Our 16 game winning streak was broken right before the County Tournament. We were one of the few, if not the only team in Bergen County left to be undefeated. I try to stay as realistic as possible, I know we were not going to go the entire season undefeated. "WE GOT HOT EARLY". I was anticipating a loss, just not the way we ended up losing. Down by 2 points at half, we were still in it! You hear coaches say this all the time, "We didn't have enough energy/enthusiasm to withstand the loss" and this was exactly the case for #EMERSON. My kids were flat but everyone is entitled to a bad game. I always thought I was lucky because we had 5 kids in the scoring rotation, really anyone could pick us up at any given time, like they had the last 16 games. Unfortunately this was not the case for game #17 verse one of our biggest rivals, Cresskill.
We ended up losing the game by 12 points but 14 in the books (another story). I spent most of the second half pulling some "remember the titans" crap instead of sticking to the game plan and being patient with the offense. It's hard to get over something like that, Passion obviously or hopefully drives a lot of coaches. When your kids don't feed off that its not easy. I was blessed that this was the one time out of 30 games this year my kids didn't bring the passion/motivation. We had a great talk the next day at practices, "I WILL BRING THE X's and O's, you bring the ENERGY" Lesson well learned.
