Bengals turn over TBS boys
GREENSBORO — Turnovers created too much trouble to overcome for The Burlington School on Tuesday night.
The Spartans’ tendency to be loose with the ball ended up with an athletic Greensboro Day School turning it into points on the other end.
Greensboro Day School stayed in control the entire non-conference boys’ basketball game for a wire-to-wire 70-52 victory against the visiting Spartans.
“We’ve been talking a lot about turnovers. We’re having a hard time taking care of the ball and that’s what started it,” The Burlington School coach Ryan Bernardi said. “We turned it over four of our first six possessions. Against a team like that, it’s really hard to stay in the game.”
That start put the Spartans in a 15-0 hole to dig out of just five minutes into the game.
A pair of future Atlantic Coast Conference players provided part of the scoring for the Bengals (3-1). North Carolina State signee Cam Hayes scored 14 points while Virginia signee Carson McCorkle pumped in 10 points.
Brock Williams, who previously played at Burlington Christian Academy for Bernardi, made plays on both ends, finishing with 13 points and two steals for Greensboro Day School.
Mylyjael Poteat’s 13 points were tops for the Spartans (2-2).
“He’s a focal point,” Bernardi said. “It’s really hard to throw the ball into the post with how much they were crowding it and with how good their on-ball defenders are.”
The Burlington School’s Ja’Dun Michael contributed 11 points.
Jackeem Herbin opened the third quarter with a 3-pointer to cut the Spartans deficit to single digits, before the turnover bug struck again.
“We started the third quarter and made a 3 to cut it to nine, and then we got a stop, so we’re feeling really good,” Bernardi said. “Then, it’s live-ball turnovers. That’s what leads to those runouts.”
The Bengals turned four consecutive Spartans’ turnovers into dunks in a third-quarter stretch.
“I’ve got to give our guys credit, though. We’re down 15-0, we cut it to seven at one point,” Bernardi said. “We had 70 offensive possessions and we turned it over 25 times. It’s hard to win that way.”
These kinds of growing pains early on are to be expected for a team with so many new pieces, Bernardi said.
“We’ve got to find a way to get it to click,” he said, “and when it does click, I think we’re going to have a chance to be really good. But, we’re not very good right now.”
GREENSBORO — Turnovers created too much trouble to overcome for The Burlington School on Tuesday night.
The Spartans’ tendency to be loose with the ball ended up with an athletic Greensboro Day School turning it into points on the other end.
Greensboro Day School stayed in control the entire non-conference boys’ basketball game for a wire-to-wire 70-52 victory against the visiting Spartans.
“We’ve been talking a lot about turnovers. We’re having a hard time taking care of the ball and that’s what started it,” The Burlington School coach Ryan Bernardi said. “We turned it over four of our first six possessions. Against a team like that, it’s really hard to stay in the game.”
That start put the Spartans in a 15-0 hole to dig out of just five minutes into the game.
A pair of future Atlantic Coast Conference players provided part of the scoring for the Bengals (3-1). North Carolina State signee Cam Hayes scored 14 points while Virginia signee Carson McCorkle pumped in 10 points.
Brock Williams, who previously played at Burlington Christian Academy for Bernardi, made plays on both ends, finishing with 13 points and two steals for Greensboro Day School.
Mylyjael Poteat’s 13 points were tops for the Spartans (2-2).
“He’s a focal point,” Bernardi said. “It’s really hard to throw the ball into the post with how much they were crowding it and with how good their on-ball defenders are.”
The Burlington School’s Ja’Dun Michael contributed 11 points.
Jackeem Herbin opened the third quarter with a 3-pointer to cut the Spartans deficit to single digits, before the turnover bug struck again.
“We started the third quarter and made a 3 to cut it to nine, and then we got a stop, so we’re feeling really good,” Bernardi said. “Then, it’s live-ball turnovers. That’s what leads to those runouts.”
The Bengals turned four consecutive Spartans’ turnovers into dunks in a third-quarter stretch.
“I’ve got to give our guys credit, though. We’re down 15-0, we cut it to seven at one point,” Bernardi said. “We had 70 offensive possessions and we turned it over 25 times. It’s hard to win that way.”
These kinds of growing pains early on are to be expected for a team with so many new pieces, Bernardi said.
“We’ve got to find a way to get it to click,” he said, “and when it does click, I think we’re going to have a chance to be really good. But, we’re not very good right now.”
