Nationals: 2015 Picks

Pool A Revolver (3-0) Machine (2-1) Patrol (1-2) Madison Club (0-3)

Pool B Ring of Fire (2-1) Doublewide (2-1) Rhino (2-1) Sub Zero (0-3)

Pool C Truck Stop (3-0) Sockeye (2-1) Goat (1-2) Florida United (0-3)

Pool D Johnny Bravo (3-0) High Five (2-1) Ironside (1-2) Prairie Fire (0-3)

Revolver v. Praire Fire	Revolver v. Goat	Revolver v. Sockeye	Revolver v. Ring
Doublewide v. Goat
Bravo v. Madison	Bravo v. Sockeye
Sockeye v. Rhino
Ring v. Florida United	Ring v. Machine	Ring v. High Five
Machine v. Ironside
Truck v. SubZero	Truck v. High Five
High Five v. Patrol

Champion: Revolver

On Saturday NUT had their first returner practice.  We did a throwing challenge.  Complete 40 incuts in a row in 4 different variations.  It took the team an hour to complete the challenge.  I expected it to take less than 20 minutes.  (I had two other throwing challenges that I wanted to throw at them.  With water breaks included I wanted all three challenges to be an hour of practice).

Is this a waste of time?  No, if your team can’t throw and catch then there is no point of working on anything “higher level”.

Didn’t the team just start to fray in frustration?  No, three things happened that made this exercise bigger than fundamentals:

1.      Jeremy (typically a salty negative brooder) was positive and encouraging.

2.      Elliott (typically an introspective nervous little nelly) starting getting on his teammates to run through the disc.

3.      Topher was hitting the floor trying to catch discs he had no chance of catching.

When Juniors realize they are role models and start acting like it, your team is in a good spot.  I would have expected it to take more time for them to mature into these roles but they brought it on day one.  Maybe playing club helps you grow.