Six Games In

Nice win for our young team last night. They lost a heartbreaker at home on Friday, immediately hopped on a bus for a six hour ride to Erie, and they then won a big game in Erie last night. When you have so many young players, they need to learn how to win, and I am hoping that last night's game will portend good things for them as we move forward in this very interesting time in the D-League. When you lose so many veterans, you lose a lot of leadership and experience. With that said, these young men are very hungry, and I am hoping that they will continue to improve and bring home victories.

Six games in, we have had some good and some bad. We started out with two nice wins against Springfield and Sioux Falls, but fell in two games where we had substantial leads, but were not able to close the games out. When you have as much talent as we had with Lazare, Jones, Russell, and Howard, you have to take as much advantage of them while they are here, and we could have been better about that. But, I believe that we are still a good team without them, and my expectations haven't lowered. It is going to be tougher without those players, but we can still win, especially with Chris Hunter returning, which should be soon.

So, all in all, not the hot start we all hoped for, but the team has shown that, if it can close out games better like they did last night, it can make a run as one of the better teams in this league.