WInter Camp Week 2

Everyone has worked so hard this week. I am so proud to be coaching such great campers!!!

Meredith A. has improved tremendously since the last camp. She understands her role and is a great teammate.
Joeli E. is one of the leaders of our Western Division. You can always count on her to help set the example for our younger campers.
Madeline F. always has a smile on her face. She also can play on the post against the boys with no fear.
Grace G. is fearless and one of the best players her age. She always plays hard and is a strong finisher.
Brett G. continues to be a great sport. He has improved all of his skills and is a winner on and off the court.
David K. is hitting his jumper, and he is playing aggressively. His ball handling skills are improving as well.
Matt D. is a true point guard who has the heart of a lion. He always makes his teammates better.
Julian G. is the fastest camper. He hustles more than anyone and is a great addition to any team.
Rachel G. is learning the game. She is head strong and her great attitude assures her a nice future in whatever she puts her mind to.
Matthew H. has played up for the second straight week and is now a difficult cover for the upcoming Beth Am season. He fears no one!
Rylee H. is competing against strong competition, and she is gaining confidence for the rest of her middle school season.
Samantha J. has learned the triple threat position and has improved her pivoting and shooting stance.
Julia K. is a great teammate, and her battles against some of the boys is helping her develop her confidence.
Evan K. always makes others smile, and he is now focusing on improving his post game.
Taryn L. played her hardest today, and showed no fear playing against the boys. She always has a great attitude.
Tamara L. is learning about many aspects of the game. She has no fear of failure and I am impressed with her attitude.
Alex M. is a great talent who has a great future if he can continue to develop his right hand.
Max M. is battling with the older boys, and he is an excellent shooter.
Bailey N. has continued to improve, and even playing against the boys, she has managed to make some great rebounds and passes.
Scott P. is the Tim Duncan of the crew. He simply dominated the post today.
Bailey P. is a very intelligent player who is following her brother's footsteps. She has been a leader in your Western Division.
Lauren P. is a star, both in her personality, smile, and ability.
Alex P. alwyas keeps her Yankee hat on to remind us where she is from. She has improved in all aspects of her game, especially ball-handling.
Caroline Q. is a great teammate who makes others smile. She now has a good triple threat position.
Baylor R. can name every camper in camp, always makes everyone smile, and her skills are improving everyday.
Jake R. has a great future in the game. He made 2 half-court shots today.
Scott R. has his best game today. He made other players better, recognized when to pass, and when to shoot, and I am proud of him.
Danielle R. is now a much better player than when she began camp two weeks ago. She can handle the ball with more confidence and is a great camper.
Zachary R. has learned how to deal with adversity playing against older competition. he is beginning to love the challenge of our drills.
Samantha R. is improving her ball-handling and did a great job in our relays today.
Blake R. is one of our captains, and is always smiling. He is also a great teammate.
Mia S. is our future star who has no fear. She also has great skills for such a young player.
Trevor S. is a confident player who wants the ball in the clutch. He is learning to challenge himself in drills and that is helping his overall game.
Heather S. has a great attitude. She is always smiling, and did a great job learning our triple threat.
Ally S. is very talented. She is a great teammate, and excelled in our ball-handling relays.
Lauren S. has great leadership qualities. Her triple threat looked great today and she always listens.
A.J. is steady. He can shoot, dribble, pass, play D, and he has an amazing attitude.
Ananda W. is learning to be a dominant post player. I can see her being an all-county player in Miami in the near future.
Federico Z. is our other captain. He has a perfect attitude, and for the second straight week he has improved in all aspects of the game.
Leo R. is as fast as his uncle, Jake the Snake, and I have no doubts that he is a future star.
Scott H. is battling in the morning with the older campers and he had a great attitude today.


Okay Rookies...You have been awesome!!!

Aliya H. has been great in our relays, and she is following her sister's footsteps as a future star.
Makenzie L. has impressed us with her great ball handling at such a young age.
Isabella P. has been a leader among the rookies, and has made many shots in our games.
Jamie S. has managed to learn triple threat, shooting layups, and she is very unselfish.
Rachel S. has improved her shooting, and she is never tired when playing the game.
Milena v. has learned the triple threat position, and her ball handling has improved.
Abigale also has a great attitue. She has learned many new skills at camp. Great job everyone!!!

Courts 1 on 1 Winter Camp Highlights

What a day!!! Everyone worked very hard and really impressed our coaches. More importantly, every camper had a great attitude!

