CVC Boys Basketball Tournament: Ewing slows it down to pass Trenton and reach the semifinals – Trenton

Trenton – Paul Jones knows when to choose his battles.

Ewing High Boys basketball trainer realizes that his team has the ability to play a game with full, quick breakdown against some teams, but knows that things have to slow against others.

It was obvious on Thursday night when the patient, the blue devils with fifth seeds, controlled the pace against the 4th Trenton seeds and won the 44-34 in the quarter-finals of the Colonial Valley tournament.

“You can run, but you don’t want to enter the track meeting where you go up and back up and down the court and turn the ball,” said Jones, whose team will host Robinsville’s 9th seed in the semifinals in the semifinals Wednesday. “Trenton is flourishing, turning people around and transitioning, causing multiple turnover. Our goal was to slow down the ball down, to hold our insult, to get into a good crime and to attack them. “

It turned out well as Ewing (15-6) never gave up and held Trenton (13-10) until season of season in points as he clicked the winning series of four Tornados matches. TCHS scored with one-digit numbers in each of the first three quarters, firing 12-50 from the pitch and 8-to-16 from the foul.

Juan Sanchez (17) and Kadir Dickson (13 and 10 rebounds) had everyone but four of the Tornados points and were the only two Trenton players with field goals. S

“We just played defense,” said Ewing Senior Joel Sinus, who had his sixth double double for the season with 12 points and 12 fights. “We played hard as a team. When we lock the defense, no one can point out to us and as a whole no one can get involved with us. We all get together as a team. “

Both sides went into the area and remained the road through the bigger part of the game. It was tied 2-2 and 4-4 before Ewing scored six straight to lead. With Trenton, the devils mistakenly opened an advantage of 23-9 before the tornado reduced it to 23-16 at the half.

But Ewing scored seven straight to open the third quarter and equals its greatest advantage to 14. Trenton continued to hang around (due to 16 rpm) and approached 39-34 on a bucket of Dixon with 2 : 50.

However, the tornado would not have scored again, as Ewing ran the clock with 5-0 to beat Trenton for the second time this year.

It was almost a full house, but the blue devils did an exceptional job by removing the crowd from the game.

“We definitely wanted to control the pace and the pace and not allow the over -game to reach us,” Jones said. “Just overcome the emotion of the game. We need to play basketball at the end of the day.

“It’s a rival game, it was as long as it dates back to it. But don’t get too emotional, just go in and play basketball. We did a good job with this in the first half that drove us in the second half so that we could slow the game and dictate the pace. “

Cineus credits its coaching staff and Terrance Traylor for doing so.

“Our discipline has been better in the last two weeks,” he said. “We released a few games because of the lack of discipline, but we worked on it and we have a great coaching staff, as well as a great trailer guard.”

Cineus bounced from the previous match in Trenton when he scored only seven points for limited minutes.

“This game was not in my mind,” said senior striker. “The first game I was in trouble. When you play the whole game, you control the pace of the game. You get things you want easier when you play with the team and slow down the pace. “

Jones told his team leader: “He is a consistent force all year long, even with the fact that he fights low. I ask a lot of him. Today, he helped take out the ball, bounces, block (three) shots and stopped the other big (Dixon), who is usually one of the better players on the court. He always delivers. There are some games where we like him to get a little more, but in the protective end he was very solid for us. “

Ewing received 10 battles from Leslie Sumiel and received a pleasant effort from Christian Thomas, who scored 12 of his 15 points in the second half. Thomas is an average of 15 per game in the last five competitions after scoring 17 in the previous three.

“I and he had a conversation ago six games and since then he answered,” Jones said. “I was a little pressure on it. He is a talented player. I wanted him to play until his talent, not to where he was at that time. He replied, playing well. “

The coach also liked the way his team adapted against Sanchez, who had seven in the first quarter, but 10 in the last three.

“The biggest thing was the correction of the area and the understanding of having a shooter,” Jones said. “The driving was hurting us in the first half. The team that is able to make adjustments is the team that will win. “

Ewing will now try to win for the second time against Robinsvil-Great Winner over the highest West Windsor-Plainsboro North after receiving 55-52 victory on January 7

“I think we’re just scratching our surface,” Jones said. “We haven’t really reached our potential. At the beginning of the season we had a winning series of five games, but we fell a little. Now we start to return to him. “

Before finding out who won the play on Robbinsville-Wwwn, Cineus said he did not root to play on both sides.

“It doesn’t matter,” he said. “We are just looking to play hard and beat anyone on our way.”

Ewing (44)

Cineus 4-3-12, Taylor 3-0-6, Thomas 6-3-15, Sumiel 1-2-4, Morton 1-0-3, Richards 2-0-4. Total: 17-8-44

Trenton (34)

Munoz 0-1-1, Sanchez 7-1-17, Dixon 5-3-13, Ingram 0-1-1, Geno Ramos 0-1-1, SMITH 0-1-1, Dowling 0-0-0. Total: 12-8-34.

Ewing (15-6) 12 11 10 11- 44

Trenton (13-10) 7 9 8 10-34

Aims with 3 points: Cineus, Morton, (E). Sanchez 2 (TCHS)