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WO-S appears to me to be a younger team than last year's squad that was senior driven. Plus they are adjusting to a new coach as well. From film I have seen they look athletic and fly around the court. Lumberton is coming off being shut down from this quarantine protocol stuff,and won't have a lot of practice time to get back up to speed before Friday's game.
WO-S will have to be ready on both sides of the ball, however, as Lumberton has shown that they can point some points on the board, albeit at a pace much less than the truly loaded HJ squad.
Just my take, and I am glad to see the Lady Raiders back on the court.

Quarantine for the varsity players ends today and they can be back at school starting tomorrow. They will be back at it tomorrow, preparing for WO-S on Friday at Lumberton.

Nice to see these ladies getting back to shooting hoops!  Heres to a healthy and injury free season the rest of the way!

Naw Nick, I understand all the machinations involved with why things aren't going to happen, my comment was more of a rhetorical (salty) based opinion regarding the overall conditions of current times.
Have appreciated your coverage, hope you actually get to go to a gym this season. 
That's it for me, got to get back to hermetically sealed bunker. 
 

Not when one team is leaps and bounds better than the other. WOS has had a great season, but HJ is just in a different category. They have beat WOS by 40 plus points both times. WOS Coach has done a great job this year.

great job wos keep playing hard

Keep grinding United......

I said at the beginning of 22-4A district play, Coach had his ladies moving in the right direction and were gonna be a tough out..... Great job WOS, keep it going

Yes, they have different players that can score the basketball, but at their core they are at their best when they play tough aggressive team defense.
They play hard for each other, and have gotten better with that as the season has progressed.
Coach Sanders, Worry, and Boyles has gotten them playoff ready by playing a tough pre-district schedule. With a probable second round match up with Yates on the horizon, they better be ready, lol.

Good luck WO-S!! I believe that they can get it done and beat Livingston

The time for the Hardin/Woodville game has been posted up at the top since Saturday:
Also, we will be broadcasting that game, something which I posted in our weekly program guide since yesterday evening:
 

Jasper 65
Hudson 35
Asia Mitchell 21
JaKayla Brown 19
 
Jasper 6-2 in 20-4A  District Champions
First District Championship since 2005

Great TEAM win tonight on senior night!
Lady Hawks move to 26-8 on the season and 11-0 in district behind a career high 31 point game from Asia Wheeler. Delberta Guillory-Smith added 22 and Makenna Henry had 16.
The girls shared the ball really well!  Proud of our seniors, Kassi Hardy, Delberta Guillory Smith, Asia Wheeler and Imrie Collier!!!  These girls have dealt with alot over 4 years! Floods, deaths, hurricanes etc! 
The score doesnt really reflect it,  but kudos to coach DJ Wilson over at WOS.  Changing a culture is a hard thing to do.... he has it going in the right direction.

Nice road win for BH, PNG needs to keep head down and continue to play with grit moving into playoffs....

Good win WOS, keep grinding.....

It was Senior night, good crowd and the young ladies were inspired and played with a lot of effort and hustle.

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Hard fought game for both teams.  Lumberton has a tough squad, we got down too much early and when we finally tied it up we made too many mistakes in the end.  Good team as we expected, we need to rebound Friday against a tough Bridge City.  Second half of this district is going to be tough for everyone, well except for maybe HJ.
Sophomore Aniah Henderson 20 points 11 rebounds
Senior Marlandria Hebert 10 points 14 rebounds.

Final
Lumberton 60
WOS 54
Great high school basketball game. Both teams left it out there

One can shove a seed in the ground and tell it "you need to grow", but it has a better chance of making it if it is nurtured and cared for as it develops.....

here is another thought to get some discussion on the original topic.  Shooters vs scorers.  
Depends a little on the system they are in.   We are a pressure defense and dribble drive offensive team.  (if you can't dribble drive then your minutes are limited a little) We are trying to develop players that can drive, score, and shoot.     We have two players shooting about 30-35% from behind the line.  One has made 47 3's and the other has made 38 - (29 games) not sure how those numbers compare to the other "shooters" in the area but I know the opposing coach's yell "SHOOTER SHOOTER" every time one of them catches the ball... Lol 
 
Our gym is available a lot during the off season for our girls and the past 3 years we have had great turnout in numbers of girls that access it.   There has been a direct correlation between this group putting in work in the off-season and having team success in the season.