Meredith showed improvement in her triple threat and ball-handling and played well in the afternoon games.
Ethan played great defense and has a perfect attitude. He exemplifies what we are trying to teach at Courts 1 on 1 Sports.
Kelsey also has a perfect attitude. She scored a nice lay-up on a fast break, and she is improving every second.
Annie is playing against older competition and is not afraid. Despite being one of the youngest, she has played very well.
Katie also is playing up against older comp. showing her fearless attitude. She is very strong with the ball in her hands.
Remy has improved tremendously since the last camp. She recently helped lead her Beth-Am team to the finals.
Julien is a very skilled young player. His shooting is lights out and he has great quickness.
Grace is one of the fastest girls with the ball, and along with her great ball-handling skills will continue to be a force.
Brett has become a strong all around player. He is solid on D, rebounds very well, and has a nice corner jump shot.
Lexi is playing against the boys and battling. She has no fear playing with great intensity.
Matthew H. is very consistent. He can shoot, pass, and dribble with the best, and has perfect sportsmanship.
Carly is a fierce competitor. She gives her all, and she has a strong jump shot.
Jarrett has competed against some of the older boys and girls, and he is playing great. He also is becoming a very good shooter.
Steven is an excellent shooter, and he is improving on both defense and ball-handling.
Jordan is a lights-out shooter who is very unselfish. Despite being able to score often, he always makes his teammates better players.
Bailey is an excellent athlete. She plays against the boys with no fear, and she is becoming one of the best rebounders in the camp.
Josh P. is a special player for his age. He combines great shooting, ball-handling, and passing with an unselfish attitude.
Daniel has become a force with the ball. He is very intense and his will to win is tops in the camp.
Logan can score at will, and he is learning how important it is to be a better passer. He also has an amazing collection of uniforms.
David P. is a fighter on the court in the sense that he wants to win as much as anyone. He is now making all his lay-ups and is a great teammate.
Jake R. has shown how great he can be when he makes his teammates better. He can score at will, but has chosen to pass up shots in order to get his teammates the ball.
Scott R. has a Dwayne Wade-like attitude. He always brings his A-game, yet plays with class. He never talks trash despite his great ability.
Danielle R. is improving on her lay-ups. She made some nice outside shots yesterday on our shooting games and is an excellent teammate.
Zachary is learning how to compete against the older kids. He is an unselfish player and he shot the ball very well yesterday.
Mack is a tough competitor playing at the highest level despite an injury to his left hand.
Carter has become much quicker on the court adding a strength to his already powerful post game. His shooting is also improving.
Jacob S. made some great passes yesterday. He is improving his shooting touch and he has a perfect attitude.
Joshua S. is also improving on both passing and shooting, and he is an excellent teammate.
Marlee is battling against the boys. She is fearless and has an uncanny ability to make tough shots no matter who is covering her.
Mia is as skilled as any young player I have seen. She can shoot, pass, and dribble with each hand, a rarity for anyone her age.
Cole is one of the best ball-handlers his age, has great touch with his shooting and is fearless.
Rylee shoots the ball very well, handles the rock with both hands, and also is fearless.
Madeline is on her way to stardom combining her perfect attitude with amazing skill. She also constantly makes other campers smile with her great personality.
Amanda played great in our league games, and she was recognized by other campers for her excellent attitude.
Rudy is constantly battling for his team, and he also was recognized for his unslefishness by other campers.
Cara is on her way to playing varsity basketball in high school. She is improving all of her skills and is another perfect teammate.
Ananda has an opportunity to be one of the best players in Miami combining her great height with great skill and attitude.
Federico made 4 game winning shots in our shooting drills, and is a favorite of everyone at camp.
B. Ratzen hit a game-winning shot yesterday and now understands the importance of having no fear when taking an important shot.
Joeli is a great teammate and in one day improved in all areas of the game.
Spencer caught a pass in traffic yesterday and drained a huge lay-up to seal the victory for his team.
A.J. is steadily improving his quickness, and therefore becoming a difficult guard to defend. He also continues to shoot the lights out!
Nico is one of the best players his age, a great teammate, and deadly shooter.

Rookies of the Year!
Kobe made some magical moves and is a great ball-handler.
Leo has a great attitude and is a future star.
Andy is improving his ball-handling and lay-ups and and made some great passes yesterday.
Scott H. is a powerful player who is on his way to becoming a star.
Andres is a great teammate and despite his young age can shoot the ball very well.
Zachary is has a great attitude and is improving his ball-handling and shooting.
Michael is another future star who loves the game and is very unselfish.
Ben is improving in all areas, and he hit some far shots yesterday despite his young age.

Another Great Story!!!

Buckeyes' benchwarmer one in a trillion
By Jason King, Yahoo! Sports
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An odd thing happened to Mark Titus during an Ohio State home game earlier this season. The Buckeyes guard grabbed a rebound - and people booed.
The reaction might have been puzzling to a few folks in the stands, but for the religious readers of Titus' popular blog, the good-natured jeers made perfect sense. By snaring the rebound, Titus, a seldom-used reserve, had ruined his chance of achieving a "trillion."
"A trillion," Titus explains, "is when you play one minute but don't record any other stats. So when you look at the box score you see a '1' to the far left followed by a bunch of zeros - just like the number 1,000,000,000,000."ADVERTISEMENT

