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Show 'I WEEKLY REFLEX-DAV- NEWS JOURNAL, JANUARY 20, 1977 IS Layton Controls The Basketball Psychology: An Aspect Of Ball By DAVE WIGHAM .... aspect. BY THIS I mean, watch how a player reacts when he is taken out of the game, or how a coach reacts to a certain situation, or better yet how does the crowd act in given situations. Last week the Ben Lomond bench demonstrated one of their coaches strong beliefs, that if a player on the floor does something right, then the players on the bench should stand up and let that player know with applause or something similar. Other teams just sit there and take the game in like the spectators. SOME COACHES are constantly standing up and walking around during a game, others just sit there and wait for the time out to occur to instruct his players. A contrast in styles was that of John Wooden and A1 Maguire, both successful college coaches. Wooden was known to just sit there with his program rolled up and wait for the proper time to instruct his team. Maguire on the other hand was known to get an intentional technical foul to inspire his team when they were methodical in their play. PROBABLY ONE OF the biggest psychological games that goes on during the game involves foul shooting. For the entire contest the crowd is rowdy and noisy but the second anyone steps to the foul line, they become dead silent. The majority of players I know and have talked to hate this, yet the home crowd still does it. One player noted, When the game is in progress the noise doesnt bother you, but when youre at the foul line and its all quiet that gets to you. In fact at times the home team fans like to yell while the opponents are shooting their foul shots, little do they realize that it helps them more than hinders. THINK ABOUT IT for awhile. If you were playing a game and everyone was making noise would it bother you, then all of a sudden youre at the foul line and you realize you could hear a pin drop, wouldnt that bother you? Then the classic confrontation is when the coach removes a player from the game and the different responses that are shown. Some players welcome the new player with a handshake, others immediately pout and sit at the end of the bench. Some even say naughty words, you can only understand them if youre expert lip readers, as he walks to the bench. State, Mark Mattos, has a habit of going to the opposite end of the bench as the coach. At first one gets the impression that he is mad at his mentor but when asked if he was he just noted: No, Im more mad at myself and 1 like to just sit down and see whats going on, then talk to the coach so I can assess what I did wrong or right. For a chance once in awhile, just what are the different reactions and psychological warfare that goes on at a basketball game. The war between player and coach, and then coach and official, dw A PLAYER On their home court the Clearfield basketball team has a habit of jumping out to big leads then waltzing to victory. Layton knew this and did something about it. irs jf basketball that is overlooked a lot of times by the average fan is that of the psychological o, By DAVE WIGHAM AT Weber TOUGH to get behind in the first quarter when only one shot is taken during the entire quarter and your team is the one that took it. Layton controlled the opening tip and for the next seven plus minutes the Lancer guards showed people that they could stand near mid- court and play catch with one another. CLEARFIELD on the other hand was quite content to sit back in a zone and watch the Lancer guards do their thing. With about 15 seconds to go in the quarter the Lancers went for the last shot and made it for a devastating two point lead at the end of the quarter. Those two points turned out to be the deciding margin of victory or defeat. THE FANS were really treated in the second period when a total of 18 points were scored. Clearfield managed to knot the score at ten all in that second stanza. To prove the slow down pace of this game consider that between the two teams they scored a total of 28 field goals. Compare this to Ben Lomond, who alone put in 23 field goals up at Bountiful High. CLEARFIELD was dead-se- t on stopping Laytons tall center John Gilbert so they collapsed on him. Gilbert only scored 8 points but for this game that was a lot. Taking scoring honors for this game, which would be like taking your mother to the junior prom, was junior guard Carl Woodward who ended up with 14 tallies coming mainly from outside shooting. MANY COACHES feel that this type of gamp is a sign of things to come from Layton. Teams put up to four men around Gilbert, so to compensate for this the Lancers are playing slow down ball to make teams come out of those zones. Falcon Scott Balaich led them in scoring with 14 points coming on inside moves. CLEARFIELD Coach Roger Reid was frustrated through the evening by the type of game