10-3: Practice
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Loading ...Today’s practice went pretty well for me. I was late because of work (and will continue to be late because of it), but showed up in time for some cup drill and scrimmaging.
It’s really nice to get back into zone play again. Not that it went particularly well for me (only played in it a couple points, and quick turnovers led to a regression to man O and D pretty quickly), but it’s good to know we’ll be able to start throwing it in games now.
Overall, I was pretty happy with the way I played. It was really really great to have my foot more or less back up to speed after cutting it at the end of my H-croo tenure a couple weeks ago; cutting, planting, and all the other things one would use the ball of the foot in were all normal. I played some very solid D, generating a couple turnovers highlighted by a point block, and also tracked down some mistake throws from the O as well. One thing I need to work on a bit, or at least, something I need to be aware of, is playing deep in the zone. I don’t have a ton of experience doing it, and I got beat by Timmer deep today, not because he was taller than me, but because I gave him position behind me. I definitely have to keep that in mind if I’m gonna be effective at that position, but it’s not of great concern, since my niche really is in the cup, running around and reading the O like a book to shut down their game.
My O, while not my strong suit, wasn’t atrocious. I must have turfed the disc three times on the same throw–low-release, around backhand. I subbed out and played around with it for a while so I realized what I was doing wrong (wrist angle was too low; with the wrist angle higher, the disc rises upon release instead of failing); I feel pretty good about the decision to make the throw when I did, I just had poor execution, so I’m not feeling too bad about that. I was cutting very well; I don’t know if maybe just having shown up shortly before scrimmaging meant I had more juice in the tank than the rest or what, but I got open in all the right places a lot. And generally speaking my throws were very passable, lot of good passes up the lane. I definitely didn’t hold onto the disc for too lot; I probably erred on being a little too fast, which I’ll likely hone as the season progresses. I mostly did a lot of cutting, particularly midding/fill, which I like a lot.
The team’s O as a whole ran very smoothly. It’s really nice to see the freshmen coming along with their games. I’m really excited for them and their potential, they really don’t realize how great they can be. A year is a long time, and you can improve damn fast with the right attitude. Just gotta make sure we give them the best tools in order to make themselves as good as they can be.
