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Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal
Saturday, February 11, 2006
WHITE TEAM 7 – GREEN TEAM 3
It was too cold to be anywhere near warm. It was too warm to be anywhere close to
as freezing-ass-off as it was at practice last night. The sun was out and we were
on God's blessed synthetic terra firma today, which radiated a little extra warmth.
In the second annual, er weekly intra-squad scrimmage, the White, or Bird-Murphy team splurged
with a 4th quarter surge that buried the Green Jokisch-Bershinsky team 7-3. The
Whites did not have the ball more than the Greens during the game, but they certainly did
a much better job of taking care of it. This is food for my thought. Campbell
Dieboldt ('08 – A - #13) winged the White team's winning ways with an early dish assist
to Ryan Macdonald (#20 –M- '08) and then by finishing 3 shots for three goals in a
three-minute span late in the fourth quarter. Two of his late tallies were assisted.
He had the sidelines whooping and hollering with his goal flurry.
GREEN WITH ENVY
It was very competitive out there today. I tried to coach live and in person (while
reffing) and to make public note of specific situations to my satisfaction, but I also tried
to let the game evolve as a real game. We did not change teams at half as I insisted
on doing last week. It was 2-2 for almost an endless amount of time in the middle
of the game today. Green finally got one from Danny Stevens (#32 - A - '07) to go
up 3-2, but then proceeded to get blitzed by the White hoard.
We played running time, so it was not a full, full game, but it was four 15-minute quarters,
and when you do it that way a plethora of situations often conveniently present themselves,
and that was the case today, so goodoh for that. We need game-like.
I think the Green team might have been a little in shock by the results (score) of the
"game". I reminded them all at the end of this day in the huddle that at
the end of the day we are all on the same team, and that we are about to go on a real mission
all together. Yeah, coach, whatever.
NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW OR DARK OF NIGHT…………
I have not given the "It's not who is on the field but rather what we do while we
are out there" speech that comes hand in hand with the "It's not who we play but
how we play" philosophy sprinkled in for flavor and effect. I'm working on freshening
it up a touch.
By the way we got the best part of this day weather wise and it was just a sliver, too,
because it was freezing by the end of the game at 2:00 p.m.
For the most part the defense was solid for both sides. The ground balls often continued
to "linger" on the ground, much to my dismay. But today I personally acted
better than I was able to yesterday. I did not let on that there was a tantrum inside
today. I let them play without that.
HEY COACH, WHAT CAN I DO TO PLAY MORE?
Sometimes the answer to the above question could be, "Drink less". Can you hear
me? Sometimes the answer is for them to just to not think too much. Sometimes it is to get
your nose a little dirtier. Sometimes it is to keep your nose cleaner. You never know what
I might think or say, but they can be sure that I am trying busily to figure THEM out for
our (MY) purposes.
I did drop some honesty "bombs" today onto a few individuals, but they need to
know the truth before it becomes fact. Then they can avoid some of those truths. If they
are sitting there in two weeks not playing in a game or whatever, I want them to understand
why and not to be wondering, and they need to perceive right now what Pavlov's dog (me)
will do in case of a particular situation well before it happens.
They (team) have tomorrow and Monday to recover from whatever they do tonight. Unfortunately
some of them started the weekend out yesterday and it hung a little over into today as well.
All in all a good day and I think I can say a good time was had by all.
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