and we get ready for the international colonials versus the westwood high school basketball team steve same our now along with mike a here and better gymnasium see what you have to say for another great year basketball by the international colonials versus westwood hi yeah this is great i to have a good time with it international players do a little differently yeah you shake the everybody's hand they want to make sure we say good things about it ok exactly i love it i love it exactly so the international colonials made up of eleven players from ten different countries this year very very talented group of players moment to win the tour yeah that would be nice you know it's good to see these guys come out here want to compete with us which is you know going to try to play hard and that's the type of brand of asphalt we play team you know great take to the whole you know mike he's done a great job this offseason of turning himself more into a score and not just a shooter and something that  us a goal for himself at the end of the year we do individual exit meetings with the players and they have to come in with certain goals and his want to his was from off and standpoint to be more of a score and he's done a great job this spring to do in their style but to see that happen converts make a three point play turn over there by benny benny hide from absent austria one of the things that the international struggle with last night may look at this too easy benny benny scores again and he's a high flyer then he had three monster dunks last night just off the mark westwood one point advantage eleven a ten four minutes a player in the first quarter even did a great job their attack and drawn people he's on a real good job this spring playing on the ball pressure and also  he he's actually living with us i'm just an absolutely amazing boy yeah you see i met him early i was talking to a ball poland i had the pleasure of visiting there a multitude of times and what a beautiful place what a beautiful country and the polish food is it's really good polish food is really good so let me ask you this his favorite food is pasta and strawberries yeah well the pasta  pot i'm sure but the strawberries is very popular they say that you'll see that on the side of the road especially at this time of year when i was there i was there a couple times in june and i mean you can just get strawberries so cheap  talked about earlier his goals for himself all time out early time out here westwood sixteen that's an advantage two minutes and forty four seconds to play here in the first quarter twenty to ten westwood looking good here in the first they're doing a really good job say west with one of the only challenge is they've got a very short bench so it's going to be interesting we'll see what type of shape we were in the guys have been working hard so it's funny we had the opportunity try to bring a couple of young guys up to play and thomas herbert the only one that took the challenge i don't know the other guys went it's a great opportunity to play get some really good talented players kick the ball i take that shot clock operate a coach douglas's  we've got two great coaching things happening here with coach douglas at the j v and coach harris assistant on varsity seeing guys that are doing a great job costarred was just finished his as you watch the international players though typically they're very fundamental players there's that's the beauty of it mike i mean you know you and i talk about this extensively and everywhere i go i always talk about how i don't watch the n b a at all i actually didn't even know who was in the finals and then i didn't even know who wanted to be honest with you because i just don't pay attention to what all the international game is the game that i really enjoyed as a player because it's a combination of the pro and college rules  it's just that the training that the kids go through is very fundamentally sound and all the rules and the interesting thing in international basketball from young kids all the way up to the professional levels it's all the same rules same title very very sound i'm tired watching these players was a is it does all the little things well competing you know and you've got to give these guys credit for doing that then we get it we're going to figure out how to get the den back in place yeah i mean last year was interesting for us our home games i thought we'd have more of a presence especially how with all that the team did and it just never materialized and i don't know why that had a great great crowd we played them at ashland and i actually saw a game asked on player a regular season game and we scouted that they had a great crowd as well so but other than that it was really in our hopkinton we played at hopkins in towards the end of the year that was the game went to all the time what a game they had a good crowd but all of the nad you know is universal which is interesting but hopefully i'll change have with all the kids in the gym or yeah yeah usually happens one of the one of the captains from italy first was croatia you know yugoslavia all of that so it's you know those countries got their independence good to see him spring right up no injuries yeah i said it's good to see the westwood kids competing i think in past years my guys you know did know how to compete as well and and the last couple years guys are really person you're competing against is who you were yesterday joe roofs comes in for sell some out of it again from montenegro first margin a great player on the international colonial store that's great and that's a great country the whole area is beautiful croatia that's beautiful especially on the coast it's a beautiful beautiful country so these international players against ten different countries they all met for the first time on monday yeah which is great and so there's a language barrier so you know brian mike's interesting character as a junior he played varsity j v last year so you know he's a senior now and he's just really his tail off this spring you know he's really working hard and he did plays freshman sophomore year last year as a junior major a v and