Show t. t Bruins bomb Bruins Critchley Familar each net 19 for Blue Late throws free-throws help Gold comeback off fight-off Mat Baer Sports Editor Coach Jeff had his first chance of the season to stage a comeback in the closing minutes of Thursdays Thursday's Blue and Gold Game However the opportunity was spoiled by his opponents excellent throw free-throw shooting and his own teams team's inability to convert offensive rebounds into points Fortunately Fortunate Fortunate- ly the opposing blue team consisted of his own players and was coached by his assistant Norm Parrish The game played in front of no more than 50 fans at South City Campus was the first chance for the Bruins to strut their stuff Some did shine but all involved had their problems The contest was highlighted by short impressive performances performances performances mances put on by several players Lindsay Familar Lorenzo Jarvis Vujadin J Jovic ovic Zach Allison and Rob Stark all had their moments while Dave Critchley had a non-flashy non yet very productive evening Allison led all scorers with 20 in a loosing effort with Critchley and Familar both putting down 19 for forthe forthe forthe the victorious Blue and Stark each finished with 16 while Chris Fox scored 13 and Ryan Hunt adding 11 The top were Jarvis for the Gold with eight and Stark grabbing nine for the Blue The first half started out with immediately stressing stressing stressing stress stress- ing the fundamentals to his team He continuously shouted at athis athis athis his players to get back on defense while rebounding was also at the forefront of his focus On his teams first time-out time he told them to stay on the offensive end His aggravation instantly instantly instantly in in- turned back to defense when his team went back onto the floor caught the brunt of frustrations as he was having difficulty following the coaches instructions I didn't play good defense stated the Yugoslavian native but I think Im I'm coming around also is having difficulties with the American style of play I had three fouls that wouldn't have been fouls in Yugoslavia he added the lithe rules are much different During Thursdays Thursday's game was seeing red One problem addressed by following the contest was continuity he feels his team just doesn't understand it We break down after the third pass he said Open court turnovers especially hurt the gold squad The total number of turnovers was unavailable but the numbers were much too high Other problem areas highlighted by the first year Bruin coach were rebounding patience on the offensive end the need for more solid play at the post and of course team defense One team out out rebounded the other And one team hurt the other penetrating the middle said When we get our defense down well we'll be pretty tough explained Allison we have our shooters we just need D 0 All of the players expressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed some satisfaction as aswell aswell aswell well as concern following the game Stark feels he needs to concentrate more I get satisfied satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied too easy he claimed I need to challenge myself Coach Parrish felt his Blue team had trouble late We lost a little composure at the end of both he ac ac- On his teams team's foul shooting Parrish concluded concluded concluded con con- We were lucky over overall overall overall all our foul shots gave us the initial lead and at the end of the game we got some key hits from the line mf f f i it v f II i f E r r 4 R RF F r s sAs As' As I Ir r Ka M. M 4 Taisi Avei goes inside on John Gartner Photo by Chad Andelin |