The scenario provided the inspiration for Titus' website. After two months, Titus' hilarious writings about life at the end of Ohio State's bench have made him one of the most popular players on the Buckeyes' squad - and one of the most well-known walk-ons in the country.
On Wednesday more than 40,000 people clicked on clubtrillion.com, where they could read about Titus' favorite pastime during games (gawking at cheerleaders), his nickname for the trendy, long basketball shorts that hang below the knees (shants) and his crush on ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews (or, as he calls her, "Erin Andrews-Titus").
"Everyone hears about the guy that scores 20 points each night," Titus says, "but no one talks about the guy at the end of the bench. I can tell people about the game from a perspective they haven't heard before. Still, I never thought it would get this kind of attention."
The buzz is only increasing.
When he looked into the stands during Wednesday's game against Jacksonville, Titus saw four people wearing his No. 34 jersey. A reader has offered to make Club Trillion T-shirts and strangers are sending him emails telling him he needs to become a professional blogger after graduation.
"Just the other day," Titus says, "I was standing in line at the cafeteria and someone walked by and said, 'Love the blog. Keep it up,' and then kept going. I was like, 'Uh, what just happened? I didn't even know that person.'"
Most of Titus' blogs are about things that happen away from the court. On Nov. 28 he told an amusing tale about Thanksgiving dinner at coach Thad Matta's house.
"Coach Matta and his wonderful wife ended up cooking for us," he wrote. "And by cooking, I mean getting food catered. And by Coach Matta and his wife, I mean his wife."
Other funny stories involve the per diem money players receive each week for food and the shenanigans that occurred as he was trying to take a pregame nap at a hotel that was under construction. Last week Titus wrote about Ohio State's game against Butler and his former high school teammate, Gordon Hayward.
"Brownsburg [Ind.] High School," he wrote, "was easily the best represented high school in the game, as Gordon and I combined for 25 points, seven rebounds and two assists. Because I didn't even get in the game, Gordon shouldered most of the productivity, but I looked really good with the towel around my neck on the bench. Seriously, I looked REALLY good."
Titus' teammates aren't surprised that readers are drawn to Titus' wit and sarcasm. Since joining the team two years ago, Titus has been the player to use a one-liner to lighten the mood of a tense locker room. Sometimes he'll break out into a funky dance.
Earlier in his career Titus even held a news conference to announce that he'd be returning to school the following season instead of entering the NBA draft.
"I'm just having fun," says Titus, who blogs about three times per week. "If you can't have fun playing basketball then you probably shouldn't be playing.
"At the same time, I take basketball and the development of our team very seriously. I hope that doesn't get lost in the comedy of the blog. It's not like I'm out there screwing around."
Matta certainly doesn't question Titus' commitment. He called Titus "the best shooter on the team."
Titus received interest from a handful of smaller schools after scoring more than 1,000 career points and earning second-team all-state honors - twice - at Brownsburg High. But his goal had always been to attend a bigger school.
After enrolling at Ohio State, Titus joined the basketball team as a student manager - "just to get my basketball fix," he said - but after two weeks, he quit when he grew tired of filling water bottles. Then, just before the start of the 2006-07 season, Matta called Titus and asked him to return.
Not as a manager - but as a player.
Titus had been an AAU teammate of Buckeyes freshmen Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr. and Daequan Cook, so Matta knew he was battled-tested and that having him on the squad would be good for team chemistry. Plus, his shooting ability would force Ohio State's guards to pick up the defensive intensity in practice.
Six of Titus' eight career points have come on 3-point shots. In a recent blog, he even developed a nickname for making a heavily-contested 3-pointer over the outstretched arms of a defender.
"We call it 'dotting' someone," Titus says. "When you shoot, your body is in the shape of an 'i', so the ball - if you get the shot off - is like the dot of the 'i.'"
Titus' blog includes a list of teammates he's dotted in practice. Much to the delight of his fans, he's yet to make a 3-pointer on a real opponent this season, thereby increasing the chances of achieving a trillion.
"If you get a foul or commit a turnover or take a shot, the trillion is ruined," Titus says. "People send me emails saying, 'If you're wide open and the shot clock is running down, what are you going to do? ' "
The answer?
"I guess I'm not totally opposed to shooting the ball," Titus says with a chuckle, "I have eight career points right now. Eventually I'd like to get into double digits, so I'm going to need another basket somewhere down the line."

Quote of the Day...Best one ever!

"I do not think that it comes down to X's and O's. What wins games in basketball is YOUR WILL first, then X's and O's!"
BELCO BAMBA

J and Z

Props to J an Z, my 2 wonderful cousins who are playing on the same team and dominating their opponents with great team basketball and more importantly showing great sportsmanship. I love you both and am so proud of you. Keep up the good work!

What does this quote of the day mean?

THE GAME OF BASKETBALL
“Basketball can serve as a metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success ... requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.”
-- Bill Bradley

Camps

Once again,

Please attend our camps at Beth Am on December 22-24th and December 29-31st. They will be filled with exciting games and drills. They will start at 9pm and end at 4pm.

We will have exciting guests and many awards!

See you there!