The No. 22 Quintuplets suffered another embarrassing loss to No. 20 Money tonight at the Tiger Fieldhouse at Orem High School. Money jumped out on the Quintuplets early, taking a quick 13-0 lead, and never looked back.
"Anytime you spot the other team 13 points, it's going to be a problem," said forward Andrew Law. "It doesn't take a BYU Law student to figure that out."
The Quintuplets started so slow, in fact, they didn't hit a field goal until nearly the 12-minute mark of the first half. Law finally ended the drought with an open lay-in, but the Quintuplets never recovered.
"We fought back nicely in the first half," said leading scorer Andrew Young, "but we kept shooting ourselves in the foot."
Added Young, "I can't believe I gave up the first night of my Sping Break for this."
The Quintuplets gained some ground before halftime, closing the gap to 16-26 at the break, but that was as close as the 'Tuplets got to the bigger, and more athletic Money. The visiting Money shot out of the gates in the second half and overpowered the struggling Quintuplets.
"I'm really glad we beat those guys," said Money captain Alex Coombs. "I'm not going to lie, I personally don't like any of them. Orem High rules!"
Rebounds, turnovers and lack of offense killed the Quintuplets' chances of picking up their first win, and now the scrappy Quintuplets sit at 0-2 in the Rocky Mountain League standings. Additionally, with competition as strong as its ever been in the league, the Quintuplets will have to work that much harder to get in the win column this year.
Notes:
*Quintuplets point guard Andrew Young was named player of the game for his ability to be the only scoring threat on the court.
*Russ Nelson, an often volatile guard, was issued a citation for criticizing the game's officiating. Nelson was overheard badmouthing the fake-baking, leg-shaving pretty boy referee to his wife on the way to their car.
*League owner DJ Conner misses Trevor Winn more than his own teammates, it seems. Conner repeatedly asked where the oft-absent Winn was for tonight's game, and was heard muttering "that kid can ball," under his breath several times during the night.
Posts
6 comments:
Next time you see DJ, can you tell him that I miss him too? And that I can help him with spell-checker too if he wants.
Oh, and sorry sorry to hear about your loss. What you guys need is some old school Pistons style bad boy defense. Just start taking people out and cracking heads. If you can't win, at least become known as the bad-a's of the league. You know Ross is down.
good to see you practicing your news writing...Rich Evans would be proud!
Beat down to say the least, that is all I have to say.
Good idea, Trevor. Yeah, we may lose everytime, but we need to make dang sure that they are sorry they shared the court with us for 40 minutes. In fact, let's make them feel like the win wasn't worth the pain they had to go through to get it.
Ross "Artest" Mitchell
And we should have gone man defense! I lost sleep over that last night.
Post a Comment