If you can't shoot, you can't win. That simple concept was driven home for the UNBC Northern Timberwolves women's basketball team.
In a Saturday night game at the Northern Sport Centre, the Northern Timberwolves had a lowly field goal percentage of 24.2 and lost 62-41 to the Vancouver Island University Mariners. Over the course of 40 minutes, the T-wolves hit just 15 of the 62 shots they attempted from the field.
"We just struggled," said UNBC interim head coach Rachel Hulme. "We played on our heels tonight. We weren't taking it at them like we were (Friday) night. We were settling for the outside shot, we weren't rebounding, and so it all ends up in kind of a disappointing outcome."
The Timberwolves had beaten the favoured Mariners 65-58 on Friday and were looking to build on that positive result. Instead, the inconsistency that has dogged them in the early stages of the B.C. Colleges Athletic Association season showed up yet again.
UNBC easily won its first two games of the year, against the Douglas College Royals, but then dropped a pair to the Langara College Falcons -- a team they fully expected to beat.
Hulme said consistent execution in games comes down to harder work in practices.
"I think we need to make (practices) more competitive, more meaningful -- hold (the players) more accountable for what's happening in practice," she said.
