we didn't quite know what to expect. The girls are playing at the 8th-9th grade level in preparation for the upcoming AAU season. At this stage winning games isn't as important as playing well, learning the plays, learning one another and just getting better. Winning does help with all these things though and it is much easier to keep everybody invested and motivated when winning than when they are taking their lumps. Winning is fun. This is a really fun team! Very fast, very athletic and a couple really, really smart players that know the game very well.




Ball movement was excellent, help defense was excellent. These are two really good signs early on that these girls will play team ball... which means more winning!

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