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.

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   David and Amy King guided the CHS girls to a second straight Friday Harbor Tip-off Classic title Saturday. (John Fisken photo)

They’re riding a wave of euphoria.

Coming off of back-to-back wins over Seattle Academy and Friday Harbor, both schools which made it to state last year, the CHS girls basketball squad is flying high.

Now the Wolves plunge into 1A Olympic League play against Chimacum and Klahowya this coming week, trying to keep Coupeville’s 18-game undefeated streak in conference play alive.

As he prepares, Wolf round-ball guru David King found a few moments to take up residence in the Coaches Corner.

His thoughts:

Defensively when we are active and communicating we can be very disruptive.

We like what we are seeing; however, we are still a work in progress.

This shows in some lapses throughout the first three games.

We are also fouling too much instead of getting in good defensive position.

Offensively we aren’t quite on the same level as our defense.

Heading into our first league games this season we have to tighten things up and reduce our turnovers. Most of these are self-inflicted.

Our intangibles are up and down.

We have had one outstanding rebounding game.

Because of the defensive effort we have impressed in getting steals.

I would like to see us sharing the ball more offensively, but I’ve seen glimpses of some very good stuff. As a team, we are doing a good job of being on the same page.

This upcoming week will be a good test for us.

We need to keep doing the things we are doing well and improve in the areas that have gotten us in trouble over the first three games.

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