This is not a selfish team, but we made some bad decisions.”Ĭape shot an anemic 25 percent from the floor in the second half, going 2-for-12 from three-point range in the process. We got desperate and everyone tried to go one-on-one rather than move the basketball. When the game got tight in the second half, we didn’t do what we needed to do, what we’re capable of doing.

“We got away from our style of play, and I can’t say that Dover did anything special defensively. “We didn’t really execute anything offensively,” Thompson said. Thompson may have focused on his squad’s defensive woes, but he also pointed out flaws on the other end, particularly after halftime. We had it within three or four points in the third quarter – it was closer than it looked.” Those are things we’ll work on throughout the season, but we competed hard. “ beat us in transition and got a bunch of easy looks on drives, and they were tough on the glass. “This is our first time playing in front of a crowd in a long time, and we handled that adversity pretty well,” said Zimmerman, who also snagged a team-high six rebounds and dished out two assists.

Sophomore wing Jaheim Harrell paced Dover (1-0, 1-0 Henlopen North) with 23 points, while Zimmerman sank a career-high 16 points for the Vikings. The Senators responded with a flurry, scoring 14 unanswered points over the next four minutes to put the game out of reach and secure their seventh consecutive victory over Cape.

The Vikings hung with favored Dover early on, staying within eight points at intermission and closing the gap to 42-39 on a floater by junior guard Drew Zimmerman with 4:54 left in the third period. Dover has guys who can get to the hole and finish, and we just let them do it.” “We have to take more pride in playing defense and not just let guys roll to the basket basically uncontested. “Our on-ball defense was god-awful today,” said Cape head coach Shemik Thompson after his team allowed the quick, aggressive Senators to shoot 53 percent from the floor, largely on gimmes from two feet and in. 7, and ran a virtual lay-up line at the Vikings, slicing to the cup at will en route to a 74-48 win. The Dover boys’ basketball team came into Cape’s Big House on the opening night of the season Dec.

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