Fire arena is back in business

Our homecourt has been out of function for several months, first due to renovation with putting in a new floor, with all the new lines. The day that was finished the city of Hørsholm had 18cm of rain in a very short period of time and guess what, that new floor was totally destroyed and they had to throw it away and also takeout the gyms original floor since everything was ruined by the water.

Today was the first day of use in the gym that know has a new floor once again. Our ladies team played their rivals  SISU and it was a lowscoring game where Hørsholm played better basketball than SISU in 1,2,4 period,, but the rim had closed for the day, meanwhile SISU put in their easy ones and Hørshom missed them.

Hørsholm lost the game with 10 points if I remember correctly, but to me as usual I wasn`t looking at the teams so much as looking at the players that catches my eyes.

Some years ago there was two great danish ladies playing ball in Tine Freil and Anne Thorius both where world class players and have the CV`s to show for it.

I was lucky to see both of them play ball and had a blast everytime I saw "magic" play, thats what my nickname was for Tine Freil, artist on court and with he same understanding for the game as Anne Thorius.

In Hørsholms 79ers ladies team there is a player that is mix of Anne and "Magic" in Gritt Ryder born 1992 (174cm)

Coach Enbom has an unpolished diamand in Gritt "the next one" Ryder, so if you didn`t know now you now. All elite teams in Europe and Colleges should keep a couple of eyes on this girl if they dont someone else will and "the next one" will make the others pay their penelty :-)

Camilla Blands in SISU was good as usual and she is always a plessure to watch.

Tomorrow I have two games with my boys 98 so I know already that sunday will be a great day :-)

To dribble or not to dribble, that is the question!?

Well folks, I had a game tonight with my boys team born 98 and we played one of the best teams in denmark in SISU and I`m very happy to be able to say that the things we are working on in practise is getting better and better. It was a vene game where we came out as winners with 58-55 after trailing with 9 points in the last quarter. We finished really strong the last couple of minutes...

Whats "funny" is that we in the 3 period let SISU take a 10 point lead just because we were dribbling the ball so much and we became a one man dribbling show with 4 guys standing and watching. Thats som kind of NBA sickness that is well spred on every level. It doesn`t matter what level you play, when you overdribble the ball you will become very static and easy to defend.

What I`m very happy about is that we came back to playing basketball after that period and moved the ball very well and of course got easier scores and most of all better chances to score.

The strange thing with the dribble is that you see this happening on every level and why I call it NBA sickness is because there you can do it much more and still have success with since you are not allowed to play real helpdefense. You just have to wait out the help to leave the 3 second area and explode to the basket.

LBJ "overdribbling" will not win the NBA

Today was a good day, not because we won (sure helps), but because we did so many right things in this game, so we can go back to practise and continue learning the game, the best game in the world.

What game?

BASKETBALL