Disappointing Effort

by Jordan Helmuth

“What really disappointed me was our effort in the start of the second half,” Gary Chupp, Goshen’s basketball coach, states after Goshen lost, by 16 points, to Bethel. The beginning of the second half Bethel outscored Goshen by 17 points in the first 8 minutes. Goshen was in the lead most of the time in the first half, but then Bethel found that Goshen’s strategy was to get most points from making layups. So Bethel forced them to shoot outside the three point arc. The Goshen players lost their groove at the beginning of the second half. None of their shots were making it in the hoop. The Maple Leaf’s best shooter was not shooting well at all this game. Every player that Bethel’s coach put in to play scored at least one point. Bethel’s defense also was stepping up their game to keep them out of the three point arc. Although Goshen never stopped moving and passing the ball to one another, Bethel stopped them from shooting before the shot clock would run out. In the first half Goshen was spot on in running down to the other half of the court before Bethel could get there first, to make layup after layup after layup. During halftime, Bethel must have talked about how Goshen was making more layups than other shots, so Bethel decided they would stop them from shooting layups. In the second quarter Bethel succeeded in stopping the layups and proceeded to win the whole game.