Fremont Firebirds fall flat on the home floor – the voice of the silicone valley

The Freemont Firebirds Varsity Basketball Team would leave for the Monta Vista Matadors season on January 29th. With the victory of the road already under his belt, the team was expected to win again on their home floor. In the end, Firebirds’s previous victory saw the team with an impressive 32-20 half lead, which proved to be overwhelming for Matadors.

However, the rematch was far from the impressive display of the preferred fiery birds. The negligent turnover, the lack of bounce and the poor awareness of the clock led to the first half to undermine. While Fremont managed to overcome the half-time deficit with seven points to bind the game in the third quarter, the team will not reach more, eventually it will fall to the Matadors with the 48-40 final.

“I think when it gets later during the season, it is more difficult to maintain energy,” said Fremont’s head coach Tony Kikuta. “We are here in the home section and during the season the children wear a little. This can be a little factor tonight. “

“I think this energy was not there tonight,” Senior Fremonth Subhan Kunwar sounded. “[Monta Vista] He plays better; I think they wanted it more than us at the beginning. ”

“We just didn’t play the way we should play,” added Jr. Kai Daron. “We did not hurry up as much as last time. Last time we wanted it much more than this time. We just didn’t go out with the same energy. This is just one of these things, it is difficult to come up with tons of energy every game. “

Daron and Kunwar were two players for Fremont, who stood offensively in the loss. In the second half, when Firebirds gathered and eventually tied the result in the fourth quarter, it was the combination of difficult interior baskets from Kunwar and Fastbreak transitional positions from Daron that helped to keep the road.

“Kai is a great player; His speed and athleticism make him a huge advantage for the team, “Kunwar praised to Daron. “The way our crime works with Kai, one of us gets a bounce and kai expires, and then I or Kishan [Shah] are able to use their long weapons to shoot the court with the Kai ball to get the layout. ”

With Kunwar, Shah, Daron and Freshman Kota XU, the Fremont list has a good size, skills, wheels and external shooting protection. The team has the ingredients to improve in its record of 5-4 leagues and make a boost for a place for playoff. Cleaning errors and continuing learning from experience will be crucial to a relatively inexperienced squad.

“Indeed, one of the challenges we face is that we lost our best nine boys from last year,” Kikuta said. “Everyone who plays just didn’t play much basketball. I’m starting a freshman at Point Guard and two children who didn’t start playing basketball until they were a sophomore. Just not much experience to play organized basketball at a higher level. “