Putney Basketball

The votes are in. Everybody who responded (8 people) all voted for Thursday sessions to move to be £6 and limited to 15 people. The format will be three teams of 5 or if less than 15 show we drop to two teams of 5 with subs.

I have updated the info pages and the front sheet on TeamSnap.

We have been vary full of late so get in early and remember the system locks 24 hours before every session.

See you all on the court next week.

 - Jon

Thank you to everyone who played last week in the game and the practice sessions. We had a great turnout and some great ball played.
 
I am very please to say that PBC won the Korean game 95 – 81 with the big damage being done in the fourth quarter when the leading lights blew a tiring Korean side away, I watched from the side lines and learned :o)
 
The game did throw up an interesting point that we now need to address. PBC is a growing success and since we started close on a year and a half ago we have helped literally 100’s of people to play.
 
As a result of that success and a growing roll call we now have a disparate set of reasons for why people play from just keeping fit to wanting to play at the highest league levels age and skill might allow! For this reason I need to start looking to grade games. People that sign up to games (and any session) need to have expectations of that session or game that we can try and meet. So here goes on our new game/session coding:
 
- Regular Tuesday session : Full court focused on zones defence. All will play an even part
- Regular Thursday session : Half court typically higher standard focused on man marking. All will play an even part
- ‘A’ grade games : Games where PBC will nominate a captain for the night who will call the subs. The focus will be on winning and if you having a bad game you will likely have less court time. This will be the senior PBC team and will be the one we look to get into a league
- ‘B’ grade games : Games were PBC will nominate a captain or I will run where the mandate is first and foremost to ensure that all listed play as even a part as possible. We want to win but this level is basketball for all and not just our superstars.
- Panthers games : These are managed and run by Simon Hester and are affiliated to PBC in that they use many PBC listed player. They are to a high standard and played to win. You should contact Simon for these.
 
So after all that we have again been challenged by Korea on Thursday. We will make this weeks an A grade game so please come along and win it again !!

The Putney Foxes have been challenged to a game against some old friends of ours the London Koreans! This motley band of Korean expats played with us in many training sessions in the past so we know them well.
 
The format will be one full court game over 2 hours split into four quarters of 25 minutes each. The date is soon, THIS THURSDAY, 11th June 2009 at the Roehampton centre starting at 7pm with tip off at 7:05pm and ending at 9pm.
 There will be 10 in each squad with rolling subs throughout the game. The cost will be £5 each as a one off. Squad will be selected from those available via Team Snap. If you are playing in the session after (the normal Thursday session) please remember that this will still run… likely at a slower pace!
 
All details will be posted to the team website at http://putneybasketball.posterous.com/ so please head there for updates.
 
If you would like to be considered for selection please make yourself available for this match via Team Snap NOW!

Putney Panthers WIN!
 
 
Hi All,
 
Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday, I can honestly say that everyone who played had a solid game. We moved the ball around well. So we are now 1-0! Lets keep the level and commitment up and lets go for an unblemished season! 10-0! I am looking at the summer league as a warm up for the winter league, getting everyone on the same page and going from there. But to be honest if we perform like we did Sunday we are fav to win it. Anyone who wants to play next weekend (17th) please email me before Thursday. We ran two units in our 1st game, 5 on 5 off every five mins, and it worked. Everyone got a good run and both units played just aswell as the other. So I am hoping to get a maxium of 10 each week and a min of 8. Obviously we have 12 on the sheet but I am sure everyone cant make every week.
 
If I dont see you on Thursday, see you Sunday.
 
Simon 07783078392

----- Original Message -----

From: simonheester@hotmail.com" title="simonheester@hotmail.com">Simon Heester

To: jon@slinn.org ; post@putneybasketball.posterous.com ; stevetaylor501@btinternet.com

Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:36 PM

Subject: RE: PBC *News* - Final year project Volunteers Wanted

Hi Jon,

 
I am cool with that as long as it does not happen within our playing time. Most of us get there 20mins before our session so we could do it then. Tuesday nights are short enough sessions as it is so I dont think that night would be a good idea. There is another team that plays in Victoria and have a long training session. If you need there details let me know.
 
Thanks
 
Simon


 

> From: jon@slinn.org
> To: post@putneybasketball.posterous.com; stevetaylor501@btinternet.com
> Subject: PBC *News* - Final year project Volunteers Wanted
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:03:29 +0000
>
> We have had a request from Steve Tayloy at London Metropolitan University
> for some help on his final year project.... He wants to measure you!
>
> He requires15 volunteers, they would be split into 3 groups of 5 each doing
> a seperate and different warm-up to the next group - the warm-up will take
> 10 minutes to complete. Once warmed up the group will perform the agility
> test 3 times per person to get an average reading. This would be carried on
> each session.
>
> Please can you contact Steve direct if you would like to be involved. We
> will aim to get this done BEFORE each session. Likely we will start with the
> Tuesday night people as there is more space and we can run a half cour at
> the other end for 10 mins while Steve does his stuff.
>
> PDF enclosed
>
> Contact : Steve Tayloy : stevetaylor501@btinternet.com

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We have had a request from Steve Tayloy at London Metropolitan University for some help on his final year project.... He wants to measure you!
 
He requires15 volunteers, they would be split into 3 groups of 5 each doing a seperate and different warm-up to the next group - the warm-up will take 10 minutes to complete. Once warmed up the group will perform the agility test 3 times per person to get an average reading. This would be carried on each session.
 
Please can you contact Steve direct if you would like to be involved. We will aim to get this done BEFORE each session. Likely we will start with the Tuesday night people as there is more space and we can run a half cour at the other end for 10 mins while Steve does his stuff.
 
PDF enclosed
 
Contact : Steve Tayloy : stevetaylor501@btinternet.com