Though it may not be over yet, it’s time for football season to step aside and share its spotlight with the winter sports. Basketball season starts up in early November and with it brings an all-new enthusiasm to see more of our school’s competitive teams charge forth and hopefully take state by storm.
Senior basketball team captain Brandon Bucherri is not about to enter his senior season unprepared. “I have been working out with the team a lot and staying after practice so i can work on the things I personally need to improve on,” said Bucherri.
Though basketball may be a team effort, every individual has their own personal strengths and weakness they must work on in order to benefit the team as a whole.
“We have to execute during the season to end up where we want to be,” states fellow senior captain Austin Fox. “And I’d like to see us make a run at the conference championship, and hopefully find ourselves in the state championship game.”
Along with Fox and Bucherri, senior Andrew Davis hopes to lead the team to greatness as their third senior captain for his final season. He sees great potential in his team.
“We have a chance to do big things this year,” said Davis. “I predict that we’ll make it far in state.”
The boys do not plan to sit around and wait for the championship to come to them. A lot of hard work has been put in this off-season in hopes of landing a spot in the championship.
“We recently started learning to ‘grind it’ and that’s what it’s going to take in big games against good teams to score a win,” said Fox. He went on to explain their basketball jargon – “‘Grind it’ means staying true on defense and working hard, executing late in the game, and keep hustling.”
Like Davis, Fox thinks highly of the team. “I think we will be the strongest we’ve ever been as a unit,” he says. Bucherri echoes that idea, acknowledging that their hard work in the off-season contributed heavily to putting them in the position they’re in this season.
“My only hope is to win a state championship with my guys,” states Bucherri. “This is the last year I’ll be able to play with these guys who I’ve been playing with since we were in 5th grade. I wouldn’t want to be [aiming to win] with anybody else.”
