The Reading High Red Knights won their opening game of the postseason with a hard fought 69-47 against the Wyomissing Spartans tonight at Wilson High School. Here are my thoughts on the game:
- The six day layoff really showed tonight. At times we seemed to be a step slow and at other times seemed a tad off our game. The game was much closer than the score would say. But we are going to need to improve if we want to win some hardware this year.
- I thought on offense we ran our offense pretty well and we were unselfish and moved the ball around and got good looks at the basket.
- Huge game tonight by Jermaine Jackson with 19 points and 11 boards. When Jermaine gets a double double we are almost unbeatable. We got him touches early and like I have hammered home this year get the big man involved early and he will come through.
- Jordan Burdine has 15 points on a relatively poor shooting night as he went 4 for 14 from the field, but was effective getting to the line 10 times. When he attacks the basket and doesnt just shoot the outside jumper he is unstoppable.
- It was good to see that when we were flat tonight that our senior leaders stepped to the forfront and got the team out of the doldrums. If you want to be a great team come playoff time you are going to need your seniors to play like seniors and they definitely did tonight.
- Macho turned an ankle in the second quarter and left the game but returned after halftime and seemed to be at about 85-90%. Hopefully he will be able to go at close to full go on Wednesday.
- I have to give props to Wyomissing tonight they gave us their best and played very well and definitely earned my respect as they had a solid game plan, were well coached, and didnt come into the game in awe of us like some other county teams have. Good luck Wyomissing in districts.
- With Muhlenberg on Wednesday this is a matchup that definitely will favor us as they like to play fast. I expect a much better performace on Wednesday night.
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