once again, what's your definition of tough? My definition of tough is "nothing is going to be easy"...and it won't be for teams after Wadsworth...I do feel it's a down year...
And to be honest, gobluego, the Coach Seth and the varsity assistant coach had the players prepared. The players never executed it...I was at some of the games, and heard Coach Seth yell out what the other team's play was("screen coming to your left", etc.), but the players would look at her like :shrug: ....and Coach Seth was right every time what the play was...the other team would stop using that play or call it differently so Coach Seth couldn't pick up on it until later in the game....
I heard from a very reliable source that each player had a "cheat sheet"(scouting report) to the "test"(the opponent for that game), and the players just didn't follow it...One thing I heard from my source, was it went as deep as other team's offensive sets, defensive sets, OOB/SOB plays, and even each player's strengths and weaknesses for the opposing team...For example, one sheet supposedly said that so and so can only dribble with her right, so make her go to her left and dribble with her left...
So to tell me it was poor game day planning, you're mistaken there if my source is correct...Highland's basketball players last year were young, and don't have the basketball IQ that this year's Highland 8th grade team has...