UCU men 4-0, UCU ladies 4-1

I know I should be doing this more.  I'm gonna try.

UCU men are now 4-0.  But we've had two weak wins since our first two big wins.  Our third game we beat Makerere Heaters 44-27.  Can't complain about any defense that holds a team to 27 points, but an offense that only scores 44, and only 4 in the 4th quarter is shaky.  We struggled all game to score against their zone.  We struggle to score against any zone.  I don't nail the guys to ball movement in practice enough, and they don't have patience to look for openings in games.

On Saturday, we beat Rhino (former league powerhouse fallen on hard times the last couple years) 54-42.  Again, they played zone the first half and we struggled.  For some reason they went to man-to-man 2nd half and we got a few more good looks, but we were out of sync and our energy was low.

We're falling into the old "play to the level of your opponent" trap.  Which shows me we're still a year or two away from establishing exactly who we are.  We're winners, but we're still shaky against teams we shouldn't be shaky against.

The next two games are huge tests.  Falcons this Friday.  Falcons won the league three years straight before Marines won it the last two years.  Power next Friday.  Power has finished in 2nd place to Marines the last two seasons.  Both teams are playing good ball and are dying to establish themselves as the teams who wont lose to UCU.

Following is a link to a column that mentions UCU in a good light--though I wish journalists would aske me questions instead of depending on what they hear--it's things like this that make people come up to me all the time asking for scholarships, and then looking at me like I'm a liar when I tell them we don't have any to offer.  We have two men and four ladies on scholarship.  The rest of our players are paying their own fees.  But everyone in Kampala seems to think we're basically buying success. 

http://www.monitor.co.ug/sports/spt05159.php

Our ladies haven't lost since their first game.  Ladies are now 4-1, one of the wins was a 2-point nail-biter against A-1 Challenge--champions of the league in 2005.  I'm very grateful that Geoff and Robert, the scholarship brothers from Mombassa, are handling the coaching load with the ladies.  It's good for them, good for the ladies, and allows me to be more of an Athletic Director, than a coach.