Great observations on here with Coach Shu and many more.  Here as the WOS girls coach here is what I have observed.  Repetitions are key to any success in sports.  Since being assigned as the head coach here I make sure my gym stays open for my girls.  Unlike other programs we don't have a little dribblers program here yet and a lot of my girls can't afford AAU.  However, we utilized the UIL's new rule for skills training this past summer focusing on fundamentals and I have seen it pay off.  
We're still behind on skill set but we make up some of this with our athleticism.  Girls are not like boys and besides the obvious here is what I mean.  A boy will watch basketball on tv or play the video game of 2K and then head outside trying the moves he just saw.  Girls rarely will even watch basketball on tv and if they do they rarely go outside to practice what they saw.  Now I know they're anomalies to this and few girls will do it. 
The key to growing basketball in our small areas is through little dribblers but we have to still think outside the box.  It does us no good to run a little dribblers program where we have 2 teams that play each other every week or mix teams with boys/girls.  What we need to do is run little dribblers like we do pee-wee football.  For example West Orange Stark Little Dribblers plays Bridge City this week at all ages and one of the programs host the event.  Next week WOS may travel to LCM area and play their Little Dribblers program at LCM.  What this will do is a few things.  Number 1 make it where you build competition and make the community start paying attention on Saturday.  A lot of people would pay to go see these type of games on Saturdays which will fund the program.  
It will also make parents aware of the competition that is out there and the work that needs to be done.  If this is done properly then a pipeline will be heading to the junior high.  My girls played Little Dribblers for years either on mixed teams (boys and girls) or playing against one all girls team where a parent stacked one team against the other team.  The mixed teams saw the girls getting  pushed to the side not  getting the development they need and the stacked team stroked a parents ego that really couldn't coach but because they had the stacked team looked like coach of the year.  In the end my girls left the sport for softball or volleyball which broke my heart being a basketball guy.  They saw it was a waste of time and enjoyed the organization of softball/volleyball more because it was more competitive.    
In order for us to grow girls basketball for the whole area we have to change the process at the grass roots level.  If this is done then we will see more girls going off to play college ball from all the schools and not just a few handful.  We will also see shooting, ball handling and other skills grow.  Last statement, Martins Mills has basketball figured out.  I went there this past summer visiting a buddy who's daughter is a stud on the high school team and saw their process.  The Little Dribblers is ran like I mentioned above and ever kid has a pass-code to the gym and can go shoot anytime of day.  Kids put their code in flip on the lights and get to work.  Now I know we don't all live in a town like Martins Mill but my point is their facilities are accessible for kids to get shots up.    
My two cents.

I think it can be agreed upon that each of these young ladies listed have "put in the work" that oldschool2 has described, and they deserve the recognition for that work. I am sure there are some more that should be listed also, as these type of lists always omit worthy player(s).
More global theories on why things aren't as good as they could be are harder to figure out, as there are more moving pieces involved as you move out from putting the work in as an individual, to putting the work in as a part of a larger unit (i.e. team, school, community, etc.).
Thank you to the coaches, parents, and other mentors that have supported these young ladies, and all the other young ladies that play girls basketball. It could not be done at ANY level without their efforts.

2 Shooters that have been overlooked are Jayda Argumon and Shannon Whitehead from Woodville.  Whitehead has unlimited range with her 3 pter and Argumon has the ability to shoot the mid range as well as the 3 Ball with an absolute pure shot. 

I wasn't implying that it's an excuse you were making, just a bad excuse for anyone to make.  Want to shoot better?  PUT IN THE TIME/EFFORT necessary.  Not just shots.  Proper shots.  Practice doesn't make perfect practice makes permanent.  You have to practice doing the right thing.