Chapter 20: chapter 20
In the third quarter, they have sub out everyone and put Kevin in and started playing with four other replacements, on the seniors side also everyone is a subs. So, Seniors thought they could get points back in this quarter and finish the match in the next quarter. As they have seen these guys play but they who are considered are worst bench won't lose. Yes, infact did lose to juniors but their sorce did move up for 2 minutes. Infact in third quarter the juniors started doing man to man defence from the half court. So, they won't lose points badly. For them unexpected happiness for the coach is even though Kevin didn't score any point but he has very good qualities of a point guard. Kevin's passes are one of the best the coach has seen for high school. Kevin's judgement , vision and control of the match is good. Important thing is he has stolen the ball from the seniors six times in a quarter. end of the third quarter the score is 56 - 56.
Seeing this match the coaching team has few good ideas to improve their standing this year in the tournament.
They need to be in the top two of the new York city tournament to qualify for the state tournament.
Two months to go for the tournament to start they want to fix the line up before that so now the replacements vs new comers is the fourth and final quarter.
Newcomers has good center Bruce Smith, small forward James Banner and power forward Lucas Banner who are twins, Rest are John, Robert, Micheal, William, Charles, Luke and Kevin.
Back to final quarter Bruce as 5, James as 3, Lucas as 4, John as 2, Kevin as 1 for Juniors.
Seniors are they are very much interested to defeat the as they don't want to lose the spot from the team.
Seniors gets 2 points (58 - 56), juniors gets back 2 points (58 - 58), seniors starts the attack Kevin stole the ball and sends it to Bruce who is clearly no one is defending him. Bruce sends it back to Kevin, Kevin send the ball to John as both twins are marked. John scores 2 more ( 58 - 60), Seniors get back with 2 points (60- 60). Juniors strike and adds two more their score (60 - 62). Under strict marking of twins and they are making sure that their are not near Kevin. So, he won't steal the ball from them. End of the fourth quarter seniors scores 72 and juniors get 78, juniors wins the match.
We have very good bench line up this year, good chance of going into national tournament this year.
Train for today and tomorrow we will have one more match against substitute line up vs juniors to decide the line up and remember to remove the weight tomorrow.
Juniors where surprised to see their seniors remove weight and Kevin is like weight are available in the time period then realized that it is good for him as well. So we went to seniors and asked where he can buy thw weights.
Seniors reply ask coach these are test sample which came yesterday to school.
Kevin: Okay, thank you seniors.