GENESEO’S MO CARLON INITIATES THE OFFENSE (PHOTO/ CHRIS GRAHAM)
GENESEO — The Geneseo Blue Devils didn’t have their greatest all-around game, but were able to come out with a 64-43 victory at home over the Letchworth Indians, earlier tonight.
From the outset, the Blue Devils seemed to be out of their offensive and defensive rhythm. Taking forced shots and struggling to get back on defense, which allowed the Indians to stay in the game throughout the first half.
At halftime, the Indians only trailed by four, 31-27. Luckily for the Blue Devils they got their rhythm going in the second half, largely to do with a strong second half performance from guard Bryan Rollins, who had a game-high 26 points.
Head coach Brian Stout liked the adjustments his team made at half to get back to their style of play.
“First half we came out a little flat defensively, jogging back on defense, second half, we came out working on defense,” Stout said. “We had a couple bad shots; we were forcing it a little bit in the first half. Second half, it was all assisted shots, assisted baskets and we were moving the ball much better.”
Rollins, who helped the team to victory in the second half, also felt the team was out of sync early.
“At the beginning we were real lazy, coach (Stout) even said it at halftime,” Rollins said. “In the second half, we swung the ball more on offense and on defense we got way up on them.”
Stout also talked about how having Rollins become more involved helped the team to victory.
“Bryan was one of the ones we talked to at halftime, his shot chart, in the first half he was shooting at a low percentage, second half he may have missed one or two,” Stout said. “It was just the difference of making the extra pass and finding the open seem and Elton (Johnson) and Mo (Carlon) made four or five nice passes to Bryan when he cut to the basket and got some easy layups.”
Rollins agreed that he felt more comfortable shooting in the second half.
“I had much more of a rhythm to my game second half,” Rollins said. “We swung it around better and on offense we got better shots.”
Geneseo (14-2) will be back in action on Wednesday, as they go on the road to battle Perry.