just really trying to get to be the best he can be i'll tell you he's just trying so hard it's good to see him out here competing i'll tell you the defense the defense nice finish by rado the defense that was what a showing is is a stable i mean they're playing great defense this is a talented international team yeah oh yeah and there are that they're come out flat you got to give credit where credit to us what right right i mean we're trying to do all the rotations that we normally to be doing you know guys are trying to compete out there again and that starts the number one thing you show up and compete you give yourself a chance at all and of the game is score one more than the other team yeah exactly and if you could just you know hold them going to replace philippo rossi felipe from milan i tell you my lines another beautiful place have to be able to hit shots as a big man in the international game that's why you can see them all shoot threes like that it's the guys that can you know international guys who are big men obvious a bonus if you want to go way back i mean you know it's funny that look at the size of this international colonial team all of the players out there want to play the two the three yeah yeah i got a couple of your point guards out here but it's funny even even the six six boys on ice play  and gets by people it's amazing blocked avanti he really gets into he gets into into pressure and draws too does a great job of that and he's been working on his jumper we've got to get his jumper to get up t any time you start messing with joints you know you you open the joint up to the atmosphere what surgeries and everything it's hard to recover thank god he's young so the international money is one of things we're talking about the beginning in summer and we actually looking at expanding it perhaps two to do like some younger kids perhaps to take over in the summer and we're trying to do with our aid program as we want to we want to make our  program bigger and for public school kids and then talking to a lot of the public school coaches around this area if we can get involved with that and then at the same time be in a situation where we often then that chance to get that trip will be a pretty good thing for  turn the ball over and then you give up laughs on the other and really hard to to do a good job  over the second half westwood seven point lead forty two thirty five let's see how they come off the colonials coming on the zone china kind of boxing one even better i love it talks and want to see if somebody else can hit see if they can identify that's what a box and one will do see that you know if you're going to turn the ball over and take quick shots and knock it back on defense you give up a bunch of points in a row absolutely and again a talented team like the one is going to make you pay all yeah good teams do good teams do  again for the corner things far different results in the international rules you have to wait for the other player to come out before you go in well it used to be like dad a lot and it's changed dramatically where they used to have to do that like soccer but they don't do it as much as you can actually step on i mean they don't  forces much i should say they still do it they just don't force it is  i will pressure the heck out of the ball so thomas get the ball brings it down and you know one of the things you always tell big people never bring a ball down because that's where the midgets live zakk they never break down of the land a little have a bring it down all you guys at home you get a rebound you keep it ha you always chin the point gain forty six forty three i say it's all over the place back to two point game yeah forty six forty four after three forty nine to forty six up here the fourth quarter shock two great players so you see even took a quick shot now defensively he didn't step in and take a charge and it impacts anybody else he was in no man's land and that's not where you want to be and for the colonials oscar day from norway loose ball and we go let's get something here  and see if west we can get something attacking to who and we go go ahead six point game for twenty four to play in the fourth quarter and this is where the international team of find out who their closes are you know who the guys are going to close far just off the mark in a couple of the yankees you see if they get a bucket here that's going to be the big thing can they get a bucket  big turnover that's no good it happened that's why they're losing three point lead for the colonials one minute fifty six seconds to play here in the game just didn't get get it done two point game colonials not good not good so i want to get all this money going to watch what wes would throw this game away when they were ahead my really disappointed to watch it had anybody to answer that at all consistently and then couple that with a bunch of turnovers and terrible de france and you have a recipe for disaster and like you said you know basic things like face cuts you know here let the guy cut in front of you get a  let's see what happens with this twenty eight point two seconds  mean that would be awesome thanks guys i love the optimism i love and i don't like optimism western community so yeah it's been great that communities really embraced this whole thing and it's funny because these guys don't really have that chance to do any of the other state like they don't have a chance to talk to his actual play in front of a lot of people like that's again that's why i really don't watch the n b a game is a lot of rules i don't like the fact that you can't play is own what it is terrible and it's just basically trying to trying to promote off and that's all it is seems an opportunity and right but and you know if you work hard the whole game you have three point one hundred percent and the thing to mike is like again you can't play a zone they were talking about get rid of like that like the old hack a shack up which i think is embarrassing because if a guy can get a free throw shame on you why again people twenty million dollars i can't free throws y martin final score sixty six sixty three international