Thank You Pressure Parents and Friends!

Dear Pressure Basketball Family,
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Casino Night is Fun For All!

Pressure Basketball Club held it’s 3rd casino night in Carson last Saturday night and it was Read more

Tournament Re-Cap Hardcore Hoops!

Looks like we did it again!

Seven in a row leads to another championship!

The young guns came out with intensity and defense. We were able to win both of our games on Saturday with pressure defense. I’m sure at times our opponents thought we might have had 6 guys on the floor, these young guys were everywhere.

Everyone knows our philosophy, if you don’t play defense you don’t play.

This is our youngest group and their slowly seeing and starting to understand the Pressure way. Both of the teams we played on Saturday were pretty good and could have easily made it to the championship game on Sunday, but they played a young Pressure team who are getting better every time out.

Sunday’s first game proved to be a little warm up for the guys who played a younger team that was just over matched with the score reflecting just that. However, the championship game was a little more competitive and spirited. Basic Basketball came into the game undefeated as well and had no intentions of losing. Pressure was applied from the out set and Basic Basketball could never get started.

The MVP award went to Jaye Dickenson who did a nice job of grabbing rebounds and jumping into passing lanes which lead to easy transition baskets. An easy win got a little choppy as the guys built an early lead. It was nice to see them push through things.

When you continue to play the game the correctly and maintain your composure the end result will speak for itself.

Good job guys see you at practice on Saturday.

Coach Brice

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Hello Pressure Family,

Thanks for your support this past weekend. We had a rough go of it at the Hardcore Hoops Classic we ended up splitting our two games on Saturday. With us being down with only a few seconds remaining, team Homecourt made a critical mistake, the fouled Kyle. Trailing by 1 Kyle walks to the line and calmly sinks both of his shots, game over good guys win.

Sunday brought a new day with new challenges. Playing without Kyle and Lance put us at a huge disadvantage; equate that to the Lakers not playing without Kobe and Lamar. Young Will did his best he came out firing scoring our first 9 points. Oh but again we all know what we say. You must be able to stop the other team. ( DEFENSE) It was non-existent. On the bright side we showed that when we’re patient and run our offense we can score and get easy shots. Defensively we had a few lapses, (missed rotations, boxing out, and getting back on defense. All of these things are correctable and I’m sure we will be addressing these things in practice. (If you don’t play defense you don’t play!)  Playing with the boys for the first time Shortie (Shavon) did a pretty good job, she’s going to be real good.

Well everyone until next time, see you at practice,

Coach Marshall

Swoosh Tournament Re-Cap!

Lynwood, CA - Although our numbers are small and the players are new to the program, our 8th grade young men represented themselves quite well this past weekend.

They advanced to the championship game where we came up a little short on the score board. We were led by the hot shooting of Kyle Hamane who seemed as though he couldn’t miss. In fact at one point he asked why am I coming out I can’t miss right now (Silly me I thought he needed a blow). Kyle’s added a nice mid range game to his arsenal and has shown improvement on the defensive end.

Newcomers Collin and Jordan pleasantly surprised me with their play. A little more time in the gym will help them understand the “Pressure way of playing defense.” At the end however, we couldn’t get a stop when it was needed, that just reminds all of us that we must defend to win!

The High school girls had an exciting weekend as well. Markie hit a game winning three pointer as time expired to give us an exciting win in the first game. Game two was just as competitive as the first but unfortunately we came up a little short.

Our third game was disappointing to lose, we made some mistakes in the last few minutes of the game that definitely cost us.

Our “shorties” on the team Amber, Shavon and Erica, did really well playing with the high school girls. I’m sure we all learned valuable lessons in regards to paying attention to detail.

However, I must say the girls executed as well as anyone in the program, when they decide to play basketball and stop acting like little girls on the court.

They to will learn to defend.

We will see everyone at practice this weekend ready to work hard.

Coach Brice

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Our brand-new 5th grade boys team played for the first time as a team this past weekend at the Focus Basketball Tournament. I was pleasantly surprised by the effort of the guys. The teams record was 1-2, but they were competitive every game.

The players played with a lot of heart and desire in all three games. Although we’ve only had a few weeks of practice the team represented themselves well. I see a lot of potential in our young team. We have a lot of work to do to realize that potential, but I’m extremely optimistic that this team will learn to play “Pressure Basketball.”

We will be back at practice this weekend working to get better.

See you there!

Coach Marshall

Bowling Under Pressure 2009!

California is a three strike state and that certainly held true Saturday at Pressure’s bowling Read more

Newbury Park Re-cap!

Our 8th grade boys played pretty well most of the weekend lead by PG  Tyler Hildreth. who showed why he’s going to be a outstanding high school player. Starting with the big guys, he got everyone involved in the game which produced easier looks for himself.

They captured their first two wins rather convincingly with outstanding defensive play which lead to fast break opportunities. Tyler Weakland found his shot which had been missing for a while, hitting jumpers from all over the court. Their third game provided much stiffer competition, which was a good thing, but in the end the boys got it done.

On our way to the championship game, I think we might have been a little over confident or under just estimated our opponent. Both teams were in the big one for a reason and I feel we thought they would just fold up because we pushed them around a little.

We often talk about “killer instinct”, something we haven’t developed just yet, but we will. We started out fast with our press which lead to some turnovers and easy baskets for the good guys. As the game progressed we stopped doing what got us the lead and the Vikings played a little harder from the 12 minute mark to the 9 minute mark which gave them a 10 point lead which we never recovered from. The players seemed a little down after the game but you can  learn a lesson from a loss which I think we did.

The 7th grade team had a pretty rough weekend but there were some bright spots, Lil Mike showed some flashes of a true scorer and a leader. We expect that he will continue to move forward. Michael Doshi showed that he can compete when he wants. He answered a personal challenge from the coaches with a new sense of I can and will. We all need to put in some work Monday thru Friday and you will improve your game which will make our team better.

Tuesday Talk

Tuesday’s here again and this is where we’re at. The Tiny tots had a rough weekend win wise but, I did see Read more

Tuesday Talk

Parents,

This week we handed out our HARD HAT AWARD to the players who have shown Read more