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Jan. 23—JAMESTOWN — Several minutes into the Jamestown High School boys basketball team's game against Dickinson, head coach Tim Ranum looked at the scoreboard.
It read 16-5.
Ranum called a timeout.
The crowd could overhear the head coach challenging his team.
"Do you guys want to score or not?" Ranum asked them.
Turns out they did — it just wasn't enough.
While the Blue Jays came surging back from the 11 point deficit to come within three points, the team wound up dropping 88-72 to the Mavericks. The loss puts Jamestown at 1-7 in the West Region and 3-8 overall. Ranum and company will be back in action on Tuesday at Bismarck Century at 7:45 p.m. As of Jan. 23, Century is 9-0 in the WDA and 12-0 overall.
"You try and look at the positives and not get too negative," Ranum said. "We haven't won many games but we're starting to have longer and longer stretches where we play well. We just have stretches of two to three minutes where we don't play well and that is what is causing us to lose games."
That's what happened on Friday.
After Ranum called his first timeout, the Blue Jays went to work chipping away at Dickinson's substantial advantage. Once shots began landing, the Blue Jays seemed to ease into a rhythm that allowed them to come as close as 39-36. But Dickinson rebounded and in the final two minutes went on an 11-0 run to end the first half.
"We came out very non-aggressive," Ranum said. "We let Dickinson be the aggressors on us and I just told the guys that we need to play with aggression and we've got to try and score. We've been practicing that being faster and attacking and we started to do that and we ended up with a really competitive first half but when you look at the way we book-ended every half — that was really poor."
Ranum said inconsistencies on the court and stretches of streaky play are causing the Jays to lose games.
"On top of that, Dickinson is a really top-tier team and so is every other team in the West Region," Ranum said. "We're always outnumbered and (other teams) are also really aggressive so we have to learn how to adjust to physicality. What we need to do to improve is embrace physicality. It's a very physical brand of basketball in the WDA and it's not going to change. We just have to buckle down and prepare for 36 minutes of basketball and we can't relax at all.
"We are improving," he said. "We are halfway through the conference schedule and now we have experience so we need to start playing better and stop making these youthful mistakes."
Dickinson 88, Jamestown 72
DHS 50 38 — 88
JHS 36 36 — 72
DHS — Boston Cranston 25, Nate Stevenson 21, Teytum Bullinger 9, Cameron Wolf 8, Dylan Glasser 7, Jordan Daychild 4, Paxton Lyson 3, Tristan Orton 3, Kaleb Pullins 2, Jesse Hammond 2, Logan Bedsole 2, Ethan Luna 2.
JHS — Edison Walters 19, Abel Dolokelen 12, Gradin Thorlakson 11, Jamison Kleinjan 9, Eric Van Berkom 7, Liam Frey 6, Kale Verke 4, Griffin Gegelman 2, Kale Backen 2.
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It read 16-5.
Ranum called a timeout.
The crowd could overhear the head coach challenging his team.
"Do you guys want to score or not?" Ranum asked them.
Turns out they did — it just wasn't enough.
While the Blue Jays came surging back from the 11 point deficit to come within three points, the team wound up dropping 88-72 to the Mavericks. The loss puts Jamestown at 1-7 in the West Region and 3-8 overall. Ranum and company will be back in action on Tuesday at Bismarck Century at 7:45 p.m. As of Jan. 23, Century is 9-0 in the WDA and 12-0 overall.
"You try and look at the positives and not get too negative," Ranum said. "We haven't won many games but we're starting to have longer and longer stretches where we play well. We just have stretches of two to three minutes where we don't play well and that is what is causing us to lose games."
That's what happened on Friday.
After Ranum called his first timeout, the Blue Jays went to work chipping away at Dickinson's substantial advantage. Once shots began landing, the Blue Jays seemed to ease into a rhythm that allowed them to come as close as 39-36. But Dickinson rebounded and in the final two minutes went on an 11-0 run to end the first half.
"We came out very non-aggressive," Ranum said. "We let Dickinson be the aggressors on us and I just told the guys that we need to play with aggression and we've got to try and score. We've been practicing that being faster and attacking and we started to do that and we ended up with a really competitive first half but when you look at the way we book-ended every half — that was really poor."
Ranum said inconsistencies on the court and stretches of streaky play are causing the Jays to lose games.
"On top of that, Dickinson is a really top-tier team and so is every other team in the West Region," Ranum said. "We're always outnumbered and (other teams) are also really aggressive so we have to learn how to adjust to physicality. What we need to do to improve is embrace physicality. It's a very physical brand of basketball in the WDA and it's not going to change. We just have to buckle down and prepare for 36 minutes of basketball and we can't relax at all.
"We are improving," he said. "We are halfway through the conference schedule and now we have experience so we need to start playing better and stop making these youthful mistakes."
Dickinson 88, Jamestown 72
DHS 50 38 — 88
JHS 36 36 — 72
DHS — Boston Cranston 25, Nate Stevenson 21, Teytum Bullinger 9, Cameron Wolf 8, Dylan Glasser 7, Jordan Daychild 4, Paxton Lyson 3, Tristan Orton 3, Kaleb Pullins 2, Jesse Hammond 2, Logan Bedsole 2, Ethan Luna 2.
JHS — Edison Walters 19, Abel Dolokelen 12, Gradin Thorlakson 11, Jamison Kleinjan 9, Eric Van Berkom 7, Liam Frey 6, Kale Verke 4, Griffin Gegelman 2, Kale Backen 2.
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