but his players took it in stride and still almost pulled off the win. The win puts Layton in a tie with Viewmont at while Clearfield dropped back with a 1 league mark, dw 2-- 0 Braves: How To Win? By DAVE WIGHAM Bountiful coach John Robison is beginning to wonder just what his team has to do to win a basketball game in Region Two. FOR THE second week in a row the Braves came up on the short end of the score against Ben Lomond last Friday. The thing that really hurts the Braves is that the loss was on their home floor. The first half turned into a nip and tuck affair with each team exchanging baskets. For the Scots it was their inside attack of Jennings and Quayle that did the damage, while Bountifuls guard Dale Ohlson kept them in the con70-6- 3 test. IN THE first half Dale put up 15 field goal attempts hitting on 10 of them. At the half mark Ohlson had scored 25 points. However in the second half Ohlson only scored four more points as he had foul problems catch up to him. Meanwhile Quayle and Jennings went about their business of putting points on the board. For the night these two combined for 42 points. ANOTHER backbreaker for the Braves was the play of Ben Lomonds sophomore guard Tillman. This youngster showed no signs of inexperience as he ran the offense well and even threw nine points to surprise his coach. The Braves made a run at Ben Lomond in the final period after Quayle had gone BARNES BA NIK Daily Interest on Statement Savings FULL SERVICE BANKING Safe Deposit boxes $4.00 annual, travelers checks, passbook savings, and others. 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THE EVANS and Flinders won over Northridge No. 2 with a time of 20.77; Jacoby & Jacoby won 20.15 over Grant & Jack 20.99; Randall bell 22.56. Gene Green has had five wins and no loses so far in the races. is Jacoby & Jacobys fifth straight win and no loses. Winners in the Grant Workman 20.24 won over Barker & Tracy 21.10; Northridge No. 1 20.54 over Smith Training Stables 20.68. Competition were: Grant WINNERS OF the four races in the Cuellar Bars Derby were Earl Goaslind over Lane & Noel 22.52; Neil Christensen had a technical win of 22.83 over the Viking Ranch 22.37 who were disqualified when crossing the line with a time of 22.37; Jacoby & Jacoby 22.42 over Randall & Brown 22.78. This 22.32 over Ray & Bill Barkdull Secnst & Plummer 24.56; 25.20 over Ken & Emery Williams 25.46. np Workman 24.27 over Don & Glen 25.51; Henry Richards 24.72 over Jeff Mitchell 25.14; Maurice Arbuckle 24.40 over Howard Koser 24.52. This is Mr. Kosers first loss. INCOME TAX PREPARATION In Your Home or My Office 197 N. Main, JACK CLAWSON 24.11 over Don Vickery & Boys 24.29; Fred & Kip 24.32 over Paul & Kim 24.36; Strayhorn & Childs 24.26 over George & Stevens 24.38; Barker & Tracy 24.50 over James & Dayton 24.64; Dan Lewis 24.50 Layton, Utah 376-427- 0 376-510- 1 & Brown 20.39 over Runaway Ranch 20.43; Gene Green over Kohlhoff & Camp- - 20.38 bench having picked up his fifth foul. With about four minutes to go the Braves were forced to chase the ball and foul. The Scots were able to hit from the foul line and thus preserve their win. FIX UP SALE MID-WINT- ER mwbUti to the AGAIN impressive was the play of junior pivot man Irvy Williams. Although giving away two to three inches each week Williams refuses to be intimidated. Irvy ended up with another fine scoring night with a total of 13 points to go along with countless $H 16 2x4-- 8 2x4 Utility Scot Another junior, Pendleton, came into the game and gave the Bountiful group a much needed offensive punch from the forward spot. Playing limited action the 62 junior pumped in 9 1x2s to control 69 58 24 .. . -- 8 R'ANEUING points. THE SCOTS knew that they had Studs Pre-C- ut 2x2s - 8 rebounds. Ohlson somewhat but they let him get his points and shut off the others. The Braves need to find someone to pick up the scoring slack when Dale isnt scoring or to help take some of the load off his shoulders. Ohlson is a great shooter and scorer but for one man to carry a lot of the scoring power for a team can be very dangerous. THE BRAVES have several other players who can put the ball in the hoop but they havent been doing it, the day they do, along with Dales points, will be the day the Warm Walnut The Davis Darts and the Murray Spartans dribbled a real cliff hanger with all its melodrama Friday night at Murray with the Darts becoming the heroes with a score giving Davis a record after the opening loss to Bingham. THE DARTS took the lead early in the first quarter when Steve Criddle tipped a basket lead keeping the lead for a throughout the game except for the four minutes in the center of the third quarter. Criddle kept the scoring interesting in the first half by dumping 12 points. In the final quarter Bob Payne took over the scoring working under the basket for 12 points to keep the Darts out in front. 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