Dragons: Half nots… halfs
Published January 30, 2010 02:50 am – CHARDON – Friday night gave onlookers a glimpse of what the Lakeside boys look like when they are playing their game, and also when they are not.
Dragons: half nots… halfs
Lakeside puts together enough solid play to knock off Chardon
STEVE GOLDMAN
Star Beacon
CHARDON – Friday night gave onlookers a glimpse of what the Lakeside boys look like when they are playing their game, and also when they are not.
Fortunately for the Dragons, there was enough of the former to come out of Chardon with a 52-33 win.
Emilio Parks led Lakeside with 24 points, including three dunks, and 12 rebounds. But the win wasn’t as easy as the score might indicate. After a 10-0 run helped the Dragons (10-2, 7-2 in the Premier Athletic Conference) to an 18-7 lead in the first quarter, Lakeside scored just four points in the last 10:52 of the half. using a 9-point streak, the Hilltoppers tied it twice, with the score 22-22 at halftime.
Lakeside coach Rob Pisano explained that whereas his team is used to pressuring and converting steals into layups, it wasn’t able to do that on Friday. After the break, the Dragons played a zone, with much better results.
“Our second quarter was terrible,” he said. “We got a little cocky, I think (after we built the early lead).
“We started to get away from our game plan. We were shooting the ball off of one pass; we were trying to drive to the hoop off of one pass. We’re not a one-on-one, one-pass team.
“We were playing at their pace in the first quarter, and we didn’t want to do that,” Chardon coach Matt Moran said. “They want to press, get the game going.
“In the second quarter, we pulled out and we wanted to be patient with the offense. We executed just the way we wanted to.”
Chardon (2-10, 2-8) took two brief advantages, the second one coming at 26-25. however, the Dragons then took over. they had the upper hand by a 27-7 count over the final 13 minutes of play, with Parks terrorizing the Hilltoppers on the inside for 18 of those points, 12 in the fourth frame.
Parks had temporarily gotten away from his inside game before sitting out the last four minutes of the first half with two fouls.
“I give my team a heck of a lot of credit in the second half,” Pisano, whose team took its second decision from Chardon, said. “They got back to their offensive fundamentals. they played that zone the way we had to.”
“They made better adjustments at halftime than us,” Moran said.
Chardon was hurt by the fact Ryan Weed, its outside threat, didn’t play because of food poisoning. The Hilltoppers didn’t hit a 3-pointer all night, but not for lack of trying.
“My assistants told me, ‘Hey, they aren’t shooting the ball (well),’” Pisano said.”’ Let’s just take away their two big guys (Jake Hollinger and Brett Reiter), because they hurt us in the first half.’”
“(Weed’s absence) does hurt,” Moran said. “I have to give Rob and his staff credit. once they noticed that he wasn’t in there, he packed it in on us, and they did a great, great job doing that to us.”
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