[15thRegionSlamaBamma]

I wish that were the case but no it wasn't. You know how you see teams warming up and you say to yourself, they look flat, that was the case with Elliott this morning. I knew when they were warming up that they were not going to play well. It looked to me like they were going thru the motions and like they under estimated Valley. They were not mentally ready for this game and Valley took advantage of it.

Well lets hope both make it to the quarterfinals of state, and lets hope Elliot is awake so they can remember what it was like playing Valley.

You must remember that even though Elliot scores most of their points off of their transition game. Against a team like Valley whose backcourt is good at handeling pressure from top to bottom. Plus their big men handle the ball very well. You must have a game plan to take care of your half court game. They shot the ball well and should have known this game was going to force them into alot of half court sets. They needed to stress this in pregame. If people thought Justice and Bryant was just going to hand the ball over in the back court and allow EC to get alot of run outs. Then they were gravely mistaking, Valley DOES NOT allow you to control the tempo, which way to many people expected them to do. Sorry but Elliot can only use their "speed" against not so good backcourts plain and simple. They are going to have to develop a half court set against a match-up zone to beat Valley in the future plain and simple.