Coupeville Sports

Coupeville girls basketball coaches Amy and David King.

Learn from the past, build for the future.

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team is 3-2 heading into a game at Klahowya Tuesday night.

The Wolves were in the exact same situation last season — same record, same upcoming foe — and eventually finished 16-6, having advanced to state for the first time in a decade.

As he ponders Saturday’s non-conference loss to South Whidbey and the road ahead, CHS coach David King swings by the Coaches Corner to offer his early-morning thoughts.

Time to reflect after five games in our season.

At times we play at a high level. Then there are times we do not play well.

During the down times we are making the same mistakes and aren’t learning from them.

It’s about being consistent.

My first thought was we aren’t a consistent team. Then watching video and reflecting a little deeper I have a change of heart.

We are consistent in being inconsistent.

We need to start making changes and not repeat the same mistakes.

If we can figure out how to be consistent in a positive way, we have the athletes and players to play well against any opponent.

The season is still young, we have league games to play and some tough non-league teams to play.

I’m looking forward to seeing what the players do to take the next step in their games.

We can handle being consistently bad or consistently good. By that I mean, if we are bad all of the time, we know what to fix.

And can improve quickly.

Consistently good, means we have things figured out and playing well as a team.

It’s the inconsistency that is causing our issues.