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Thanks! Gotta give credit where credit is due. If you can find a comment out of all my posts where I said Rapp was a bad coach or Serra was a bad team, let me know. Yes i'm suprised they have dominated Moreau like this and i'm sure alot of other people are shocked at the score as well.
In my opinion Moreau Catholic is overrated!! They run no offense and their whole game is predicated on turnovers., and as you can see the deeper you go in the playoffs the quality of basketball really improves,.
All good, and hats off to the Padres! It won't be the last time I was wrong! Well, I did predict BO over SF by twenty lol! All jokes aside good luck the rest of the way and anyway you slice it I would love for a WCAL team rise to the top when all is said and done.
Not surprised. Zero coaching. I've said it all year long. There players do whatever they want. Great game Serra.
And to think this was their worst loss of the year. Mater Dei and Prestonwood didnt beat Moreau this bad! Unprepared seems like a fitting word. Too much talent to get beat by 30 to anyone in NorCal in a first round matchup. Impressive..
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This one was a clinic right from the outset. Malpractice on one bench, preparation, focus, execution and total mental and physical domination on the other. The first half was, perhaps, the worst defensive game plan faced by a WCAL team in a big game since Chuck Rapp was in Pampers in San Bruno. Simply horrendous. The alleged zone employed by the Mariners was an utter sieve, a lethargic joke, an open invitation to head for the hoop and make hay. Serra did so time after time. Treys were wide open as well. The halftime score could have been even worse. Serra normally has trouble scoring 46 in an entire ballgame, let alone a half. Moreau was lucky it wasn't 56. The 37 coaches on the Mariners' sideline did not call a single timeout in the first half. There were few, if any, real adjustments during the first 16 minutes. Serra did whatever it wanted. It was shockingly easy, almost pathetic to watch, even if you were a Serra fan. Any sign of actual competition was MIA. The audience in a packed Chabot house was stunned. No one expected such a display of ineptitude by the Hayward unit and what turned out to be its overmatched brain trust. It almost appeared as though the Moreau people thought this one would be a walk-over, a warmup for next week. The East Bay AAU gurus were strutting around before the tipoff like wise men, winking and nodding as if they felt sorry for the anemic Padres. There was no way Moreau could lose, not with all of that supposed individual talent. But this wasn't an AAU scrimmage, er, game. No, it was not. Going forward, Serra won't see another team like Moreau, hyped to the heavens but lacking in so many of the important intangibles that don't show up in the box score. From now on, Serra will be severely challenged. But what a performance on Friday in Hayward. It's one even the AAU experts won't forget anytime soon. Or maybe they will. It's strictly short attention span theater in their case. They don't get it. They never will. High school hoops are irrelevant for them. And that's probably Serra's biggest advantage in games like Friday's.
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Wow!! What a dismantling from start to finish!! Zone defense to start was a sign of giving up and saying even with all this athleticism we cannot guard these guys man to man!? Never did I imagine a score like this. Moreau's ISO offense was not going to get it done tonight. No game plan, no concept and definitely over confident that better individuals would win out. They played right into Serra's hands. I'm not going to blame the AAU mentality but this has to fall directly onto the coaching staff of Moreau. That's where the biggest mismatch of the night was at. The game was literally over after that back door oop for a dunk. Congrats to Serra and hope this wakes some coaches up at Moreau to build a system on offense and not just rely on talent alone. Oh yes and a some defensive concepts and not just relying on a press would go a long way also.
Pretty safe to say that in the span of less than a year Moreau has set two standards of futility -
1. Largest Margin of Defeat in a State Title game
2. largest Margin of Defeat in a NorCal Open game
Impressive.
Hedging Ball Screens
Downing Ball Screens
Trapping Ball Screens
Jumping To The Ball
On The Line, Up The Line
Help Defense
Fronting The Post
Ball Reversal Denial
Some phrases that might make things a little more interesting over on that Hayward campus.
Nice recruiting... simply terrible coaching.
1. Largest Margin of Defeat in a State Title game
2. largest Margin of Defeat in a NorCal Open game
Impressive.
Hedging Ball Screens
Downing Ball Screens
Trapping Ball Screens
Jumping To The Ball
On The Line, Up The Line
Help Defense
Fronting The Post
Ball Reversal Denial
Some phrases that might make things a little more interesting over on that Hayward campus.
Nice recruiting... simply terrible coaching.
I'm glad some of you are pointing out things that I've often taken abuse on this board for saying in the past. That throwing out the ball and letting them play only gets you so far. The talent level on MC is off the charts but how about a wake up call. Get back to the basics or crap learn them. It reminds me when I was younger and you get a 3 on 3 game down at the gym against some older guys who don't look the part. We can just go through the motions. Next thing you know its 21-5 and you are screaming at your buddies to start playing hard. Don't judge a book by its cover.
Congrats to Serra. Modesto Christian will be a tougher test but I wouldn't be surprised if Serra makes it to the open final. Modesto Christian under Midgley has been impressive.
Congrats to Serra. Modesto Christian will be a tougher test but I wouldn't be surprised if Serra makes it to the open final. Modesto Christian under Midgley has been impressive.
I have often been critical of there offense as ball movement is not a strength of moreau.I believe them playing O'dowd as close as they did in the NCS finals could have been there undoing they clearly appeared way to over confident last night and before they knew what hit them it was over.Hats off to the Padres for showing up ready to play
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You guys are hilarious. Just last week u were all hyping up MC because they played O'dowd so close and now they just an undisciplined AAU team. They are good and have played some good competition. Just give credit to Serra. They only thing that should shock you is the score, not the outcome.
Serra is a very good and dangerous team when hitting on all cylinders, and this is high school basketball. MC may have been a somewhat overrated due to its seeding, but clearly a very good team and played OD close. This is a game of matchups and coaching and Serra was able to win those. Serra could be in the drivers seat to make the finals if they play like they did last night. OD probably has too much talent, but a bad game and potential for upset. There is only one clear favorite in this division and again not a given they will win it.
COACH RAPPS PRACTICE PLAN
Check out what Coach Rapp did during the week of practice.... and even Coach Rapp stood ON the court so that it was realistic for his kids to see him actually NOT on the sidelines but on the court. (Just kidding) Ellie Rapp is very proud.
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/sports/2015-03-14/serra-stages-upset-underdog-padres-dismantle-3-seed-moreau-catholic/1776425140012.html
MC Rapper Chuck
Check out what Coach Rapp did during the week of practice.... and even Coach Rapp stood ON the court so that it was realistic for his kids to see him actually NOT on the sidelines but on the court. (Just kidding) Ellie Rapp is very proud.
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/sports/2015-03-14/serra-stages-upset-underdog-padres-dismantle-3-seed-moreau-catholic/1776425140012.html
MC Rapper Chuck
