{"id":98103,"date":"2018-01-30T06:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=98103"},"modified":"2018-01-30T06:47:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:47:24","slug":"coaches-corner-van-werts-rob-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/01\/30\/coaches-corner-van-werts-rob-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaches Corner: Van Wert’s Rob Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a signature win for Van Wert. The Lady Cougars (5-12, 1-5 WBL) picked up their first Western Buckeye League victory of the season with last Thursday\u2019s 59-53 overtime win over Kenton (11-5, 3-3 WBL).<\/p>\n

Reagan Priest (14 points) and Cassidy Meyers (10) led the way, with Caylee Phillips chipping in with nine. Jamison Clouse scored six of her eight points in the overtime period.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe win was huge,\u201d Van Wert head coach Rob Adams said. \u201cWe have been talking about getting a signature win and we did. First and foremost we had girls step up from top to bottom. All nine players got in the scoring column.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew coming in it was going to be a battle and that we needed to stay focused in the game and play for the name on our jerseys. We are putting extra emphasis on our mental game currently and it showed on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams touched more on the mental aspect of the game and said he believes his team\u2019s biggest area of improvement is mental strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls are believing,\u201d Adams explained. \u201cWe discuss the difference between \u2018naysayers\u2019 and \u2018optimists\u2019 on a daily basis and girls are starting to buy into the concept of conditioning our brains to believe we can achieve anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love these girls,\u201d Adams added. \u201c We are a giant family and always have each others backs. I truly believe we would do anything for the betterment of the group. The game of basketball is fun, but these girls make it very enjoyable regardless of our record.\u201d<\/p>\n

With just five games left in the regular season plus the tournament, Adams said he\u2019d like to see the Lady Cougars cut down on turnovers and force opponents into more turnovers.<\/p>\n

Van Wert is back in action Thursday at Elida (6-10, 2-4 WBL).<\/p>\n

\u201cElida has some veteran players and loves to play a 1-3-1 half court zone press,\u201d Adams said. \u201cThey play fast and move the ball from side to side very well. Shyah Wheeler (5-11 senior forward) is a tough match-up for us, but we’ll figure something out. Coach Chrissy Billiter has a nice team over there, very young, ready for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sectional tournament draws are this Sunday and Van Wert will open postseason play at Spencerville or Leipsic. Champions from those locations will advance to the Paulding district.<\/p>\n

Adams said he\u2019ll note the Lady Cougars have played an extremely challenging schedule that includes four state ranked teams (Ottoville, Minster, Fort Recovery and Ottawa-Glandorf), along with a number of other teams that are well above .500.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will try and be aggressive with our seeding choice,\u201d Adams stated. \u201cWe have lost five or six games in the closing minutes this year and could easily be 11-6 if a few things would have went our direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly believe if we were able to \u2018start over,\u2019 11-6 is where we would be,\u201d Adams added. \u201cThe sectionals this year will be more competitive from top to bottom especially now that Ottawa-Glandorf has moved to Division III.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor It was a signature win for Van Wert. The Lady Cougars (5-12, 1-5 WBL) picked up their first Western Buckeye League victory of the season with last Thursday\u2019s 59-53 overtime win over Kenton (11-5, 3-3 WBL). Reagan Priest (14 points) and Cassidy Meyers (10) led the way, with Caylee Phillips chipping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 08:08:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}