November 27th, 2009 by Dusty Rychart

After 2 good wins over the Breakers and Tigers and one loss to the Breakers over the ditch puts our record to date at 6-9. This year was always going to be tough but it would be more satisfying if we could string a better than 6-9 record. Thursday night over in Auckland I witnessed the Breakers in one of their zones especially Oscar Forman who couldn’t miss from beyond the arc. The Breakers rely so heavily on their 3 point shooting and when they are on they are hard to stay with but live and die by the 3 as well. I’m not sure if that will get it done playoff time but they were lights out on Thursday. I don’t know if it was our lack of putting a hand up or were they that good?

Anyway we have two tough road game coming up vs the Crocs and then down the coast to face the Blaze. Both teams are hitting high notes at the moment and playing some good ball so we will have to be on our “A” game to produce wins.

I now know what my Minnesota Timberwolves feel like as they are in a worse postion than we with only 1 win all year. Never a good feeling when you are getting beat by more than 10 points. You can handle losing when you put in a fight and know that you could have won the game but the other team on that given night was just better. With 15 games already under our belts the season is more than half way done and before we know it this season will have been a statistic and another season will be starting. Still time to turn things around but how long will it be before we have zero chance of getting into the playoffs. Somehow, someway we have find within ourselves to string out some games and play more consistent winning ball.

That is it for now. Let’s get those wins!