Thoughts From Calvin’s Scrimmage With GRCC

This is a photo from the scrimmage in question (click to biggify)

Thoughts From Calvin’s Scrimmage With GRCC The Calvin men’s basketball team participated in a scrimmage against the members of the Grand Rapids Community College men’s basketball team on Wednesday, October 31. That was the night of Halloween, which was not tonight, and was not last night, so I am indeed brining you these thoughts well after the fact.

Included in the scrimmage were, in fact, three 20-minute segments. Three faux “halves” of basketball, if you will. The scores of which were 48-33, 33-33, and 35-31 (Calvin did not “lose” any of them). The scores are not the important factor in a scrimmage, not even remotely, however they do reflect, one supposes, the degree of quality with which each team played. But the only comment I will make on the scores is that the second two are concerning, but the second two “halves” were not “halves” in which the Calvin starters started (or even played the majority of minutes in.

On we go.

The aspect of the scrimmage I was most interested in seeing was the sort of starting lineup and/or playing rotation that coach Kevin Vande Streek would implement. The starting lineup – for this particular game – was as follows:

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