Published: November 27, 2007 03:11 pm            

BLOGGIN' IN THE PAINT: NU's Charron Fisher talks pasta dinners, preparing for the week ahead

Niagara senior Charron Fisher is blogging for Greater Niagara Newspapers this season. Don't miss his reports all season long.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Charron again, fresh back from our first road trip of the season against Duquesne. It has been a good couple of days off of school for the Thanksgiving holiday, which my team and I spent at Coach Mihalich’s house where his wife cooked us a great meal. Friday morning though, it was back to practice and then right after that, we loaded the bus and headed down Duquesne, in Pittsburgh. This is what we typically do the day before a road game, another one of our traditions. The bus ride was pretty good, mostly because it was only a few hours long. We watched some game film and then got to sleep until we reached our destination. We got there around 8 o’clock and went to a very good pasta place for a late dinner as a team. Once we got into our hotel, we checked in and then had a little meeting to go over some more game tape and scouting reports. After that we all headed to bed.



Saturday we woke up around 10 and had breakfast and another meeting before heading back to our rooms to get ready for the game. One thing that I always do is iron my uniform and warm up my upper body before every game. Once we were all ready we headed over to the Palumbo Center for shoot around and warm up.



As you may know we lost our first game of the season, 76-65. The guys played really hard, but we could not pull ahead at the end of the game to a very good team. I am proud of the way our young guys handled themselves on the road. We learned a lot about our team from this game and we have a lot to build on now. I don’t think that I played my best, but now I know things that I can improve on to better help my team win.



After a loss, the ride back home is never fun. Stanley Hodge and I stayed awake and watched the film from the game and saw a lot of the mistakes that we made, and things that we need to improve on. Most of the rest of the team slept the whole way back because it’s sort of an unwritten rule that you can’t be up talking, joking around and having fun after a loss. I was again really impressed with my team. No one said that they did well, or that they did this and that or blamed the loss on anyone else. Everyone took the blame for their own mistakes and were very eager to return to practice to make it better. The whole team is really excited about our game on Wednesday against St. Bonaventure. It should be another good matchup.



Coach gave us the day off on Sunday to rest up for another hard week. Most of the guys just chilled all day and relaxed. I finally got to sleep in and I did until noon. I relaxed for most of the day until later on. I watched some more game film and then went to the gym and got some shots up. All in all, it was a good day, though I am eager to get back to practice to prepare for our next game. Hope to see you all there!

        

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