Trey Blue: Player Journal 3
January 12, 2005

What's up everybody!

The season really is starting to heat up. We had a great tournament at Proviso West and we've been playing pretty well the past couple of weeks. At Proviso we faced up with and beat Schaumburg, Evanston, and a tough H-F squad. The H-F game was pretty fun. There were a lot of people out to watch two good teams play but fortunately we came out the winner. After our game, our team stayed to watch an outstanding performance by Von Stueben over Hillcrest. In the championship against St. Joes, we came up short, but again it was a great learning experience for us. They were beatable; we just made some crucial mistakes. I think we will get around the second place thing sometime soon.

As for me, the Proviso West tourney was a great experience. I got to play in front of a lot of people and against some great players as a sophomore. That will really help me for my return the next two years.

Our conference play has started and so far we are 3-0, defeating Carver and Morgan Park at home and Simeon at their place. We had to focus a lot in Simeon, it was loud and a couple of fights broke out as well. It was a great game and a great game for the fans to see. We played Morgan Park today and I played pretty well with 13 points, 6 rebounds, and 2 assists. We've got Bogan Friday and Harlan coming up next week. Our expectations are to go 10-0 through our conference and then head on to a city championship for this next month.

This weekend I went to go see the movie, 'White Noise'. It was pretty stupid to me. I didn't really understand it. I should of just waited for the bootleg. I'm waiting for 'Coach Carter' to come out so I can go see it. It should be pretty good.Our progress reports came out and I got two B's and five A's. I did pretty good, I hope I keep it up until our reports cards come out.

Day in and day out practice is intense. All the hard work is really paying off. I'm continuing to work on my individual game as well. I've been focusing on improving my breakdown dribble and getting to the basket more. Coach wants me to start playing the point guard position frequently so I have to continually work on my ball handling. Since I can rebound the ball well for a guard, I've also been getting accustom to coming up with it and pushing it up my self. I'm still working on my jump shooting and I'm getting the glass shot into my game as well. Most of my concentration has been on decision making in our scrimmages and situations in practice at both guard slots.

Our schedule will continue with tough play through our conference and we are supposed to play some out of state team this weekend.

I wanna give a shout out to my friend Danae Russell at Thornwood. She's been doing her thang on the court. And a shout out to A.O. (Jeremie Simmons) for dropping 42 on Northside Prep. Good luck to everybody on the rest of their seasons and the road to the Elite Eight!

Until next time,
Trey Blue